This is not the time to offer your criticisms of the health-insurance industry

Somebody already did that for us lmao

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    The natural human reaction to all of this is to first be horrified that a husband and father of two children was murdered.

    This is just bad faith

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      This guy murdered countless parents and spouses by denying them healthcare for his own financial gain. But you won’t find any libs clutching their pearls over that.

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        tbf… I’ve seen a LOT of libs just as gleeful about this as non-libs.

        In fact, this event has wrought an interesting unified voice from all sides of the aisle in the US: Everyone (Except the oligarchs or their henchmen) are happy about this.

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      The natural human reaction to a tragedy like this is overtaken as a an aspect of human nature takes over the id and the ego: sheer, unfathomable glee. The tragedy being that you’re supposed to look sad but you will have to explain through the biggest grin of your life that you are, in fact, upset but you just ate some fizzy candy.

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      The natural human reaction to all of this is to first be horrified that a husband and father of two children was murdered.

      No.

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    I had never heard of Brian Thompson before today, and it’s entirely possible that he made some bad decisions. It is not possible that he deserved to be murdered, because nobody deserves to be murdered. And the level of seething resentment some people seem to have of wealthy people is deeply unhealthy. Socialism is always motivated by envy and often brought about by violence. If there is some kind of organized effort to target CEOs with violence to win applause from the public, that ought to fail because the American public would be repulsed by it. All of us need to be repulsed by this murder. Basic human decency and a commitment to a free society demand it.

    It’s amazing that they can say ghoulish shit like this and then wonder why people applaud their deaths.

    People aren’t jealous of the wealthy, they rightfully celebrate their deaths because Health Insurance companies are responsible for the deaths of millions

    The more rich monsters like this pretend otherwise, the more resentment will boil. Not because of bitterness or envy, but because of logical self-preservation instinct.

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    nobody should ever be killed ever, but especially not rich people because they never commit atrocities and the dirty poors are just jealous of our cool lifestyles

    I want to spit in this man’s face

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    Any number of other people could have been caught up in it.

    This was not random violence

    Pick one.

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    Really fosters the revolutionary spirit, knowing how people would respond to a revolutionary act

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    Can you imagine if this guy went on to just start shooting CEOs across industries and vanish without a trace…the hero we truly need right now

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    There appears to be some confusion about this online, so here it is plain and simple: Murdering corporate executives is evil.

    “Beheading monarchs is irredeemably evil” - some bootlicker during the french revolution, probably.

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    It is not possible that he deserved to be murdered, because nobody deserves to be murdered.

    Surely this man has condemned Israel’s string of assassinations (and the genocide)

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    This was not random violence by a disturbed individual or street crime in an unsafe neighborhood. This was a targeted hit that someone had to pay for and plan in the center of one of the world’s most vital business districts.

    “This wasn’t some lowly poor person or someone in a less deserving country. This was here in the rich part of the US!!!”

    God fucking dammit, who the fuck even writes that

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    There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.