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next time I hear "there is just too many (brown) people" i swear
Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.
Not saying that the general point of corporations doing more harm than people is wrong. Just that if you think that the corporation is just one person, I've got a bridge to sell you.
if that continues to happen, trust me, eventually none of these fuckers will be left in line.
United Healthcare's stock is down 60% since the incident. United Healthcares board and new CEOs lowered the rejection rate of patients out of fear as well. Say what you want about the morality of what was done. The efficacy speaks for itself
Yup. After 9/11 for a while it seemed every week or two the news would report that "The leader of Al Qaeda" had just been killed or captured. Not a false statement, yet it happened again the next week.
The way in which Luigi was arrested is part of their safety checks. A way to motivate working class to turn people in, without paying them. I generally thought reward money worked.
I learned it did not work from a podcast that no longer exists. Michael Bazzel’s OSINT podcast talked about it within the context of people who used OSINT to find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works. (Podcast doesn’t exist any more, the copies of the casts went away with the podcast.). Sadly, there’s no replacement for this type of news and info condensed down into one place. It’s also a niche area of information, not followed by many.
Those McDonald's workers were not paid for turning Luigi in. But they thought they would be.
Even so, look at the bigger picture. How many Luigi’s have there been since 1981?
Most people avoid confrontation, spending most of their days sitting in a chair or lying down, and thinking/hoping/wishing a white knight is going to rescue them from their situation. It’s one reason why so many people exist in bad relationships (1 or a chain of them). Because they think that other person is going to rescue them from their sad days of avoiding confrontation while sitting in a chair or lying down, most of the day for most of their days. Hoping. But never doing. Thinking about doing. Maybe spouting off on the internet about doing. But never doing.
find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works
How does it actually work?
Generally? It doesn't.
See making the call to tip off the cops makes you eligible for the reward. If you called the correct tip/reward phone number. So that's the first road block.
Even then, you aren't automatically getting the reward. No. There are still hoops to jump through.
As a note these additional hoops also apply when there isn't a specific phone number.
According to the FBI's website, I'd link but I'm on my phone, someone (an agent, a prosecutor, etc) has to put your name forward in a nomination package.
This is then reviewed by the FBI and other agencies, it's kind of vague.
Anyway these agencies decide if you get a reward and what percentage.
And none of this can start until after a conviction is secured.
Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.
Their HP definitely went down. And, anecdotally, I heard from a pharmacist friend that they were approving claims like nobody's business for the next day or so
So you're saying me taking out some replaceable oil execs is going to make people have less demand for oil and everything that comes from it?
But there isn't a "demand" at least not as much as years ago. We are trying to switch to renewables but the oil execs keep killing the renewable progress. The horse fucker in the white house won't let us move on. He kills wind and solar and forces the coal plants to stay open.
And that horse fucker won more votes than Kamala.
There's a whole party where resistance to green tech is one of the items of faith, hundreds of millions of people. Not just a handful of oil execs. (And yknow, the millions who still use gasoline in their cars etc.)
Edit: That's not to mention all those who like to fly places.
I honestly have to wonder at what point people will collectively say "why the hell are we letting them do this" ? Not sure what happens after that, but it seems like it must have to happen at some point, right? Right?
Never underestimate the power of inertia. Some people live their entire lives on it.
I said nothing of the sort. But I ask once again: If we execute these 90 people, will that make us stop burning oil? Is it at least a helpful step down the path of stopping to burn oil?
If not, then please just don't act as though these 90 people are all we have to overcome to save the planet.
Of course something will happen. If the bosses or big corporations would be killed constantly, the next in line would be thinking about changing things. Just remember Luigi.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/health/luigi-mangione-healthcare-accessibility-impact-288343
It costs 7.5% of GDP to halt climate change.
But each 12.5% of GDP is lost per +1°C
The problem is that the people who need to pay are not the people who will be most affected.
Soon you are ready to realise that no, they are sock puppets of what is essentially a giant demonic entity that is Immortal and Controls human and replaces these humans when they misbehave or malfunction
Had a few seconds where I thought "Wired" was referring to the tech magazine and wondered what "Tired" is, who would choose name for their magazine or whatever?
TIRED: A magazine for millenials and Gen X
Kind of. It's the system they operate under, capitalism.
Get rid of those specific people and you would have others people take their place.
However, not to say that it isn't worthwhile to also bust out the guillotines
Still wrong, it's capitalism. Without them, there would be different people in the same position. Hate the game, not the player. Well, hate the game and the player but don't expect change from exchanging the player
in the same position
Important to note that those people would be acutely aware of how vulnerable said position is. People act differently when they're reminded of their own mortality.
It’s a reminder that large problems are often tied to concentrated power. Holding systems accountable while still pushing for collective change is probably the most constructive path forward.
If only there was like a deck of cards with their faces on it.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
Sometimes I like to gaze lovingly into their faces while writing their names in my diary.
Something to remember about the Forbes List: the most terrible people of all, aren't even on it. There is a level of wealth that floats above mere billionaires, for which there almost isn't even a category. Forbes knows not to mention these families in the context of some tawdry popularity contest among nouveau riche Techno Trash. They are mostly centuries old multi-generational wealth like monarchies, the Rothschilds, sheikhs, organized crime families, dictators, etc.
They aren't on the list, but they hold the real wealth, and more importantly, the real power. Everything else is an illusion of their making.
They'll find new executives, bud. Executives are just the lackeys for shareholders and the board of directors. A new one will grow for each one lost.
Imagine if we just locked all the doors and firebombed Davos. Could save humanity in one day of work.
edit: for legal reasons I wish to clarify this is a joke
While killing them would be progress, the real need is a revolution.
100% this, and not an explicitly violent revolution, either. We need to build alternative power structures to replace our heirarchical society. Simply replacing our elites using violence would end up with a new set of elites who are very provably willing to use violence against their enemies. IMO this is one of the major reasons that marxism-leninism has historically yielded authoritarian states, e.g. the USSR.
Yes I'm sure the corporations beneath these people will simply evaporate and everything will go perfectly fine.
There are many bankers and investment funds' CEOs and owners we probably don't know the names of that are also funding the end of the world because of profit
