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Wow, I really hope this isn’t the moment it starts and a bunch of copy cats spring up targeting all the parasites. That would be terrible.
With all the suicides caused by extreme wealth inequality it’s a good thing that suicidal people don’t kill a CEO before killing themselves. That would be tragic.
In the dark moments I’m sometimes comforted by the thoughts of who I could take with me to hell.
I suspect that some people might think of it as a lost opportunity.
Infinite target selection…
Shooter got away. Who knows, maybe they’re not after just one
Couldn’t ask for a better friend than this guy
Unsung hero
Your comment to gods ears
They got away so far. There may be a time limit on that.
But with that said, there is still a chance that even if caught the jury does a little jury nullification.
Bombs being thrown into boardrooms is certainly something nobody wants.
Well no, it’s a nice table.
The preffered nomenclature is:
surprise C suite appreciation pizza party
Bad example. That is a CEO killing his board of directors.
The fact that the man got away (and had a silencer) goes to show that it’s more rich targeting the rich. Likely not a peasant. The billion-dollar question is: Why?
Suppressors, like anything else gun related, aren’t that hard to come by. You can even make your own pretty easily. They won’t hold up over 1000 rounds at the range but they would be more than sufficient for something like this.
You’re right that we don’t know why this happened. I’m just saying I don’t find the possibility that a suppressor was involved to be particularly indicative of anything other than the fact that the shooter wanted to be harder to catch, which yeah, you would expect to be the case.
Yep. A few hundred bucks for an inexpensive one, and a pretty good one costs in the neighborhood of a mid tier PC gaming rig. Theoretically you have to pay a tax and do some paperwork to get one, but you’ve already mentioned how easy they are to make.
Maybe a bunch of folks decided they’d rather hire a hitman than pay their deductibles.
I was reading about how it cost this family $100k to keep their child alive and they were paying out of pocket with gofundme because the insurance rejected them.
And I did think to myself… What can you do with that 100k to get revenge?
As long as we don’t make the killer out to be a hero.
Of which they can be.
The hero that killed an evil oligarch; or the killer that killed… thousands? tens of thousands? …by denying their access to healthcare?
Commenters didn’t read the sarcasm in my post.
I didn’t catch it. I hate using shit like “/s” too, but that does come with a risk!
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The robot dogs are just pompous posturing by rich idiots, they don’t do anything that a cheapo CCTV camera couldn’t do.
It’s simple, just get the company to create a list of all the people in the last 3 years who died after being denied healthcare. And then stare in horror at the list and decide that maybe the world is a slightly better place this afternoon and we should tear down the whole company and all their ilk.
I rarely enjoy Youtube comments. today they’re quite good though
It would be the funniest thing if a bunch of terminal patients submitted confessions just to tie up resources. A real “I’m Spartacus” situation.
It was me. I shot Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.
I’m not even terminally ill.
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It’ll be neither. Now that the upper class is affected, they’ll be lobbying hard for strict gun control. But hey, archery still exists…
they’ll be lobbying hard for strict gun control.
This is America. No they won’t.
Turnip banned guns at his rallies and his boot lickers didn’t care much at all.
If this starts becoming a thing where rich fucks face mob or lone gunman attacks, you can guarantee they will make laws banning guns in “freedom zones”.
Almost all blue states have strict gun control laws thanks to racist white Republicans, see Black Panther Party in California.
That’s what makes it so wonderful. A madman has taken the keys, and his platform is built by crazies who idolize guns more than their own children. You could no sooner remove gun culture from America than you could alcohol or cheeseburgers.
Man, that time American politics tried to remove alcohol from its culture was fuckin’ wild
This is America theyll lobby it for everyone but themselves
CEO’s will buy upper body armor and write it off as a business expense.
Pretty sure grapeshot cares not for their armor.
The killstick that got shinzo woulda worked with or without armor.
Normalize Splatoon guns
Explained in this YouTube shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/MLPCPGfLIDM
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Please lobby for gun control.
I know a few guys who are into red hatwear… With a lot of guns who might not enjoy that very much.
so you want the guns taken?
No, I want the pot stirred enough for us to take our country back.
I’m surprised Trump’s repeat assassination attempts didn’t trigger something. Although it would be funny if the Republicans were the party to introduce gun control laws, perhaps the irony is just too much for them.
But hey, archery still exists…
And if that gets too much heat, a slingshot takes much less space and can also be deadly with the right projectile
A sling with just a little bit of training can put out a lot more damage than a slingshot and it’s literally just a rope and a rock. It’s harder to aim but that’s what the backyard training is for.
Humans have been killing each other for [reasons] since before we even evolved into humans, if somebody is determined to do it, you’re not realistically going to stop them by depriving them of weapons. Our bare hands are deadly weapons. It’ll get done somehow.
Yeah the story of David and Goliath becomes a lot less impressive when you realize David showed up with a Bronze age Glock.
And it’s way easier to get a compound bow than a gun, and not that much harder to learn.
Harder to hide a compound bow on a subway though.
