• Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    A loss I will not mourn. I also extend no sympathy to his family. This man engaged in some of the most evil activity humanity has ever perpetrated—profiting on human suffering.

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    The motive for this murder is currently unknown, but based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear the victim was specifically targeted," he told reporters. “But at this point, we do not know why.” (…) “There had been some threats,” [Paulete Thompson, Brian’s wife] told NBC News. “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”

    Try “he was an absolute asshole and the group was making people’s lives hell in order to profit” for a reason.

    UnitedHealth Group, the parent company, was holding its annual investor conference Wednesday morning in New York City but abruptly ended it due to a “very serious medical situation” with a team member.

    The corporation using this fucking bullshit corpospeech for “our CEO was shot” makes me irrationally angry.

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    Mods just deleted another of my comments for saying

    “For America to get better, we need to be okay with bad things happening to bad people”

    I am not entirely sure how this statement is calling for violence. Or Glorifying it. Or is even controversial.

    The Mods here suck.

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    What a terrible tragedy, these are incredibly dark times. How will we as a nation, nay, a species, recover? This is a really really bad thing, and I do not like it. What has this poor, poor CEO done to deserve this? God, it should’ve been me! It should’ve been me!

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    JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ Maybe ceo shootings should be equally the same?

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    When people are pushed to the point they have nothing left to lose this kinda thing will happen. I’m sort of surprised this kinda of things doesn’t happen more often to people who make their fortunes off the suffering of others.

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    i mean of course people will eventually get so mad at ceo types to do things like this.

    killing them individually like this won’t fundamentally change things though, even if we get a little schadenfraude.

    in addition to this, organize and collectivize that anger and we got ourselves real change.

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    Oops, sorry but I don’t feel sorry. Using a flawed ai to deny life saving care for people that paid for said insurance, maybe some board of directors should be held responsible as well….