Some say he rode a pale e-bike

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    2 months ago

    It was just Eithan Arelius veiled again.

    (I hope that at least one person gets this reference. It’s too good to go to waste.)

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’ve never seen or heard that variant of that name. In my head it sounds like it’s pronounced like someone with a heavy southern drawl saying the name “Ethan”.

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        2 months ago

        I’ll try to put the name in the way it’s pronounced. Hopefully this works…

        A-th-an Uh-rail-lee-us

        It’s from the Cradle book series by Will Wight.

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    I understand the word play and see the effort making the corresponding image, but the glorification of this person is not acceptable for me. There’s a line between malicious joy and glorification or open call for violence. Even in meme format. Maybe I’m the party pooper here, but I can’t grasp the collective hate the last days.

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      2 months ago

      Maybe you’d understand better, if you or someone you love had to suffer from arbitrarily denied UHC insurance claims.
      For some this action seems to be a drastic move to hold someone accountable for the pain he caused, who couldn’t be held accountable though other means.

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      Exactly. I, an everyday normal person just like you, think that murdering CEOs is bad. I am definitely not saying that because I am a CEO of a health insurance company. It is important that health insurance CEOs be spared, and not at all for personal reasons! We- i mean they deserve to live. This is an opinion that all normal everyday people - of which I certainly am one myself - should share.

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      2 months ago

      people don’t like a boot on their head. in a broken system violence often is the answer. the outpouring of support you’re seeing for our new folk hero is the collective masses cheering one less fucking boot on their head.