It’s not as hard if Comicon is in town.
If they ban Comicon the intersectionality will be crazy
Steampunk Legend of Zelda would be a great cover.
Crafting functional firearms is way easier than people think.
Especially if you only need the gun to work once.
Lmao true
I would love nothing more than to redirect school shooters to stop shooting at their peers/innocent folks in schools.
The guillotine “jokes” aren’t really jokes.
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people gotta give CEOs more free health insurance
Careful what you wish for.
Murder is not the solution.
For every problem there is some amount of murder such that the problem stops existing.
What is the solution?
Brian Thompson’s case shows systemic vs direct violence: one hidden as “civilized,” the other viewed as evil.
Technology and bureaucracy weaponized for murder and suffering on a massive scale, yet his killer is condemned for directly responding with the same violence Thompson’s actions produced. I only feel sorry for the people who are suffering or have passed away due to the healthcare industry.
I’ve heard the term “social murder” recently I’m relation to this. He might not have personally used a weapon against them but anyone who had died as a result of denying coverage for a life-threatening condition has been murdered socially.
but did you hear he’s a husband and father?
Edit: was*
Edit: In case it wasn’t clear, this is a joke. Obviously.
Which means he should’ve had more empathy for the families he’s denied medical care for, right?
I saw someone post a pic of his family trying to get people to empathize with him, and to be honest it just makes me think even less of him.
I don’t really know how someone can love their kids, but deny healthcare to other children. He’d be less of a monster if he was just completely devoid of humanity all the time instead of when he’s just clocked in for work.
I don’t really know how someone can love their kids, but
Did he? Just because he had a family doesn’t mean he gave a shit about them…
I mean, fair enough. Kinda hard for me to remember people can actively feel contempt or just complete disinterest for any kid, let alone their own.
Also there’s a “love” that’s prevalent among the affluent that isn’t love at all.
Where children are seen more as and expected to fill the role as familial assets of the patriarch, more an extension of the parent’s legacy. No appreciation for the kids themselves as individuals, but attempted clones of the parents, and met with disdain when they fail to fill that mold as a failed investment.
The Trumps and Murdochs come to mind, and among extreme wealth, thats the rule not the exception.
It’s not contempt at the outset or disinterest, they see their children as assets, no different than stock or capital, to play to increase the reach of THEIR leverage, even after they’re dead.
As a parent, I have a great deal of contempt for parents that expect their kids to further their own interests or expect/demand they become little clones of them.
Kids don’t owe you shit, you owe them.
This is the thing, exactly! It’s called The Banality of Evil. When Adolf Eichmann was being tried in Nuremberg for war crimes he committed in Auschwitz, it was widely remarked on about his lack of ‘evilness’. The dude seemed like a mild mannered accountant, and by all means was, but he helped enact one of the most heinous and calculated acts of genocide in all of history.
Monsters are easy to point at and shudder, monstrous humanity is far harder to accept let alone vilify. This piece of shit CEO is firmly in the Eichmann camp of evil and we should fucking celebrate he’s dead.
Did his wife and children know what he did for a living?
If anyone doesn’t know what the point of my question is, I can only direct them to go watch The Zone of Interest (2023).
I’m a husband and father. I wouldn’t disappoint them by killing thousands of people and getting shot for it. It’s a reason to not do evil things.
The wife chose marrying a psychopath. She’s no better. The kids will be somewhat better off being raised by only one piece of shit instead of two.
Man slaps dead parasite sucking the blood of humanity
My condolences to his family, even though no insurance company ever gave my family condolences when they let my mom die
fuck it we ball
Oh no! That’s terrible! I hope musk isn’t the next one. lol.
Stop letting that man live rent free in your head.
He’s also living rent free on our planet.
We can fix that. Of course I mean by imposing rent (taxes) and in no other way.
No, this belongs more to a collapse or civil war thread than it does here.
This is not an endorsement, this is observation of basic, predictable human behavior. The working class is squeezed financially to the nth degree. There IS a breaking point. That sense of impending “something” many people have been feeling since well before the election has not gone away, and the squeeze is a source.
And here it is. What is probably the first shot fired on someone in charge of that ongoing financial hardship, that squeeze.
The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.
This is a domino.
Yo historian, it’s a dickhead CEO not Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
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I laughed way too hard at this comment.
Yeah it’s amazing. I disagree with the substance but love the structure
Yo historian, it’s a dickhead Archduke not The Holy Roman Emperor
Considering the Archduke was the heir of the austro-hungarian throne and the HRE having been defunct for over 100 years, this is basically on the level of someone assassinating the VP
Lol I wasn’t trying to elevate him but say that he was no more than an oligarch (CEO) today. Didn’t realize he was the heir to the successor state, just being silly… Guess I was wrong!
People should quit while ahead and stop looking up to wealth and titles if they don’t want to run into a Gavrilo Princip
The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.
This is a domino.
Here’s hoping. We’re WAY overdue for guillotine day.
