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Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2024-12-06 at 20:56

Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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Written by mountainriver@awful.systems on 2024-12-06 at 22:57

I started thinking about when Emma Goldman’s partner Alexander Berkman tried to kill a 19th century robber baron who had sent in Pinkerton to murder workers into ending a strike.

One can make an argument about the economic conditions creating the condition’s for what the anarchists back then called “the propaganda of the deed”. But that isn’t where I am going. Instead let’s look at the aftermath.

From an assassination perspective, the quality of the assassination was lacking. Also, Wikipedia (my bold):

Frick was back at work within a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder. Berkman’s actions in planning the assassination clearly indicated a premeditated intent to kill, and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[5] Negative publicity from the attempted assassination resulted in the collapse of the strike.[19]

In other words, today’s robber barons gets less sympathy than the O.G. kind. That’s a bit interesting.

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Written by zbyte64@awful.systems on 2024-12-07 at 15:46

Berkman’s case had the perception of doing something violent to end a strike. UHC is pure retribution. It hits differently.

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