I believe if everyone who was against the current oligarchy started placing guillotine stickers everywhere, like you might for a favorite band, people would feel less isolated in their distaste for the current system.
And in an ideal world those who the guillotines are for might realize just how much they are in the minority.
Most of these have been tried and we now have a new Gestapo rounding up minorities and letting them die in detention camps, while the rich bid on how they will redesign Gaza once the genocide is complete.
Nonviolent action has not stopped this regime, but one assassinated CEO has rippled changes in healthcare and made the epstein class scared. While I do advocate for nonviolence first, we are well beyond the point where violence isn’t reciprocal
Non violent methods work but you need far more organisation for it to work. 1 person can kill a billionaire. It takes action of millions to starve a large corporation.
Takes people like you and me being brave enough to not show up to work.
Boycotts are so much easier than strikes, just need people to organise and actually do it
If you can point to one actual change directly from that CEOs death you would shock the hell out of me.
Prepare to be shocked.
Immediately after his death, his company loosened their standards and offered care to thousands who had been previously denied, and so did every other health care company. I have read many stories of people who had been denied previously, and were suffering, and even dying, who finally got treatment following the Corporate Serial Killer’s justifiable execution.
It didn’t last, and they went back to business as usual, but that only demonstrates that we have to eliminate a random health care CEO every few months, to keep these Parasites under control.
I was hoping for more than just an anecdote, but really that’s on me for not saying that. Everything I’ve seen from UHC is doubling down the idea that they “only deny <X% of claims, yada yada”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson
Witty did step down, and a bunch of executives hired body guards, but I don’t see any lasting change from the whole thing. Even if they did allow claims they wouldn’t have for a little while, if it’s business as usual nothing has really changed (not to undersell how important that is for people who may have been affected).
their was a noticable decrease in declined claims immediately following his death, some lives were saved (or improved, if only temporarily) as a direct consequence of that parasite finally being taken out
Now imagine if EVERY corrupt action/rulebreak was meet with a bullet? Everyone who is there for the scam, would not bother applying.