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It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

People really hate insurance companies.

“United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it's a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

He didn't really get "assassinated". He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.

I couldn't help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

I don't want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

EAT. THE. RICH.

You know what's pretty neat about this?

It's not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it's size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

I'm telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

How fucked up is it that the day after the ceo of a major health insurance company was murdered in broad daylight,

The next day another health insurance company said they would no longer limit anesthesia during surgeries.

This makes me realize something, and it’s not what our sponsor or corporate donor wants me to believe.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

On the 4th of July, American's don't celebrate that British soldiers were killed, we celebrate the society we won in the process.

Thank fuck Lemmy isn't owned by corporate interests that need other corporate interests to advertise on them or it'd be happening here, too.

The shot heard round the boardroom

Something something and I'm tired of pretending it isn't, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he ~~has~~ had young children who couldn't understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

It's bi-partisan too. Which makes this infinitely more insane

One of r/InterestingAsFuck’s rules is “No politics,” which a moderator for the subreddit told us is the reason it was removed.

A rule for arbitrarily deleting any post on an ill-defined idea that some topics are not political. Why even say such an unreasonable thing when you can just say supporting violence is against site-wide rules?

Hopefully dude never gets caught (Which he probably won't as it's now been greater than 48 hours, and we all know what that means if you've seen The First 48)

But if he does, it's going to be awfully hard putting together a jury that hasn't heard of JURY NULLIFICATION

Well, the news is now out that these corporate fatcats are not as untouchable as they think

Good, the spineless hand wringing bootlicking fucking scumbags are losing. Wonderful to see.

I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?

Won't they just elect another scumbag and keep going?

I'm not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive "Enjoy hell, Brian" wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.