I hope it's not maggie

With all the suicides caused by extreme wealth inequality it's a good thing that suicidal people don't kill a CEO before killing themselves. That would be tragic.

Shooter got away. Who knows, maybe they're not after just one

Bombs being thrown into boardrooms is certainly something nobody wants.

The fact that the man got away (and had a silencer) goes to show that it's more rich targeting the rich. Likely not a peasant. The billion-dollar question is: Why?

As long as we don't make the killer out to be a hero.

Of which they can be.

It was me. I shot Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.

I'm not even terminally ill.

The joke is using a guillotine and not something more modern, and American. Like a gun.

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.

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

Edit: was*

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

Man slaps dead parasite sucking the blood of humanity

fuck it we ball

Stop letting that man live rent free in your head.

Yo historian, it's a dickhead CEO not Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

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.

Here's hoping. We're WAY overdue for guillotine day.

We’ve been seeing ‘first dominoes’ fall for over a decade now. I’m at the point where I don’t think it’s going to be as big and flashy as people hope. If electing a genocidal rapist as president TWICE didn’t stir the world into action, I don’t think the pitiful death of some no-name ceo is going to do it. Things like this will keep happening, but in the grand scheme, nothing is going to change.

As a person past that breaking point, I gotta say that I do endorse this. Whatever his motives may be, the shooter is a hero. America is desperate for justice, we need so much more of this.

...............good

Yea the tariffs will probably be seen as some sort of breaking point together with this some years from now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TO5y2rTbdA

It's okay, I'll celebrate his death for you

The writing has been on the wall since the ACA got rewritten by these same companies. Instead of reforming the system to making it more fair these corporations were prioritized over us and our health.

There is no path to justice, all the evil shit they do has been deemed lawful, so it's not like a lawsuit will do anything and it's certainly not going to change anything for anyone else.

And now with the incoming administration teasing to remove even the smallest of teeth from the aca, it really does feel hopeless. The government is protecting profit over people and I'm surprised it took so long for somebody to finally snap. In an ideal society we would have reforms before stuff like this started happening

Right, like this person could have been a great dude on a personal level but his position at United health care is pretty evil and implicates him in that evil.

Would certainly be exciting if the USA kicked off a movement here.

What I saw online (take with grain of salt) is UHC has 29,000,000 customers, and a 32% denial rate (the highest in the industry), so that gives us a possible 9,280,000 people denied if there were 1 claim per person a year.

That is obviously super rough guess, cause not every customer makes a claim a year, some may make none and some multiple for the same thing that could repeatedly get denied.

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

Eh, hydras aren't made up of individuals who have a desire to be alive.

Not that I'm advocating for it, but I imagine if you kept killing folks then you'd eventually get to someone who liked "breathing" more than "money."

You cut off a few more heads, and they'll start to be a little more cautious with their shitty actions.

Well that just sounds like a direct wealth distribution method.

"Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place."

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.

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.

I have as much sympathy for him as his company has shown me

think of it this way: The dude caused a TON of death. The assassin saved people's lives.

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

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.

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!

Mods going nuts banning people and coming back tomorrow to a completely empty subreddit.

My feelings are exactly what they would be if the head of a vicious mafia was just assassinated. Probably because the head of a vicious mafia was just assassinated.

I'll celebrate for the both of us.

How evil does a person have to be before it is acceptable to celebrate his death? This man devoted his life to profiting from human suffering. The fact that the law was on his side does not excuse his actions; it simply means that he worked within an evil system.

I don't celebrate that this needs to be done, but I do celebrate it being done. When they destroy any sense that the justice system will see justice done to them, it requires people to seek justice in to her means. It's their fault. They can choose to repair the system and remove their advantages whenever they want. Until them, I welcome justice.

My condolences to the victims of the victim. Sorry but I couldn't disagree with you more. The rich represent despotism with no recourse for all the injustices they inflict upon the rest of us, and it shows why the cycles of Anacyclosis are real and persistent throughout human history. Business leaders have no virtues, only greed and profit motive. Given the context of history and what happens to despots as they get worse, they'll be lucky if there aren't mobs beheading them and leaving their heads on spikes adorning the walls of Wall St for all to see.

That's where this goes next if the greed and suffering continues.

He's not going to be arrested by the cops. He's going to be killed by the cops.

Are you talking about the movie Roadhouse?

$10k is nothing compared to medical bills.

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

Everyone's assuming that this was a patient who was denied coverage or family member of a patient who was denied coverage, the thing is this sort of person will have made enemies in the corporate world as well.

For all we know this was a professional hit.

The guy was manually recocking a silenced pistol. Unlikely he did brought a phone.

I'm fairly sure Tito Puente did it. Has Tito been dead for 24 years? Yes. However, would death stop a man from killing people with the power of music? No.

Tito Puente did it.

I shot the sheriff.