I think that assassinations and violence are what happens when laws and legal systems fail to protect people, so from that perspective you can argue the breakdown of society is way overdue. I think technocrats should speak out in favor of Luigi Mangione since from a logical rationalistic perspective, I cannot think of a reason to sympathize with the CEO, besides police possibly harassing you or maybe if you are scared of the current society falling into chaos. What do you guys think?

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    13•8 days ago

    america was literally formed via a war with britain. If they had lost they would be today seen as insurgents.

    america was founded on blood

  • @beansbeansbeans
    4•8 days ago

    Not a surprising outcome. Insurance companies have the blood of too many to count on their hands.

  • @DaddleDew
    3•8 days ago

    There is a problem that destroys and ends countless lives in the country for the profit of a few. It is morally indefensible.

    The government didn’t and still isn’t doing shit about it. The legal system didn’t do shit about it. Most elected officials like to pretend it doesn’t even exist and those who do are ostracized by the media.

    Ultimately when something this bad is going on, someone, somewhere will eventually do something about it. All the government had to do is do something about it first. But it didn’t.

  • @paddirnEnglish
    3•8 days ago

    While vigilante killing is wrong no matter who it is, killing a health insurance CEO is apparently not that bad in the eyes of many in the American public. Many many many people have stories about health insurance companies screwing them and their families over and denying claims, their business is built on denying valid medical claims, so there’s not alot of sympathy for the victim here in this case, thus the flood of memes that showed up.

    What I wonder about though, given all the predatory capitalism we’re seeing in the US and around the world, is this a spark that sets off a wave of copycat killings? CEOs of investment firms or oil companies or gun manufacturers or apartment/rental home companies or RealPage (responsible for increases rents across the country), or just billionaires in general, alot of these companies/executives have devastated America & the world with their business practices (or some people may believe they have). Do these executives start getting targeted by vigilantes as a means of “balancing the scales”? And if that happens, how is that countered, do we start seeing CEOs hiring out teams of bodyguards to protect them whenever they travel, and we see a sort of futuristic feudalism start to develop from this?