Murdoch Outlets and Bezos’ WaPo Demand More Sympathy for Health Insurance Execs
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Brian Robert Thompson murdered 51,000 innocent human beings.
Please cite a source. It's gotta be much higher than that.
It is a reasonable first order estimate. See a comment here. I think I will organize this a bit better and make a blog post on this tomorrow. But suffice to say, 51,000 is a good baseline number, based on UHC's share of the private insurance market and the length of Thompson's tenure as CEO of UHC. It could be as high as 100,000. But really, at this scale, it ceases to matter. You can only really comprehend it in comparative terms. And his number of victims was order of magnitude greater than that of Osama Bin Ladin.
Osama bin Laden was a chump compared to these guys. Osama was already wanted by the US for a crime he did in 1993 and had his Saudi citizenship revoked and he was a stateless runaway doomed to live in hiding and squalor no matter what.
He wasn't even the mastermind behind 9/11. Hell, he even had a hard time controlling Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the hijackers, who wanted the operation to be more about him and his final end more than anything else.
I'm no math wizard but I've read 68k people die per year from preventable shit due to denied claims. Brian worked at United since 2004, CEO since 2021 so he contributed directly or indirectly to that number of deaths per year, at least the portion United is responsible for. United has double the industry average of rejected claims.
It's def higher than OP states.
The 51k estimate was just taking into account the time that he was CEO.
Not OP, but it's going to be really hard to assign a hard value to that. There are plenty of obvious examples where they denied a life-saving treatment. But many of them would've died anyway.
Then there are cases where they deny preventative/early treatments. Some of these eventually led to more serious and fatal conditions, some did not. How do we count these?
Then there's quality of life denials. These don't directly lead to fatal conditions, but can affect morale and the like, thus allowing more serious conditions?
All of it would be compared to the unexplored alternatives (where treatment was authorized). This is inherently an unknown.
I'm not defending him by any means. It's just that his body count is, at best, a rough estimate.
Whether they would have died anyway isn't a measure of whether it is ethical to deny someone care that was the only chance they had. Removing the possibility is still murder.
We've received your request for additional sympathy. Our advanced AI systems will now determine your claim's eligibility.
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Oh, sorry, looks like it's been denied.
Billionaires deserve to live in fear for their lives.
I would like to know how we can all do more to bring this about.
Advocate for their killing, far and wide. Eventually someone without anything to lose will get the job done
Or we all end up patriot acted away into oblivion.
I get what you're saying and I'm all for it, but I also wonder if there is a more sneaky way to achieve the same end result.
Maybe we need to democratize Adjustor targets. Start a worldwide coalition with some sort of anonymous forum and voting system.
Dark web crowdsourced CEO bounty hunting?
Now we're delving into the cyberpunk world I can get behind.
Actual organised resistance is what we need, not just complaining and hoping.
Organizations will be taken down by the FBI as "terrorist cells"
When did peaceful protest accomplish anything?? Organizing alone is worthless. We need action, retaliation.
Individual actors are impossible to stop. I'm hoping that doesn't take too much longer for the next one
Or not.
Live, that is.
*Oligarchs.
Find me one ethical billionaire
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
The ones that donated all their money away (while living) so that they would no longer be billionaires, would be as close as you could get.
Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.
Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.
"I demand you respect me!" said the person who is fundamentally undeserving of respect
“You can consolidate wealth or consolidate respect, but not both”
— @[email protected] (just now)
CEOs spotted all over the country in empty grocery store parking lots yelling "I'm a grown-ass man!" to nobody around.
“What could a packet of fowl embryo cost?”
I will not show them the single touch of sympathy or pity or anything. Why should I? People like that would not only never show me the slightest sympathy, but they would also go out of their way in order to fuck me over and waste my time and money and then act like any reaction other than cock sucking them is criminal violence.
Message control.
This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.
There's no prior authorization for thoughts and prayers.
my beliefs prevent me from providing prayers.
Lmao that’s fucking perfect
I stole it from the Internet.
You made this?
I made this.
People you fucked over don't sympathize with you?
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…
All we could do for pity is to throw a fire extinguisher into his grave. Where he is, he will need it.
Sorry, fire extinguishers are wasted on dragons.
We should offer to help them stand with him in solidarity, so to speak
You guys aren’t reacting to the way we want you to react!! Stop it now!
The persecution complex is going to get even more people killed as CEOs grow more paranoid and bodyguards more trigger happy.
Those trigger happy body guards might not be pointing their weapons in the direction these CEOs think
Thoughts and prayers :
Fuck the American oligarchy!
Sure, just as soon as they meet our demands for better compensation.
That costs money.
Also: no.
Sympathy? Hmm . . . let's see . . . sympathy . . ok. I'm sorry he didn't contract a really ferocious strain of ass-cancer that his insurance didn't cover.
Why would I have sympathy for a mass murderer? The man is burning in the Pit of Hell right now.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - An Accounting of the Victims of Brian Robert Thompson.
#No
I'm so tired of seeing this ugly bastard.
Thank you for calling sympathy customer service. Your call is important to us, a representative will be with you shortly.
We are currently experiencing unprecedented call volume at this time. Please wait for the next available representative.
the worst music ever at the highest volume possible starts playing
Who didn't expect them to pick that side?
No, I hope he burns in Hell.
i don't cover that - sorry!
My sympathy deductible hasn't been reached, darn!
Aww diddums. There there.
Feeling better now?
From the article:
No.
On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Brian Thompson was a 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs and applied the same standard of justice to Thompson as they apply to the poors.
He's dead because the kleptocracy felating justice system didnt do its job. They should turn themselves in if they want justice. If Luigi is guilty then so are they.