It speaks to how powerless people feel here in America.
That’s what it says.
And we’ve been conditioned to accept violence in our everyday lives. Instead of putting aside our differences and making the government work for us to keep capitalism in check. One is just much more exiting.
making the government work for us to keep capitalism in check.
lol
All we elect are capitalists.
Well, the bullets had the motive written on them in sharpie, so I don’t think there’s any chance this is a random murder, right?
Hypothetical: he picked his target at random. Researched. Finds out he was an insurance CEO. Devises this plan to throw investigators off the scent.
I don’t think his intentions matter at this point. People have already made him a folk hero. He could say he shot him because he stepped on his shoe and there’s a good chance people will still say, “Valid, fuck that guy.”
That’s not just hypothetical but downright false. The shooter made his motive very clear.
Just your average delay/deny/defend/depose killer
It’s still a warning sign that a large number people no longer feel peacefully working within the system can address societal issues.
I mean, is this just a wild hypothetical? Because it’s really obvious that this isn’t the case. Nothing about this murder was normal. He wasn’t some professional killer because he was sloppy with cameras and the garbage in Starbucks. But he definitely plotted and planned to murder this guy. And then he purposely left evidence of his motive. The gun he used was rare, and he clearly trained with the weapon because of how quickly he was able to clear the jam he had and then kept firing.
Speculative discussion is pointing towards the smiling guy but bring the same person. Any conclusions to the methods of the shooter are still very fraught.
How about now? You think they just released some random person’s photo still?
You mean how I used the word speculative?
Or how I said conclusions are fraught?
You didn’t know any better than anyone else, and perhaps you forget the Boston bomber situation, but it’s always good to slow down on plastering someone’s face/identity on a crime till reports are concrete.
The police released that information because they were confident in it. It wasn’t reddit.
And reports from authorities, at the time I commented that, were raising concerns that it may not have been the same person. My comment was one of caution, yours is of luck.
To be clear: I’m talking about a possibility, not a prediction.
We’ve nothing to go on but incomplete and likely incorrect public information. It would be foolish of me to entrench around speculation.
That’s what I’ve been wondering, we really don’t even know what the motive was, but the one thing that kind of elevates this beyond him being a “basic murderer” is the carved words on the bullets. That seems to suggest some kind of motive above just him being a hitman or just killing some random person.
Regardless, I think most people are having the reaction they’re having to this because of our ridiculous healthcare system, everyone recognizes it as a problem and alot of people have a loved one who has been wronged by it. Almost any other issue would’ve created a partisan split where Republicans took one position and Democrats took the other position. That a set of clear Left/Right narratives haven’t emerged yet kind of suggests that alot of people aren’t particularly bothered by it. Where this goes though is anyone’s guess, maybe it’s just a single unified moment that is quickly overshadowed by some other bullshit that comes along.
It says we don’t care how wealthy people die. We just want them to be six feet under.
Good riddance to bad shit. Sometimes the right thing for the wrong reasons is right enough
The effect that Gun violence has against one man vs a plethora of school children.
Doesn’t change much for me. Violence is a consequence of a broken system. Whatever the motive was, fixing the system is the solution either way.
The bullets had a very specific heath insurance mantra inscribed on them, “deny, defend, depose”. Highly unlikely it was a random occurrence. I really believe the shooter was wronged somehow, but UHC. Maybe they denied a claim that lead to the death of a loved one, etc.
Your hypothetical makes no sense because murder is not ordinary or basic. But even if it were… “Couldn’t have happened to a worse person.” Right? “Karma’s a motherfucker.” Right?
Many Americans are so blindly patriotic that they don’t realize their health insurance system is much worse than dozens of other countries. At the same time, many of these Americans also know that they’re being scammed. It is interesting to look at that cognitive dissonance. And it is interesting to look at mainstream media, so afraid to point out how screwed everyone in the country is, because of some evil rich assholes.
What the hell is a “basic murderer”?
Serendipity :)
