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

[neger psykolog]

There's a ton of people trying to claim he "must be a leftist" (I am scrolling tweeter by latest tweets).

How fucking retarded these people are - I don't see that this guy (so far) has injected politics into this at all. Both left and right are so retarded that they've let this problem with healthcare and insurance companies fester for decades to get to the point it is at now.

 

[DogZero]

This is the sort of target which seems random till it happens then it’s obvious this person would be a target. The regulatory capture of the health insurance industry is an issue between all political movements. In 2009 Anthem blue cross singlehandedly bought 10 senators so they could personally write the affordable care act in order to create a legal oligopoly and gaurenteed subsidy. Retards and schizos pick superficial targets like trump or whatever but people seeking to achieve an actual political goal pick people like this. Ted was like this. Headlines vs a goal.


I am pondering two things next.

1)Next targets. Assuming this wasn’t just a personal grudge born from a bad claim, I predict either mass media or defence. Check if washington post/nyt head editor gets a security detail soon. In “Leviathan and its enemies” sam francis describes the mass society, and specifically the mass cultural institutions which serve to manufacture consent and homogenise so mass advertising can align masses better. They are the next natural target assuming this is a politically oriented person of any superficial tag.

2) People need to quickly invent a catchy name for this shooter so he can be memetically incarnated into the psychosphere. I don’t like Ayn Rand but think of “Who is john galt?”

Here are some I can brainstorm with some friends

The Bag Man
ClaimChad
Insurance agent 47
Universal Deathcare
Subsonic Biker
Pre-Existing mortality

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

DENY DEFEND DEPOSE

He's reaching levels of based previously thought impossible.

 

[Death of an Ego]

This is very interesting. I'm not shedding any tears for the dead CEO given his field has become so evil, but I'll be watching here and elsewhere for legit updates (not X, fuck that and Bluesky). Part of me wants the assassin to get away with it to send a message, no matter how essentially fruitless it will probably wind up being in the end.

To all the people who came to the politisperg containment zone from the feature, welcome. This place is derided both fairly and unfairly on here as far as I'm concerned. As Clipartfan said, it can be an actual decent aggregator of news you might not normally see. If you choose to stick around, at least try to read the entire article, long winded bloviating opinion articles that say nothing of substance excluded. That's probably my only real issue with this corner of the site, people will read half or less of an article, run into something they disagree with politically, and then proceed to liberally post uninformed hot takes. A&N can be funny though, but mind the obvious trolling and shitposts.

 

[pot of sneed]

Both left and right are so retarded that they've let this problem with healthcare and insurance companies fester for decades to get to the point it is at now.

This isn't a left or right issue, this is pure scum getting their comeuppance. When evil prevents people from speaking out or seeking legal reparations, violent retribution is all that's left.

 

[C4-621]

It’s so strange that LITERALLY every. single. non-rich. person in the entire world holds at least some animosity towards rich asshole CEOs and the like and yet things like this don’t happen more often.

There's a huge gap between feeling animosity towards someone and ending their life. Not many people are willing to throw their life away for the opportunity of killing a highly despised, often faceless, individual. In this case the culprit must have really been at his wit's end to pull off the dream (the getaway, the weapon, knowing the hotel he was at, etc.) and get away with it too (hopefully). He's an outlier though, practically a hero in the eyes of everyone sane or powerless who has wanted to see this fantasy acted out. If he's caught I'm sure the internet will make him a martyr, I doubt he would care though, the man got what he wanted. I don't think we'll see another killing like this anytime soon, CEOs in the insurance sector are likely quaking in their boots right now and security company phones are ringing off the hook.

 

[TMDWTFIU]

Got an email from Blue Cross Blue Shield today about stress management techniques. Too little too late huh?

 

[neger psykolog]

1)Next targets. Assuming this wasn’t just a personal grudge born from a bad claim, I predict either mass media or defence. Check if washington post/nyt head editor gets a security detail soon. In “Leviathan and its enemies” sam francis describes the mass society, and specifically the mass cultural institutions which serve to manufacture consent and homogenise so mass advertising can align masses better. They are the next natural target assuming this is a politically oriented person of any superficial tag.

I really don't see this immediately moving onto other people. It may later on. But the health industry is a very particular one and I am sure when/if we hear the story of why this dude did what he did we're going to hear some story about heartbreak that resonates with millions of other people.

I know someone posted movieblob wanting to have the same think happen to Musk and there are a lot of people that hate him for a variety of reasons - but he's still not a health insurance company executive and certainly not the executive at the one that is well known for rejecting the highest number of claims.

From everything I've seen and heard (and again: I'm not a burger) most Americans have had significant issues with healthcare. Many of them will apparently go bankrupt or super into debt from a medical crisis.

