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Oh do fuck off, he was a monster that left millions broke and desperate and dying in pain.
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The ruling class media have been in marching order to propagandize the virtue of their masters
Sounds like some nerd who just lived a normal life. He's no saint for this.
Chickens will roost. He should know that having come from Iowa.
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Yes, "The American Dream" aka, fucking over your fellow common man for a buck.
I read a comment the other day that's stuck with me, I can't remember the precise wording but it was something like:
"Every cent spent on this man's funeral was made on the back of someone else's"
Gang you are missing the point. Thompson worked really hard from humble beginnings to become the absolute best at being a horrible human being. That’s gotta count for something, right? /s
In capitalism it counts for everything
Got rich trampling over as many people as possible then died by gun violence. A true blue american boy
world's most important companies
That's hilariously American defaultism considering most of the world doesn't need companies like UHC
I wonder what their market share is in England or Japan.
Mussolini interned at a bakery one summer and attempted to learn the harmonica, you judgemental monsters...
Hitler liked animals and hated smoking. Like mussolini, and this ceo,, that doesn't make them good
And was vegetarian and a talented painter.
But that's not at all what he's known for is it?
All those things are moot when you are responsible for the suffering and deaths of others.
Precisely!
He then became a fucking murderer for profit.
I didn't have any sympathy for him until I found out he played basketball and the trombone.
This changes everything.
When it's your job to profit off of human misery, don't be surprised when you find out what human misery feels like.
I think if he had any personal friends who thought he was a good person the media would have made time for them to speak up about it. But only other rich executives have.
Oh shit, he was elected Homecoming King?? Well that changes everything.
He won a popularity contest at a dance when he was a teenager. This means he was a good person.
No mention of being prom king though, probably got corrupted by the homecoming crown and started changing.
Maybe that's where it all went wrong!
Wasn't there a reddit post about this guy and how he was like a womanizer or something and he and his wife have been separated for years, basically saying this guy wasn't the pillar of humanity the media was making him out to be? If there was a post, was any of that true?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/slain-healthcare-ceos-life-airbrushed
No idea about cheating or a womanizer, but he and his wife were separated for years. He had a DUI, was sued for fraud, and possibly engaged in insider trading.
Yeah, he came drom humble beginnings, but he didn’t stay humble.
He was working class but when given the opportunity to step on heads to get ahead he took it and fucked over the working class.
That's why I was saying before Mangione was identified that it wouldn't have shocked me if his wife put a hit out on him.
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I have good memories of Brian Thompson. grabs a pipe for a good solemn smoke
Why I remember when he was there on a cross next to Jesus himself, comforting the poor messiah. He actually got into the business hoping that less people would die of crucifixion related injures. It's why he declined so many people, the money had to be there so that if they crucified Christ again his old friend would recover this time.
No I'm just fucking with you. Brian was a mass murderer and his passing is not mourned, not even by the billionaires. They don't give a shit about Thompson, they're just worried they could be next.
Also is that really his picture? I'm not one to judge people for their appearances, but I'm not sure they could find a douchier looking picture of him if they tried.
This is a better one, DUI in 2017:
He had to have been the best drunk driver I knew!
He was innocent I tell you, he was just drinking a nice bottle of water to keep his hydration up. So it turned into wine at some point, why should we lock a man up for witnessing the miracles of our Lord and Savior....
....God I wish I believed in God....
Anyone can drink and drive, but it’s so “pedestrian”. You can only cut short like what, 50-60 lives. It takes a special talent to hurt or kill millions
So ambitious small town guy with no empathy or ethics moved up the chain until he profited off the pain and suffering of others. I'm sure many of these trash humans trying to praise him have never had to worry about how they were going to stay alive. You notice they are all just like him. Trash.
Robert Sterling is a fucking twat.
tl;dr: The beginnings justify the ends. If you're a teenager thinking about becoming a murderer or rapist later in life, consider learning the trombone.
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IMO, a “decent man” would have turned down working in a company that made health into a profit-making machine. He would have at least resigned when AI was pushed forward to deny even more medical claims, but instead gave his blessing. One can be evil and deadly without having to pull a trigger, look at the ton of politicians that do it daily and they get away with it because they look polished.
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I'm not convinced we're much different except by circumstance. Anyone trying to manage that many human interactions is only going to see numbers. I know we'd like to think we have been or would be filtered out, but I'm not convinced.
The problem is corporate structures that create these behemoths that essentially can't have ethical liability. Someone else will do his job now. Killing him benefits exactly nobody. Just more distraction from what we should be focusing on.
When one of the first things you mention about him is "$280B of revenue" as though that's a good thing in the context of health insurance, yeah, fuck you.
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