• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    13 days ago

    Do some people here not realize that if we start allowing this kind of extra-judiciary assassinations, it’s not only going to happen to who you think are the bad guys? Next one could be an opposition party leader or the spokesperson of a minority defense non-profit.

    • elbucho@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Do some people here not realize that if we start allowing this kind of extra-judiciary assassinations

      The fact that he’s wanted for murder and is the subject of an active manhunt seems to suggest that extrajudicial assassinations are not, in fact, allowed. In fact, I might be so bold as to suggest that the justice department generally frowns on them.

    • Krono@lemmy.today
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      13 days ago

      What moral highground are you trying to hold onto?

      Here in America we have normalized supporting a genocide. We normalized slavery and torture in our prisons. We normalized extrajudicial killings of anyone we pin with the label “terrorist”.

      Normalizing extrajudicial killings of our oligarchs is a step in the right direction and helps to fix all the other problems. We need more heroes.

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      13 days ago

      We’ve allowed it for decades. There’s just handwringing now that it happened to a shitbag ceo instead of happening to an unarmed black man at the hands of the police.

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      13 days ago

      Or maybe even schools. How will we cope when they start going after our kids? Going after women’s healthcare providers? God, when will this end…

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      13 days ago

      To be fair, noone allowed it, it just kind of happened. And this is just kind of something that happens after things reach a tipping point in society, it’s happened throughout our entire history in one form or another and will be happening all the way into the year 50 million assuming we make it that long

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    13 days ago

    Sorry, I just don’t think it’s him, different backback straps and pockets where there weren’t any before, this is turning into another Boston bomber misidentification. But this time it’s the NYPD instead of reddit making the mistake

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        12 days ago

        He could just come to my house and want for nothing, lol. It’d take about 3 weeks but he’d have a new SS#, ID, and quite a bit of cash in his pocket. This dude has the overwhelming majority of the country on his side. If he went to a Trump-hostile nation, I’d imagine they’d also use him as a torture-poke to jab at Trump regularly.

        Bro’s got a shit ton of options.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        I’m gonna be leaving a glass of warm milk and cookies outside my door in case he needs some dinner. Its accidental! Not aiding or helping in anyway. If he doesn’t drink it I’ll have it in the morning when I remember about it.

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    13 days ago

    Haha, he looks like a young version of my partner. He’s hot and this makes me realise I definitely have a type.

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      13 days ago

      It is for every person denied healthcare by UHC, and to a smaller extent anyone who’s ever dealt with an insurance company in general

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        12 days ago

        This comment needs to be higher and with more upvotes.

        I’ve heard this rumor already but haven’t seen a source on it. Thank you

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Well, you see, the blood was warm when it was spilled. Unfortunately, because the customer was in the 3rd tier SuperSavings Freedom Unlimited* HSA Semi-Preferred SelectChoice Healthcare plan, all claims require a 24-hour waiting period after symptoms erupt to allow rebuttal from the primary physician. The blood was only cold after the grace period elapsed.

      *Limited

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      13 days ago

      Society is deteriorating this is what it looks like…

      When CEO cheers at his pay check after denying claims of sick people WHO PAID FOR THIS SERVICE, do you ever find yourself saying:

      Yes, killing a man in cold blood by gunning him down in the street. What a joyous occasion.

      Now think about it… why not?

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        It’s not a good place for society to be, I quite agree. Yet here we are.

        There are probably ways we could change things so that vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs isn’t considered a reasonable option.

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          We would need a lot more philanthropic billionaires for that to happen.

          Actually the more I think of those two words together the more it seems like an oxymoron.

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            And so, as I said, here we are. In a place where vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs is considered reasonable.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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        13 days ago

        There’s always unknown consequences.

        I keep having to go back to the French Revolution- eventually they were executing hundreds of people per day. I’m sure all of them were guilty and deserved Capital Punishment.

        Even Robespierre was executed, and the whole thing blamed on him, though he was adamantly against these executions.

        We’ll never know what would’ve become of France if a different approach had been taken rather than just start lopping off heads.

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          France seems pretty chill today, actually. Relaxed people that aren’t afraid to unify and protest when they feel the government isn’t on their side.

          The appeal of Le Pen to them is worrisome but humanity as a whole seems susceptible to right-wing populism, unfortunately.

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          So we’ve established that there are some people you’d be happy to see gunned down, we’re now just quibbling over who qualifies.

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            13 days ago

            “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”

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            13 days ago

            I wasn’t being serious. Someone like Putin should be in jail.

            I don’t support the death penalty.

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              13 days ago

              I applaud your moral high ground stance, but it’s worth saying there’s no court that can punish a man like that. They are above the law.

              What’s your idealist’s heart say about what to do about people like that when the system that’s supposed to protect us from them is completely and utterly broken?

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              13 days ago

              Indeed, having some disconnected powerful authority figure handing out decisions on who should live and who should die is a pretty repulsive concept.

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          13 days ago

          Tomato / toh-mah-toe.

          They are both bad people who got to where they’re at by exploiting people in one way or the other.

          Aside of their nationality, how would you consider them different?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    The thing is Stephen King recently told a story in Billy Summers about how a triggerman fades into the woodwork after a pro hit. And King is someone who only does a bit of research (contrast someone like Chuck Palahniuk).

    So yeah, someone who is not quite dressed like the guy getting caught on camera and then held up by police as a suspect sounds like the police being lazy.

    It’s a hired killer. Follow the fucking money.

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    13 days ago

    How many of You have already set this up as their profile picture on social media?