Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

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      17 days ago

      Here’s the thing. The French and Russian governments were unprepared for massive civil unrest.

      Here in America we have companies like Blackwater [or whatever they are calling themselves this week] Staffed by ex-CIA hotshots with access to a massive data base and lots and lots of money.

      I’d bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize on this attack.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I’d bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize on this attack.

        My guess is they’re currently consulting their legal teams and politicians, trying to figure out how to get the public to pay for their own private Secret Service for corporate executives.

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          16 days ago

          I have another comment in this thread. I said that 9/11 gave us the Patriot Act and that this attack will probably lead to something worse.

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        17 days ago

        This whole story-arc gives first move advantage to the opposition, the oligarchs are being forced to react instead of execute plans as they wish

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          17 days ago

          No.

          This is a blip on the radar. Gamestop didn’t destroy the stock markets and this isn’t going to do anything but get people riled up.

          9/11/2001 gave us the Patriot Act. You can bet that Trump will push through a law letting any CEOs body guards shoot at will.

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        16 days ago

        Some of us have nothing left to lose. Fuck the private military contractors. Guns and drones are the great equalizer. They’ve waged war on us for decades it’s about time we fight back.

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      17 days ago

      Read up on what happened in France after the guillotines… Maybe not the best idea to repeat that error.