I was talking with family yesterday. Keep in mind, I'm not a burger. Someone says that Luigi was crazy because he came from a very rich family and shot the CEO anyway, to which I said that he was wealthy but his back surgery would definitely cost hundreds of thousands of $ and even a relatively wealthy person can't afford that. Then the same person that had just called him crazy said that I was underestimating the cost, it's probably in the millions.

If we all understand this, if we can all agree that healthcare is inaccessible even to a rich techbro, why are we calling him crazy?! I didn't really explicitly say I approved of his action, but later on we kept talking about how health insurance often doesn't cover necessary stuff, and I bring it up again, joked about how Luigi doesn't look that crazy to me after all. But it just got a laugh, not really a conversation.

Admittedly I come from a privileged family so these are the last people who are gonna agree with CEO assassinations, but aren't the contradictions glaring? Is the media so powerful at getting people to believe oxymorons like "that guy was so rich that necessity couldn't be the reason for the killing" and "even the rich can't afford healthcare"? Is it the lack of critical thinking?

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Has it ever been so transparently clear whose lives matter in this country, and whose do not?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How much longer before we look like pre-communist China (just without the rich, vibrant culture)? The have-nots are literally being murdered in the open and the murderers allowed to walk free even when the onlookers are calling it murder.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

The Gilded Age was pretty much that. It’s just making a comeback. Even Trump’s double win is reminiscent of Grover Cleveland doing the same during the Gilded Age

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

We're in 1802 France baby :)

[–] witheyeandclaw 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can someone fill me in on the background behind the story on the left?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As the first person to respond said, he murdered a homeless person; the murdered guy's name was Jordan Neely. He was starving and thirsty and was yelling because he was starving and thirsty and needed help and everyone was simply pretending he wasn't even there. The chud comes up and chokes him to death with the help of 1-2 others who held Jordan's arms; he didn't release his chokehold even when the guy was out and had shortly after soiled himself because he'd died.

Everyone on the train then said that they were completely safe and no one was scared, and this murderer has now been made a free man (and I'm guessing by the news article will be meeting Trump?).

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

this

Thanks, I'm not great at keeping track of all the details of all the fucked up crimes of this fascist country to begin with and my brain is now double fucked because I got COVID maduro-salute

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

You can kill homeless people and the president will meet you.

What a despicable country.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, some marine chud choked a black homeless guy to death on the NY subway like a year or 2 ago and his trial just ended with the jury declaring him not guilty because we live in a deeply fascist country

So legally he isn't considered a murderer in amerikkka but he's definitely a murderer, tho I suppose that was true back when he was just killing Muslims overseas too

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

I see NOTHING wrong with those Headlines! Why would I care if a POOR Person dies when there's RICH PEOPLE I need to Please while they Kill my Family?

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I don't know what you're all talking about, I think these newspapers are great! I ran out of toilet paper once and they felt so smooth, like you wouldn't believe.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I remember Daddy's warning, that murder is a crime,
Unless you kill your customers, a million at a time.