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Yea the tariffs will probably be seen as some sort of breaking point together with this some years from now.
womp womp
I refuse to celebrate the man’s death. That just doesn’t sit right with me.
However, I’ll climb on my soap box long enough to point out that first, an insurance business model is fundamentally incompatible with healthcare. It does not work on basically any level and the need for profit will always be in conflict with the need to provide high quality healthcare.
Second, this conflict between the need for profitability and providing healthcare means that most of the health insurance industry is built on a foundation of ethical compromises. For profit health insurance companies like UnitedHealth are just straight up immoral. Any business that has to give loyalty to shareholders at the expense of anyone’s life and health is immoral. Not to mention the incredible amount of work health insurance companies have done to effectively rig much of the American medical system for their own benefit.There are lots of corporations that do lots of bad things but I would classify for profit health insurance as a special kind of evil.
As much as they like to pretend they’re the good guys, the good guy doesn’t make it their sole mission to extract as much money as possible from their customers before they die while doing the bare minimum to keep them from dying.
Long way of saying, my condolences to the guys family. Having your husband/father/etc. assassinated in the street has to be awful. At the same time, screw UnitedHealth. They’re a bunch of worthless blood sucking vampires.
My feelings are exactly what they would be if the head of a vicious mafia was just assassinated. Probably because the head of a vicious mafia was just assassinated.
How evil does a person have to be before it is acceptable to celebrate his death? This man devoted his life to profiting from human suffering. The fact that the law was on his side does not excuse his actions; it simply means that he worked within an evil system.
Hitler level is sure cause for celebration.
Feelings on the topic should allow for nuance and shades of grey, not everything is black and white. Im in OPs camp… Dont celebrate the death of any human, and the amount of damage to peoples lives the company this guy helmed does is unfathomable. You are allowed to hold both opinions.
I don’t celebrate that this needs to be done, but I do celebrate it being done. When they destroy any sense that the justice system will see justice done to them, it requires people to seek justice in to her means. It’s their fault. They can choose to repair the system and remove their advantages whenever they want. Until them, I welcome justice.
Does anyone know how many people his company screwed over by denying insurance claims or how many suffered and died due to not paying enough or not reading the fine print, i won’t celebrate his death but i can’t say i’m sad that he’s gone or anyone like him for that matter.
It’s okay, I’ll celebrate his death for you
I am sure the shareholders he enriched celebrated every earnings call. His leadership led to untold number of deaths for profits.
Mesmerizing!
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
The writing has been on the wall since the ACA got rewritten by these same companies. Instead of reforming the system to making it more fair these corporations were prioritized over us and our health.
There is no path to justice, all the evil shit they do has been deemed lawful, so it’s not like a lawsuit will do anything and it’s certainly not going to change anything for anyone else.
And now with the incoming administration teasing to remove even the smallest of teeth from the aca, it really does feel hopeless. The government is protecting profit over people and I’m surprised it took so long for somebody to finally snap. In an ideal society we would have reforms before stuff like this started happening
It’s one of those situations where big money will use illegal or unfair means to sway or change law, then tell the people to “play by the rules” or “do it the right way” after having changed it to be heavily in their favor. Most people will try to do it the “right” way too as it’s the only realistic option. Until it is so unreasonable that other methods end up being more palatable.
It’s almost like unlimited corporate power and greed leads to more instability, who woulda thought.
But corporations are people! Think about McDonald’s rights!!
Right, like this person could have been a great dude on a personal level but his position at United health care is pretty evil and implicates him in that evil.
Would certainly be exciting if the USA kicked off a movement here.
Well, I don’t think you can separate his “personal” and “business” lives. I don’t think you can be a great dude and go to work instituting policies that kill people for money.
Maybe he was funny and kind to people he knew, but he wasn’t a different person from the person he was professionally.I wish you could have done it like 2 months ago though.
I hope the accelerationists were right and I was wrong, because we’re accelerating.
What I saw online (take with grain of salt) is UHC has 29,000,000 customers, and a 32% denial rate (the highest in the industry), so that gives us a possible 9,280,000 people denied if there were 1 claim per person a year.
That is obviously super rough guess, cause not every customer makes a claim a year, some may make none and some multiple for the same thing that could repeatedly get denied.
It’s a Hydra. Cut off one head, there’s 5 waiting to take this guy’s place.
You cut off a few more heads, and they’ll start to be a little more cautious with their shitty actions.
Meaning they will use healthcare dollars to hire more security.
Of course they’ll also have to increase their margins to account for that.
Of course
Wishful thinking. They will double down on their shitty actions while surrounded by more security than a monarch.
I guess the logical progression is to go after the most accessible level…meaning eventually the office workers would probably be a target, which isn’t great.
That, or people go after, like, their extended families instead…which isn’t exactly great either…
Maybe flooding a country with firearms and putting them into its constitution isn’t such a good idea
Worst case there is they have to pay for it and more money goes to working people. If they’re in a serious threat of danger, I’m sure security costs increase too.
There is a limit to how much that kind of security can help.
“Cut off one head, two more shall take it’s place.”
