Inshallah. https://theshiesty.com/collections/all
I have a risk mitigation strategy for them which ought not to be novel, but sadly seems to be, which could probably bring this risk down to statistically insignificant for most of these people. Don’t build your business on amassing obscene amounts of wealth via trampling the rights and dignity of millions of people who are only one bad week away from destitution and having all they’ve struggled their entire lives to build stripped from them, who have literally nothing to lose when it all goes pear shaped. Consider not only the financial, but the social costs of your actions.
The executive and financial elites of this world seem to have forgotten that humans are animals, and an animal backed into a corner is at its most dangerous, prone to lashing out in unpredictable ways.
They’re afraid. Good
“Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations,” the bulletin said. “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”
I wonder why…
Bitch please. That’s how unions got shit done. The boss made threats? Cops come to beat up and shoot at striking workers? Then the workers show up at the boss’ house and burn it down or beat the crap our of him. That’s how it used to be done.
We allowed the centrists to take over, and their hippy “Follow the rules. violence is bad but we’ll back state sanctioned violence” shtick has ruined a century of progress.
I blame WW2, it beat the bloodlust out of the working class.
Exactly
Wait wait wait, I don’t think anyone should be targeting their families. Fuck the rest of 'em, though.
Just out of curiosity, a quick look on the Forbes “Real-time Billionaires List” shows us an interesting suffix after several of those names: “& family”. It’s an ampersand (meant to be the conjunction “and”) followed by the word “family”.
targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations
Sounds like what cops have been doing to the poor and minorities since there have been cops.
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their, governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
I hate that V for Vendetta it’s kind of playing out right now.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.
I know, right.
The problem with Alan Moore is that he understands people
While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.
Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who’s been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they’re not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.
Judging from the pay I would say CEO should be one of the most dangerous jobs. That’s the only way the pay would make sense. Let’s make it so!
You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.
Let’s not warn or threaten, actually; it spoils the element of surprise.
Ideally, the enemy should never see it coming.
You never say, ‘I’m gonna fight you, Steve.’ You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him
With a Buick
What’s that quote from?
Anne Hathaway’s Selina/Catwoman says it to Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne/Batman while dancing at a party.
Thanks!
Weren’t the revolutionaries following Bane in that story portrayed as the villains? Because of how absurdly rich this Thompson asshole had become, his murder has struck me, from the perspective of his sons, to be more like the killing of Thomas Wayne in the universe your quote is from. Hopefully we don’t end up with a shit version of Batman, but right now the killer could be more like Joe Chill
“Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations,” the bulletin said. “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”
The problem isn’t that people are acting on these sentiments, the problem is that conditions are so shitty that these sentiments are becoming the norm. Law enforcement would be doing themselves a service by acknowledging that rather than enforce a bunch of ideals that are becoming ideals held by a minority. Eventually everyone’s starving and trying to arrest someone in a supermarket for theft is pure idiocy because in certain circumstances morality is very flexible if objective
It’s almost as though none of these people have read any human history. When the ruling class oversteps, revolution follows. It’s literally how the US came into being so anyone clutching their pearls is willfully ignorant, at best.
I don’t really believe that the families of the wealthy, unless you’re the Waltons, are as complicit and corrupt as the members in their family actively fucking over everyone else. They might’ve not have known, they might’ve been kept out of things.
So it would be very reckless and cold-blooded for those innocents to shed blood. It’s the people directly responsible, who are the targets. So, no, their families shouldn’t worried. The pompous rich relative should be.
I don’t really believe that the families of the wealthy, unless you’re the Waltons, are as complicit and corrupt as the members in their family actively fucking over everyone else.
The Sacklers.
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford
Pretty sure Henry was just bitching the Jews in that quote.
Famous piece of shit Henry Ford.
I am looking at another headline right now: “White House condemns using violence to tackle ‘corporate greed’”
When corporate greed is out of fucking control, and nobody is lifting a finger to do anything about it via legal channels, what the fuck else do you think is going to happen?
