Many news outlets’ pontificators were incensed that anyone would voice frustration with health insurance when an industry CEO has fallen.
      • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        7 个月前

        Advocate for their killing, far and wide. Eventually someone without anything to lose will get the job done

        • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 个月前

          Or we all end up patriot acted away into oblivion.

          I get what you’re saying and I’m all for it, but I also wonder if there is a more sneaky way to achieve the same end result.

          Maybe we need to democratize Adjustor targets. Start a worldwide coalition with some sort of anonymous forum and voting system.

          • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 个月前

            Organizations will be taken down by the FBI as “terrorist cells”

            When did peaceful protest accomplish anything?? Organizing alone is worthless. We need action, retaliation.

            Individual actors are impossible to stop. I’m hoping that doesn’t take too much longer for the next one

      • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 个月前

        I’m no math wizard but I’ve read 68k people die per year from preventable shit due to denied claims. Brian worked at United since 2004, CEO since 2021 so he contributed directly or indirectly to that number of deaths per year, at least the portion United is responsible for. United has double the industry average of rejected claims.

        It’s def higher than OP states.

      • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 个月前

        It is a reasonable first order estimate. See a comment here. I think I will organize this a bit better and make a blog post on this tomorrow. But suffice to say, 51,000 is a good baseline number, based on UHC’s share of the private insurance market and the length of Thompson’s tenure as CEO of UHC. It could be as high as 100,000. But really, at this scale, it ceases to matter. You can only really comprehend it in comparative terms. And his number of victims was order of magnitude greater than that of Osama Bin Ladin.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    1·
    7 个月前

    We’ve received your request for additional sympathy. Our advanced AI systems will now determine your claim’s eligibility.

    …

    …

    Oh, sorry, looks like it’s been denied.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 个月前

    Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…

  • Luna@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    7 个月前

    From the article:

    In other words, it’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black people or anti-racist activists, but when a CEO’s life is taken, we must solemnly stay silent on the reasons why such a person might be targeted or why bystanders might not be crying.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    7 个月前

    Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.

    Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      7 个月前

      I will not show them the single touch of sympathy or pity or anything. Why should I? People like that would not only never show me the slightest sympathy, but they would also go out of their way in order to fuck me over and waste my time and money and then act like any reaction other than cock sucking them is criminal violence.

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 个月前

    On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Brian Thompson was a 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs and applied the same standard of justice to Thompson as they apply to the poors.

    He’s dead because the kleptocracy felating justice system didnt do its job. They should turn themselves in if they want justice. If Luigi is guilty then so are they.

  • Modva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    7 个月前

    Message control.

    This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.