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People Laughing At A CEO’s Assassination Should Give Our Leaders Pause

James Rozoff
5 min readDec 7, 2024

56,000 laugh emojis have so far been posted on the United Health Group’s Facebook announcement that their CEO was shot dead in the street. Only 2,300 shared a tear emoji and 1,900 replied with a heart/hug emoji. Sharing a laugh emoji to someone’s violent death is pretty cold, but it’s also a pretty good indicator of how many Americans absolutely despise the people who are running things in our country.

It’s a pretty safe bet that whoever killed him had a loved one die because they had been turned down for necessary treatment. If that’s the case, I reckon that means the suspect list is in the hundreds of thousands.

The murder definitely sends a message to people in similar positions of power in the U.S. They previously must have felt pretty safe in their gated communities from the riffraff they grew fat off. I guarantee you they’re all looking to enhance security now. They will now, even more than ever, be isolating themselves from the people they profit from. They will be viewing the average American as their enemy, and this will lead to the average American viewing them the same way.

56,000 laugh emojis. There was no option to comment (or else it was shut off), so people communicated in the only way they could. I imagine all of us have had the experience of trying to talk to someone in some big corporation and being put on hold and constantly transferred for hours at a time. We all have felt the rage grow inside as the way we’re being…

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