Never underestimate the power of inertia. Some people live their entire lives on it.

Because the average American and European feels their convenient lifestyle is more important than the life of the planet. They'll talk the talk about the environment, but they won't walk the wall with their votes or actions.

Because the people in positions to do something about it get paid by the evil doers to make sure business is as usual

The problem its not just some rich guys they are just the hitmen. Its PetroStates that are behind them. Its not about money at this point its about power and a house of cards those states put in place completely propped up by oil. As in if they stop oil their Nation collapses and they dragged from into the streets and eliminated.

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Something to remember about the Forbes List: the most terrible people of all, aren't even on it. There is a level of wealth that floats above mere billionaires, for which there almost isn't even a category. Forbes knows not to mention these families in the context of some tawdry popularity contest among nouveau riche Techno Trash. They are mostly centuries old multi-generational wealth like monarchies, the Rothschilds, sheikhs, organized crime families, dictators, etc.

They aren't on the list, but they hold the real wealth, and more importantly, the real power. Everything else is an illusion of their making.

That page 404 errors for me. Here's an alt:

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Yup. After 9/11 for a while it seemed every week or two the news would report that "The leader of Al Qaeda" had just been killed or captured. Not a false statement, yet it happened again the next week.

United Healthcare's stock is down 60% since the incident. United Healthcares board and new CEOs lowered the rejection rate of patients out of fear as well. Say what you want about the morality of what was done. The efficacy speaks for itself

if that continues to happen, trust me, eventually none of these fuckers will be left in line.

Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

Their HP definitely went down. And, anecdotally, I heard from a pharmacist friend that they were approving claims like nobody's business for the next day or so

The way in which Luigi was arrested is part of their safety checks. A way to motivate working class to turn people in, without paying them. I generally thought reward money worked.

I learned it did not work from a podcast that no longer exists. Michael Bazzel’s OSINT podcast talked about it within the context of people who used OSINT to find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works. (Podcast doesn’t exist any more, the copies of the casts went away with the podcast.). Sadly, there’s no replacement for this type of news and info condensed down into one place. It’s also a niche area of information, not followed by many.

Those McDonald's workers were not paid for turning Luigi in. But they thought they would be.

Even so, look at the bigger picture. How many Luigi’s have there been since 1981?

Most people avoid confrontation, spending most of their days sitting in a chair or lying down, and thinking/hoping/wishing a white knight is going to rescue them from their situation. It’s one reason why so many people exist in bad relationships (1 or a chain of them). Because they think that other person is going to rescue them from their sad days of avoiding confrontation while sitting in a chair or lying down, most of the day for most of their days. Hoping. But never doing. Thinking about doing. Maybe spouting off on the internet about doing. But never doing.

Kemp is alive and governing Georgia as far as I know but I'm happy to be corrected if that's wrong. You may be thinking of Brian Thompson who involuntarily resigned his position as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a NYC sidewalk.

There is also a societal dependance on some of the status quo. The bigger issue is how hard they actively resist the change. A lot of places still rely on trucking at a minimum to fill the groccery store with food wrapped in plastic, most of which is powered or made by fossil fuels. We need to electrify and diversifying but they cling to oil and have way too much power in governmental decisions to prevent or reverse any reduction in dependance for their products.

... So kill the entire board.

That'd probably make a more uh, substantial material impact on their bottom line.

Oh, they keep doing evil shit with a new board?

... repeat.

Or, I guess you can just either ... well, either try to run away and hide, pray to the normalcy bias gods that one of these days the legal systems they own will do something against them, or just resign yourself to a kind of smug, self defeating moral solace in being doomed, but being right while being doomed.

Operant Conditioning

Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequency or duration of the behavior may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction.

the post is about who is doing it, who is responsible,

it's supposed to make the problem less abstract

Within a week of the killing, BCBS backed out on some of their upcoming bullshit and United Heathcare's pre-authorization rejection rate has decreased dramatically in the aftermath.

Thimpson's death (at the hands of someone whose identity we'll never know for sure) was objectively good for the insured.

But there isn't a "demand" at least not as much as years ago. We are trying to switch to renewables but the oil execs keep killing the renewable progress. The horse fucker in the white house won't let us move on. He kills wind and solar and forces the coal plants to stay open.

Depends on the caliber

A box is typically between 20 and 50 rounds.

Less than a case though.

If you bust out the guillotine, the people who replace them will behave as if they've seen what happens when the guillotines get busted out.

Renewables+nuclear is cheaper and in a truly free market would beat out oil

edit: for legal reasons I wish to clarify this is a joke

Sure {wink!} 😉

This is good joke! Very funny that nobody has killed these people! L O L

I mean, somebody is going to have to do a little terrorism...

About the response itself? No.

About the situation that made that response understandable? We're way past "worried".