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

[Blewberry Nausea]

That smile, that damn smile.

I hate I got that.

 

[neger psykolog]

I think Musk could go either way on this one. He's a CEO, but not a health care CEO.

Elon is never going to directly comment on it. Keep in mind he had a tweeter account that tracked his private jet flights removed specifically because he was concerned with assassinations.

There's no strange reason also why people like Jeff Bezos and some others have been removing themselves from positions of absolute power in recent times too.

 

[Near]

I guess he got that return to office he was pushing so hard. Plenty of open spaces in hell bro

 

[Vincent Faith]

A while back I worked for a mid size company where the (actually OK) CEO was ousted. He’d created the company from the ground up and was a decent bloke - I used to know his secretary, never a bad word said about him, suspect secretly based due to a few things I heard.
Anyway, he ‘leaves to spend more time with the family’ and company gets a new MBA type flown in and immediately goes full DEI but in such bizarre ways. They started putting policies in place that were cartoonishly bad for us and people started leaving. Share price just tanked, and ended up about a sixth of the high. They started firing everyone good high up and then I realised they were just reducing the age bill so it looks cheaper on paper and running it into the floor to be bought up cheap. I got offered a new job elsewhere and took it, and two weeks (lol) later they got bought out by some private consortium. They paid about 20% of what the company had previously been worth. Shareholders got fucked completely, they got pennies on the dollar for their shares in the buyout.

I remain convinced that the entire thing was a deliberate ploy to drive the wage bill and the worth right down so it could be bought cheap. it was a very interesting thing to witness from inside. I have absolutely no doubt that it was a controlled demolition and that this kind of thing happens quite a bit

Looks like a corporate raid. If you're ever running any kind of business there are 3 groups of relevant people: insiders, outsiders, and customers. Outsiders should never be trusted, especially not with executive power. Doesn't matter how good their resume looks, or how friendly they seem. You don't know them.​

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Sadly kind people who aren't paranoid end up getting taken advantage of.​

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This is not applicable to all industries, but it's a much better investment in the long term to just pay your favorite of upper management to get MBAs.​

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Don't want to pry too much, but what happened to the CEO's shares? If he was highly compensated, a lot of that compensation comes from the stock, and anyone who owns over 5% of a public company is required to disclose that.​

 

[Uncle Holter]

Good riddance!

 

[Božidarka]

I'll level with those rare few who find it ghoulish that we're openly celebrating a man's death: I agree in spirit. But insurance companies are so habitually cruel and evil that even Disney was making fun of it nearly twenty years ago. Think of the most cartoonish vision you have for a corporation, it's not as bad as the reality for insurance firms.

Slam dunk insurance executives through walls.

 

[Captain Manning]

A tale of two tweets.


These just happened to be right next to each other to screencap.

 

[xXthrowawayaccountXx]

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.

Big activists groups are literally paid to be a net negative to the cause they are fighting for. Basically annoy people and paint over the actual issue with meaningless bullshit.

Just Stop Oil, r/antiwork, those dumbass anti-vaping "truth" ads, etc. I would not be surprised if most of the charity money these companies pass of goes into the hands of these groups in some form.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

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.

Mass shooters don't give a shit about frontier justice or making the world a better place, they care about stacking a high body count and achieving notoriety.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Can a burger please explain to me how you can murder one of the cities elites in fucking midtown and not get caught due to the 20.000 CCTV's you have in that city?

This guy is in fucking Canada by now or something similar 100%, how is it possible they didn't catch him by now?

Because this is real life, not a TV cop show or Hollywood thriller. The police aren’t brilliant omnipotent auteurs, with every resource and technology at their fingertips. They’re underpaid jannies, stifled by red tape and legalities.
And that’s the average for western countries, multiply the institutional incompetence factor by 10 in America.

 

[sedoL]

Could've just not killed the guy, had 3 chances to do so and would've probably achieved the same effect.

 

[Otterly]

but what happened to the CEO's shares?

I don’t know. I am a mere mid level wagie. If they shafted him by tanking the value of years of shares that’s pretty cruel - he was by all accounts a decent bloke who had built the company up from a tiny operation into something pretty good. He basically got couped. The rumour I heard was that he wasn’t on board with the things needed for enough ESG money or the style of management that drives people into the floor. We were treated pretty well under his tenure. After he left a lot of very humane policies and benefits got cut. The culture changed immediately, lots of full on DEI and the ESG type policies. Lots of emphasis on ‘kindness’ while driving people to breakdowns.
. I suspect he had been running the place a lot more directly than a lot of CEOs do, just by dint of having been in from the start, and that style wasn’t modern enough. you can’t run a multinational like a mom and pop shop these days

 

[Slamerella]

Why can't crazy unhinged people in America do things like this more often. Why do most of them go to elementary schools and target little kids instead? Even if your goal is to just kill someone and you're not motivated by anything particularly noble, why go after random innocent people instead of someone like this?

This was motivated by emotion, and not delusion.

 

[NSA]

You can see the corpo hands all over the news coverage of this. They're pushing the wife and kids theme hard, not mentioning he's separated from his wife lol. Also pushing the idea this is "scary".

Judging by every comment section I've seen, literally no one is buying it. Very wholesome.

Spoiler: off topic insurance anecdote

I have dental insurance so I don't pay anything to the dentist, everything is fully covered. Apparently a payment processor got hacked and insurance companies were not paying out for months. My dentist office called me 3 times asking me to help them contact someone who could get them paid. I did actually call around to find out what was going on (I didn't have to, just being helpful). The layers of middlemen they built up made in an amazingly difficult task. There are like 10 shell companies between my dentist and the people writing the checks. Anyway, they got paid eventually. I'm sure the insurance company didn't pay any late fees for paying almost a year late.

I found an article about it:
Some shitty article sweeping it up.

 

[neger psykolog]

Mass shooters don't give a shit about frontier justice or making the world a better place, they care about stacking a high body count and achieving notoriety.

Sometimes the notoriety part is true but other times it is purely driven by inflicting as much harm upon as many people as possible at once (like the pilot who was depressed, locked out the other pilot and then kamikaze'd the plane into a mountain)

 

[SIMIΔN]

shooting a moving man's head with a pistol isn't easy for the average shooter

Using a silencer is also just kind of retarded.

Shows he cared about not hurting bystanders.
No hearing damage nor stray bullets

last time some twink tried to off a rich public individual said twink got absolutely demolished by the secret service

And the twink's shot was on target, and only a sudden head turn kept it from the history books.

 

[Inlé]

This shit needs to happen more often, CEOs and politicians need to fear the consequences of their actions again

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

How in the world usa did a health insurance company become so ghoulish?

Corruption in government. When justice is no longer blind vigilantism starts to come about. Its unfortunate that people feel the needs to take things into their own hands.
Ultimately in a democracy that's on the people for voting in awful people. But here we are. When things get really bad extreme things happen more frequently cause no one has faith in the system to fix it.

With this system sadly, things have to become really bad before most people go "oh shit we need to do something about this."
We're starting to enter that stage of it. So hopefully it'll start to correct.

With a republic democracy you don't have the benefit of fast correcting changes sadly. Its the biggest downside.

What's even funnier are the reactions of the people who are now obviously scared that something similar might befall them as well.
It's never too late to self-reflect, although that ability is available to only a few.

A Christmas Carol for the modern ages.

A tale of two tweets.

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These just happened to be right next to each other to screencap.

The algo is a blessing at times.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

That smile, that damn smile.

Grass, touched. Shots, fired. Smile, broadcast.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer used fake ID to check into NYC hostel before slaying: sources

https://archive.ph/6LgIK

ID, fake.

 

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