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

[VeePeeN]

you pay $20/mo every month for dental and they still make you pay for shit????

Yea, it's bullshit.

 

[01169]

That camera footage is rad. What gun did he use? Is it normal for him to have to slide it back or did it jam?

e: Ignore this. Just read OP's post.

 

[The Hardest R]

Events like this, and hearing anecdotes of why it's understandable, make me regret ever having been a lolberg once upon a time. All that midwit Ayn Rand drivel about "muh free markets" and "everything da gubbmint does is socialism" makes me realize how stupid I was. Lolbergs are the flat-earthers of politics.

As far-right as I am, I have also become more fiscally progressive and anti-corporate as I gain more life experience. It helps to hear anecdotes from people I know IRL, instead of the "Einstein Clapped" tall tales of terminally online leftists.

Lolbergtarianism is even more of a pipe dream than communism. We were told that when companies amass market caps and wealth the size of developed countries, we’d have libertopia. Instead we have this current hellscape. Not much difference in killing a kulak and some poor schmo dying because they were denied coverage on a procedure.

 

[Hitman One]

It is actually insane to see Americans defending their broken third-world system because Ben Shapiro or somebody told them that socialist countries just feed you to the dogs if you ever get sick and they accept that uncritically.

They are absolute animals. It's wild how stupid they are, they can be manipulated to believe almost anything.

 

[Meat Target]

The days of the right slobbering on corpo dick are over, neo-con

It really is that simple. The right wing is plenty pro-business and pro-capitalism, but that doesn't mean we are gonna just blanket support anything suits and companies do.

As boomers die off, the nostalgia from Reaganomics will fade. And DEI and other such culture war crap has (pun kinda intended) woken up conservative voters to the reality that Big Business is not their friend.

Now, only an idiot would say Trump, Musk, et al are not creatures of Big Business and won't be helping their own friends in the incoming administration. But they're taking the party in the right direction, however slowly.

 

[clipartfan92]

If you want some braindead takes, Tim Pool is being more of a faggot than usual.

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=2DfMafPUhHo

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=qNg84ayxGOU

 

[Swamp_Donkey]

That camera footage is rad. What gun did he use? Is it normal for him to have to slide it back or did it jam?

I can't tell what gun it is. It will be difficult to positively ID.
It appears he had a semi automatic that was malfunctioning for some reason causing him to rack the slide after every shot.
I read there were three unfired rounds on the ground. Those would've been ejected when he racked the slide.
There are silenced bolt action pistols which I almost thought he was using at first but if he were, there wouldn't be unfired rounds on the ground.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I can't tell what gun it is, will be difficult to positively ID.
It appears he had a semi automatic that was malfunctioning for some reason causing him to rack the slide after every shot.
I read there were three unfired round on the ground. Those would've been ejected when he racked the slide.
They do make silenced single shot pistols which I almost thought he was using at first but if he were, there wouldn't be unfired rounds on the ground.

Suppressors absorb some of the blow-back energy of the cartridge. He's constantly cocking and un-jamming the pistol - suggesting it's something he DIY'd onto the handgun and didn't test in advance. But he also doesn't fag out and panic, so he's not a noob either.

 

[Apati]

Finally, something that unites everyone regardless of political affiliation. Guess that's what happens when you put a price on people's lives, they put one on yours.

Exactly. If my loved one was denied coverage and passed away due to it I’d have a hard time coming to grips with it

 

[x3firehexx]

Yeah I didn't say bodyguards would make them untouchable. I said they would feel untouchable. If his goal is to scare the next potential CEO, they might think "oh I'll just get bodyguards and work from home so I don't get close to any strangers in public".
A bombing would make that line of thought more difficult.

Or a twink with any sort of rifle poking out from a window. Granted, last time some twink tried to off a rich public individual said twink got absolutely demolished by the secret service (he did deserve it, tbh). But doing the same to some rich guy with bodyguards won't be difficult at all, you don't even need super fancy specialty snipers or whatever. I mean, the JFK assasin pulled it off with a shitty carcano rifle that you can buy back then for like.... 50$ so...

Point is, if you are hated by enough people you are never truly safe. There are a million and a half opportunities for you to be killed, especially if the assasin doesn't have much to loose, and said assasin doesn't even have to be competent, literally a street favella nigger with a uzi will suffice.

