rip in piss bozo

Where did the shooter go? Oh, sorry, officer, we all decided to take a short nap maybe ten seconds earlier.

…Huh.

I wonder if this will have knock-on effects? For a long time CEOs have seemed untouchable. I wonder if this will embolden people to try and target *other* corporate bigwigs?

[shot and killed the CEO of United Healthcare on the street in Manhattan](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/nyregion/brian-thompson-uhc-ceo-shot#shooting-midtown-nyc-united-healthcare-brian-thompson)

[algorithmically-targeted denial of care](https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm)

I’m reminded a little bit of Thatcher’s death in the UK.

People were so happy Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead made is to #2 in the charts.

Oh sweet, are we finally doing the whole ‘eat the rich’ thing

Let me tell yall about this thing called jury nullification, basically a jury can find someone not guilty even if there is more than enough evidence to convict because they decided that in a particular case what happened was just fine.

Oh no. A CEO was killed. A rich, piece of shit CEO that actively sabotaged healthcare for millions of Americans was killed 😐

I saw security footage of the shooting. The guy was super calm when his gun jammed and knew where the camera was to not show his face. I feel like this was a professional job

I never knew how awful the US insurance industry is until I got my first job and lost my parent’s insurance.

Blue Cross Blue Shield told me to pick a doctor. I said okay can I have a list of doctors who will accept my plan?

Apparently such a list doesn’t exist. They give me a list of every doctor that accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, and I had to call them until I found one that accepted my specific plan. A lot of them didn’t. It took me a full day.

I can totally understand what would drive someone to do this to the CEO of an insurance company.

Make ceos afraid again

He brought it on himself tbh

I’ve been hoping for a long time something like this would happen, hope it scares the shit out of the rest of them.

when you make it impossible to take someone down in court, you can’t act surprised when people take drastic measures

On one hand, I’m surprised it happened (murders of people this rich feel like they should happen at the hands of snipers sitting on rooftops, not someone with a gun and a silencer that managed to get close enough), on the other, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen much more often.

Looks like he’s earned the Chief Executed Officer title

They deny my hormone panel blood work every time I need it, so I have to pay $250 every time. It’s bullshit, I already pay them $300+ every month.

MOAR of this, please.

Suspects include everyone who had a relative die from denied coverage claims.

Would not be shocked if this is carried out multiple times in multiple cities. There is a cruel greed that has become the over-riding motive for “non-coverage” coverage. The cruelty is made even more egregious with the wealth that health insurance executives have accumulated from all the premiums the now dead paid for what they thought would be coverage.

I suspect that health insurance companies will now shell out millions of dollars in security protection for their executives and further cut their customers’ coverage to pay for it, resulting in more preventable death, which will perpetuate the need for executive’s security, which will just be a ‘challenge accepted” situation for another assassin.

There’s always the chance that this wasn’t personal but part of a larger plan. I hope so. It’s high time the predatory class understood that they are mortal.

Hell yeah, we entering the age of Dragon Slaying?

Capitalism really out here creating its own enemies. The fact that so many people could have a motive says everything about the system.

reward them for the world they created 🥰

I am generally against celebrating death, on principle. Especially regarding people I don’t know.

That being said, my line is very much “this person acted with intent to cause harm to large amounts of people”, a line which I think has absolutely been crossed. He had it coming.

Ain’t gonna celebrate the death or anything, but like yeah, create a tremendously equal society and the desperate people at the bottom are gonna start doing desperate things to change their circumstances in life. That is one of the downsides of pursuing infinite money at the expense of the rest of society.

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I do wonder what will happen to United Healthcare now that the CEO is dead. I imagine… not much, really, but if this does cause a bit of chaos I’m curious to see where it goes

Making it to where people can’t get the care they need and they could possibly die or life isn’t work living anymore without it is so funny to me. Ofc people will want to kill you if you do that. You literally gave them a reason to kill you, especially since they’ll likely die regardless of if they do or don’t kill you.

Like I gotta say, you did this to yourself