Now this is vigilantism I can get behind.
Although it would be funnier if they hadn’t pied themselves and had pied a real CEO.
The UK has a long tradition of pieing awful politicians - and guess what? It gets a laugh and memable pictures, but changes nothing.
- Nigel Farage has milkshake thrown at him, protester gets a criminal record. Policies unchanged.
- Tony Blair gets pelted with purple flour. Protester gets a criminal record. Policies unchanged.
- John Prescott gets egged, punches protester in the face. No arrest, policies unchanged, Labor wins election, Prescott survives politically in government.
- Peter Mandleson, government spin docotor, has green custard thrown at him. Policies unchanged.
UHC CEO gets assassinated. Policies unchanged.
I keep saying this- you cannot assassinate your way into companies putting people over profits. They’re legally required to do the opposite.
UHC rates will continue to rise and they will continue to deny people. CEOs are just as replaceable as every other employee in a corporation.
So you might as well throw pies in their faces and laugh at them because this is not how you solve systemic issues.
And I assume a bunch of you will be pissed off at me for saying so again, but you’ll be in for a rude awakening when your insurance premium goes up and Trump decides to bring back denying for pre-existing conditions.
Are you expecting some local neceomancer to raise Ken Lay just for a practical joke? Because I was…
Oh you wouldn’t need to raise him from the dead. Just digging him up would be fine.
https://youtu.be/eFa1eHOEvyg?si=9mPcTvhI7-yilBAm
Just trying to make your day a little brighter.
Lame. PR stunt.
Do it to a real CEO, and ditch the pie.
Before the UnitedHealthcare CEO assasination, it would’ve been. Now it’s not.
Before, it would’ve had the message of maybe “we think a pie in the face and some public humiliation might make you fix your ways”.
Now though?
Now the message it sends is “this could’ve been your public execution, and the world would’ve cheered.”
A satirical Enron, so was the pie a planned part of the art or was it a legit attack by someone not in on the joke?
That’s pretty lame. There’s way better things to do with CEOs in new york
I think part of the point is just to show that they can be touched. It would be like walking up and saying “bang bang” with finger guns instead of actually shooting them. It’s a way of going “I could have done it. You’d be dead if I wanted it. This is a reminder and a warning that you only rule because the plebs allow it.”
I agree, there are better things to do to CEOs, especially for companies as shitty as Enron. But if CEOs are on high alert like they are now, then a pie to the face would be a good way of keeping them anxious. It would tell them “your security failed. They need to succeed every time, but the masses only need to succeed once.”
I feel like this “CEO” and “birds aren’t real” guy is just a self-promoter of the Jake Paul type, or like the guy who started “BumFights.”
We finally have something going on that could really be a focus on the evils of corporate corruption, and there’s some self-promoting manipulator who jumps aboard as quickly as possible to get some screen time.
It’s really disgusting.
