• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/

    Brian Thompson was a 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs and applied the same standard of justice to Thompson as they apply to the poors.

    He’s dead because the kleptocracy felating justice system didnt do its job. They should turn themselves in if they want justice. If Luigi is guilty then so are they.

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    7 days ago

    Thoughts and prayers :

    • I think it should happen more often.
    • I pray it does (instead of school shootings, let’s say).
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    7 days ago

    Sympathy? Hmm . . . let’s see . . . sympathy . . ok. I’m sorry he didn’t contract a really ferocious strain of ass-cancer that his insurance didn’t cover.

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    5 days ago

    From the article:

    In other words, it’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black people or anti-racist activists, but when a CEO’s life is taken, we must solemnly stay silent on the reasons why such a person might be targeted or why bystanders might not be crying.

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    7 days ago

    Thank you for calling sympathy customer service. Your call is important to us, a representative will be with you shortly.

    We are currently experiencing unprecedented call volume at this time. Please wait for the next available representative.

    the worst music ever at the highest volume possible starts playing

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    6 days ago

    unfortunately being an asshole is a pre-existing condition and as such cannot be covered at this time.

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        8 days ago

        It is a reasonable first order estimate. See a comment here. I think I will organize this a bit better and make a blog post on this tomorrow. But suffice to say, 51,000 is a good baseline number, based on UHC’s share of the private insurance market and the length of Thompson’s tenure as CEO of UHC. It could be as high as 100,000. But really, at this scale, it ceases to matter. You can only really comprehend it in comparative terms. And his number of victims was order of magnitude greater than that of Osama Bin Ladin.

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          Osama bin Laden was a chump compared to these guys. Osama was already wanted by the US for a crime he did in 1993 and had his Saudi citizenship revoked and he was a stateless runaway doomed to live in hiding and squalor no matter what.

          He wasn’t even the mastermind behind 9/11. Hell, he even had a hard time controlling Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the hijackers, who wanted the operation to be more about him and his final end more than anything else.

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        I’m no math wizard but I’ve read 68k people die per year from preventable shit due to denied claims. Brian worked at United since 2004, CEO since 2021 so he contributed directly or indirectly to that number of deaths per year, at least the portion United is responsible for. United has double the industry average of rejected claims.

        It’s def higher than OP states.

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        Not OP, but it’s going to be really hard to assign a hard value to that. There are plenty of obvious examples where they denied a life-saving treatment. But many of them would’ve died anyway.

        Then there are cases where they deny preventative/early treatments. Some of these eventually led to more serious and fatal conditions, some did not. How do we count these?

        Then there’s quality of life denials. These don’t directly lead to fatal conditions, but can affect morale and the like, thus allowing more serious conditions?

        All of it would be compared to the unexplored alternatives (where treatment was authorized). This is inherently an unknown.

        I’m not defending him by any means. It’s just that his body count is, at best, a rough estimate.

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          Whether they would have died anyway isn’t a measure of whether it is ethical to deny someone care that was the only chance they had. Removing the possibility is still murder.

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    We’ve received your request for additional sympathy. Our advanced AI systems will now determine your claim’s eligibility.

    Oh, sorry, looks like it’s been denied.

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    Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.

    Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.

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      I will not show them the single touch of sympathy or pity or anything. Why should I? People like that would not only never show me the slightest sympathy, but they would also go out of their way in order to fuck me over and waste my time and money and then act like any reaction other than cock sucking them is criminal violence.