Altough, somehow in this case the assasin was, very, very proffessional, like, he could give Agent47 a run for his money. Not so much with the hit itslef, but the getaway was nearly flawless

 

[BradCarter]

Suppressors absorb some of the blow-back energy of the cartridge. He's constantly cocking and un-jamming the pistol - suggesting it's something he DIY'd onto the handgun and didn't test in advance. But he also doesn't fag out and panic, so he's not a noob either.

He at the very least tested it beforehand and knew the thing wouldn't cycle. Could have been a total noob and just prepared as well as he did with the rest of the steps.

 

[MunsterCheeseJr]

Tim Pool is stating that the new photo is a different guy.

I am not sure either way given the shape of the face. Tone of the jacket. And the ambiguity of shitty CRT cameras.

This shooter would be my new hero if he paid some guy to wear his jacket and backpack and walk into the shop just to confuse the police and give him more time to make a run for it.

 

[ita]

In the movie The Incredibles, former superhero Mr. Incredible is assigned a mundane identity Bob Parr, who works for an insurance company. He witnesses firsthand the relentlessness and injustice of the industry and how the weak are victimized by them over and over again by design. This culminates in Bob strangling his boss and smashing him through a dozen walls or so.

Just thought that was interesting.

 

[glad vlad]

The enthusiastic plebe reaction to this is why elites hate populism. There is a path that is enormously popular with ordinary people: nationalism and tight borders combined with progressive economic policies and conservative social values. Some kind of third position, one might say.

In health care this might look like a cheap and cheerful socialized health service that covers your basics at low/no cost, funded by taxes, plus optional add on private insurance to cover higher end services or more rapid care. To achieve this without going broke you need a strong government that can get a grip on corporations, but you also need a strong national identity that exerts taboo-level social control and has powerful shared values about doing your part and not being a freeloader.

 

[Ass to Ass]

No, we don't. I just had about 300k in medical expenses the past 18 months. I think I paid around $900 out of pocket in total.

I'm going to rely on the age-old rule of thumb called "join date, post count" when evaluating this post.

Whos going to willingly identify him lmao ?
Or better still good luck finding a jury that will convict
God speed

The same jury that convicted Daniel Perry (the one who killed Garrett Foster in self-defense) and the same jury that's about to convict Daniel Penny (the one who killed Jordan Neely in defense of another). The former was in Texas and the latter is in, drumroll please, New York City.

Those juries do exist, or at least, can exist when assembled.

 

[BradCarter]

but you also need a strong national identity that exerts taboo-level social control and has powerful shared values about doing your part and not being a freeloader.

What a complex way to say TND

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Seems like a really big oversight to get photographed with his full face exposed. I assume it’s still considered somewhat normal to wear a mask in NYC, so why wouldn’t he just keep one on the whole time?

He could just be stupid.
It doesn't take big brains or big muscles to hurt back the people that hurt you.

 

[Dyn]

you also need a strong national identity that exerts taboo-level social control and has powerful shared values about doing your part and not being a freeloader.

lol no you don't even New Zealand manages it and they're all faggots on welfare.

 

[ephermeral]

Whenever a school shooting happens I always think to myself, "I wish one of these weirdos with an axe to grind would shoot someone with power who is deliberately causing harm to enrich themselves. Going into an elementary school is like shooting fish in a barrel, plus they don't have hired security, at least do it for the fucking challenge."

See, sometimes wishes do come true.

 

[Swamp_Donkey]

Or a twink with any sort of rifle poking out from a window. Granted, last time some twink tried to off a rich public individual said twink got absolutely demolished by the secret service (he did deserve it, tbh). But doing the same to some rich guy with bodyguards won't be difficult at all, you don't even need super fancy specialty snipers or whatever. I mean, the JFK assasin pulled it off with a shitty carcano rifle that you can buy back then for like.... 50$ so...

Point is, if you are hated by enough people you are never truly safe. There are a million and a half opportunities for you to be killed, especially if the assasin doesn't have much to loose, and said assasin doesn't even have to be competent, literally a street favella nigger with a uzi will suffice.

Altough, somehow in this case the assasin was, very, very proffessional, like, he could give Agent47 a run for his money. Not so much with the hit itslef, but the getaway was nearly flawless

Yeah you're missing my point as well. I'm not saying they will be safe. I'm not saying they are safe. I'm not saying bodyguards will make them safe.

I'm saying that the next CEO will probably think "yeah I have bodyguards, I'll be safe" and accept the position as new CEO of United Healthcare.

I was interested in theory crafting about the best way for him to scare CEOs into not taking the position. Or I was interested in talking about what the shooter's actual goal is/was.