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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look, I know he's out now, but his k/d ratio was insane.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Midwest social most based instance?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-MEDI-KILL

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, capitalism preaches the necessity of winners and losers. The owners demand there be millions upon millions of losers so they can win largely enough to buy pet mega yachts for their primary mega yachts.

Guess he lost.

Welcome to the free market baby.

Oh I'm sorry, does that only apply to the innumerable members of our society dying of exposure and ~~police~~ capital defense force brutality in your local gutter for the crime of not generating enough value for the shareholders in the "wealthiest nation on Earth?"

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CEOs should be scared. Especially extra ghoulish industries like this.

Make them feel like they need security.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Make them feel like they need security.

You mean some kind of safetynet to make sure they're protected if something unforseen happens to them?

What a novel concept! Maybe we should create an economic equivalent for everybody in society...

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Yeah I don't know the details of this murder, but I do want these types to be extra paranoid. I want them to live in fear of the choices they make

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He probably bled out waiting for insurance to approve the expenditure for the gauze.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one who is in a position to determine the life and death of millions should ever feel "safe" from the people they have the power to harm.

French Royalty learned that the hard way. Maybe it's time to remind people again.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Hope gun man gets away. Fuck the first article I read of how great he was and how touch the lives of so many. Just forgot to mention it was touching them by allowing people to die and suffer. I am with you fucking billionaires and rich CEO should be scared and shitting their pants.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 months ago

thoughts and prayers

LOL JK

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Keep reporting this post, libs. I'm getting a blowjob by a robot powered by angry libs reporting cool and based things about killing CEOs on the internet and I'm about to bust!

[–] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait, wait, so the right wingers also want the evil CEOs to be destroyed, it's not just the lefties???

The fuck are we fighting about, then?

No war but class war.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

"Libs" is not a epithet that indicates the speaker is right wing.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago

The right wingers want to destroy the evil government and be the CEOs. The lefties want to destroy the evil CEOs and be the government.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Libs claim to hate Donald Trump and what he stands for, but damn if they don't circle the wagons to protect the sociopathic, literally murderous greed machine that Trump's entire persona is basically a totem/mascot/cartoon of.

It's like they don't even know the theme of Trump's gameshow that endeared him to his nitwits.

Sorry neolibs, you cant separate out the greed from the racism and misogyny. The greed we're Inculturated to indulge and encourage is every bit as monstrous as racism and misogyny, it merely has a better marketing team.

Greed/racism/misogyny are all just flavors of elitist sentiment. "I'm a lot better than others, and thus deserve a lot more resources than others."

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Can I get a robot like that for uhhhh.... friend?

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago
[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago
[–] whithom@discuss.online 20 points 3 months ago

Consequences are rough.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning in a targeted attack outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
  • Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference when he was killed.
  • The New York Police Department reported that the suspect fled the scene and remains at large; no arrests have been made.
[–] anachronist@midwest.social 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference

LOL

He sure as fuck wasn't there for the "help people access affordable, reliable, high quality healthcare conference".

[–] whithom@discuss.online 13 points 3 months ago

Hopefully it wasn’t just a mugging

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] fartnuggetsupreme@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Great, now I have to playthrough DX1 again... It's honest work

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

GMDX.

Makes it playable in the modern age

I've always been partial to stock or just Shifter for stealth skill points, the graphics are part of the charm and nostalgia of it all. I was already hooked on it back in the day, then they slapped that multiplayer patch on it and I got sent away to Hidden Lake Academy for "video game addiction" :(

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As I said on other posts about this: Remember that jury nullification exists. If you're on the jury for the shooter, or someone like him, you can just say not guilty and there's nothing they can do to you. The court can't tell you that you gave the "wrong" verdict.

Just don't tell them you're going to nullify, because they'll remove you from the jury.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

Think it's time for Biden to redeem both himself and the institution of the Presidential Pardon.

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago

I offer Brian my most shallow of thoughts and prayers, and my heartfelt condolences to the families and individuals that have been brought to ruin by his unchecked greed and corruption.

Get fucked, Brian.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The casings had „deny”, „defend” and „depose” written on them.

I sure hope all of those leeches are going to be scared

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The insurance company is just going to prove security and raise prices

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

freddy mercury singing in my head

[–] AngryishHumanoid 1 points 3 months ago

I hear they could have saved his life but they found out he had a pre existing condition that wasn't covered.