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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Where’s my Big Iron remix covering this guy?

To the town of New York rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
 
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Uber driver reviewer said:
Yeah it would be cool if silencers could have been removed from the NFA. And there was some progress being done to accomplish that since they are not firearms themselves.

Why should a hunter have to blow his eardrums out when he blasts a turkey or a moose or whatever? It just makes sense to build hearing protection in the gun than on your head if you can,


Now that is going to be brushed aside again because silencers will be known as a tool for assassins, Not as a thing some guy on 8 acres of land can buy so he doesn’t piss off his neighbors when shooting in his yard one Saturday afternoon a month.
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There are other objects you can use as a silencer to keep your neighbors happy on Saturday mornings that don’t involve regulation.

Anyway, I spent the weekend helping out with the kids that lost their mother to cancer thanks to insurance fuckery. Have you ever heard a toddler asking over and over for her mommy without any real comprehension that Mommy is never coming back? Have you ever seen a 6 year old that already knows how to cry silent tears, all alone on his own, because he doesn’t want to be a bother to anyone?

We didn’t talk about The Adjuster. Nobody brought him up because entering that house is like walking into a cloud bank of grief. I don’t even know if my dead woman’s husband even knows about it because he’s not really keeping up with the headlines right now. But I guarantee you, that CCTV hooded grin was on my mind all the time as I folded a dead mother’s laundry and boxed it up, as I made macaroni and cheese that her toddler wouldn’t eat anyway because it wasn’t how Mommy made it, when I cleared out old casserole dishes and takeout trash and rotting condolences bouquets.

I wondered who he lost. I know it’s just as likely that he lost nobody and that this ‘Adjuster’ myth growing around him is more about us than him. But it did help a little to imagine that he was also packing away a dead woman’s clothes as he decided, no, he couldn’t let this stand unanswered.
 
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Vaclav said:
Dumping the backpack in the park was probably the right move because if he was on any cameras with the backpack it would have been easy to track him. He probably changed into different clothes too - note that there is no released footage of him leaving the park, probably because he changed his appearance significantly.
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It's hindsight is 20/20 but any move that ends up with physical evidence in the police's hands wasn't the right move
 
blue gopher snakes said:
I know it’s just as likely that he lost nobody and that this ‘Adjuster’ myth growing around him is more about us than him.
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I'm okay with the latter. As far as I'm concerned, it was for everyone - your dead mom, and her toddler and husband, the farmers in this thread whose insurance companies have written off their family members with cancer, insured families losing people to preventable status epilepticus because they can't pay a thousand dollars for a single dose of emergency seizure meds after insurance denials, the 90% of people with claims wrongfully denied by the AI implemented by this guy (some of whom almost certainly died while waiting months for preauths to be appealed), the medfags who have to spend hours off their "off time" pleading with insurance companies to give their patients the care they need, and crying when they get off the phone because these companies sometimes make people decide between a family member dying or losing their homes.

I'm okay with people projecting whatever they want onto this guy, and I don't care if his personal problem was a ten dollar copay for an ingrown toenail removal or if he got laid off by UHC or if Thompson fucked his wife. I hope they never find him and we never have the chance to find out.
 
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biggacheeze said:
People should riot that police is investigating this more than other murders
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Seriously. I saw they had police divers in the Onassis Reservoir on the off chance this guy ditched the gun there. Going to be hard to find it under all the other murder weapons that have been ditched there over the years.

What would the “official” excuse even be for spending this much money and resources on a single murder when there are certainly hundreds of other unsolved cases?
 
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draggs said:
I suspect they won't draw a jury pool 100% from reddit, bluesky, and kiwi farms dot net
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People who think the celebration is restricted to social media are very much deluding themselves. I don't know a single medical professional in real life that doesn't think this entire situation is the cat's pajamas. It's been total, complete, unrestrained jubilation all week. Patients are bringing it up, too. Most people aren't even bothering with the token attempts at weaksauce moral opprobrium (e.g. "I don't condone murder buuuut....") My point is, whatever level of discourse you are seeing on here, know that your doctor is multiplying it by a factor of two in the break room and wishes he had a chance to piss on the dying man.

Good luck finding 12 people who don't have UHC or have never had a family member negatively affected by their own private insurer.

Thinking about funding some educational billboards about jury nullification, just in case.
 
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Red Saltire said:
What would the “official” excuse even be for spending this much money and resources on a single murder when there are certainly hundreds of other unsolved cases?
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I don't know what the official excuse is, but it is very suspicious that they have nothing when every other shooting they had the shooters name, mugshot, and manifesto practically before the shooting
 
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