78 points

Something something and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he has had young children who couldn’t understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

permalink
report
reply
166 points

Feel worse for the millions of children that are parentless due to his policy decisions. His kids will be FINE.

permalink
report
parent
reply
80 points
*

I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they’ll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

permalink
report
parent
reply
34 points

These execs are scared their own children will ask them to explain what they do for a living. Doubt they raise their kids as much as they pay someone else to do it. That being said, Elmo’s kids are stuck on a compound. That’s definitely going to mess them up.

permalink
report
parent
reply
18 points

They’re already teenagers. The damage has been done, but hopefully this act will help them decide not to follow in their father’s footsteps.

permalink
report
parent
reply
26 points

yeah alls his theoretical kids would have is millions of dollars, the best education, a lavish lifestyle, trust funds, but they would not have their asshole dad.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

They aren’t theoretical, he did have children.

permalink
report
parent
reply
15 points

Don’t forget the children whose siblings died due to insurance fuckery, and the parents who’ve lost children.

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

Crying from the 3rd floor of their yacht…

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

His kids have been profiting off of the death he had a hand in. They’ll be just fine in their ivory towers, whatever happens.

permalink
report
parent
reply
160 points

This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.

permalink
report
reply
38 points

Does he have a Patreon?

permalink
report
parent
reply
42 points
*

Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.

Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

This is one of the things that scares me about most about completely anonymous currencies and networks: untraceable kill orders and, to a lesser extent, unlimited bribery (that already exists in US). Because you know, it opens the most possibilities to people with money. Like billionaires.

permalink
report
parent
reply
15 points

TBF, we don’t know that. Might’ve been a paid hitman.

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

According to the media, he made a lot of very amateur mistakes if that’s the case. Like leaving a water bottle and granola bar wrappers and being filmed on camera at a Starbucks.

permalink
report
parent
reply
40 points

Leaving the DNA behind doesn’t really identify him if his DNA is not in the system.

But nowadays the odds some relative of yours put theirs up on some family tree site is pretty high so they could narrow the suspect pool quite a bit going that route.

permalink
report
parent
reply
33 points

Has the Starbucks guy actually been confirmed as the same person? It looked like clearly a different jacket and backpack, I assumed that was either an accomplice or just an unfortunate lookalike, but I suppose he could have changed or it could just be odd lighting tricks.

permalink
report
parent
reply
46 points

The professional killer was the one who died.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Does he have an OnlyFans?

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Anything sent like that would be frozen. Monero would be the better option.

permalink
report
parent
reply
122 points
*

When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

permalink
report
parent
reply
69 points

I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

permalink
report
parent
reply
67 points

Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

Dealing with insurance with a nonfatal chronic illness can also be infuriating. You have to keep fighting the same battle over and over and over again.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points
*

Or perhaps himself dying of a treatable disease they refused to pay for. He’ll be a hero either way, the question is how much.

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it’s barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point
*

Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Jim bell ftw

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Who would’ve guessed reddit mods couldn’t grow a pair even if presented with a ball-growing pill

permalink
report
reply
35 points

In fact, a moderator from a subreddit we hadn’t reached out to for comment reached out because they heard we were contacting moderators to speak about this. They said every instance they were aware of of the surveillance video of Thompson’s death being removed had not been moderators—who, as a reminder, are unpaid volunteers—but Reddit’s paid administrator team that enforces the sitewide terms of use.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Sure, I’ve read both that and r/nursing parts; but I’m talking about those volunteers who do remove that stuff. I mean, yeah, promoting violence bad, and so on, but maybe the twatwaffles who refuse to build a proper universal healthcare system need to see that ppl support the shooter, and not the attempts of the community to censor itself?

permalink
report
parent
reply
44 points

I’m not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive “Enjoy hell, Brian” wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.

permalink
report
reply
31 points

Kind of like being anywhere in Scotland when Margaret Thatcher died.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

My only concern is that I hope this doesn’t become an Archduke Ferdinand for an American Civil War part 2.

permalink
report
reply
52 points

If that’s the case then it will just be the class war heating up because one side finally started fighting back.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

united healthcare? how many divisions do they have?

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

They united the people against them. That’s living up to half the name, I guess.

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

But how…? Are Magas sad/angry that this happened? Most likely it’s the opposite. This is a poor/middle-class vs rich/ultra-wealthy scenario. I guess unless Fox tells/tricks them to be angry and blame liberals, but I’m sure plenty of them are not upset about this. I see it as “the enemy of my enemy” type deal.

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

Yeah, even the MAGA people I know are like “aight, cool”

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Until Fox News tells them otherwise.

permalink
report
parent
reply
30 points

Is it really a civil war when 99% of the people are on one side?

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

I think you’re underestimating the amount of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” out there.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Over half the country voted for trump, the man who will make everything worse and who appeals to people’s most base instincts. Some of the worst mass shootings were under Trump.

I don’t think violence will necessarily be contained to Democrats and old style Republicans. The new right likes corruption, which includes POS health insurance companies.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 15K

    Monthly active users

  • 6.7K

    Posts

  • 152K

    Comments