The enthusiasm is hard to ignore
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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AMERICA IN NOVEMBER: omg we love billionaire oligarchs!
AMERICA IN DECEMBER: omg let’s kill the billionaire oligarchs!
I’m always slightly annoyed about the coming together allegory in reference to 9/11.
Having gone to a school where they had to specifically tell the kids to not bully the Muslim and Arab kids there … like the 2nd week after.
Closer to occupy Wall Street than 9/11
Unpopular opinion: NOTHING is gonna change!!!
After 9/11 y’all invaded a country that wasn’t responsible and continued to do business with the Saudis that were.
Media can’t have us all getting along.
Someone might decide to grab a pitch fork.
**Doesn’t Unite**: Politics
**Does Unite**: Deleting CEO from census that helped make US healthcare a joke
Blue Cross Blue Shield reversed course on their evil asinine anesthesia policy like a day later. So the assassination is having a far faster positive effect on health care in the US than the legislative process. That’s just how it is. The legislative process is so bogged down by bribery, that the only way to save millions is to kill one. And a single bullet is pretty cheap. Technically this saved tax payers billions in government studies, lawsuits. greasing palms, etc. The cost of a single bullet convinced a company to stop a horrendous evil policy. One life lost to save millions.
I’m not normally for murderous vigilantism, but you can’t deny the already very positive ripple effects.
Imagine if we had a political candidate that ran on the platform of getting money out of politics and wealth regulation so that the vast majority of money in our country wasn’t held in the hands of a few hundred people.
Oh yeah, we tried that and the democratic party decided Bernie was going to upset the status-quo too much.
Maybe we’ll get someone, someday who actually understands positive populism and has passion for something without being a self-serving narcissist or puppet of the corporate oligarchy class.
The media is owned by billionaires. They are so completely out of touch with the rest of the world that they can’t possibly comprehend how bad things are for average people.
I got my first warning in like 12 years from reddit over this lol. Apparently I broke rule 1. Fuck em. I’m not a fan of corporations running/ruining the fucking world and I want it resolved by any means necessary. Sorry not sorry.
I am skeptical if anything is going to change. The alliance here is just online that I’ve noticed and we are in an echo chamber here.
Unpopular opinion (and I am in no way condoning the terrorists attacks) but they had a point with their targets.
Think about how many millions are giggling over one dead sociopathic CEO? And how many day dream of packing them together and them all going boom?
The towers were a symbol of America’s economic power. The lowly workers weren’t to blame for the decisions the c-suite execs make. The exploitation of people everywhere by the banks, oil giants, ect, has people pissed. Those Saudis wanted to make a big statement while hurting as many people as possible, 99% of whom were innocent. The shooter had a better idea. The executive class needs to be afraid for what they do to us every day.
Now I wonder if I’ll get an account strike for this
People need to stop acting like Reddit is an accurate gauge for sentiment. Remember Harris winning a landslide election?
Lol it hasn’t united shit. A handful of chronically online people have found a new thing to yell about is all. Small echo chambers yelling in agreement isn’t the country being united. More people in this country don’t even know about this guy being killed, than there are people praising it.
America is not now, nor ever again will be, United.
Maybe online. If you share some of these takes (which I enjoy and find hilarious) with most random Americans they will probably not even know what you’re talking about and 2 will probably not think it’s as funny as you do
9/11 absolutely did not unify this country, if anything the fear and hate it created continues to divide us even further.
I have no idea what you mean.
Every mainstream news source I know has been absolutely covered with this story, including peoples’ reactions, agreements, etc.
According to the media, we’re all a bunch of degenerate ghouls with no moral compass. At least that’s what every panel on CNN has been lecturing their audience about.
No it hasn’t. Get off the internet.
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Two different things. The groupthink after 9/11 was actually a bad thing. I.E – “They did it cuz our freedom.”
Oh be so skeptical of the people that embraced the raping felon that needed 11,000 votes because they wanted him to run the government like a business. Suddenly they’re anti-capitalist and pro-accessible healthcare?
