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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

'Enron CEO' Hit With A Pie In The Face In New York

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'Enron CEO' Hit With A Pie In The Face In New York

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'Enron CEO' Hit With A Pie In The Face In New York | VIDEO
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Connor Gaydos, a man connected with a satirical project on the relaunch of the energy company Enron, was hit in the face with a pie in New York City on Thursday. A video of the moment surfaced where the 28-year-old is seen entering a building in New York City before a person threw a pie at his face. The video quickly went viral on social media., US News News - Times Now
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  • enkille@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Homer Simpson dressed as Pie Man

  • Encephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win
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    A satirical Enron, so was the pie a planned part of the art or was it a legit attack by someone not in on the joke?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      It was planned. But still quite funny.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
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    satirical project on the relaunch of the energy company Enron

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    Almost everyone loves pie!

  • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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    Oh My God, Oh my fuckin Gawd. 😂🤣🤣😂

  • blattrules@lemmy.world
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    Now do trump.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      Ideally with something denser and faster than a pie.

      • blattrules@lemmy.world
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        For sure. I’d settle for the pie though since he’s apparently so afraid of it.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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      I thought presidents get shoes

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        It is tradition, after all

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Now this is vigilantism I can get behind.

    Although it would be funnier if they hadn’t pied themselves and had pied a real CEO.

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      Seems like the last vigilante would get behind too.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      Are you expecting some local neceomancer to raise Ken Lay just for a practical joke? Because I was…

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        Oh you wouldn’t need to raise him from the dead. Just digging him up would be fine.

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          He’s just Laying there after all.

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      Purely performative. Got it.

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        The UK has a long tradition of pieing awful politicians - and guess what? It gets a laugh and memable pictures, but changes nothing.

        • Nigel Farage has milkshake thrown at him, protester gets a criminal record. Policies unchanged.
        • Tony Blair gets pelted with purple flour. Protester gets a criminal record. Policies unchanged.
        • John Prescott gets egged, punches protester in the face. No arrest, policies unchanged, Labor wins election, Prescott survives politically in government.
        • Peter Mandleson, government spin docotor, has green custard thrown at him. Policies unchanged.
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          UHC CEO gets assassinated. Policies unchanged.

          I keep saying this- you cannot assassinate your way into companies putting people over profits. They’re legally required to do the opposite.

          UHC rates will continue to rise and they will continue to deny people. CEOs are just as replaceable as every other employee in a corporation.

          So you might as well throw pies in their faces and laugh at them because this is not how you solve systemic issues.

          And I assume a bunch of you will be pissed off at me for saying so again, but you’ll be in for a rude awakening when your insurance premium goes up and Trump decides to bring back denying for pre-existing conditions.

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            Blue shield policy on anesthesia was changed the day after the assassination.

            Policies have been changed and no pie was involved

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              You have no idea whether or not it was the assassination that changed that policy and I continue to maintain that you cannot solve a systemic problem with vigilantism.

              How many CEO assassinations do you think it will take for the fully Republican-controlled legislative, executive and judicial branch to socialize the U.S. for-profit medical industry? You don’t need to give me an exact number, just an estimate.

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                And yet you cannot disprove a direct correlation between the two events, so, until we won’t have a bigger dataset to analyse, both our opinions are equally valid; even if a policy change in the time span of a day and against the economic interests of this institution would skewer the hypothesis towards my interpretation rather than yours, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully we’ll have this increased dataset available in a short time ;)

                To answer your question: more or less all of them. Or at least a great majority (70-80% at least), all of the people who you cited in your list are out for blood against the lower classes so I don’t see anything wrong in defending ourselves from these beasts.

                They’ll have to be successful 100% of the times to avoid being killed, we will need just one successful try to reach our goal

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                How many CEO assassinations do you think it will take for the fully Republican-controlled legislative, executive and judicial branch to socialize the U.S. for-profit medical industry?

                Only one way to find out. (Clearly I mean by recruiting the owl from the tootsie pop commercial to give us a number. I do suspect it will be greater than three, however.)

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                  That’s not an answer.

                  Or are you admitting you can’t CEO assassinate your way out of a capitalist healthcare system under a fascist government?

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                When Shinzo Abe was assassinated, most of Tetsuya Yamagami’s concerns were directly addressed in policy, including the dissolution of the church he was protesting.

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                  You’re living in a pipe dream if you think that a fascist oligarchy gives a shit about anything but making money.

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          John Prescott looked like he deserved it xD

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      https://youtu.be/eFa1eHOEvyg?si=9mPcTvhI7-yilBAm

      Just trying to make your day a little brighter.

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    Lame. PR stunt.

    Do it to a real CEO, and ditch the pie.

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      Before the UnitedHealthcare CEO assasination, it would’ve been. Now it’s not.

      Before, it would’ve had the message of maybe “we think a pie in the face and some public humiliation might make you fix your ways”.

      Now though?

      Now the message it sends is “this could’ve been your public execution, and the world would’ve cheered.”

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      So just hand on face then?

    • WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org
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      To be fair… Not everyone is willing to risk it all and straight murder people, but still want to show their dissatsifaction with the system.

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      Just like you are?

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    Note: not actually the energy company.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So it begins…

    👀🍿

    (Grab ya popcorns, before these CEOs raise the prices)

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    Enron? Makes me think of Elían, or Furby. Dancing baby.

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    Times Now News?

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    I bet he was pissed but when he got home he felt quite lucky that was all it was.

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    Was he pied by Bernie Sanders?

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    here https://youtu.be/nnhOtfYVgcw?si=hHhixbifbSME6T4Y

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