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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Rom@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

This is not the time to offer your criticisms of the health-insurance industry

Somebody already did that for us lmao

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 115 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hitler dies

This is not the time to offer your criticisms of the Nazi party

[–] Feline@hexbear.net 78 points 2 months ago

Hitler dies

writes op ed about suicide prevention

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 110 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The natural human reaction to all of this is to first be horrified that a husband and father of two children was murdered.

This is just bad faith

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 104 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would simply not put my family in the position of having a cheerable-when-killed father

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy when they hanged Mussolini: But he was a loving father!

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 74 points 2 months ago

He was kind to people within his circle of empathy obama-sad

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy murdered countless parents and spouses by denying them healthcare for his own financial gain. But you won't find any libs clutching their pearls over that.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 104 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I had never heard of Brian Thompson before today, and it’s entirely possible that he made some bad decisions. It is not possible that he deserved to be murdered, because nobody deserves to be murdered. And the level of seething resentment some people seem to have of wealthy people is deeply unhealthy. Socialism is always motivated by envy and often brought about by violence. If there is some kind of organized effort to target CEOs with violence to win applause from the public, that ought to fail because the American public would be repulsed by it. All of us need to be repulsed by this murder. Basic human decency and a commitment to a free society demand it.

It's amazing that they can say ghoulish shit like this and then wonder why people applaud their deaths.

People aren't jealous of the wealthy, they rightfully celebrate their deaths because Health Insurance companies are responsible for the deaths of millions

The more rich monsters like this pretend otherwise, the more resentment will boil. Not because of bitterness or envy, but because of logical self-preservation instinct.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basic human decency is when lifesaving insurance claims are denied because profit is more important than human life, apparently? thinking-about-it

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

basic human decency means me personally winning the free market feral-hog

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago

socialism mentioned ground-pog

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Socialism is always motivated by envy

Oh you mean envy for the value we produced with our labor which is stolen from us? Yes.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretty telling that he's already condemning socialism in his little hand-wringing piece about a CEO getting killed.

They're circling the wagons

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Makes me giddy to see them so scared. They're terrified by the possibility of the people's power.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

I wonder what the CEO of the Social Murder Factory was motivated by.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that ought to fail because the American public would be repulsed by it

yeah I'm not so sure about that lmfao, has this dude seen the internet today?

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[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Any number of other people could have been caught up in it.

This was not random violence

Pick one.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 86 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The lady who was standing right next to him walked away unscathed, without the shooter even looking in her direction. I think it’s pretty clear that only a single person could’ve been caught up in it.

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only way more people would have been caught up in it is if a cop had been standing across the street and just started firing wildly

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey now, it’s never too late for the cops to start an uncontrolled shootout in their wild goose chase for this guy. Plenty of UPS drivers to kill

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember when the LAPD was searching for dorner and they shot at completely uninvolved people - twice

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 91 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nobody should ever be killed ever, but especially not rich people because they never commit atrocities and the dirty poors are just jealous of our cool lifestyles

I want to spit in this man's face

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What I want to do to this man's face is legally actionable so I won't mention it

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[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Japan solidarity United Healthcare Customers

"The dude had a point"

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There appears to be some confusion about this online, so here it is plain and simple: Murdering corporate executives is evil.

"Beheading monarchs is irredeemably evil" - some bootlicker during the french revolution, probably.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 71 points 2 months ago

Look, we all know murdering CEOs is evil.

What my take presupposes is: what if it isn't?

[–] Feline@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is not possible that he deserved to be murdered, because nobody deserves to be murdered.

Surely this man has condemned Israel's string of assassinations (and the genocide)

[–] half_giraffe@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He literally called it a "supposed genocide" https://archive.ph/Bzn6e (warning: chud shit)

[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bit idea: Calling this ghoul's death a "supposed" murder.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

Counterpoint: bugs-no

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Really fosters the revolutionary spirit, knowing how people would respond to a revolutionary act

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you imagine if this guy went on to just start shooting CEOs across industries and vanish without a trace…the hero we truly need right now

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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

The author can be reached at: dpino@nationalreview.com

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Dominic Pino, more like crybaby whino

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

I hope someone shoots this guy next

Then someone can write an article about how murdering National Review writers is evil

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

This was not random violence by a disturbed individual or street crime in an unsafe neighborhood. This was a targeted hit that someone had to pay for and plan in the center of one of the world’s most vital business districts.

"This wasn't some lowly poor person or someone in a less deserving country. This was here in the rich part of the US!!!!"

God fucking dammit, who the fuck even writes that

[–] VernetheJules@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

we have to peacefully debate the people who operate for-profit death panels

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago

Counterpoint: STFU, nerd

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This reads like it was cranked out by an AI auto writer

[–] context@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

porky-scared-flipped egads! chatgpt, write an op-ed about how nobody should do this ever again!

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[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

it's a tragedy that a man died on this day, especially a CEO. But he was no angel, we have to remember that

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[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago

oops, only class consciousness

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Curious to hear LinkedIn’s take

Just kidding, I know it and we all know it.

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[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (5 children)

kind of a learning lesson for me, made a comment about it and clearly made someone uncomfortable. Most people in my life at least take the author’s side

sigh guess I have to keep my thoughts about this contained to hexbear 😔

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