Corporations scramble to provide protection against threat of copycat killings following Brian Thompson’s murder

“It’s a huge wake-up call. The mood changed dramatically in a very short period of time,” Seth Krummrich, Global Guardian’s vice-president, told CNN.

no it’s not; you were just too disconnected.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    lmao these people have never heard of the Unifying Theory of “Fuck That Guy”

    Literally everyone hates their health insurance company, the premiums, the deductibles, the denial of claims. There is a reason almost every regular working person left right and center cheered this guy on. I get a pretty long leash to talk politics at work (retail) and literally every single person, customers and coworkers alike have basically said “yeah that was fuckin rad”. Had a 70 year old guy literally wearing a tophat and American flag pin overhear me talking to another customer about it and he came up to me and leaned in and said “Y’know I am kinda secretly pulling for the guy”.

    I have another acquaintance as a long time customer who told me she is “changing her stance on murder never being wrong”.

    As the contradictions of capitalism continue to sharpen and more and more people are disillusioned with liberalism and throwing civility politics out the window we are going to see more of this.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      I get a pretty long leash to talk politics at work (retail)

      i’m a software engineer and did IT for 10 years before that and i got railroaded out of several jobs for asking questions about the impact we were having on humanity; wanna trade jobs? lol

      • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        8 days ago

        Yeah sure only if you want to work for a discount grocery store that pays barely above minimum wage, or for a weird boomer libertarian contractor that drinks with you on the job and pays you slightly better off the books (I have two jobs because hellworld). I do have experience with network troubleshooting and building PCs so I could probably just fake it till I make it.