• Drusas@fedia.io
    861·
    2 months ago

    Dealing with health insurance and disability insurance has made me sincerely wonder how people don’t target insurance offices with violence. I’m surprised this is the first time something like this has happened. The average person is treated as completely disposable. No more money in the bank? No ability to work for somebody else’s profit? No value to you.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think that is the reason. I think the reason is people fear prison. That’s my reason, anyway. It’s hard enough being chronically ill and not in the American slave system.

    • inv3r510n@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      Every time there’s a school shooting I’m like damn y’all are going after the wrong people.

      Hope this is a new trend to replace school shootings…

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, aren’t almost all school shootings done by attendants of the school? At least all the ones that have stuck in my brain are ones committed by current or previous students of the school they shot. And I can’t think of how to verify that either way this morning. In those cases, though, it’s probably not entirely political, but personal.

        • inv3r510n@lemmy.world
          51·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s a mix of total crazies who decided that school kids are an easy target for their craziness and then bitter current/former students who were often severely bullied and decided to take matters into their own hands.

          I don’t think it’s political, but that’s besides the point - my sentiment is always the same, why can’t they do a mass shooting at Davos instead of at an elementary school?

          Edit: I’m so confused by the internet. My above comment has 7 upvotes, this has 0, yet they express the same sentiment. I know it’s just dumb imaginary internet points but like where’s the consistency?

          • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 months ago

            Assuming it’s school attendants themselves, then they probably don’t have a direct reason to shoot up anywhere but their school. Maybe their home. Their school is probably the thing that’s causing them direct issues in their life, it’s where their anger is aimed, and people don’t often consider better options when they’re that level of angry. I just don’t really see these two things having enough overlap for that to be a thing.

            Obviously, it’s a very different scenario when it’s not someone who’s enrolled at the school. That’s a level of dysfunction that I can’t even begin to look at the world through the lens of. I don’t think that kind of dysfunction is the one to take suggestions of better places to shoot up, though.

            • inv3r510n@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 months ago

              It’s a view of well if they’re gonna go on a mass shooting anyway they might as well go after people who deserve it, not little kids

              • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                2 months ago

                I get that, and I don’t disagree, but my point is that the venn diagram of “shoots up schools” and “shoots up political targets” don’t really overlap. Kids don’t kill people for political reasons, they kill because they’re in pain. Yes, they have a “better” target but that target isn’t causing them active daily suffering.

              • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
                1·
                2 months ago

                You’re asking for a lot of deep thought from young people who are lashing out in pain or anger and frustration.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          That’s what I mean, we don’t know. Could be a lot of things. Seems premeditated, like he was specifically targeted, so it doesn’t seem like a random crazy person or a mugging, but other than that, we don’t have any idea why he was killed or who the murderer is.

          • inv3r510n@lemmy.world
            5·
            2 months ago

            There had to be some kind of intel for the shooter to find the guy. If it was this easy to hunt CEOs there’d be a lot more people bagging them.

            I vote for open season on health insurance CEOs. Seems like an efficient crowd sourced way to drain the swamp.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      And such a pointless censorship too. It’s still obvious they are guns, I can even tell one’s a revolver, one’s an automatic pistol. And Frank having guns in his hands is the whole point of the meme.

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
        3·
        2 months ago

        That’s why I find it funny. It would be like halving the resolution in a closeup of a massive, erect cock. No one would be confused about what they were looking at and their attention would be focused on it due to the resolution change.