BonesOfTheMoonI would wonder.
KoboldCoterieNobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed. It’s a shitty argument here, too.
goldteethYeah I never heard anyone say “won’t someone think of Osama bin Laden’s, like, 30 fukken kids?” Genghis Khan had so many goddam kids that we’re still finding bits of Mongol warlord genome stuck in random places like it’s craft glitter. Fuckin’ Leopold II had four kids, went off to make people-hand soup down in the Congo, and then had three more kids while he was doing it!. This is not necessarily an indicator of virtue, folks!
fukken
Short for ‘fukkeng’, obviously; whatever the hell that means. Sounds like a city in China.
Nobody says “what about their kids” when a poor single parent stealing food to live ends up in jail and their kids in foster care.
They are absolutely thinking of the children. They are thinking about how much more likely they are to end up in the system, more slave labour from the next generation.
LillyPipThose criminals would have raised their kids to be criminals, too. It’s good the kids will be taken away to be raised by a system that will [checks notes] orphan them, abuse them, and raise them to be institutionalised. That will totally fix the problems of generational poverty and waste of societal potential, preventing those kids from becoming adults who have to steal food so their own kids can live.
PriorityMotifPlus they just get homeless when they’re 18
The reporting on Brian Thompson feels similar to as if Igor Kirillov (Russian general killed in the scooter bombing) was being reported by Russia Today on how his two kids and wife love him and anonymous staffers praising his work.
UnderpantsWeevilNobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed.
I’ve heard it said unironically a few times about dictators we’re allied with who have a sudden fall from grace. The Shah of Iran, the Batista Regime in Cuba, and the brief failed Jeanine Áñez coup in Bolivia all leap to mind. I’m sure we’ll get some kind of “President Yoon was a cool dude with a family why is everyone in South Korea so mean to him?” Op-Ed sooner or later. We just stuck the head of Al Qaeda in Syria in charge of the country and I don’t doubt we’ll get a bunch of “Damn, what a cool guy I can’t believe he got got his family will be so sad” stories if he ever accidentally swallows a hand grenade in a power dispute.
And I can’t count the number of articles, TV Shows, and movies that try to lionize the CIA and they’re some of the biggest drug runners on the planet. Hell “Charlie Wilson’s War” might as well have been “Dr. Heroin the Child Rapist or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Mujaheddin”.
And then you’ve got the real heavy hitters like American Sniper and Rambo II. Talk about celebrating mass shooters.
Is this a crossover episode?
This whole thing has me thinking about the gun control episode of Bojack a lot.
The moment rich white guys felt threatened (by women in that case) guns were completely outlawed, and I think this is the closest we’ll ever get to that in real life. If a few more CEOs are knocked off I could see it being discussed. If 10 or 20 more are killed I think we would actually see severe restrictions put in place.
This is literally what Reagan did as governor of California when Black Panthers were arming themselves.
2A is unassailable ... until the wrong people decide to embrace it. Be one of those people.
Yeah I was gonna say it’s already happened
We had a story in my area about a dealer who wouldn’t sell to members of the local SRA or something like that recently too, guess he felt threatened by a bunch of queer brown folks
In the 1960s, the US government started cracking down on buying firearms. Bombings suddenly became rampant. In 1970, the US averaged more than a bombing a day. The government then tightened up restrictions on buying explosives further than they had for firearms, and Americans resigned themselves to going back to buying guns and shooting each other.
If the US government were to further restrict guns, people would notice that it’s easier to DIY a bomb than it is to DIY a gun, and that the former is also quite a bit more effective at making a point.
You can purchase everything you need to manufacture explosives in a supermarket.
tenchikenHell, my father died and I was excited and happy as a clam, and he was just a normal dickhead.
For all we know, it was the guys kid who made several of the first memes about it!
𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆If my biological father could just go ahead and kick the bucket, the world would be a slightly better place.
