WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @lemmy.world

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If we want to have some sort of strategic crypto reserve, or some crypto dollar currency, why the Hell would we buy Bitcoin to do it? We can just whip up our own coin. Flat out call it CryptoDollars if you want. IDK. The federal government can create a coin, give it out to people for free, and then in turn accept it for taxes, the same way any currency is backed. Buying up existing market Bitcoin is just idiotic.

The example I prefer is Bin Ladin. The United CEO killed more people than Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin was just a drama queen and made his killings a lot flashier. Does someone care so much for the rule of law, on such a deep principled level, that they objected to Bin Ladin's extrajudicial execution? If there is such a rare and gentle soul that they were willing to be offended that even Bin Ladin didn't get a fair trial, then I will be willing to listen to that person's objections to celebrating a murderous CEO's death.

Personally, I am not that good a person. And I am glad that both Bin Ladin and this CEO are out of the picture.

What I've been asking people is - "did you weep for Bin Ladin?" If anyone is hand wringing about people mocking the insurance CEO, you should ask them if they wept for Bin Ladin.

This CEO killed far more people than Bin Ladin. And he didn't even do it out of some misguided religion - at least Bin Ladin thought he was making the world a better place. This guy just killed thousands of people for the money. Yes, the insurance guy never got a fair trial in court, but neither did Bin Ladin - OBL was killed in an extrajudicial assassination by armed US government agents. Now, in Bin Ladin's case, capture wasn't really an option. But with the UHC CEO, it's not like there was any other way to bring him to justice either.

If someone really just is that principled that they actually wept for Bin Ladin being killed without trial, then I will take their hand wringing about this guy being shot seriously. Otherwise, I'll have to believe that the person only objects because it was a wealthy and powerful American that was killed.

Or course. He's Ebaneezer Scrooge without the redemption arc.

I hope we never find out who did it. The killer just becomes this DB Cooper-esque legend who came out of nowhere, kill a CEO, and disappear never to be seen again. And even better, proving the complete and utter incompence of the NYPD, when they can't manage to catch someone who killed in broad daylight in a city of cameras.

My God. We really are speed running "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" aren't we? I always thought of it more in the sense of political and social decay. But we even have the god-damned lead pipes!

I mean they’ll do an investigation. The most likely thing is a protest/revenge killing, but there are other possibilities. One I thought of - what if someone actually wanted him killed for reasons completely unrelated to him being an insurance executive? For a hypothetical example (which I have zero evidence to believe to be true), what if the wife wanted him killed for the insurance money? Maybe he was as cruel to her as he was to his customers. Maybe the wife hires a hit man to take the guy out. That hit sure looked pretty professional. Again, I have no evidence to suspect this is true. But what if? Anyone who had a motive to have the guy killed could easily try to make it look like a protest killing. And you rarely get to that level of corporate power without having a few skeletons in the closet.

This could just be someone that practiced their firearms skills for quite awhile before making their move. Sure, they don't seem to have left an explicit message, but that may not be necessary. If they are someone who was cheated by United, well that's what people will assume anyway. So an explicit note/confession would serve only to provide authorities another method to track them down.

Seriously, I will not mince words. This man was a mass murderer directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. If there is a hell, he is there right now. He killed more people with a pen than any serial killer in American history did with a knife or gun.

We have a justice system so that we don't need to use vigilante violence. Make no mistake, this man was a mass murderer. He was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. But because of our corrupt legal and justice system, he was able to get away with it.

We no longer have any legal method of holding the wealthy and powerful to account for their crimes. The courts are crooked and the politicians bought and paid for. Again, we implemented courts and a justice system so that we didn't have to use vigilante violence. In olden times, if someone killed your loved one, it was perfectly acceptable to kill them in revenge. We in time implemented a formal legal system to prevent this kind of retributive vigilante violence.

Well, what do you think happens when you break that legal system so thoroughly that the wealthy can no longer be held to account? At that point, your society goes right back to the law of might makes right.

It's actually very similar to the violence that occurs between gangs. If you're a drug dealing mafioso, and someone cheats you in a drug deal, you can't turn to the courts for relief. So instead, you have to use violence.

The people no longer have any real way of holding the wealthy responsible, even for literally murdering innocent people. We're going to see a lot more such attacks in the future. And it will not end until we reinstate the old peace treaty that is our justice system.

Was he ever really a human being?

Possible interpretations:

1. They've run a distance of 1,000 miles while wearing a butt plug.
2. The 1000 miles is the distance the device has moved back and forth within their rectum.

You really are a mad scientist. You're in it for the science, damn the practicality or ethics! No sane scientist would select a 62 year old man to be the base for their super soldier program, but look at you go!

Seriously. This article is an embarrassment. Yeah, no shit, our disability payments have gone through the roof. A decade of the War on Terror will due that. Ironically, much of this has come from better medical technology; many people now survive with disabilities that previously wouldn't have come home at all.

I tried to look up the author of the article, but they seem to be cowardly not sharing it. How much you want to bet it was penned by some neocon who was pushing for the Iraq War before it happened?

Why not just start with disclosing that you're human right off the bat?

Don't worry. This is just the future timeline that Scrooge is seeing. Eventually he will mend his ways, and Marley will no longer die on stage.

Thankfully Elon will never be a MAGA successor, and is ineligible to run for president.

You're also ineligible to be president if you've engaged in an insurrection against the United States, and look how that turned out.