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edhopper

(35,041 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2024, 03:15 PM Dec 5

We have celebrated and made light of people being killed before [View all]

Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:02 PM - Edit history (1)

If it's a Russian Oligarch falling out of a window, a warlord whose plane is shot down, a despot who gets removes, permantly, a terrorist on the wrong end of a drone.

But when it is a scum bag CEO who has cause suffering and death, the pearl clutchers cry that our response isn't appropriate.

Sorry, I don't give a fuck about the victim.

Doesn't mean I think the killing was justified or more CEOs should be killed.

I wish people would stop conflating the two. But they won't.

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We have celebrated and made light of people being killed before [View all] edhopper Dec 5 OP

It's not the CEO, it's the freemarket economy and capitalism. WarGamer Dec 5 #1

The CEO's make the decisions Nigrum Cattus Dec 5 #6

I don't disagree... BUT WarGamer Dec 5 #8

You are wrong to call it capitalism gab13by13 Dec 5 #11

I don't disagree... WarGamer Dec 5 #13

Brian Thompson's choie Dec 5 #66

ABSOLUTELY. WarGamer Dec 5 #67

Vulture capitalism... dlk Dec 5 #33

Just following orders mein Fuhrer. Where have I heard that before? flashman13 Dec 5 #35

Sorry, but that's a "just following orders" argument Happy Hoosier Dec 5 #40

Bull Keepthesoulalive Dec 5 #43

If the CEO doesn't matter why pay him 10,000,000 per year Nigrum Cattus Dec 5 #59

I submit the other examples had influences, too. nt Gore1FL Dec 5 #9

This is correct. yardwork Dec 5 #14

So why did this CEO's edhopper Dec 5 #15

If UHC didn't break the law... then they were playing within the system. WarGamer Dec 5 #19

Again edhopper Dec 5 #21

we really don't disagree. WarGamer Dec 5 #23

We can't change the laws. Keepthesoulalive Dec 5 #44

UHC. GB_RN Dec 5 #60

I apologize edhopper Dec 5 #65

if any other guy in the office would've done the same The Wandering Harper Dec 5 #63

The CEO gets up every day and decides to do evil. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #26

does that make his murder justified? WarGamer Dec 5 #34

Does living a life of pure evil justify murder? Irish_Dem Dec 5 #41

So we are completely determined by forces of production? Voltaire2 Dec 5 #55

Did anyone hold a gun to his head to be ceo of death panel insurance? Woodwizard Dec 5 #61

The difference will be Frasier Balzov Dec 5 #2

And once again edhopper Dec 5 #18

Be very troubled. Frasier Balzov Dec 5 #20

Welcome to America. edhopper Dec 5 #22

Exactly - so what else is new? 'Murka!!!!!! hatrack Dec 5 #58

You're absolutely right. Self Esteem Dec 5 #52

Rec malaise Dec 5 #50

Yep mcar Dec 5 #39

Who else do want to see greenlighted? marble falls Dec 5 #3

No DUers are popping champagne corks leftstreet Dec 5 #4

Don't forget children in a Gaza hospital Prairie Gates Dec 5 #5

Ed XanaDUer2 Dec 5 #7

I'm sorry that happened to you. yardwork Dec 5 #16

Its fine XanaDUer2 Dec 5 #29

Totally agree BannonsLiver Dec 5 #10

I don't think people are celebrating the murder - they're venting against insurance companies and the shit they pull tenderfoot Dec 5 #12

Thank you Fullduplexxx Dec 5 #17

So now we are OK with adopting trump/GOPer 2nd admendment solutions. I'm sorry, I'm against that. Silent Type Dec 5 #24

Universal healthcare is the answer and in the mean time, our Passages Dec 5 #25

And yet edhopper Dec 5 #27

We must try, it is insane how people are treated and how much they lose. Passages Dec 5 #28

We should do a lot of things edhopper Dec 5 #30

I know which is why we must not give up. Passages Dec 5 #32

No fucks to give yankee87 Dec 5 #31

Beat up, beat down, & let die folks long enough & even pacifist bite back NotHardly Dec 5 #36

Damn straight. And they bite back hard. People can only take so much. paleotn Dec 5 #48

What goes around comes around. Demobrat Dec 5 #37

This! PortTack Dec 5 #38

Life is SO valuable in the West JoseBalow Dec 5 #42

This is the outcome from stupid Americans voting for republicans wolfie001 Dec 5 #45

They won't. We have a child rapist in the White House because no one had the balls to do anything. onecaliberal Dec 5 #46

Oh, gawd. Not the pearl clutchers. paleotn Dec 5 #47

Murder is wrong . . . SarcasticSatyr Dec 5 #49

Healthcare and capitalism don't mix. DinahMoeHum Dec 5 #51

But he was a babe in the woods. Only been at the company twenty years. Swede Dec 5 #53

Years ago during one of those "gas shortages" Klarkashton Dec 5 #54

People are inconsistent ThePartyThatListens Dec 5 #56

Yes, DU in general has celebrated and made fun of people being killed. It is one of the most disappointing kelly1mm Dec 5 #57

Theren are peoples whose deaths edhopper Dec 5 #64

He's looking up at us HereForTheParty Dec 5 #62