In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson.
Still, people still found a way to express how they felt ― to the tune of more than 90,000 laughing reactions as of Friday.
Oh my fucking god - Facebook has redacted the number of reactions.
Little pissbabies.
I don’t care if banned from LW I’m done w this instance
Billionaires, and those like this guy who enable them, must face consequences
This is a ripe time for a movement
We must capitalize on this now. The trump trash have dominated any sense of a movement for far too long
Death to tyrants
Bats to bootlickers
Why would you be banned? Everyone has been posting about this
Some people need the extra drama in their lives
Because I already was!
“Seems like justice was served” was all I commented to be banned
This is my last comment from the instance in done w it. I encourage all to change instances. Fuck .world
Ah fair enough, that’s a reasonable reason to be concerned
We need to organize to create change.
There’s no doubt in my mind that if I end up homeless on the back of some billionaire getting richer, I’m on a fuckin hunt.
Bring me to jail, what, you think I don’t want that piece of dick cheese dead AND a roof over my head? Don’t tempt me with a good time.
Amen.
Anyone else feel like we should give the gunman a free pass, btw?
I took one for the team and went to Fox News to read the user comments on the first story I could find about this. It’s pretty telling that even there, the overwhelming sense I got – in between the “Obamacare is why healthcare is so bad!” and the “where’s Hunter’s cocaine, Mister FBI?” and the “our so-called nation is secretly run by acolytes of a shady transnational world government” – is that they don’t understand why this is getting any more attention than any other random street crime in the big bad city.
Even MAGA doesn’t care; wrong kind of billionaire, I guess.
The MAGA public doesn’t like billionaires in general, they just like Trump and Musk. That’s it. It’s a cult of personality, not anything based on actual values or policies.
Obviously MAGA is funded by them in the background, but the average MAGAt doesn’t know that or care.
Yeah, MAGA doesn’t have principles or anything even resembling a coherent world view.
I’ve had more than a few conversations with MAGA types who agree massive corporations are running rampant and are a major problem, but then go on to advocate for deregulation.
No you see regulation is bad, because government.
Which is a sentiment I could almost agree with if regulation wasn’t actually a tool in the arsenal for the working man and the community
The MAGA public doesn’t like billionaires in general
Yep. Their list of billionaires they hate has different ones at the top of the list but they hate billionaires, too. I had folks in MAGA hats tell me they liked Bernie for that reason alone.
This company is absolutely tone deaf to the animosity around the death of this company units CEO.
For decades they have been the dealers of death across the United States through their “delay, deny, defend” industry policies. Historical, among the worst offenders of this practice and it shows in their stock price.
So now they act shocked when 1 no name, piece of shit (he was behind the decision to use AI to deny claims…), rich cunt gets gunned down in the streets like a stray dog? To UHC, this should just be another business day, business as usual.
Short term results of his death:
- UNH stock dip
- profit maximizing policies put on short hold across industry (already seen 1 company pull back changes on anesthesia limits)
- “fear” lingering in the minds of health insurance executives
Long term:
- as stocks recover and new administration rolls in, policies re-instated
- install new generic cookie cutter CEO
- 24/7/365 armed security details provided to C-level executives, and ultimately whatever costs passed down to policy holders
- wait for media cycle to end/move on
- nothing changes for the people
One thing I do notice is an increase in bi-partisanship around the death of this one person. If it gains enough traction beyond the memes, could this be the catalyst that unites the working class against the rich thus causing real and permanent change?
One can hope, but I’m honestly not holding my breath.
Mother fucker coming in here with truths and shit.
Haha torch these fucking ghouls
