https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382
fellas what words are you carving into the shells of your bullets??
actual lol stop making him sound cooler and cooler by the minute!!
ok its official the killer is the coolest american since john brown, this is action movie levels of badass
Death to America
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson/story?id=116446881
He lived in a non-gated neighborhood
What a funny thing to specify.
It’s funny because now he lives in another neighborhood that is gated (Hell)
Lmao its easy joke but we love to see it
good to see social mobility is still alive and well
still alive and well
NOT FOR HIM!!!
xD
there are technically slums that are gated, also non-gated mansion culdesacs are an income bracket step above most gated communities, after that larger mansions usually just have their own gate.
Drax the Destroyer: I too, am extreme humble.
Collective America when a healthcare CEO
This guy is shaping up to be some masked vigilante hero. Wonder if he’s part of a group.
And of course the media is going all J. Jonah Jameson, painting him as a villain/menace.
Looks like this has its own Wikipedia page now too. I’m curious to see how much traction this all gets in Americans’ collective consciousness:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Brian_Thompson
whats the context of these , is it a refrence to something ?
Potentially a reference to this book
How cool is that ! thats the cooles letter of confession ever …
If it is a reference to this book, to we have any theory of why he used “depose” instead of “delay”?
I downloaded the book, but although it discusses “onerous depositions” as a strategy employed by insurance companies it doesn’t seem to be a prominent focus of any chapter.
The longer the company can drag it out, requiring the claimant to provide more and more information, to submit to onerous depositions, or simply to wait, the more likely it is that the claimant will give up and take a very small offer, or just go away.
Elsewhere, discussing an auto insurance claim:
The tactics included requiring the plaintiff and her attorney to answer 237 written interrogatories, even though most of the information asked for had already been disclosed, subjecting her to an eight-hour deposition asking about matters both trivial (every illness she had ever had) and personal (whether she had been sleeping with the defendant), and submitting more than seventy subpoenas to her doctors, employer, auto repair shop, former insurance companies, and every hospital in the Memphis area.
Might have just been written on a different bullet he didn’t fire or they didn’t find. Hard to say.
the cops may not be telling us all the words either
As a rhetorical counter to the proceduralist, reformist politics of the author. Defend the downtrodden. Deny the powerful their comfort. Depose the gods of capital.
Rightwing assassins
Centrist assassins
Leftist assassins
Dude is so unfathomably cool
You should engrave something on those bullets. Something that will really make an impact.
Deny. Defend. Depose.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?
i don’t understand how they benefit from telling us but i’m really glad they did. they totally could have kept that secret forever and it would have made the entire thing way less powerful
Profit. It’s the hot news story right now and every detail can get harvested for views and therefore ad revenue. That’s all there is to it.
the cops though, why did they release the info
Probably so they could spin up some bullshit about online radicalization or whatever
I mean
I too get online radicalised when my online loved one gets online cancer and is online denied by my online health insurance.
Huh that’s funny. Same thing happened to me with Minecraft.
:(
They are gonna ban masks in Manhattan, and ask the courts to please let them suck up even more data without warrants.
Capitalist realism
The media class are in a profound social echo chamber, the very idea anyone would oppose the elites and celebrate resistance is literally incomprehensible to them, they’re not educated enough to even think about this abstractly, most of them were trust fund brats of one kind or another, their brains are just not wired for this
On the otherhand the cops are just happy to have someone “worthy” to hunt, whose capture or killing will give them a kind of fascist glory and social media cred
Yahya Sinwar levels of ‘maybe this will make him look bad’ self own
yup, the linked abc news article didn’t even try to guess what “deny, defend, depose” meant.
People forget Guy Fawkes wanted the U.K. to be more authoritarian.
That resembles the title of this book
and what you can do about it
Jay Feinman seeing the news tomorrow morning: “I DIDN’T MEAN THAT!!!”
From the lion’s mouth:
be a lot cooler if they did
nah i read the excerpt the author is as reformist lib as lib can get. i almost see our masked angel doing that as a kind of rebuttal against the book, or a more clear cut answer to the question it asks
gross
great catch, i think it’s probably not a coincidence
https://delaydenydefend.com/excerpt/ is it safe to see this as the shooter’s manifesto?
its classy to not write your own manifesto tbh
Writing a manifesto is a fun writing exercise though.
Wewweee that’s some coincidence ain’t it
There’s probably a shell with “Delay” that they didn’t find
i wonder if he was counting on firing a specific number of shots or if he had different words all throughout the magazine and it was random how many we got
No no no! It’s a ‘cryptic message’ and has nothing to do with what you say. Pure coincidence and speculation. Call it angry wife/competition hitman, nutcase, lone wolf… All good, but ‘rich vulture getting his comeuppance’ would be a precedent of something they really do not want to see.
Reminds me of the Carl Marks Trailer Park Boys meme
He stopped a mass murderer. In a civilised society it’d start a purge.Rare good guy with a gun in America
The only way to stop a bad guy with an insurance company is a good guy with a, you know, the thing
Thingamajig? Doohickey?
The Chad inscribing bullets for your assassination of a capitalist pig vs the virgin signing missiles being used in a genocide
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
yeah i hope he was like a disgruntled cop/vet/etc whose spouse or family member had a terminal illness or something that killed them because of a denied claim. (i mean, not for them - would be shitty to just have your life/loved one/etc die at the whim of some billion dollar insurance company) but it probably would really bring the whole table around to “wow maybe insurance companies are shit” so…
if hes a cop im gonna kill myself (sorry if this concerned anyone, im not suicidal)
NEVER KILL YOURSELF THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE AND A WORLD TO BE WON FROM THE JAWS OF CAPITALISM
fine
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?
I think Lenin and the gang did more bank robbing and stealing weapons than assassinating people pre-revolution.
I need to reread all of Lenin on the adventurism, but does he ever talk about being opportunistic about this stuff?
The general Marxist (there wasn’t a “Marxist-Leninism” when Lenin was alive) sentiment at the time was that acts of “terror” (what we’re calling adventurism) are fundamentally individualist acts, and aren’t really worth pursuing unless they are both extremely popular, and exist as adjuncts of a broader mass-movement.
holy hell he’s actually so cool
Just goes to show that in the age of cookie cutter killings, doing Cool Shit can still have an impact.
is any of this real or is this an elaborate advertising scheme for a fucking thriller novel?
Lmao a viral marketing campaign of killing ceos
I feel like even Bill Hicks would be on board for this one
I usually hate marketing but y’know just this one time…
It’s an ARG created by Jigsaw.
