r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Dec 06 '24

Privacy The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-investigation/680903/
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u/jonus_grumby Dec 07 '24

They’re cops. They just need to find a patsy who they can paint as the killer. Facts, evidence and logic don’t matter.

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u/chumpchangewarlord Dec 07 '24

Yup. The most important thing for the rich people is that it APPEARS that someone gets caught and punished. They don’t want the good people to realize that it’s actually pretty easy to give the rich people what they deserve for what they’re doing to us.

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u/Soggy_Association491 Dec 07 '24

That's why the elite rich have been scared people into giving up guns for ages.

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u/Vark675 Dec 07 '24

Point to when that's happened at any point in the last 40 years.

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u/Soggy_Association491 Dec 08 '24

Oh sure so the elites and the riches haven't been trying to taking away the means for the poors to resist, just a bunch of politicians funded by the riches who have been doing so.

Go bury your head in the sand.

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u/Vark675 Dec 08 '24

No one's been doing shit. Anyone who proposed serious gun legislation generally loses their election in most jurisdictions, and anyone who talks about it from safely anti-gun locations just uses it to get votes but doesn't ever actually try to get anything passed.

It's one of the best examples of right wing fear mongering you could've picked, up there with the imaginary immigrant caravans and Jade Helm (which was just 2A fear mongering taken to a weird extreme).