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    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.

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    Let me be the first to decry this senseless killing. Senseless killing of thousands of people in the name of profit. Also some loser got iced too I guess.

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    I guess I should have sympathy, but I’m afraid they I don’t cover that. Best I can do is a chortle.

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    I hope he felt nothing but fear regret and pain in his final moments 🥰

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    He made a life promising one thing and doing another. His wife can’t fathom that the person who threatened to kill him was a man of their word.

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    Fortunately he looked at his line going up and reassured himself he was doing the right thing.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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      They’re hoping the humanizing also protects their CEO, who is a different variation of corrupt and harmful to society.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable

      I’m sorry, have you not been paying attention?

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      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 have money matter.

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    So she knew he was receiving threats because of lack of coverage and still had the audacity to refer to the shooting as “senseless.”

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    I guess there are consequences for your actions. Who would have thought.

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    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…