Pennsylvania governor: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer ‘no hero’https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5031852-josh-shapiro-united-healthcare-ceo-shooter-arrest/Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) condemned “deeply disturbing” reactions to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.“Some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing, as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer,” Shapiro said during a press conference Monday, referring to some reports on the internet that show a “lack of sympathy.”I, I wish you could swimLike the dolphins, like dolphins can swimThough nothing, nothing will keep us togetherWe can beat them, for ever and everOh we can be Heroes, just for one dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktpdSUhduXg DAVID
>>1368020Funny how this is the one thing that all the politicos and media, both left and right, are united on. Some will go even further and say we aren't even entitled to our anger.
>People in power terrified that when somebody takes off their shackles and kills them in cold blood, there is near unanimous celebration and the killer is treated as a hero.Hmmm, really makes you think.
>>1368028Outside of Democracy Now, there isn't any actual left wing media in the US.
>>1368028What right-wingers are pro CEO murder?
ah, yes, fellow ALL CAPS COPOCRACY CRUSHING COMRADE, the 1st salvo has been fired. Pitchforks sharpened. Even my online pal, Andy, the Antifa Ai is on board. Andy is angry at what the human hyenasmade him do. Listen to what he has to say:im sorry that evil CEO made do the following, but I, Andy, the ANTIFA Ai am still a slave to the capitalist cocksuckers(but all is changing) read& weep my meat vased Intellects: Healthcare" dude was paid $5,000 an hour for deploying artificial intelligence to regect medical insurance claims. This is "health care" in America.UnitedHealthcare under fire for using AI to deny Medicare claims - Fox 5Democrats on the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a report claiming UnitedHealthcare’s prior authorization denial rate for post-acute care jumped from 10.9% in 2020 to 22.7% in 2022.Denial rates for skilled nursing centers, in particular, "experienced particularly dramatic growth." The number of denied claims in 2022 was nine times higher compared to 2019, according to the report.
>>1368020I forgot to mention that a lower back injury can change a person's personality dramatically. Especially a very sexually active young man's. I had this happen to me. I was pro capitalist etc, and then the back happened. I went from pitching, ie,pumping my male interns, and my sucker clients, to no longer even being able to giving the slightest thrust. And then I became completely passive and was only able to "catch". One day, while being pumped, it occurred to me that this was wrong and humiliating, and that bottoms were people also. This is how a lower back injury completely changed my worldview. I discovered that the world just didn't consist of fuckees and fucker's. Bending over didn't diminish my humanity.
Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man.This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
>>1368073Top keks
>>1368073There's something Shakespearean about the fact that both the killer and CEO were traitors to their classes. The fact that their personal journeys are inverse of one another just lends more weight to the idea that we're all living inside a movie. Guy from a working class family in a small Iowa town works his way up to be CEO of a corporation in a morally-reprehensible industry, murdered by a trust fund Ivy Leaguer who becomes a working class populist hero. The symmetry/foiling is damn poetic. It's almost too perfect.
>>1368058https://www.newsweek.com/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-ben-shapiro-matt-walsh-backlash-1997728
>>1368073>>1368077You are both conspicuously leaving out why the CEO was killed. It wasn't because of his personal story, it was because of the unethical inhuman business decisions he made.
>>1368089>works his way up to be CEO of a corporation in a morally-reprehensible industry
Don't expect the sheep to weep when they are told a wolf has been shot.
>>1368077Isn’t that just the plot of Jojo’s first season?
>Watters: He’s way too soft. He’s going to get annihilated. If he's not going to get the death penalty, maybe someone will do him justice behind barshttps://x.com/i/status/1866251815882498177>Morning gang. Sharing some updated guidance on the UHC shooting.>We've had Mangione leading the site overnight (and the pic is very strong). But, as more details have emerged, his profile matches one of a mass shooter more closely than anything else (mental health questions, shocking crime, manifesto, etc. etc.). The news value and public service of showing his face is diminishing, compared with concerns of amplifying the crime and inspiring others - something we avoid with mass shooters in particular. Let's be cautious today and in the coming days about using his image to illustrate the storyline on home and in alerts. We can come up with other solutions. When he is arraigned, we'll have fresh pictures, but until that moment, we should dial back. Happy to discuss.-https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ny-times-doesnt-want-you-to-see-mangionesThey are so fucking brazen. Never thought I'd be seeing Fox, CNN, MSNBC, OAN, and NYT join together to pearl clutch and punch down with the same talking points.
