The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down
Kinda love that the breathless media is trying to spin this as a senseless act of violence. Why the hell are you telling the masses what the assassin wrote on the bullets if it makes him look like a folk-hero? Is the media really that detached? Do these people think the Sheriff of Nottingham was the good guy?
SO AWESOME I LOVE HIM HAPPY DAY
so he definitely wasnt a hired hitman and he definitely did this for political reasons and the media is gonna have an even harder time spinning this
feels cool, but we need to see this moment and energy from a broader perspective. If this just ends with everyone being "that was cool" it's not enough. Instead, as the debt collective noted, medical debtors (and others harmed by this evil system) need to organize.
After all, eventually CEOs will just hire tons of goons and private security. So as cool as this was it's not sustainable and violence is only effective coupled to a movement. I'm thinking of my here - when he discussed violence it was always as part of a larger mass movement, not simply wielded by random adventurers.
Of course this doesn't mean we can't seize this moment and this shock to begin to organize and deploy real power. I need to reread all of Lenin on the adventurism, but does he ever talk about being opportunistic about this stuff?
CEO hit in kinetic exchange that took place in Midtown Manhattan earlier today. The surgical strike was carried out by a lone operator.
"It's unfortunate when bystanders are at risk of coming in harms way, but these things happens." Said spokes person, who commented on the condition of anonymity. They continued to say that the target was well known by the community, operating in the open. Showing that these kind of people are part of a bigger problem.
fellas what words are you carving into the shells of your bullets??
The lyrics for the song We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel, one word per bullet casing, humming the song as I spray and pray like the Bullet Farmer when he says "Sing Brother Heckler, sing Brother Koch" in Fury Road