The only thing that surprises me about someone assassinating a CEO of a company that regularly ruins lives is that it’s not more common.
Expect it to happen more often. I think we’re entering that stage of civilization.
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No, it’s called revolution. And it doesn’t usually end well. It all depends on who ends up standing stop the heap that’s left over with the fighting is over.
Yeah, especially in a country with so many guns, that are so easy to obtain.
Who knows what the future brings
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I guess we’re reaching a stage were most people are both aware of the harm those people do and believe Ju$tice will never do anything about it, quit the opposite.
The way this article seems to go out of its way to humanize this guy before remembering to mention the ways this guy has hurt so many people by chasing profit at the expensive of people’s lives is kind of wild.
That’s the corporate press for you.
They’re hoping the humanizing also protects their CEO, who is a different variation of corrupt and harmful to society.
But we are capitalists, chasing profit is the highest morality and human calling. It is killing without direct investor profit that is immoral.
You need to remember that ALL media outlets are tools of the rich to keep the poor in check. They will ALWAYS spin these things to make the rich person look a good as possible.
Maybe because he was a human???
He was a human.
A sociopathic one. An arrogant one(I can’t imagine ever walking around without security if I got rich off of deciding who gets to live and die, but then again I’m not evil or stupid enough to do any of that).
He was human, but that doesn’t mean he should have gotten a free pass to be evil. The “justice” system was obviously never going to deal any justice for the millions of families who lost a beloved one to this mans’ sociopathic decisions.
Sometimes when you do evil things, you win evil prizes.
Systematic (and alleged automated) denials of claims are highly immoral, unethical and possibly illegal thing to do. I just think this doesn’t solve the root problem and just adds one more death without fixing it. I don’t think this is both a sensible way as well as right way to fix this. Also, I don’t think you can just stamp each CEO as immoral automatically. General thinking for specific groups of people is frowned upon based on ethnicity, origin or gender, yet when we look at socioeconomic groups it suddenly becomes right? I think the freedom of movement should exist for even those in power and political//legal issues should be handled the right way. Peaceful protests and movements for a healthcare reform are the only right way long term to support this if you’re American and really care about the issue. Short term violence LARPing just causes polarization and makes the people fighting against this system seem crazy.
Systematic (and alleged automated) denials of claims are highly immoral, unethical and possibly illegal thing to do.
Immoral? Yes. Illegal? Obviously not, considering the amount of people who have died due to these exact kind of denials.
It’s not illegal because the same people making money off of denying claims and killing people are using this vast wealth to lobby and propagandize against any step towards universal health care.
I just think this doesn’t solve the root problem and just adds one more death without fixing it.
I think you are probably right, but I think it at least sends a message to the people who can fix it. I don’t think it’s going to make the root problem worse, either.
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So we’re the thousands who died due to his greed. I’ll try to remember to shed a tear for him after all the rest.
Economic vigilantism is really dangerous and if this isn’t a one off it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
You could look at this as a one off, or if you want to start looking at assassinations in total then you get to include the two trump would be assassins and make a damn strong argument to your point that this is exactly what a society that refuses to hold people accountable looks like. Honestly its the same concept as when the Black Panthers started giving free breakfast to kids, if no one else is going to solve the problem, people will do it themselves.
Are you saying that this is proof of concept?
We have concepts of a revolution
it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable
I’m sorry, have you not been paying attention?
it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
I think you mean, ‘people are starting to wake up to the fact that justice is unattainable’.
Where have you been the last decade or 3? If you’re rich and not going after other rich people, you’re practically untouchable. Bernie Madoff didn’t catch jail time because he defrauded Anne and Bill out of their pension, he defrauded people who
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In the absence of justice, people settle for revenge instead.
Idk it sounds like someone else got a lot closer to getting justice than I’ll get.
And since it is not, there are no alternatives but to switch diets.
Trump has proven this, and the fact Elon (the richest manchild in the world) is literally in his cabinet now only exacerbates the situation.
I don’t think things are radically worse, that’s the interesting thing… It’s the fact we’ve discarded any semblance of justice at the highest levels. Like, nobody is even pretending now. The highest office in the land is about to be occupied by an openly corrupt idiot.
When people lose hope in their leaders, they realize it’s up to them to change the world. Great acts are often done in the fallout of such times. Both acts of great kindness, and great violence.
Injustices become things to act on when you have zero hope of change from the people who should be enacting change.
So she knew he was receiving threats because of lack of coverage and still had the audacity to refer to the shooting as “senseless.”
I guess there are consequences for your actions. Who would have thought.
But that’s only supposed to apply to poor people!
That’s just one rare case. There’s plenty of others that go unpunished.
hours before he was set to address an investor meeting about UnitedHealthcare’s 2025 financial outlook, which projected revenues exceeding £375 billion ($450 billion).
Man, good thing Biden said we didn’t need to fix our healthcare system. Otherwise that would be worrying…
Revenue is not profits. The profits are $28 billion, that’s only 6% which is actually low.
$28bn is A Lot Of Fucking Money, my dude. Like…a lot.
At a rate of $20 an hour, it would take a person almost 160,000 years to earn that kind of money.
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$28, 000, 000, 000.00 is low?
lmao
How many people did they kill for that $28B?
Yep, 28 billion isn’t much profit. How will he be able to afford his 300th yacht now on his measly salary?
OK,
The company expects cash flows from operations to range from $32 billion to $33 billion.
Exactly, so they need to always have cash on hand to cover the insured.
IDK how this is run, and I find the existence of private health insurance despicable.
But for a capitalist system, where health insurance is run like a business, 6% profit on revenue is not a lot.
It’s not the 6% that is the problem. Because an insurance company needs to have profits and a healthy cash flow, to be able to cover the insured.But allegedly the company used AI to make decisions on coverage, if that’s true, that may have been a way bigger problem.
I would be very surprised if that cash was included in profit.
The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.
Maybe it is it not a good idea to deny coverage…
Now that’s a manifesto.
According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings
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The three words bear a striking resemblance to Jay Feinman’s [20]10 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.They are also words you find all over letters from insurance companies when they are denying you coverage. Which lead to the title of the book.
There are only 12 people who will need to hear this, but on the off chance that you are one of them: Jury nullification is a thing.
Well, what the fuck else could anyone expect? History is full of lessons for those willing to think about what happens when the powerful drain all hope from the peasants.
We at the third box now.
Fourth. Soap, ballot, jury, ammo.
You know? I’m gonna leave my mistake to throw off the trackers.
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“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a God.”
- Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist, 1938.
I read this in Megadeth, which is where I first heard it
For me it was Blade 3
Hah, same here
I mean, not surprising. He was a massive scumbag. His policies led to the deaths of thousands of people. I’m sure he got lots of threats.
Well yeah. Your company kills people for profit, what you think their family is gonna feel? Don’t be an evil killer, my friends.
Well, maybe let Paulette know that the clothes she is wearing, the car she is driving, the house she is living in, and anything else she owns was all bought with the deaths and suffering of thousands of people.
With hundreds of thousands he made suffer and killed, the police will have more work to find a culprit than in “Who shot Mr. Burns?”.