Mine died this year. I was like huh, damn I guess I better go to the ceremony. He told me so many times over the years that he had something saved up for me and my brother when he died, as he brushed close to death right after my brother was born and a few times since. I’m not complaining because I don’t care, he was an asshole, but either he was lying about that too or his disgusting wife just got it. She’s so terrible I thought she was Jewish the first two years I knew her. It turns out that she just did a “funny” Jew impression and then turned that into her entire personality. My dad had a legit full auto Thompson he promised me as well. I imagine she already sold that.
You should steal her cell phone everytime she walks away from it, and throw it in a lake later on. Fuck her.
With any luck I will never see her again.
God, he sounds insufferable. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Mine was an abusive meth head. Beat and berated my brother, my mother, and me all the way up until CPS took us out when I was 15. I was terrified of men for a long time, and I can still be pretty standoffish with them, even at 32. I can remember being 8 years old, washing dishes. I dropped a glass. It broke. The next thing I knew, I was suspended 3 feet in the air by my neck and being thrown into a wall. For dropping a glass.
I always loved my mother. I was given her phone number recently, but I’ve been hesitant to call. I know she’s with a different man these days and is genuinely happy with him. He’s good to her. She finally left my father after he broke several of her ribs, punctured a lung, and nearly killed her. I know she was always scared he’d kill her if she left, but I suppose that she got so close to it that death didn’t seem like such a bad alternative to the life she had with him.
So yeah, the day he breathes his last will be cause for celebration in my circle.
Call your mom. She sounds pretty normal, though traumatized of course. She probably had PTSD and you do too.
My dad never beat me or my brother beyond spanking. He did hit my mom though. One New Year’s Eve when I was about 9, he came home shitfaced and hit and screamed at my mom. I laid in bed pretending to be asleep as he broke every plate in the house in the kitchen while screaming. He cut himself pretty bad at some point and began slinging the blood everywhere. I heard him go in the shower so I got up and my mom was in the kitchen floor cleaning up the broken dishes and blood.
She died five years ago from alcoholism and starvation.
If he didn’t get around to making a will, all would have gone to his wife
Yeah unfortunately I know all about what happens when someone dies without a will. My last grandparent and then my mom died six months apart. I was executor in mom’s case.
MinnesotaGoddamWhen my step grandfather died, we had a party. Most of the folk there showed up to make sure he was dead and maybe piss on his grave a little.
We do that for people we like. We call it a Wake.
solsangraalthis hypothetical pondering isn’t reality. mega wealthy people don’t care if poor people suffer or die. they don’t see us as humans. we are just parasites that cost them money. it literally doesn’t matter that we generate all the money for them–we are repulsive to them, and the celebration over CEO extermination just pushes us even further into “other” territory
this is how kids are raised in billionaire households. you think that asshole’s kids plays with poor kids? or even has any kind of meaningful interaction with them? hell fucking no. they go to private school with other rich kids, get chauffeured everywhere, vacation in places only they can afford, and on and on-- how else would all these kids grow up to be exactly the same as the assholes who raised them?
to hell with the lot of them i say
The news of course mentioned they go to public high school. I’m sure they never go hungry at school.
is it this high school? www.woldae.com/portfolio/wayzata-high-school
i won’t dig up pics of schools in poor neighborhoods
Didn’t say.
I’m more inclined to believe these ceos have convinced themselves they are helping rather than hurting. Theres also some evidence c-suite people in general have a lower IQ than non-c-suite folk, so thats possible too.
If you don’t want people to celebrate your death, don’t live in a way that makes people want to celebrate your death.
What’s the saying? You shouldn’t say anything
about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
SkullgridWhat’s the saying? You shouldn’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
this sounds like a joke from an 80 year old jewish man.
samus12345The accent I imagined was more yiddish and less NYC. Nice connection though.
Thing is that cuts both ways. Lots of us would be happy if certain politicians came to an “untimely end,” and just about as many would be pissed as hell.
True. There are plenty of people getting ACA benefits who would kill the guy who forced the country to adopt Obamacare.