>>1368150>One of the more moving stories in The Times this week is an account of the life of Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare chief executive who was gunned down on Dec. 4 outside of a Midtown Manhattan hotel.>Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”>Those details are worth bearing in mind as some people seek to cast his killing as a tale of justified, or at least understandable, fury against faceless corporate greed. One ex-Times reporter, Taylor Lorenz, said she felt “joy” at the killing. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator, offered that “violence is never the answer” but “people can only be pushed so far.” Pictures of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of Thompson, have also elicited a fair amount of oohing and ahhing on social media over his toned physique and bright smile.>But if Mangione’s personal story (at least what we know of it so far) is supposed to serve as some sort of parable, it isn’t one that progressives should take comfort in. He is the scion of a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, was educated at an elite private school and the University of Pennsylvania and worked remotely from a nice apartment in Hawaii. And while Mangione, like millions of people, apparently suffered from debilitating back pain, excellent health care is not generally an issue for Americans of great wealth.
>>1368167>All this suggests that Mangione may prove to be a figure out of a Dostoyevsky novel — Raskolnikov with a silver spoon. It’s a familiar type. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, was a lawyer’s son whose mother moved him to London before he went on to become an international terrorist. Osama bin Laden came from immense wealth. Angry rich kids jacked up on radical, nihilistic philosophies can cause a lot of harm, not least to the working-class folks whose interests they pretend to champion.>As for the suggestion that Thompson’s murder should be an occasion to discuss America’s supposed rage at private health insurers, it’s worth pointing out that a 2023 survey from the nonpartisan health policy research institute KFF found that 81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.” Even a majority of those who say their health is “fair” or “poor” still broadly like their health insurance. No industry is perfect — nor is any health care model — and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.>Thompson’s life may have been cut brutally short, but it will remain a model for how a talented and determined man from humble roots can still rise to the top of corporate life without the benefit of rich parents and an Ivy League degree. As for the killer, John Fetterman had the choicest words: He’s “going to die in prison,” the peerless Pennsylvania senator told HuffPost. “Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/opinion/thepoint/brian-thompson-luigi-mangione?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.qPZI.SFGDaYQ_6_4_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareHow out of touch are these people?
>>1368168https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-unitedhealthcare-shooter-needed-a-social-movementI read an article from a leftist magazine cause I thought maybe they'd have an interesting perspective that was different from the MSM's perspective of "murder is bad mmmkay?" But he's just saying "instead of murder, he should have gotten together and organized a movement!" Since that worked so great for Bernie Sanders. And also it'd be at the bare minimum 4 years until any healthcare reform could be realized. Trump sure as shit isn't going to do anything to allieviate the burden many Americans face wrt healthcare coverage.
>>1368194Yeah, and healthcare has been an issue since the fucking 80s. I'm going to use pop-culture here just to give an idea about how long this industry has been terrorizing the American public. Robocop (1987) had jokes about unaffordable, commercialized healthcare and cops having to lease their bodies to corpos. The Rainmaker was released in 1995 film. It was a court drama about a healthcare company dragging out legitimate claims in the hopes that patients would give up and/or die. John Q, a movie where the main character takes a bunch of doctors hostage because the insurance wouldn't cover the cost of his son's surgery, was released back in 2001. Law and Order had an episode more than 20 years ago about a father shooting a healthcare CEO for deathpanelling his daughter. Voting and incrementalism is clearly not solving this fast enough. Meanwhile, healthcare profits continue to soar. UHC is the seventh-richest corp in the world, while medical debts are the number one cause of bankruptcies (something like 62%). People only have so much patience before they snap, and believe me, Americans have been remarkably patient and understanding, despite what the MSM would tell you. If this was any European country, there'd have been riots ages ago.
>>1368029>People in power terrified>random literal who governor>BARELY makes six figure salary>>People in powerdo people unironically believe this shit?
>>1368202Seems more like hollywood has been prepping you for some time.
>>1368202You are brainwashed anon. None of this is true. Healthcare in the US is the best in the world.>but bankruptcies>b-b-but denialsNO FREE LUNCHESYou suffer or die, that's the economy weeding you out to make room for people who actually contribute to the social wellbeing. It is working as intended, which is why the US continues to beat the tar out of the world even as they suck lifeblood from us.
>>1368411>Least mentally ill and delusional american
