American Activism

That douche bag CEO isn’t gunna get his life back and so on top of the reviews we got:

One dead asshole, hell yea.
That one company rolling back their decision to charge even more for anesthesia.
A whole lot of people learning even more about how fucked up healthcare really is.
A bit of an uptick in class solidarity
One step in the right direction.

Shut the hell up, is what I’m trying to say.

FYI they only rolled back that change in one single state. The change will still happen in other states.
- Sounds like we need 49 more adjustments.
It gave us a tiny fleeting look into a world where a united working class has power and outnumbers the ruling class.

What kinda fuckass McDonald's worker calls the cops on a folk hero? This is why we will continue to be curb stomped by the boot.

Somebody who needed $60k for medical expenses.
A well trained, well beaten dog.

An economic Uncle Ruckus. They train us from birth to see shame in not being wealthy, it sadly works. Some of our economy's victims internalize their own dehumanization and see it as the natural order to report on their fellow inferiors to their betters.

The same people mourning BriBris loss by hilariously trying to shame everyone for not condemning his murder while conveniently ignoring all the people he murdered through policy, and whose policies murdered people yesterday, and will today, tomorrow...
- economic Uncle Ruckus
  
  The rich man provides us with meaningful work and purpose and we throw it back in his face by unionizing and wanting to take more of his money! We nasty poors must follow the rich man's example and one day we may be as cultured and decent as he is.
  
  Praise the rich man and his benevolent ways!
- Yeah, very well beaten... I was talking about Luigi at work today (EU person here) and when I said it is a young guy from a wealthy family, one dick stood up and said "oh, so it was just a spoiled kid?" And there's probably much more people like this around me.
The difference between a wanted murderer and an unsung hero depends a lot on how much, and which, media a person consumes.

I like to assume the average person is apolitical and pays only a passing glance at headlines.
- That's just it though, the "passing glance" types that don't pay much attention to anything at all will just assume the truth is whatever headline runs across their "feed of choice" the most often. Usually from large corporate outlets.

....and a cold dead CEO responsible for stealing our money and leaving us to die. You left that part out.

which is great, but let be honest : it accomplish nothing , unless as a reaction, people act and do something about billionaires rulling the world. one star review bomb wont cut it
- Insurance companies behaved themselves for a few days. That's already saved lots of lives, making the whole thing balance out as a positive.
  
  I'd be banned by the admins for suggesting how this momentum could be kept going.
- A surgery that my little one needed was being denied by insurance two weeks ago. Yesterday when calling for the pre surgery instructions we were notified that last surgery was approved. So we were doing all three requested surgeries at once and only having to put her under once.
  
  I don't know if this was the cause but there was a 180 on the approval.
- Oh it did! I'm actually surprised (positively) about the vast social-media response.
- which accomplish nothing
  
  Seems to have accomplished something. What are you doing about it? Trying to stir shit up from abroad I assume. How about you fuck right off and let us deal with it.
- It sends a message and that message was heard. Rolling Stone and probably other outlets, published an article talking about the collective disdain that the working class has expressed in the wake towards the healthcare industry—a hatred that reaches across aisles. It’s a tiny reminder that the working class outnumber the ruling class. Don’t rule out more things happening. People get inspired.
- Then don't stop shooting them until everything gets better.

This meme is astroturf propaganda to try to discourage the working class. There are plenty of stories of insurance companies reversing their decisions and approving procedures that they had denied the day before, or not going through with plans to reduce coverage.

That is what happens when the 1% are reminded that they are outnumbered 99 times, and that those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear.

Yep. This never depended one the efforts of one person. It’s going to take all of us working together, and filling in where we’re needed to do our part.

Someone mentioned how the first time there was a school shooter, everyone took note. And now we have school shooters. It'd be interesting if this became a thing.

- Jesus christ that's...amazing.

Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?

In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does "something coming from this" look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?

Honestly my only hope is.. that the lone gunman suicidal "I want to go down in a way to be remembered" kinds of shooters. Learn from this, and consider shooting a wealthy CEO instead of a school or movie theatre etc...

I in no way want more violence... but I believe it would be nice if the "we can't do anything about" violence, were more top of the power chain instead of bottom.
- Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn't complain if they did) you'd very quickly see gun violence go from "unsolvable" to "very solvable".
Is that too much to ask?
- We're protecting them from unnecessary care.
Agreed, OP’s post is what they WANT you to say— don’t help them out guys
Yeesh friend, kinda jumped down OP's throat here, no? Seems pretty uncharitable to go from their posted meme to "this cartoonish fantasy world of yours", and then take that even further.