Truth is, people celebrated before we had any idea who this guy was. He wasn’t famous or a public figure before he was killed. People didn’t hate the man that died, nor his kids.
People cheered because of what he represented. People didn’t celebrate his death, they celebrated that it made his type of person look like they aren’t untouchable.
Anyone who has kids and wants to leave a good legacy for their kids will now have to take into account whether they want their kids to end up like this guy’s kids. I know I won’t be accepting any c-suite jobs any time soon, but I’ve turned down jobs in the past because they didn’t align with my morals.
Same, I turned one down earlier this year. No amount of money would make me hurt people like he did.
There are a lot of situations out there where people, myself included, say one thing but when it comes down to it, they’d do the same thing if given the chance. I try to be cognizant of that but this is one time where I can absolutely say I wouldn’t be in that situation. I’ve turned down jobs for much less. Granted I wasn’t offered anywhere near the kind of money this jagoff was making but money isn’t a factor when it comes to something like this.
YarHarSuperstarpeople like him are not like most of us. The amount of wealth they’ve acquired is absolutely an indicator of that. There are many legitimate reasons to hate the man.
Are you the Roofer/ Stormtrooper unsympathist from Clerks?
So I turned the job over to a friend of mine . . .
FizzThe thing is that tons of strangers are celebrating his death and they know nothing about him bar a job title and a ton of misinfo. So if I were a kid I wouldn’t think I’ll of my father I’d just think worse of the general pop.
What misinfo exactly? The dude absolutely sucked.
There is a lot of misinfo going around about how many claims are denied and other things relating to United Health care.
If there is i haven’t seen it. I don’t know why you feel the need to defend them. Even if it’s overstated it’s still thousands of preventable deaths a year at the very least.
With record profits. Always needs to be said to provide context this isn’t about a company treading water.
The just demand ever moar, and don’t care who they have to murder to get moar.
You need to watch Sicko from Michael Moore.
Then you’ll understand the hate. I’m a Brit, but this film pissed me off no end, purely for the inhumane suffering and death caused by Thomson and his ilk. Every single one of them should burn in hell.
SiCKO | A Film by Michael Moore | 2007 | Full Movie
I understand the hate I just dislike people using false information to base their attacks off. There is plenty of stuff that’s bad and true no one needs to resort to outlandish made up figures to convince people its bad.
Congratulations, you share an opinion with Donald Trump.
solomon42069Hey you never know what their family life was like - maybe he was also a wife abuser and so it was a double win for humanity!
Thompson’s children, like every other human, aren’t just neutral moral agents. Like their father, their position depends on our monstrous system. Sure they could overcome this and adopt good politics, but it will be harder for them than people who earn money honestly.
Remember that the capitalists are always class-conscious and usually show class-solidarity.
Thompson also please guilty to drunk driving in 2017, spent a couple days in jail, became CEO the same month.
Not a meme.
whotookkarlWhat is a meme?
By Dawknin’s original definition (cultural) memes are ideas, behaviors, styles, or practices that spread within a culture and carry symbolic meaning. Some examples would be the “Keep Calm And Carry On” posters during WW2, the concept of the “American Dream” or toasting with glasses.
However in this context we’re talking about internet memes which is not synonymous with cultural memes. An internet meme is a picture or video that is funny, ironic, or relateable.
Paul F Tompkins is great!
He’s a principal on my beloved Thrilling Adventure Hour, a new-time stage show and podcast in the style of old-time radio. I’ve seen them live twice.
His very excellent improv comedy podcast SPONTANEANATION! with tons of great guests. Link to a live show video.
He had his own fake news show with puppets briefly, No You Shut Up!
He was main cast on Bajillion Dollar Properties, a fake reality show about Hollywood real estate agents.
PFT was in Tangled with a minor part as Short Thug, a passable rap name.
He and his longtime friend Tawny Newsome (who plays Mariner Beckett) co-host the official Star Trek podcast.
Plus he’s basically the king of podcast guesting. He has been in everyone else’s show. And who can forget his impeccable style.
