In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson.
Still, people still found a way to express how they felt ― to the tune of more than 90,000 laughing reactions as of Friday.
Oh my fucking god - Facebook has redacted the number of reactions.
Little pissbabies.
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Why would you be banned? Everyone has been posting about this
Cause lemmy.world has been banning people for expressing that sentiment lol
Some people need the extra drama in their lives
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Ah fair enough, that’s a reasonable reason to be concerned
Billionaires, and those like this guy who enable them, must face consequences
I would propose the following approach:
You need to put them on trial in a legitimate court (i.e. exclude compromised judiciary systems).
If the oligarch/senior lackey is found guilty, you could use real rehabilitation methods that would creates incentives for good behaviour for other criminals:
- Full asset seizure (every last cent, home, house, everything).
- Extended family and business partners being required to sign affidavits detailing their knowledge re: assets in [1], with an understanding that if the affidavit was found to have not been signed in good faith, they will be subject to full asset seizure and their own family and business partners will also have to sign similar affidavits for their own case. No statue of limitations for affidavits.
- 20 years mandatory live-in community service as junior support person at a hospice centre (minimum wage). Exact focus of community service would depend on crimes committed.
I am not saying this is currently possible. Just pointing out that there are “win win” approaches that do not require extra-judicial killings (albeit the nature of human history is such that sometimes people are left with no other options).
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One could leverage fully independent courts/tribunals. I believe the ICJ has done something similar for countries with non-functioning judicial systems.
You could start with the corrupt members of the highest court. This would be a good “shit just got real” moment for the oligarchs and their senior goons.
I heard US supreme courts judges feel they are capable of working on complex cases past their 80s. They should be able to do a few more decades providing full-time community service para-legal support for honest pro bono lawyers as part of their rehabilitation program. 😀
I am being glib of course. I recognize the challenges with my proposal in context of the US. But then again, every movement towards progress typically starts with something very simple, sometimes as simple as formulating and brain-storming ideas.
We need to organize to create change.
There’s no doubt in my mind that if I end up homeless on the back of some billionaire getting richer, I’m on a fuckin hunt.
Bring me to jail, what, you think I don’t want that piece of dick cheese dead AND a roof over my head? Don’t tempt me with a good time.
Amen.
Anyone else feel like we should give the gunman a free pass, btw?
I took one for the team and went to Fox News to read the user comments on the first story I could find about this. It’s pretty telling that even there, the overwhelming sense I got – in between the “Obamacare is why healthcare is so bad!” and the “where’s Hunter’s cocaine, Mister FBI?” and the “our so-called nation is secretly run by acolytes of a shady transnational world government” – is that they don’t understand why this is getting any more attention than any other random street crime in the big bad city.
Even MAGA doesn’t care; wrong kind of billionaire, I guess.
The MAGA public doesn’t like billionaires in general, they just like Trump and Musk. That’s it. It’s a cult of personality, not anything based on actual values or policies.
Obviously MAGA is funded by them in the background, but the average MAGAt doesn’t know that or care.
Yeah, MAGA doesn’t have principles or anything even resembling a coherent world view.
I’ve had more than a few conversations with MAGA types who agree massive corporations are running rampant and are a major problem, but then go on to advocate for deregulation.
No you see regulation is bad, because government.
Which is a sentiment I could almost agree with if regulation wasn’t actually a tool in the arsenal for the working man and the community
The MAGA public doesn’t like billionaires in general
Yep. Their list of billionaires they hate has different ones at the top of the list but they hate billionaires, too. I had folks in MAGA hats tell me they liked Bernie for that reason alone.
This company is absolutely tone deaf to the animosity around the death of this company units CEO.
For decades they have been the dealers of death across the United States through their “delay, deny, defend” industry policies. Historical, among the worst offenders of this practice and it shows in their stock price.
So now they act shocked when 1 no name, piece of shit (he was behind the decision to use AI to deny claims…), rich cunt gets gunned down in the streets like a stray dog? To UHC, this should just be another business day, business as usual.
Short term results of his death:
- UNH stock dip
- profit maximizing policies put on short hold across industry (already seen 1 company pull back changes on anesthesia limits)
- “fear” lingering in the minds of health insurance executives
Long term:
- as stocks recover and new administration rolls in, policies re-instated
- install new generic cookie cutter CEO
- 24/7/365 armed security details provided to C-level executives, and ultimately whatever costs passed down to policy holders
- wait for media cycle to end/move on
- nothing changes for the people
One thing I do notice is an increase in bi-partisanship around the death of this one person. If it gains enough traction beyond the memes, could this be the catalyst that unites the working class against the rich thus causing real and permanent change?
One can hope, but I’m honestly not holding my breath.
Mother fucker coming in here with truths and shit.
Haha torch these fucking ghouls
What I wonder is what other industries might prompt the same level of hatred.
Private prisons companies? Hedge funds? Drug companies? Cryptocurrency exchanges? Payday loan companies? Dollar stores?
It would be a shame if it were only health insurance companies that were scared.
Oil, tobacco (I guess you said drug) companies, Monsanto/Bayer, nursing home and hospice admins…
What’s this crap? I can’t see the counts anymore.
Thank you HuffPo for linking the FB post
The Buzzfeed comment section is wickedly good.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/reactions-unitedhealthcare-post