I mean, OP never really described any kind of "world" at all, just expressed disappointment. So I mean.

...it's kinda your cartoonish fantasy world, by definition, isn't it? Whatever thing you're imagining here? Weirdly hostile take.
- Yeesh friend, kinda jumped down OP’s throat here, no? Seems pretty uncharitable to go from their posted meme to “this cartoonish fantasy world of yours”, and then take that even further.
  
  Uhm, are we looking at the same comic? Because it most definitely is making an assessment of the impact of the shooter's actions. What's the thing being impacted? I would say world. Charitable interpretation seems to me to point in the opposite direction of what you're saying.
Class wars are generational.
Americans have been sold the "we need to defend our freedom" slogan for so long they forgot the "most powerful" army in the world is sponsored by the regular american to defend the rich against himself (the regular american) How can an uprise happend in the US if you guys gave your government all the power?
Calm down, Emily Gilmore.

Nonsense.

It was a wake up call for execs to quit their bullshit. It was a wake up call for the working class to band together.

And there is still a very slim chance he gets acquitted/a not guilty verdict.

The conditions that caused this event haven't gone away. And all of the school shooter types have just been taught that you will be widely regarded as a folk hero for shooting an exec, so they may opt to change their targets for the better. We will probably see more exec shooters.

Less dead children, more dead asshole? Might even reduce therapy cost for parent.

Win win win
- One can hope

Pennsylvania disappoints again

First, another fucking Pennsylvania McDonald's getting involved where it shouldn't. I'm done eating at McDonald's in Pennsylvania now.

But I wonder if this was intentional. Now we all get to hear what he has to say. Hopefully he turns out to be a leader.
- Just stop eating at McDonalds in general. There are equally as pricey but healthier and tastier burger joints out there (or both). Check out your local restaurants; they're likely on par in price.
- When did a Pennsylvania McDonald's get involved before?

And a dead CEO. Take your wins where you can, it's almost fascist season.

It's gonna be a hot fucking summer.
- Hottest on record, I hear!

You really think this is over? Columbine was a shocking, once in a lifetime event when I was in middle school. By the time I was in college, school shootings were a fact of life. The only difference is that people weren't rooting for school shooters. They may have caught this guy, but a new era of gun violence is just getting started.

Let's watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.

Fellow lefties: If it's safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.
- Let's watch just how nice conservatives are to their reps when someone puts gun control on them.
  
  I've kinda always wanted to see it.
- Sure, Congress will act, but the Supreme Court has spent the last 15 years making sure that even the most moderate, milquetoast gun reforms get struck down. I know the current Justices are hypocrites that make a mockery of precedent, but considering they're the ones that created the precedent (particularly Alito, Roberts, and Thomas), it's going to be hard for Congress to write a gun control law that doesn't force several Justices to either strike it down or invalidated their own opinions.
  
  A constitutional amendment isn't impossible, but I think the NRA would still have enough juice to prevent Congress from reaching a two-thirds consensus, and definitely enough to stop three-quarters of states from ratifying it. The billionaire class has spent a lot of money making gun control extremely difficult, and I think that's about to bite them in the ass.
- The only way they'll get rid of most of the guns is by searching property to property. Many won't comply with unconstitutional bans. And they don't have the agreement to change the constitution about this. Too fucking bad, the working class will remain armed. I wish ammo hadn't gotten so expensive though.

All that happened? Did the CEO use scroll of resurrect or something?

No, the company used "appoint some other asshat to do the exact same shit" (or if they hasn't yet they soon will)
- "The last guy got killed in the street for doing this shit, you're going to do the exact same shit right?"
- It's like the mustache-twirling movie villains when an underling gets merc'd for a hairbrained strategy:
  
  "Congratulations, number 3. You've been promoted! Go get 'em!"
They were gonna but the corporate necromancer was out of network.

Just kidding that'd be way too much effort for how they see human lives. They were likely hitting up LinkdIn before the body was cold.
They punched another one out of the bubble pack.

This is far from over, this pot is about to boil

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It hasn’t even been 24 hours yet

That take is rank fucking idiocy

Is that true? I just checked the reviews for all of the McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Google Maps ^[4] and none of them appear have been review bombed recently or have any mention of the UHI shooter ^[1][2][3].

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