I’m also amused by how reporting on this has been “We’re trying to work out what his motive was,” when it’s so clear that everybody knows what it was. They are fucking us, every day, and this guy got pushed to his breaking point. The fact that there’s been such vocal support for Claims Adjuster - not just indifference - suggests that a whole lot of people are real close to their breaking points.
This is how revolutions begin.
Yep, and spreading pictures of the guy all over the internet in celebration of his deed has been a wonderful second step. That was truly clever and smart and didn’t help at all his arrest.
Go USA revolution, go!
Just put down that self indulgence, before you hurt yourself.
err didn’t the police put his picture out? you think a reddit post cracked this? last i heard it was a boomer
Yes, good. I love the smell of gaslighing in the morning.
I’m just sorry for the guy, while I do not condone what he did since I’m in a country where usa has license to kill without too many obstacles or consequences (I know, this ain’t narrowing it down much). The mugshots are the pictures of a man who knows he’s finished, done for. Nobody will really help him, and the best part of his life will be in a cell. And those idolizing him are the one who helped get him caught.
Before we knew anything about him, it was just as plausible that he killed the CEO for authorizing payments for abortion. It wasn’t clear it had anything to do with wealth in the beginning
IDK man his FUCKING MANIFESTO was pretty clear that he was super pissed off at Healthcare CEOs for fucking the people day in, day out.
I don’t agree with the guy, but his first sentence is literally “before we knew anything about him”. Pretty sure that includes his manifesto…
The manifesto that we got the day of the shooting? Care to share that one with me? I’ve only seen the current one
The bullet casings make it pretty damn clear. If you didn’t know what it was about then that’s because you weren’t paying attention.
Circumstantial evidence made it damn clear!
Jesus it’s like nobody has ever read a crime thriller in their life. This is like chapter 1 misdirection
Only if you ignore what was carved into the bullets…
.world mods really are the worst aren’t they?
Insults are fun and all, but nobody seems able to show me coherent evidence as to why there was definitive proof on day 1
People made an assumption that turned out to be correct, why do you want so badly to make a case for something we know isn’t true now? By your same logic, for all we knew on day one, he shot him because he didn’t like the color of his pants. Prove to me that it couldn’t be feasible on day one.
I’m sorry, that’s not the problem. The original complaint was that the media would NOT reach a conclusion. I am defending the refusal to jump to conclusions.
People can speculate, but saying “why didn’t the news diagnose the problem from the beginning?” is an asinine question.
… it was just as plausible …
But was it really?
it was plausible… i am not sure why jeffw trying to make this equally weighted
No, not really.
…meanwhile, back here on Earth:
That’s cute and all. What evidence did you have on day 1?
Law enforcement is now seeing the line between corperations and people and guess who they have to defend.
ACAB
I thought the killing WAS the warning.
Warn my ass
Delay, Deny, Depose
The one pecent’s days are numbered
They were supposed to be numbered back in '12. I was so wrong.
The difference this time is people want blood.
I don’t blame em, do you
Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.
“Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”
I’d argue that this is a non issue that doesn’t warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.
Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.
I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don’t feel like they have an obligation to do something.
I think a lot, or maybe even most of them don’t really care about effect on the populace, just the effect on the 1% richest of the population. It is sad to see.
Well, I think the majority of cops do care about their effect on their community. And I think the majority of cops originally chose their job because they wanted to protect people.
But our system is deeply flawed and it actively corrupts people in these authority positions. And despite their initial reasoning, the road to hell is usually paved with the best of intentions.
Policing in this country is probably even more problematic than our health care system (which is saying a lot). But it’s not because the individuals are bad; It’s tempting to say that, as it’s such an easy explanation and it gives us clear culprits to point at, but it’s really not rational. I think the true root of our problem with policing ultimately comes down to how our legislation works, specifically that the system isn’t robust enough to resist tampering from private and corporate interests. (And it’s tempting to blame the private and corporate entities, but this is also missing the point.)
