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12.12.2024
The American Wake

As a person living in Scotland I was initially perplexed why the Brian Thompson shooting was even a story. I mean, isn't this what Americans do? Shoot each other all the time?

If the guy who was shot was a bum living out of a dumpster at the back of McDonald's would this even be on the news? And therein lies my initial naivety: this was a CEO of a company ranked 8th on the 2024 Fortune Global 500, and therefore a very important person indeed apparently.

Money talks and bullshit walks.

As for the shooter, I haven't really been following the story that closely, but I guess he was someone who got fucked over by a corrupt health insurance company.

To me this is just box standard America: people shooting each other, fat folk eating too much, car chases, wars everywhere, idiots for presidents, corrupt companies... the kind of shit that's in every Hollywood movie.

As an outsider looking in, it's kind of fascinating watching the alleged most powerful country in the world fall apart.