A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.
Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.
The only grim aspect is how much time, resources, and energy the NYPD has wasted trying to solve this. Statistically, there have been other murders since this one. They should move on and add this to their “unsolved” pile.
Clearly they need to make an “example” out of him or others may follow his lead.
The public should mount pressure on them to drop the case. Make it clear we want him to walk free.
“We don’t care when they’re poor.” -NYPD
What’s grim about it? Of course people are gonna look kindly upon someone who kills a mass murderer.
I don’t condone murder, but I also dont feel sad about a mass murderer being gunned down.
That’s pretty much what condone means. From MW:
To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. synonym: forgive.
From Cambridge:
to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong
So you’re perhaps not encouraging it?
It’s not without protest though. The protest is… was this guy a mass murderer? Yes? Well ok then
Hmm… TIL The word condone means something slightly different than I thought.
That said, one can still want a murderer to face justice while also not being upset about the victim death.
But I suspect this story has quite few people realizing they do condone murder in some cases.
Yeah, I looked it up to be sure. Not to be a dick.
And yeah, perhaps we should just condone condoning certain things and draw the line at encouraging or assisting?
Google, show me “CEO assassination rule34”
In grim twist, corporate media tries to guilt people out of having hope
Media is there to make ownera feel good so they are doing just that.
Issue is that working class is not accepting this narrative.
A dead corporate executive is the most unift people have ever been in a generation.
I don’t think extra security can save them when entire country wants you dead
And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.
FA is done, I think this is FO stage
Three incident in the last 4 years where billionaires owned media got caught lying. Covid, Gaza, and now this. In all of these they didnt gave shit about innocent people dying, finding excuses and twisting words to gaslight people.
You drive people to desperation and this is the result. What the fuck else could anyone expect?
Right?
When your business model is an engine that creates desperate people with nothing to lose, you have to expect something like this.
Someone killing thousands through corporate policies: Not grim.
Someone killing that person: Grim.
/s
Yeah fuck the title of this article. What a shit way to introduce bias.
somemostReality is grim. The twist is romantic.
Grim isn’t the word I would use.
Grim
Grimm
In a report this week, the institute found that of the top 10 most-engaged posts on X about the shooting on Wednesday, six “either expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim.” The dynamic is similar to the discourse that often emerges after a mass shooting on websites like 4chan and 8chan, where perpetrators of extreme violence become memes themselves, Mr. Goldenberg said, “but what’s disturbing about this is it’s mainstream.”
Get fucked neo-liberal media. What an isane gaslighting comparision. This was a targeted assasination. Are you now afraid that people direct their anger at the sources of it, rather than the peasants killing each other?
What were the four other posts? CEOs going “Actually, murdering me would be bad.”?
Grim twist will be the name of my next murderhobo rpg character
Sounds like a great name for an Assassin Rogue.
I was thinking it would be my first playthrough in bg3 as the durge…. But the insurance ceo might make the better bhaalspawn
I’m a 40 year old straight dude with two kids and a wife. I think that guy is a freaking heartthrob! I mean first look at him, he good looking. I always rate people on how they look first but more importantly how they act second. And just look how this guy acted.
