Last December, Brian Thompson, the CEO of the main health insurer in the United States, UnitedHealthCare, was murdered, one of the 10 richest companies in the world, only behind giants such as Walmart, Apple or Amazon. Ethel Cain, who has just published her ambient and drone project ‘Perverts’, has offered her controversial vision on Instagram Stories. And he did it weeks after the death of Brian Thompson, he wrote on social networks that “violence begets violence.”
Under the hashtag #MataAMásCE0s, in English #KillMoreCEOs, he has recovered a quote from former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, in which he summarized how powerful groups around oil or insurance campaigns influence Congress: “The “Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.”
Ethel Cain has insisted in another Stories: «I really mean it. Corporations laugh at the protests. Why would anyone voluntarily step down from their throne after having spent years profiting from the suffering of their fellow human beings? The ghost of Christmas future will not visit anyone, no one will change their mind. It’s simple: make them fear for their lives and hit them where it hurts, or nothing will ever be done.”
The author of ‘American Teenager’ adds: “I don’t even see it as an incredibly radical idea. It seems quite simple to me. “Violence is never the answer.” Wrong: sometimes it is.”
As Billboard reports, these posts are in line with other recent political statements by Ethel Cain, such as: “The problem is that the United States has beaten its people for decades and made them weak and desperate, and now it promises a way out, a way to transcend and rise, selling his fellow men. In a clear reference to Trump, he added: “Today, a shamefully large number of white men are simply Nazis as a way of disassociating themselves from the rest of the carnage around them, even if they are broke, uneducated and in an impoverished environment.”
To those who voted for Trump, he said: “I hope peace never finds you. Instead, I hope that clarity strikes you like a bolt of lightning and you live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you have done and who you are as a person.
Ethel Cain says she supports the idea of killing CEOs to enact change:
“I really mean what I say….It’s simple, you make them fear for their lives and hit them in the only place they hurt or nothing will ever get done…” pic.twitter.com/nAnpzug9ps
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 11, 2025
