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It speaks to the deep and broad frustration among Americans towards our healthcare system. This isn't just executives or politicians "screwing people over" like
by standardUser 2y ago
It speaks to the deep and broad frustration among Americans towards our healthcare system. This isn't just executives or politicians "screwing people over" like we see in so many other realms. There's a significant number of Americans who love someone who has actually died or suffered severer/permanent physical distress for the sake of insurance company profits.
When someone's family gets blown up from the sky and that someone becomes a terrorist willing to use violence against the party they blame for their family members death, we may not like it but we don't pretend to not understand it. Similarly we can't pretend to not understand this phenomenon.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWe actually have no sure idea what the motives of the individual were. There's the obvious angle. Then, maybe Thompson paid someone to kill him, so his family could get an insurance payout. Maybe Thompson was fucking the shooter's ex girlfriend, and he wanted to mislead investigators as to why Thompson was killed. Maybe it's a Russian operation to sow discord in the US. Etc
- standardUser 2y agoWe have a good idea. Not no idea. And we know exactly how people are responding to the killing, regardless of motive, so we don't have to split hairs on that at all.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWe know how people chronically on social media are responding to the killing
- standardUser 2y agoDo you not have friends? A social network of your own? People I know are responding in a similar fashion to what we are seeing all over the entire spectrum of online media.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoI'm going to guess all of your friends and social network use the same sites and are in the same echo chamber as you. And please don't delude yourself into thinking that if you poll everyone on the spectrum of social media, that you will have any idea what the general American public think about a topic. Neither here nor there, but were you surprised by Trump winning in the fashion he did?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI just don't see your point. I don't pretend not to understand this phenomenon, and the need for healthcare reform has always been one of my strongest political beliefs. But that doesn't mean murder is any less bad! Is the implication that this kind of murder can only happen as an expression of widespread popular anger? I definitely don't think that's so. There are plenty of places in the world where corporate executives have to fear being murdered in the streets, and it does a lot more to drive accountability to criminal gangs and oppressive governments than to the common people and their interests.
- standardUser 2y agoChange the term "the need for healthcare reform" with "the need to stop insurance executives from killing my mother" and you may have an easier time understanding it. It's personal. Make it personal for thousands of people and some of them will inevitably be radicalized.
- cruffle_duffle 2y ago> Make it personal for thousands of people and some of them will inevitably be radicalized. I fully understand the motive and can empathize with the alleged assailant but that doesn’t mean I am celebrating the fact somebody got murdered. Being able to empathize and understand the motives doesn’t make what the person who shot that dude morally or ethically right.
- standardUser 2y ago> Being able to empathize and understand the motives doesn’t make what the person who shot that dude morally or ethically right. Never said it does bro.
- cruffle_duffle 2y agoYou might not but go look at Reddit. The glee and cheerfulness is absolutely disgusting. That being said, odds are looking like this dude is just a nutcase… and yet again Reddit’s hive mind will look like a fool.