UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

I’d be lying if i said I wasn’t immensely happy this happened. I hope it keeps happening and starts happening to bankers and hedge fund managers too.

 

[BlueCandles]

If the shooter is black then it’s a jogger doing jogger things.

If the shooter is white then it’s a schizo glowed to maturity, or had a family member get fucked over by health insurance.

 

[likeacrackado]

Immediately thought of this when I saw the headline. The best protection for these guys is that regular people on the street can't pick them out of a crowd.

 

[William Murderface]

I’d be lying if i said I wasn’t immensely happy this happened. I hope it keeps happening and starts happening to bankers and hedge fund managers too.

I know some of the bigger bankers and hedge fund managers have very impressive security details.

It seems to me that if my going to work everyday just to make other people money pisses off enough normies that I need to spend more on bodyguards than most Third World dictators, I might want to rethink my choices.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

I've always wondered why these retarded school shooters don't pick High Value Targets, like this. If you've already decided to end it all, why not make the world a better place by taking people like this with you, instead of going after helpless kids. Then I realize, that's what makes them retarded.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I’d be lying if i said I wasn’t immensely happy this happened. I hope it keeps happening and starts happening to bankers and hedge fund managers too.

I hope they catch the killer and put him on trial. I also hope he's sane, stands trial, and explains his motive clearly. If it's a political/social motive, I hope he pleads guilty, accepts responsibility for what he did like a man, and goes to jail. After that, I hope CEOs realize that they are not immortal and the horrible things they do have tragic consequences.

The above scenario is what happens when a country's leaders and laws do not hold terrible people accountable.

 

[AllieKat]

Incredibly based killer. Total Corpo Death.

Hell yeah choom

 

[neger psykolog]

So, he was shot for being a CEO or was it another robbery that resulted in a murder?

One of the articles said the shooter knew what door he was coming through, shot him, then escaped on a bicycle (was wearing a balaklava or some shit too)

It also said the conference went on as normal (he was attending a conference)

I think I read the above from the NYT article on it.

 

[Drael]

Sounds like good news to me. If more of these "people" had the threat of the Grim Reaper breathing down their neck, then maybe they wouldn't behave like such psychotic assholes.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

One of the articles said the shooter knew what door he was coming through, shot him, then escaped on a bicycle (was wearing a balaklava or some shit too)

Knowing he would attend a conference isn't hard (someone find it and see if he was a speaker).

Knowing when and where he'd attend, that's trickier, and more suspect. But not impossible even for an outsider.

 

[Pentex]

His line is no longer going up.

It's just flat.

Part and parcel of visiting the Big City.

More C-suiters should enjoy NYC hospitality.

 

[Starved Artist]

Straight fucking hit.

If I was a gambler, I'd place a bet that it was someone related to the McNaughton Case or someone in a similar situation. ( Nothing to lose, dying, United Healthcare fucked them sideways.)

I've always wondered why these retarded school shooters don't pick High Value Targets, like this. If you've already decided to end it all, why not make the world a better place by taking people like this with you, instead of going after helpless kids. Then I realize, that's what makes them retarded.

Aside from obvious Glowies, they can't think beyond their worldview.

 

[TowinKarz]

One of the articles said the shooter knew what door he was coming through, shot him, then escaped on a bicycle

r/fuckcars is gonna have some explaining to do about this one.

His line is no longer going up.

but think of what he did for the mortuary business as his valiant last act!

 

[Not A Cat Person]

 

[Quijibo69]

I'm just glad nothing of value was lost. It would be funny if it was just a random person that shot him.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Nothing wrong with putting down a parasite and enemy of the nation like that POS. Glad the shooter got away, hopefully more to come.

 

[neger psykolog]

Unclear if they didn't know about the shooting and its relevance to their meeting, but says a lot if they still went ahead with it (I doubt they did)

It also says a lot that this was for that company's annual investor conference and not some random conference - makes it much more likely that this was targeted.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/nyregion/brian-thompson-uhc-ceo-shot/

edit: from tweeters I am reading from people who are definitely not normies or stupid they are all fairly confident that this was a targeted hit (just meaning it was premeditated, not necessarily an outsourced/contract hit)

 

[Otterly]

There’s simply no feedback any more from the public to CEO level. You can’t jail them for poisoning people with their products. You can’t jail them for killing customers. You can’t even vote with your wallet because of ESG dollars short circuiting consumer boycotts. You can’t even vote at annual general meetings becasue most of the votes are massive pension funds. So there’s a discussion here to be had about the size of some of these corpos and their disproportionate and negative impacts on the ordinary man who has no way of getting restitution at all.

I’m not sure how anyone can live with themselves in these companies.

 

[neger psykolog]

There’s simply no feedback any more from the public to CEO level. You can’t jail them for poisoning people with their products. You can’t jail them for killing customers. You can’t even vote with your wallet because of ESG dollars short circuiting consumer boycotts. You can’t even vote at annual general meetings becasue most of the votes are massive pension funds. So there’s a discussion here to be had about the size of some of these corpos and their disproportionate and negative impacts on the ordinary man who has no way of getting restitution at all.

I’m not sure how anyone can live with themselves in these companies.

 

[Esquilax]

The executives going "lol another random shooting in NY" like my dude you're on the menu now lol

UHC recently did a lot of layoffs and are a notorious shit place to work. Could never imagine a disgruntled ex employee taking out their rage of being used and abused on the fucking asshole who's face they've seen plastered on everything. Corpos need to stop using their good for nothing C suite chucklefucks as mascots and "inspiration" for their peons. Does not improve culture at all.