The murder of the UnitedHealth CEO by a man who felt unheard has sparked online rage— not at the embittered guy who pulled the trigger but at the American healthcare industry as a whole. Of course, political violence isn’t the answer. Not even close. But just repeating that mantra misses the moment.
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More that they give the same level of sympathy to the victim as he gave those who paid for and expected health care.
liberal crap.
It's murder.
You don't have to obey the law, but when you cowardly shoot someone in the back until they're dead and then get turned in by a burger-flipper in Altoona, you have to respect the law. Else everyone can shoot everyone.
The insurance industry responded by hiring more security instead of owning up to their responsibility in creating this situation… they don’t merit protection or empathy.
Equate this to what will happen between Trump's term and the end of it. You can damn well bet it won't be peaceful
I started to list examples of successful violence, and decided
Violence isn't the answer if the social contract's being honored because it's self-defeating. What, though, if it
Celebrating someone being murdered to effect change, is what the extreme-Right has suggested for the past 10+yrs.
For that reason alone, folks should be pushing back on this bs or we become that which we abhor most.
And all the political violence in the Civil War to free enslaved Americans, totally not the answer.
AND yet...
weeks later, all we have is CRICKETS regarding the two twomp assassination attempts
How about John Brown?
All of WW1 started because of the assassination of one man.
Do the American people have a right to defend themselves from those that have caused and continue to cause the suffering and death of so many innocent people?
Hint: it rhymes with ‘political violence’.
Blue is over. We've been beaten and are the underground now. Not the end-game, just the start of a new and different game.
But murders like Pretty-boy's just give excuses for mass suppression. Not a fight we win. We have to fight much smarter than that.
Because a 32% denial rate is murderous.
And they have left many people with no other recourse.
Sorry but you can’t reason with monsters, not when their end goal is to eradicate us for profit. Anyone who says violence isn’t an answer has never paid attention to history
Seems to me all the power and ability to act has been taken by the wealthy and corporations. That there are two forms of justice in this nation, one for the rich, the other for everyone else.
So, why not violence?
was it nancy wagging a finger and waiting for the british to self-correct?
was it jaime raskin w a mopina on his head hoping to shame them into compliance?
did we vote them out?
was it history's harsh judgement?
it was the last resort political violence
When those really bad things are not prohibited by laws, but result in death or injury of loved ones, then some affected people may take extreme measures against the people doing the bad things.
Revenge can be the cure in the minds of the hurt!
The rage was there all along.
It just gave it visibility.
(Per CFPB ) Are they all dead beats for getting sick Is it not violence to pay into a system for years only to die for lack of medical care Cause some Wall Street investors Want profits as their greed manifesto murder here is the consequences Of healthcare RICO system
Think. Then do the right thing: Condemn the murder & VOTE for empathetic people.
If it's open season on CEOs and plutocrats, I've got nothing to fear. Do you?
Hey, let's have gun makers buy liability insurance for humans that their products kill! For any gun put into the hands of a nut. For any gun sold without a lock.
We can both condemn vigilante violence in no uncertain term and be motivated to explore/call out/fix the broken health care industry that, in this situation, provoked it.
The wealthy fear nothing except losing their lives,money, and power. I want them to fear greatly.
Followed.
See Tesla for one example.
Luigi 🤜🤛
END FOR PROFIT 'healthcare'.
Why so seemingly complacent ?
It's all violence.
Jefferson believed rebellion was necessary in the political world.
He also knew that a failed rebellion required the same violations that led to the rebellion.
That only happens if the rebellion fails. If popular AND a success it will be just.
https://bsky.app/profile/legal-alien-nyc.bsky.social/post/3lczzstnyz22y
The rich are cowards -- they murder with a pen and a profit margin.
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won't never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.
W Guthrie-Pretty Boy Floyd
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willing to hand the nation over to Nazis
rather than defend democracy with
anything but a stern word or two?
Violence is the only thing some people understand, and they feel more emboldened than ever to trample all over you. I'm tired of listening to weak bullshit from a bunch of sanctimonious dorks
Trump is literally the most corrupt president ever. He makes Mr Nixon look like Mr Rogers. All of the false equivalencies btw Biden & Trump are egregious.
Pass.
Well, I remember when this country was founded without a single shot being...um.
What was that about whether violence can be part of the answer?
Just askin’!
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More than 500,000 Americans, with healthcare, have had to file for bankruptcy. Almost zero media coverage.
Healthcare exec gets shot, wall-wall coverage.
Feeding the rage of the victims.
Certainly hundreds of thousands across all the insurers.
I was being super super conservative.