Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

People really hate insurance companies.

“United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it's a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

He didn't really get "assassinated". He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.

I couldn't help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

I don't want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

EAT. THE. RICH.

You know what's pretty neat about this?

It's not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it's size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

I'm telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

How fucked up is it that the day after the ceo of a major health insurance company was murdered in broad daylight,

The next day another health insurance company said they would no longer limit anesthesia during surgeries.

This makes me realize something, and it’s not what our sponsor or corporate donor wants me to believe.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

On the 4th of July, American's don't celebrate that British soldiers were killed, we celebrate the society we won in the process.

Thank fuck Lemmy isn't owned by corporate interests that need other corporate interests to advertise on them or it'd be happening here, too.

Something something and I'm tired of pretending it isn't, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he has had young children who couldn't understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

The shot heard round the boardroom

It's bi-partisan too. Which makes this infinitely more insane

One of r/InterestingAsFuck’s rules is “No politics,” which a moderator for the subreddit told us is the reason it was removed.

A rule for arbitrarily deleting any post on an ill-defined idea that some topics are not political. Why even say such an unreasonable thing when you can just say supporting violence is against site-wide rules?

Hopefully dude never gets caught (Which he probably won't as it's now been greater than 48 hours, and we all know what that means if you've seen The First 48)

But if he does, it's going to be awfully hard putting together a jury that hasn't heard of JURY NULLIFICATION

Well, the news is now out that these corporate fatcats are not as untouchable as they think

Good, the spineless hand wringing bootlicking fucking scumbags are losing. Wonderful to see.

I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?

Won't they just elect another scumbag and keep going?

I'm not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive "Enjoy hell, Brian" wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.

I've been pretty impressed that the shooter has so far evaded police. I can only imagine that there have been at least one or two incidents thus far where people, be it cops or witnesses, had a clear opportunity to take actions that would lead to his immediate capture, but decided not to.

From what I know, cops often rely on the cooperation of the public to resolve crimes, but they may not be getting any on this one.

Why contain it? Let it spill over to the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.

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News@lemmy.world deleted a spicy post from a couple days ago. The fediverse isn't immune but it definitely fares better.

Why the fuck would the moderators care about how much work it is to remove the posts.

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Who would've guessed reddit mods couldn't grow a pair even if presented with a ball-growing pill

Good. Let the celebration continue.

Mods should be joining in on the celebration instead, in particular unpaid / community ones like Reddi's.

Shareholders can't stop talking about this one trick to make their stocks go up.

just wait until tr*mp kills section 230

unsuccessfully.

first shot of the revolution

GOOD! #good

Is anything remotely likely to change as a result of this on a systemic level or otherwise?

TIL Reddit has paid employees, for what they call the "modcoc team".

Went to the post, posted a laughing emoji. I'm French.

The poor News mods here are looking forward to mundane Spam removals at this point.

Why contain it? S'cool.

My only concern is that I hope this doesn't become an Archduke Ferdinand for an American Civil War part 2.

Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

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They just recovered the backpack perhaps

.world is in the EU. The same laws that apply to inciting hate or violence against "The Jews" or "The Blacks" also apply to "The CEOs". And the same laws that apply to Facebook also apply to lemmy.

Everybody who sees the hitman as a social justice vigilante is gonna report back here when we find out it was some personal bullshit, right?