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

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Captain Manning said:
The CEOs are gonna learn that the big shareholders don't really give a shit if they die too.

I think when it comes to CEO security, the big shareholders are more concerned about kidnapping and ransom. Because that can cost a lot money they'd have to pay, or take a big PR hit.

Whereas if the their guy gets gunned down, they'll just fetch another from the cloning tank. The people that actually own UHC don't give a shit about Brian. He's replaceable.
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Partial agree but UnitedHealth likely makes enough money that they can get serious security for their C-suite staff and it wouldn't impact their bottom line much. Kidnappings and ransom are of course messy from a PR perspective but their insurance CEO getting gunned down in the middle of the street right before an investor conference is the most immediate PR mess they have right now - and throwing security at the problem really isn't going to solve it.

There were plenty of stories about UnitedHealth and other companies before this event and what this killing really did was bring them to the forefront of discussion and bring more attention to them and probably provide some sense of unity to unhappy people. "Getting more security" doesn't do anything to stop the current PR crisis that UnitedHealth has, because the PR crisis isn't that their CEO got shot, it is that their business model ended up with their CEO getting shot.

I'm sure the MBA faggots will try to fortify their Minnesota HQ and stock enough rations to live in their corporate HQ fro the next 100 years and try to hire a private army, but that still won't solve it - and I think stories from now on that involve fuckups from UnitedHealth will get more prominent attention. I really think the only/best thing that UnitedHealth can do is try to divest some parts of its business but I am not sure the CEO is actually even allowed to do that because of "fiduciary duty" - but on the other hand the CEO and the rest of the C-suites were ok doing insider trading and dumping stock before bad news about their company was publcly known.

As an aside: there's an interesting explanation of the current profit level of UnitedHealth and other similar companies and how COVID impacted it (TLDR: no one went to doctors during COVID leading to record profits, now people are going to the doctor a lot more than before): https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...-less-about-denials-more-about-the--pandemic/
I'm not sure how true it is but it does at least make some sense, there are quite a few businesses (like netflix) that had their profit margins heavily skewed by COVID and now that its over shareholders don't understand how its possible the profit margins could ever go down. Netflix even had a situation where they just missed growth expectations (meaning new subscribers) and were still growing quite healthily and significantly but investors don't like when number doesn't go up and the stock price dipped pretty hard for a while.
I don't fully believe the rationale of the article because I'm sure that UnitedHealth and all other health insurance companies fuck around with their numbers by using gypsy accounting - it also doesn't address stuff like the impact of the ransomware attack this year and the fact that UnitedHealth is vertically integrated.
 
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Captain Manning said:
I think when it comes to CEO security, the big shareholders are more concerned about kidnapping and ransom. Because that can cost a lot money they'd have to pay, or take a big PR hit.
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First time I've seen ransom risk brought up, and it's topical af for UHG, because those retards actually paid off the ransomware attacker that hit them this year, at least once, and lied about doing so for months. Not only that, the attacke then demanded more money rather than providing the keys.

First payment was ~$22 mil in BTC at February prices, so $42k, meaning the attacker has potentially more than doubled their money.

Also the reason that people think bombs and bullets first in these sort of actions and not kidnapping, is that the FBI basicly made kidnapping for ransom a dead end by the 1980s. Kidnappers were always going to need to collect their money and there was no practical way to do it without exposure. Crypto changes that equation a bit, but the biggest issue is that the DEI'd FBI no longer has anyone on staff with chops to actually run a kidnapping investigation.
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
They are not sending their best.

If a capitalist society can't handle a attack like this, then it isn't working properly and deserves to get fucked. There were way worse attacks on capitalism during the 19th and 20th century in the USA and Europe they didn't collapse.



