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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look, I know he's out now, but his k/d ratio was insane.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Midwest social most based instance?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-MEDI-KILL

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 62 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

CEOs should be scared. Especially extra ghoulish industries like this.

Make them feel like they need security.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Make them feel like they need security.

You mean some kind of safetynet to make sure they're protected if something unforseen happens to them?

What a novel concept! Maybe we should create an economic equivalent for everybody in society...

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I don't know the details of this murder, but I do want these types to be extra paranoid. I want them to live in fear of the choices they make

[–] engelsaxons@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The security guards they need --> blob-sleep

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I volunteer as tribute

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean, capitalism preaches the necessity of winners and losers. The owners demand there be millions upon millions of losers so they can win largely enough to buy pet mega yachts for their primary mega yachts.

Guess he lost.

Welcome to the free market baby.

Oh I'm sorry, does that only apply to the innumerable members of our society dying of exposure and ~~police~~ capital defense force brutality in your local gutter for the crime of not generating enough value for the shareholders in the "wealthiest nation on Earth?"

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He probably bled out waiting for insurance to approve the expenditure for the gauze.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No one who is in a position to determine the life and death of millions should ever feel "safe" from the people they have the power to harm.

French Royalty learned that the hard way. Maybe it's time to remind people again.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Hope gun man gets away. Fuck the first article I read of how great he was and how touch the lives of so many. Just forgot to mention it was touching them by allowing people to die and suffer. I am with you fucking billionaires and rich CEO should be scared and shitting their pants.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

thoughts and prayers

LOL JK

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thoughts and prayers for the shooter, hope they get away with it

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was super early. Hope they were able to get back to sleep.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sleep tight, king

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago
[–] whithom@discuss.online 20 points 2 weeks ago

Consequences are rough.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

The kind of wholesome news we need in these trying times.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  • Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning in a targeted attack outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
  • Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference when he was killed.
  • The New York Police Department reported that the suspect fled the scene and remains at large; no arrests have been made.
[–] anachronist@midwest.social 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference

LOL

He sure as fuck wasn't there for the "help people access affordable, reliable, high quality healthcare conference".

[–] whithom@discuss.online 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully it wasn’t just a mugging

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The cops said he waited in the freezing cold in one spot for ten minutes before taking the shot and fleeing down an alley to a bike he had waiting. This was 100% premeditated.

In unrelated news, I have an erection that will probably last longer than 4 hours.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say see your doctor but uhhhh

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] fartnuggetsupreme@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, now I have to playthrough DX1 again... It's honest work

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

GMDX.

Makes it playable in the modern age

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I said on other posts about this: Remember that jury nullification exists. If you're on the jury for the shooter, or someone like him, you can just say not guilty and there's nothing they can do to you. The court can't tell you that you gave the "wrong" verdict.

Just don't tell them you're going to nullify, because they'll remove you from the jury.

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[–] engelsaxons@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago
[–] anachronist@midwest.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

Think it's time for Biden to redeem both himself and the institution of the Presidential Pardon.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Keep reporting this post, libs. I'm getting a blowjob by a robot powered by angry libs reporting cool and based things about killing CEOs on the internet and I'm about to bust!

[–] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait, wait, so the right wingers also want the evil CEOs to be destroyed, it's not just the lefties???

The fuck are we fighting about, then?

No war but class war.

[–] Rivalarrival 6 points 2 weeks ago

The right wingers want to destroy the evil government and be the CEOs. The lefties want to destroy the evil CEOs and be the government.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

"Libs" is not a epithet that indicates the speaker is right wing.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Can I get a robot like that for uhhhh.... friend?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

1 report = 1 stroke

I'm reporting it right now to add to your stroke count, comrade

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[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Rom@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

I offer Brian my most shallow of thoughts and prayers, and my heartfelt condolences to the families and individuals that have been brought to ruin by his unchecked greed and corruption.

Get fucked, Brian.

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

freddy mercury singing in my head

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Weeeeeeee are the champions my friend"

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Another ~~billionaire~~ forty three millionaire down, too many still to go.

[–] Rivalarrival 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reports say he was worth $43 million. He was $957 million short of his first billion.

If he was a Mario enemy, he'd be that first goomba.

As big a bad guy as the CEO of a massive health insurance company is; as much harm as they impose on us all, they are just little fish, and we are plankton. It's the whales we need to be worried about.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The casings had „deny”, „defend” and „depose” written on them.

I sure hope all of those leeches are going to be scared

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The insurance company is just going to prove security and raise prices

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