A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.
Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.
In grim twist, corporate media tries to guilt people out of having hope
Media is there to make owners feel good so they are doing just that.
Issue is that working class is not accepting this narrative.
A dead corporate executive is the most unified people have ever been in a generation.
I don’t think extra security can save them when entire country wants you dead
And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.
What’s grim about it? Of course people are gonna look kindly upon someone who kills a mass murderer.
I have a right-wing neighbor who voted Trump three times, says climate change is a hoax, and hates me for sometimes wearing a tie-dye jacket, but he says with a grin all over his face, “Did you hear about that insurance CEO who got shot dead?” and he laughs and laughs and gives me a thumbs-up.
America stands united.
A few more of these and we’ll all really see how much we actually agree with one another, and how much the split and hate is manufactured.
I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.
Good.
Yeah theyre really crawling for appeal but that means they are afraid. I was really against violent actions like this but after seeing how effective it isni guess im also a radical leftist now instead of just a leftist. If they take the power away from thw people you have to take it back violently.
This is what I was trying to tell all ya pacifist bastards, the rich are cowards and only know the language of violence.
Yup i get it now. But in the spirit of being democratic and stating close to ohr roots we should vote on who gets “handled” next.
I don’t condone murder, but I also dont feel sad about a mass murderer being gunned down.
That’s pretty much what condone means. From MW:
To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. synonym: forgive.
From Cambridge:
to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong
So you’re perhaps not encouraging it?
Hmm… TIL The word condone means something slightly different than I thought.
That said, one can still want a murderer to face justice while also not being upset about the victim death.
But I suspect this story has quite few people realizing they do condone murder in some cases.
