• Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      but did you hear he’s a husband and father?

      Edit: was*

      Edit: In case it wasn’t clear, this is a joke. Obviously.

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        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.

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          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…

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            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.

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              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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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).

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    My condolences to his family, even though no insurance company ever gave my family condolences when they let my mom die

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    Reddit Admins are watching their site burn because basically everybody is supporting and condoning the killer, and they don’t like that. Its quite funny.

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    It’s such a weird place to be.

    We are all trying to be respectful. A person has died, and that is a horrible thing. But this guy runs a company that has cause so much suffering to so many people. He may not be directly responsible for pain, suffering, and likely death, but if he had run his company more fairly, none of that would have happened.

    When people made jokes about trump nearly getting killed, people kicked off and said it was abhorant to wish death upon him (despite him being a foul human being)

    But I really want to just say this guy deserves it and tell people to fuck off trying to make me be respectful of this terrible person.

    Somebody validate my anger.

    Somebody just tell me i can hate this individual and not be bothered that he died.

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      Fuck that dude. You can be happy when bad people die. It’s normal to laugh and even cheer when someone that has caused the death of many people gets what is due to them. You just feel odd about it because we aren’t used to seeing rich and power people face consequences.

      I wish more of these public and mass shooter actually use their energy and focus on a positive act for change. Our collective empathy has been stolen in this current system. We aren’t supposed to bat an eye when kids get shot in school, but NOW it’s a problem and we shouldn’t joke. Fuck off with that noise.

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      Somebody validate my anger.

      I work at a children’s hospital, a couple times a week United Healthcare denies treatment that could allow some of my pediatric patients with severe mobility issues to do things like run, or play outside with their friends. All because having a somewhat normal life isn’t medically necessary, or isn’t a covered benefit, or were not a preferred provider…and the nearest in network provider is 6 hours away.

      Every time I have to explain to a parent that Medicaid would have paid for this, but mom and dad worked a little too hard and so they don’t qualify for state care… I die a little on the inside.

      So I for one don’t really care about being respectful, and can reassure you that you shouldn’t feel the need to either. People who show no humanity towards disabled children are not human in my book.

      Today has been cathartic and I’m going to have a little pep in my step on my walk home.

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      We are all trying to be respectful

      Speak for yourself, I and many others are doing our best to make it clear we offer 0 respect at all

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      I already have been called evil for simply not having any empathy toward this man. Apparently there are some that believe even the worst people deserve empathy despite being shown time and time again they don’t care about the sick and dying over making a profit. I never advocated for violence or murder, I never cheered or claimed more should die. But I’m the evil one for not caring about this guy somehow. I honestly don’t know if humanity has a chance with all of this corporate dick sucking.

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        It is because they are insulated from the damage these people leave in the wake of “doing their jobs”. If I or you sent their family into financial ruin by extorting their health/existence they’d be whistling a different tune.

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      Most of us couldn’t care less about this guy! I for one thinks he deserved it and let this be a warning to other corps doing the same shit! The people have to take the power back and I support these actions!

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      TBH I always wondered why people were shooting up malls and schools instead of the people who actually cause the societal conditions they’re upset with

      Edit: to be clear I’m not promoting this, it just never made sense to me

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        Billionnaires control the medias and social medias. They are purposely creating divides between the population to avoid being the target.

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        It’s called stochastic terrorism or stochastic violence. Essentially people are made increasingly angry and violence prone. Either the object of their anger is inaccessible or too diffuse to actually target.
        As a result, random acts of semi-targetted violence become increasingly common. If your objective is to create an atmosphere where people have a higher baseline level of fear, which can drive irrational reactionary behavior, it does wonders. It’s also great at increasing violent acts against people you dislike without explicitly calling for it.

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        The people who deserve it are harder to find and rarely in the same place at once.

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          CEO’s? Likely at home, shareholder meetings, board meetings, on their boat, private jets (which can be tracked), at their office, speaking at corporate events (annual sales kickoffs, etc.). It would take some work, but not that hard.

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    Shame that only damage from the first bullet was covered. Every shot after that was a pre-existing condition. Maybe he would have made it.

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        While I agree that is a likely outcome, he has the advantage of being white. Historically, as long as the gunman got away from the scene ✅, isn’t actively brandishing a weapon ❓, and is white ✅, the cops racist thugs with badges just arrest them, and possibly buy them McDonald’s on the way to the precinct.

        As someone who visually presents as much whiter than this guy, I don’t like that is where we are at. I just recognize that my “natural camouflage” has allowed me to verbally berate cops racist thugs with badges all over this country without me even being arrested. This is just the reality of how the thugs with badges operate.

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    His company is offering a reward of one free appeal of a claim denial for information leading to his arrest!

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      Oh so chatGPT did it? Actually that makes sense they were announcing some new features

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    First thing they’re gonna do is trace cellphones connected to nearby towers and cross-reference any new signal.

    Hellova task in Manhattan to begin with. And people doing this job are likely not going to be clvery motivated.

    Hope he was smart enough to not bring smartphone.

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    Maybe we could have patched him back together, but all the nearby hospitals were out of network.