171 points

…and all that came of the whole affair was a bunch of bad reviews for a McDonald’s, which were promptly deleted by the corporation controlling all data.

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I guess Advent Health dropped their proposed anesthesia policy out of the goodness of their heart?

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6 points

For now. However I’m sure they have plans in the works for all sorts of similar heinous and hateful policy changes.

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21 points

Well the employee was also fired and their life ruined, and it’s still early.

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15 points

Seriously? Why is that?

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17 points

Being fired? For being a distraction from the work that McDonald’s wants to occur without people associating it with class warfare.

Honestly it’s probably the manager reacting poorly and once it goes further up the ladder and there is more and more backlash they will turn back on these decisions same as the reward money if they are smart though I think the 10,000 is officially off the table since that was a private 3rd party and the 50,000 will likely be a fraction of that at best.

Any kind of change from norm gets blamed on whoever they think caused it. And it hits wide and usually the innocent just as much.

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9 points

I can’t find anything that mentions they were fired. Do you have a source for that? That would be super messed up.

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4 points

Well I have it from the statements of the woman herself and the somewhat open gossip now of central PA.

I could try to pull sources but I’m not sure what I could provide that would be considered respectable enough for this community.

I think she was just put on leave but if you are a part time worker on leave without pay it sure looks like being fired even if on a technicality they can say she wasn’t fired yet. I dunno she’s acting like she was fucked over and I believe it when she thought she would get a bunch of money and be a hero.

I don’t have sources that talk about people shitting on cars at the McDonald’s but that’s happening too.

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The parasites are scrapping their data online because they know plebs don’t know how to check SEC filings on https://www.sec.gov/search-filings

That could maybe contain names of the people running these death machines.

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25 points

Coincidentally, unrelated, happenstance fact - you can gain the ability to attend shareholder meetings by purchasing a certain amount of shares - each company sets their own level.

Y’know, exactly like the meeting Brian was on his way to that December morning.…

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ohh wow, look at that!

i guess they really do think peasants don’t know how to use common sense and online search, i am sure Securitas and G4S clowns charging a fat fee for this advise too. Classic capitalism strikes again.

does it actually make these parasites any safer?

no way to tell really…

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No, there was a lot more that came of this (unless you’re specifically referencing the snitching part).

  • It’s made business execs afraid.
  • It’s shown the working class how to have solidarity.
  • It’s been a rallying cry for how much the people hare the current system.
  • It’s given us a martyr.
  • It’s taught the would be school shooters that they’ll get lots of positive attention for redirecting their targets towards those deserving. They’ll get labeled a folk hero, they’ll have people trying to send them money for their legal defense fund, they’ll get their name in the history books. They’ll get everything they ever wanted out of their act of violence.

And I’m sure there’s more.

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22 points

I’m not a big Astarion fan, but I can see the appeal.

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-6 points

Interesting work of fiction.

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or if you conceal your murder(s) with a thin veil of legality!

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3 points

I think that user above you was implying more should be done about the McDonalds, which is pretty ironic given the context.

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9 points

It might even unify some voters across party lines

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Is his martydom trending on “common” social media like TikTok, YT, Facebook, Discord, big podcasts and such?

Lemmy (and even Twitter and Reddit) are rather niche and not necessarily reaching the larger public, aka this pool of working class folk.

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It definitely seems to be yeah, given the number of reposted tiktoks I’ve seen, and the facebook unitedhealthgroup laughing emoji ratio, and all the videos that corporate media are clutching their pearls over. There are tons of comments in Ben Shapiro’s videos on the subject that are cheering on the death of a CEO, despite his attempt to paint this as only the “violent left”. When Ben Shapiro’s viewers disagree with him you know the feeling is widespread lol.

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1 point

I can’t speak for all of them, but I can explain the vibes:

  • TikTok/Insta - 100% worshipping Luigi en masse
  • Discord - None of the ones I’m in, though I mostly stick to small friend groups I know IRL. I’d be shocked if there aren’t servers praising him as a hero

I can’t speak to the rest.

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It’s taught the would be school shooters that they’ll get lots of positive attention for redirecting their targets towards those deserving. They’ll get labeled a folk hero, they’ll have people trying to send them money for their legal defense fund, they’ll get their name in the history books. They’ll get everything they ever wanted out of their act of violence.

I never even thought of that. No more Columbines? Just more Luigis?

Based universe!

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I wouldn’t go so far to say that there won’t be any more school shootings. A school shootings is comparatively easy. Their locations are static, publicly available. There are many potential victims, and so on.

With that said, some may opt for the slightly higher difficulty of biz execs for the reasons I’ve listed.

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1 point

Maybe the “let me fuck shit up and shoot up my high-school” crowd doesn’t really care about being remembered as heroes but what would I know.

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12 points

I’ve already heard a bunch of stories of insurance companies approving procedures they denied the day before.

This probably saved a bunch of lives.

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96 points

The owner class and their government muppets are flexing right now as if they want to inflame tensions.

Or are they not reading the room?