Source? Also I straight up don't believe the NYPD has the right guy. Why would he have bought the gun in NY if he was from PA? What gun are they saying it was? Are they really gonna pester some dude who bought a BT VP9 or a HK MK23 when even basic fudds know by now that was NOT the gun used?
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As far as I am aware you're not allowed to purchase a handgun in a state you're not a resident in. They'll let you buy it at their store but then they have to ship it to a gun shop in the state you reside in to process the actual transfer.
 
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Unless you are a lefty you’re a complete idiot for appreciating this in any way. Left wing violence and assassinations are bad, always. Anyone who isn’t a lefty and doesn’t take notice of who supports this is also a retard. The people who support it are losers who you could be sharing a shallow grave with.

Last thing you should want is a bunch of little john browns or a bleeding kansas situation. Best case scenario is you’re ignorant of the history of left wing terrorism (it is something they genuinely don’t teach in schools) like the LA Times bombing, Sacco&Vanzetti, or simply the generic left wing playbook to amass the scum of the Earth and use their presence to bypass the normal levels of power.

Impulsive “I just wanna see things happen” or “here’s how this is still based” nonsense is extraordinarily low iq behavior but I know I’ll win few friends pointing this out.
 
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Berrakh said:
Unless you are a lefty you’re a complete idiot for appreciating this in any way. Left wing violence and assassinations are bad, always. Anyone who isn’t a lefty and doesn’t take notice of who supports this is also a retard. The people who support it are losers who you could be sharing a shallow grave with.

Last thing you should want is a bunch of little john browns or a bleeding kansas situation. Best case scenario is you’re ignorant of the history of left wing terrorism (it is something they genuinely don’t teach in schools) like the LA Times bombing, Sacco&Vanzetti, or simply the generic left wing playbook to amass the scum of the Earth and use their presence to bypass the normal levels of power.

Impulsive “I just wanna see things happen” or “here’s how this is still based” nonsense is extraordinarily low iq behavior but I know I’ll win few friends pointing this out.
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gonna repost @Nameless One's post from earlier because it's such a perfect rebuttal to your dumbass post.
Nameless One said:
Violence isn't the answer within a civil society, but IT IS the final answer to such a broken (AND ENFORCED) system that does not work. Fuck off with the moral complex, the sooner you realize how little these parasites give a shit about you the easier it is to stop taking it up the ass and get rid of them.
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Mark Goldbridge said:
Not getting caught in 4 days is impressive, I would hire this guy
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This is the most impressive development of this whole thing. Its literally just a guy with a backpack, caught on camera and yet the glowies are at a loss.
I honestly thought they would just arrest some random guy for questioning to pretend they "got him" so the media would look at them like they aren't incompetent.
 
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Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu said:
Would that make one a bigger coward and bitch than having some AI program deny lifesaving care
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Lol, relax nigger. Nobody is getting “denied live saving care.”

When insurance companies deny claims it’s usually from fatsos who want surgery instead of eating properly, trannies who only got one letter from a psychiatrist instead of two or someone who wants the fanciest newest meds when the old ones work fine.

It’s wild how many people think that insurance companies are literally killing people or some shit like that.

“Wahhh I went to the closest ER because I’m a lazy fuck, instead of going to the one my Insurance has a contract with! I got treatment and now I need to pay myself, this is literal GENOCIDE!”
 
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Berrakh said:
Unless you are a lefty you’re a complete idiot for appreciating this in any way. Left wing violence and assassinations are bad, always. Anyone who isn’t a lefty and doesn’t take notice of who supports this is also a retard. The people who support it are losers who you could be sharing a shallow grave with.

Last thing you should want is a bunch of little john browns or a bleeding kansas situation. Best case scenario is you’re ignorant of the history of left wing terrorism (it is something they genuinely don’t teach in schools) like the LA Times bombing, Sacco&Vanzetti, or simply the generic left wing playbook to amass the scum of the Earth and use their presence to bypass the normal levels of power.

Impulsive “I just wanna see things happen” or “here’s how this is still based” nonsense is extraordinarily low iq behavior but I know I’ll win few friends pointing this out.
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Cry moar jew fag
 
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