dang he went full yolo
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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Why can't these absolute cunts do themselves in before taking out their families?
I'll never understand a man's reasoning for doing that. How can one be an arbiter over the lives of your partner and kids...
While Lemmy loves their memes and jokes about the government and the economy, this is what real world stress results in. I'm sure they will find a rich online life for this guy and recent financial trouble.
For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die in a country with no social net. That's what a shit hole is.
Yup.
If things keep going the way they are we're going to start seeing a lot more desperate people losing their shit in this country and a lot more headlines like this.
Ironically I just went through a deep dive about this guy reading multiple news sources and they all say he recently lost his job as a vp for the sales department of the American heart association.
So yeah. Dude was stressing and I get it but, fuck. So much unnecessary death just because people willingly vote against their own self interests.
He lost his job, his family lost their healthcare, his kids lost their ability to attend college, at his age, he was on track to a minimum wage job.
i love the big short too but i’m not sure that number is accurate https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39267/do-40-000-people-die-in-the-united-states-for-every-1-increase-in-unemployment
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"reasoning" is not going to be the right word for whatever was going on in this guy's head.
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It's a disturbingly prevalent mindset really. The idea that the patriarch, the pater familias, literally owns the family. That his wife and children are possessions to do with as he pleases. In ancient Rome it was litteral. He could kill them if he wished. Not even unique to Rome. Its still around today. A sick aspect of conservative ideology that persists and infects society the world over.
Its the sickening undercurrent to conservative "parents rights" arguments.
Is it that, or is it that he's the sole earner and losing his job means hardships for them he wants to spare them from?
Not saying it's not a fucked up thing to do, but maybe, just maybe, we need better support for mens mental health instead of assuming it's because their evil.
I'm not entirely sure you meant to respond to me since none of your comment really seems to match up with mine. Particularly that second half.
However if you did mean to respond to me, I find your first sentence incredibly telling. Look how you worded that. He wants to spare them. He wants. You've betrayed the exact mindset I'm talking about. The idea that he owns them. That he gets to take make decisions on behalf of them because he owns them. That's exactly what I'm talking about. A pervasive mindset that family is property to the father. That children are property of their parents in general.
Exactly, he may want to spare them that pain, but he obviously didn't talk it over with them to figure out what they'd prefer. He's decided they're all dying no matter what they want.
I remembering seeing something similar happen in my state, father had lost their job and murdered their whole immediate family to prevent them from becoming homeless.
Nuts, but there are a lot of homeless around here and it does not get easy to pull yourself or your family out of that.
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This happens so much, their is a name for it "Family annihilation" or Familicide. It's almost always the patriarch who does this. Women do it too, Andrea Yates comes to mind, but that's much more rare.
I've always found it interesting that while men do familicide often, we forget about it. (Psychology Today puts the rate at 1 every 5 days in the US) Meanwhile women who do the crime like Yates or Smith become notorious for decades. Admit it, you've forgotten the name Kristopher Karolkiewicz from the article you just read, but you remember Susan Smith from 30 years ago.
I don't remember like any names of stuff like this, but it seems like the general understanding among all the people I've ever discussed these topics with is that it's primarily men who do this shit.
just chiming in to say anecdotally that maybe people have a better understanding of things now
what always surprises me, though, is the rates. the US is big, but 1 every 5 days still seems so fucked up to me
I don’t remember any of their names, even the ones you wrote.
No shot in hell Im going to remember Kris.........long 12Ks littered in his name guy, but I can sure consider susan smith i guess, wont remember why i remember susan smith though.
Nah, I don't remember any of them.
I remember Chris Benoit
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Was she going to divorce him or something? These pieces of shit always lose their minds over women leaving.
Its usually caused by either that or money. Says she was a substitute teacher.
I bet it was money related.
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Why are the killings always in the wrong order…
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