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107 points

They have learned over decades that they can do whatever the fuck they please. They don’t need to read the room, nothing is gonna happen to them anyway. Also, the public just voted their mascot into the White House for 4 years despite 34 convictions, so they are truly invincible and they know.

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35 points

Ha, 4 years, yeah right. He is going to refuse to leave office

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It was a bit of a struggle getting him out last time, wasn’t it?
I think we should compromise, let him stay but force an agreement that he’s not allowed back in once out.

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7 points

Well, officially 4 years anyway lol

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38 points

If he lives that long.

Despite all the shitty AI pictures of him with abs, the guy is still old as fuck and in terrible health.

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16 points

Obviously not or they wouldn’t be trying so hard to spin the story.

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Spinning the story is how they’ve gotten away with everything.

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1 point

Over decades, more like since before the constitution was written. Shays’ rebellion and probably years before that.

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they are truly invincible and they know

Tell that to the dead one.

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Meanwhile, the Internet be like…

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23 points

The internet would never condone targeted violence as that is a violation of ToS, sir, but we also don’t have to have any sympathy for Brian “the Parasite” Thompson.

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14 points

All I am saying is that if you see a dog snarling, don’t poke it with a stick. It seems … ill advised.

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11 points

I have sympathy, it’s just that Brian Thompson is outside of my network.

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4 points

They’re engaging in displays of power. They think that works because it does until it doesn’t

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4 points

I, uh… I don’t think they can read.

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  • Delayed by six months until the news dies down.
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4 points

You’re too quick! I had responded in the wrong place.

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20 points

It’s not guaranteed they won’t pay the peon. There’s just a process.

It seems like a weird process because everything in the legal world is framed in terms of adversaries, people trying to game the system, official processes that have to be followed, and delays. And for all I know, it will lead to whoever ratted him out getting the shaft. But there’s a big difference between “It’s more complicated than bebopping on down to your FBI office and getting handed a check” and “They’re definitely going to shaft him.”

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Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings because of the attention it got. Some people need a focus for their misery and I am not ashamed to say that I would rather see heartless corporate executives fear for their safety instead of school children gunned down as they hide in a closet. Just putting that out there.

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84 points

I am glad to know I’m not alone in this line of thinking!

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5 points

I really hope Jo Miran is an alias.

Maybe of the Buckee’s beaver?

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33 points

shit, i would say school shootings are endemic now.

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Only in America. Where there’s guns, there’s accidental death.

I say ban the guns so the vigilantes need to use cricket bats. Sell the surveillance tapes for PPV.

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School shootings are very intentional, not accidental.

Banning guns isn’t going to make 500 million firearms disappear, it’ll just take them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

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12 points

Hey, those tapes are community property. Stop trying to commercialize justice.

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Take it else where to do this circle jerk.

Stay on topic please. Brian was a prasite. Nothing to do with us fire arm laws.

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70 points

Hello lonely young men with something to prove, have you seen how much positive attention Luigi got

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19 points

well im lonely but i dont want to goto jail.

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31 points

So what you’re saying is if the collective can set Luigi free then you might be okay with the deal?

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4 points

This convo is heavy sarcasm, no person should do something stupid based on shit read online.

But school shootings are bad thing to do though

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Just avoid eating inside restaurants for awhile.

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15 points

I’ve got very few long term prospects, very little empathy for the undeserving wealthy, and a whole lot of spare time.

Ladies, look out 😎

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4 points

Well yeah, don’t you remember game theory talking about how big his cock is?

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3 points

Luigi got attention for being arrested, the police are the ones alleging that he was the one who shot the CEO.

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70 points

It really would be a strange kind of uniquely American poetry if our school shooting problem inverted itself into a megacorp CEO shooting solution.

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59 points

If a few more CEOs gets off’d, they’ll ram gun control legislation through congress faster than Trump can wolf down a Big Mac.

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15 points

The cat is out of the bag, no? 3d printing guns is a bit of a Pandoras box in regards to gun control. Especially in America where it has been legal for so long

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Historically it’s been threats to the owner / controller class that have produced serious gun control legislation in the US, so you are probably right! But if you mean actual confiscation a la Australia, pretty sure that’s off the table here. Sincerely think it’d spark a war no matter who sincerely attempts it or why.

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11 points

A papercut that draws blue blood is a bigger issue to these freaks than a river of poor corpses.

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3 points

Or they just make it easier for CEOs to get and carry guns.

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4 points

Given that the guy used a (partially) 3D-printed gun, I just can’t fucking wait to see how the overbroad knee-jerk restrictions are going to impact the hobbyist maker space.

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I think they said that Luigi had a ghost gun, partially 3D printed? Of course he didn’t make the bullets so maybe that’ll matter.

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14 points

Workplace shootings are nothing new. Where do you think the term Going Postal comes from?

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9 points

Damn I thought it was the hit game POSTAL 2

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6 points

Watch the Postal movie for a real wtf humor/horror experience. I enjoyed it, but it’s a sensitivity PR nightmare.

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2 points

In this regard, all the media attention might be a good thing. I haven’t seen this much coverage since that runaway bride horse shit 15 years ago.

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