I hope it's not maggie

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.

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

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.

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.

Perhaps the 9mm pistol is the guillotine of the next American revolution.

fleeing on a rented e-bike

"Thheeere goooes my hero, Watch him as he goes"

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.

If they find the guy, I hope the jury nullifies.

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

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.

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

🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽

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Deserved.

Well surely the response from the rich that control the police, work, deliveries, and hospitals is going to be flowers and free health care for all not a violent draconian response that will further make people sick and die under a regime hellbent on revenge.

Clearly this will work as intended.

I'M SPARTACUS!

I AM SPARTACUS

Wow, I really hope this isn't the moment it starts and a bunch of copy cats spring up targeting all the parasites. That would be terrible.

It's simple, just get the company to create a list of all the people in the last 3 years who died after being denied healthcare. And then stare in horror at the list and decide that maybe the world is a slightly better place this afternoon and we should tear down the whole company and all their ilk.

I rarely enjoy Youtube comments. today they're quite good though

It would be the funniest thing if a bunch of terminal patients submitted confessions just to tie up resources. A real “I’m Spartacus” situation.

I hope this becomes the new trend instead of school shootings.

The guillotine "jokes" aren't really jokes.

Would it be breaking the rules to leave the comment "This should be normalized?"

Oh no! That's terrible! I hope musk isn't the next one. lol.

No, this belongs more to a collapse or civil war thread than it does here.

This is not an endorsement, this is observation of basic, predictable human behavior. The working class is squeezed financially to the nth degree. There IS a breaking point. That sense of impending “something” many people have been feeling since well before the election has not gone away, and the squeeze is a source.

And here it is. What is probably the first shot fired on someone in charge of that ongoing financial hardship, that squeeze.

The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.

This is a domino.

womp womp

Does anyone know how many people his company screwed over by denying insurance claims or how many suffered and died due to not paying enough or not reading the fine print, i won't celebrate his death but i can't say i'm sad that he's gone or anyone like him for that matter.

It's a Hydra. Cut off one head, there's 5 waiting to take this guy's place.

Neat

I swear I read "finally shoot" and was like based CNN!

I refuse to celebrate the man's death. That just doesn't sit right with me.

However, I'll climb on my soap box long enough to point out that first, an insurance business model is fundamentally incompatible with healthcare. It does not work on basically any level and the need for profit will always be in conflict with the need to provide high quality healthcare.

Second, this conflict between the need for profitability and providing healthcare means that most of the health insurance industry is built on a foundation of ethical compromises. For profit health insurance companies like UnitedHealth are just straight up immoral. Any business that has to give loyalty to shareholders at the expense of anyone's life and health is immoral. Not to mention the incredible amount of work health insurance companies have done to effectively rig much of the American medical system for their own benefit.There are lots of corporations that do lots of bad things but I would classify for profit health insurance as a special kind of evil.

As much as they like to pretend they're the good guys, the good guy doesn't make it their sole mission to extract as much money as possible from their customers before they die while doing the bare minimum to keep them from dying.

Long way of saying, my condolences to the guys family. Having your husband/father/etc. assassinated in the street has to be awful. At the same time, screw UnitedHealth. They're a bunch of worthless blood sucking vampires.

I'd put money on it not being a "member" of the Healthcare company.

It'll be like that town that got together to kill that one asshole and no one would say shit about it. That dude got murdered by a whole town, this dude got murdered by a country.

That's a shootable face if ai ever saw one

My money is on Millhouse

I am Spartacus!

all employees have been warned to keep quiet about their employment there, as they are concerned there could be more targeted attacks on anyone working there. they have all the names and addresses now, so it wouldn't be out of the question.

DRAIN THE SWAMP! DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!!!

This sounds like the plot of Cory Doctorow’s story “Radicalized”

Yes.