Beyond that, it sounds like the ransomware attack crippled this particular health insurance company and probably ended up with patients having delayed treatments and a whole bunch of other shit: https://www.reuters.com/technology/...frozen-payments-ransomware-outage-2024-02-29/

I really do not think the washington post head editor is on the same level as this, whastoever.

 

[clipartfan92]

Mark my words, NYC (and probably every other major city) is going to use this as justification for onerous, illegal surveillance.

Here's an example from last year of them overstepping boundaries:
NYPD seeks to grab cell phone IDs from people under arrest or in custody; push for IMEI numbers raises concerns

“Every person in custody must have their IMEIs for all devices in their possession recorded by their arresting officer,” according to instructions sent to cops in one command last month and obtained by The News.

“If a prisoner refuses to give the number, state ‘We do not care what contents are stored in the phone.’”

making balaclavas illegal (and enforcing it)

The Jews are pushing hard for it over the Palestine protestors and recently they succeeded in Nassau County (Long Island) and Ballston Spa, near Albany. I think there's a little too much local resistance to push it through in NYC just yet, but it's definitely coming.

A&N can be funny though, but mind the obvious trolling and shitposts.

50% of the users are pretending to be retarded
50% of the users are actually retarded

 

[SIMIΔN]

I really do not think the washington post head editor is on the same level as this, whastoever.

This, the Washington Post editor probably believes his propaganda is making the world a better place.
Whereas the "Generous" man helmed a company causing massive suffering.

Yes, there are those willing to step into his shoes, but the best talent would be scared off, and the company would suffer.
Maybe the new guy wouldn't be so brutal.

 

[neger psykolog]

This isn't a left or right issue, this is pure scum getting their comeuppance. When evil prevents people from speaking out or seeking legal reparations, violent retribution is all that's left.

I mean it is both a left and right issue in that neither of them did fuck all to deal with shit like this. They've done sanctions and invaded countries, bickered and bitched at each other, sabotaged each other and all sorts of bullshit stuff - but when it comes to the average person who might have a family member with terminal cancer, they've done fuck all.

 

[Quintus]

I guess all those millions of dollars won't stop bullets will they?

 

[DogZero]

@neger psykolog

If the story is as simple as a heartbreaking denied claim then I agree with you.

But at least at this point this appears to have been performed by a higher Iq individual. It was not a crime of passion. This indicates at least in part it was motivated by political considerations, even if they relate to a personal story. A pure crime of passion borne from injustice would have been flashier, and stupider.

The mistake about discussing between right and left is that the health insurance industry is perhaps the most obviously pure formulation of the managerial elite and system. That’s why we have a hard time talking about right and left in opposition to it. The real struggle is between a managerial elite, their institutions and culture designed to keep them in power, and literally anyone opposed to it either for cultural, economic or incidental reasons. This is why I don’t care what the shooter identifies as. If he was smart enough to perform a shooting like this with as much care as it appears, there is likely some level of analysis at work, and if so then it won’t be confined to just the healthcare industry, because the entire praxis of the Managerial Mass society is its dominance of more than just Mass Corporations, the Mass State or Mass culture, but all three at the same time.

That’s why I posit defense or media next, they are the Mass State and Mass culture respectively. Media especially is obviously onerous and has lower approval than congress.


OR he just had a bad claim and also happens to be smart but also committed a crime of passion based on said bad claim. I don’t say this sarcastically. It’s at least just as likely. This guy should still be transfigured into a memetic Ikon either way.

 

[Captain Manning]

Perhaps what's most mind-blowing about this whole thing is that there's not a whole lot of daylight between the posts I read here, and the posts I have seen from Bluesky.

Can the assassination of scumfuck health care CEOs unite the Internet?

 

[neger psykolog]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14157577/unitedhealthcare-united-healthcare-rejecting-claims-ceo-brian-thompson-shot-protests.html

Really hard to have much sympathy.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

According to Macron, he's won!

 

[x3firehexx]

BBC Pidgin has weighed in on the case: Police dey find suspect wey shoot and kill oga of ogbonge US insurance company for New York. Answering important questions like “who be di suspect?” and “wetin be UnitedHealthcare?” Bix nood indeed.

The news is a lot more fun when you read it in broken afro/abbo English.

Why? What's with the intentionally broken grammar

 

[Pro. Memer]

I don't even think Osama bin Laden's death was as celebrated as this guy's.

Some random redditor put it best "The popular reaction to his death is pretty much exactly what the Ghost of Christmas Future showed Ebenezer Scrooge". Maybe it has the potential of turning into something, but as we all know, nothing ever happens. Most likely impactful scenario is this will cause the next maniac to try and shoot up a boardroom to be celebrated instead of shooting random niggers in a walmart.

 

[CiaphasCain]

One step closer to TOTAL CORPO DEATH and Cyberpunk 2077

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]