To be fair, most people relate to the progressive political mindset, but their vulnerability or lack of critical thinking compels them to engage in double think and double down on the status quo. All of the most popular and longest lasting social programs, including the GI bill, are socialist, progressive endeavors. If it weren’t for progressives, kids would still be working 14 hour shifts in the coal mine.
Where was this eunthusiasm on November 5th? 2020? 2016? 2012? We have had numerous opportunities to get people into office to fix this bullshit instead you all decided to sit out elections or “punish” Dems for not “earning” your votes.
The thing that gets me is how many of these people voted against the party that would actually try to regulate healthcare and voted for the guy who basically thinks everyone should just be on their own if they get sick or get in an accident
False. Pokemon Go knocked this out of the park.
Disagree s lightly. Any event since that pokemon go summer
Why call it an assassination?
I dunno, seems like the assassination of a squirrel did a good job too recently…
Horse hockey
I wonder if this would change election results if it happened earlier.
They’ll have us back to fighting over the price of eggs soon enough.
We as a society should really consider jury nullification in this case
I miss how together the world felt when Covid happened. A lot of the noise finally died down. People were able to spend weeks of their lives exactly how they wanted to. Some still work at home, because they realized their 9 to 5 was killing them.
But the Boomer generation and their anti-vax nonsense and their “nobody likes to work anymore” bullshit continued to muck things up.
This all has made me finally understand what the “good guy with a gun” argument actually means.
Apparently the “whole country” is just reddit and ben shapiro’s comment section
Well it’s a shame that half the country who is suddenly united here is so overwhelmingly stupid that they elected a massive piece of shit who would have done the same things if he ever ran a healthcare insurance company and is filling as many US government roles with more pieces of shit like the dead CEO. And these idiots still absolutely love their elected soon to be president and overwhelmingly support him as their champion. So any unity here means absolutely nothing in reality
Wow. This comment section got bot’d hardcore.
I wasn’t before, but I’m ok with guns now. I might even donate to the NRA. NRA: No rich assholes.
Oh? Have trump supports woken up the reality of whats about to happen?
Now that everybody’s blood’s up we should do mass protests or something.
It’s the *[Manufacture of Consent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent)* at work. For-profit mass media operates in the interests of The 1%.
I’ll let ChatGPT take it away:
In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman outline five filters that shape media content and reinforce corporate and state power:
– Ownership: The first filter highlights that media outlets are often large corporations or part of conglomerates with profit motives. These owners prioritize news that aligns with their financial interests, potentially marginalizing stories that challenge corporate power or capitalist ideologies.
– Advertising: The second filter discusses how media depends on advertising revenue. Advertisers favor content that aligns with their brand image, avoiding controversial topics that might alienate consumers. As a result, media outlets are incentivized to produce content that attracts affluent audiences and avoids offending advertisers.
– Sourcing: The third filter emphasizes the reliance of media on information from government, business, and “experts” funded by these sources. This dependency creates a symbiotic relationship, where news outlets prioritize official perspectives, often overlooking grassroots or dissenting voices.
– Flak: The fourth filter refers to the negative responses (e.g., complaints, lawsuits, or legislative actions) that media may face if they publish content that is critical of powerful groups. Fear of flak leads to self-censorship, as media outlets avoid topics that could provoke backlash from influential entities.
– Fear Ideology: The fifth filter describes how dominant ideologies, like fear of a common enemy, shape media narratives. By framing stories through a lens of opposition to perceived threats, the media can unify public opinion in ways that support the interests of the ruling elites, often sidelining nuanced discussions or alternative perspectives.
Best unifying topic in Reddit though. From pics, antiwork, shower thought, technology, etc, it had brought all of reddit together!
Unpopular opinion: there will be a huge race or gender controversy very shortly with the mainstream media taking inflammatory positions on either side
Well, bottomline…it was murder. He will be caught and will spend the rest of his life in prison, where they put murderers.