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    4 months ago

    I don’t see assassin as “hero” or “heartthrob”.

    Our high trust society has eroded due to massive corruption at the highest level (SCOTUS popularity/trust plummeted) , late stage capitalism and catering to billionaires, and incompetent politicians. The incoming administration will be without a doubt no help in this aspect.

    The assassin has unfortunately become “necessary”. I don’t praise his actions but I understand why this person decided to take it into their own hands (ie, family or loved one impacted by “deny, delay, defend” policies).



  • 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.













  • Decades of rebuilding downtowns to accommodate vehicle traffic and commuters is the problem.

    • people commuting from the Styx often do not reside within the same county they work in. County/City budget revenues decreased
    • even if those residents happen to live in the same county or municipal area, cities were rebuilt to accommodate vehicle traffic. Highways cutting through urban cores. Areas where people once lived are replaced with parking lots/garages.
    • city budgets further decimated by having to increase coverage of services (water, electric, sewage, …). Increased coverage requirement means new infrastructure. New infrastructure means more maintenance cost as the years progress. Also, first responders often stretched. Cities struggle to hire the correct amount of people to cover area
    • poorly zoned cities with single use zoning are largely to blame as well. Many cities have dedicated commercial or residential only zones. Thus creating this strong coupling on vehicle commuters to come to office, spend money on lunch, then fuck off back to their shitty suburban home. If cities rezoned and allowed for more diverse zoning (mixed use, higher density). The problem of businesses that relied on commuters becomes a non-issue since that is largely replaced by walkin traffic.
    • poorly designed cities replacing walkability with “vehicle accessibility”. This means the city has to maintain expensive road infrastructure. Also makes it very difficult to consider alternative forms of transportation to get to/from restaurants, entertainment, general living, grocery store.