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> No one knows why the CEO was killed. Whatever the shooter's motive was, you can't deny that the public mood is ugly. There was scarcely any sympathy for Thom
by inejge 2y ago
> No one knows why the CEO was killed.
Whatever the shooter's motive was, you can't deny that the public mood is ugly. There was scarcely any sympathy for Thompson, just an avalanche of gleeful mockery and complaints about healthcare claim handling. The problems are widespread enough that having someone snap because, say, their parents' claims have been denied, is completely believable.
- mrangle 2y ago[flagged]
- cyberax 2y ago> The gleeful mockery is largely from anonymous accounts. I remember when the same type of thing was attributed to "Russian bots" after the 2016 election. I worked in medical-adjacent areas for a decade. I dated a doctor, and I asked him what people feel in his hospital about that. He said that basically NOBODY has any sympathy for this CEO. The most concern is at the level of "we shouldn't condone murders". And you don't see even uglier statements because people are very much aware of medical ethics boards. And that's an opinion from a highly-paid medical professional.
- mrangle 2y ago[flagged]
- cyberax 2y agoI believe you might be in your own bubble. Most people quite obviously don't want to incite violence, but at the same time, doctors can't get much sympathy for this particular CEO.
- mrangle 2y agoI'm not, and doctors are plenty sympathetic because most are plenty normal. You and your supposed friend are objectively deranged.
- orwin 2y agoHonestly, between Gaza, Israel, Ukraine, Yemen, Ethiopia, RDC/rwanda, and the various weather event who killed thousands, my available empathy is gone. Nothing i can do. I gave money and time for a decade, nothing ever improve. You know what i first thought when i heard this story? "At least he didn't shoot a hospital". You know what my second thought on this? "I hope there is enough hero worshiping for this killer so that mass shooters try their hand at murdering CEO instead, at least it's a single victim" (that is also because 2 days prior, a friend i've met in a youth hostel a few years back was involved in a mass shooting around Chicago). I won't participate in the hero worship, i despise all killers. But still, am i the only one who had those thoughts?
- sangnoir 2y ago> Thompson is not responsible for the existence of the insurance industry Surely he bears some responsibility for making UHC the worst to deal with and the having the highest rejection rate? > What I do see is a strong push by media ... Why would the media push a narrative against any executive if it wasn't already part of the zeitgeist? The media has consistently exhibited strong class solidarity in my experience. > Doctors well-know this, and they become doctors knowing this. I'm sure you are aware that doctors are not a monolith. Gp is not making things up: I'll second them with the less-than-sorrowful response elicited by the news of the CEOs demise among administrative staff in my circles (who know how the industry works and what role is performs) > The Media last sympathized with and incited murderous violence in the 2020 election period. Gee, I wonder if the public discontent the media and politicians tapped into in 2020 has abated or gotten worse since. It appears you refuse to acknowledge that a huge fraction of the population is unhappy with the status quo across the world (see number of governments voted out). That America has a populist president-elect isn't surprising
- mrangle 2y ago>Surely he bears some responsibility for making UHC the worst to deal with and the having the highest rejection rate? If so, and barring subjectivity and narrative, then not responsibility with a penalty of death. Very obviously. >Why would the media push a narrative against any executive if it wasn't already part of the zeitgeist? The media has consistently exhibited strong class solidarity in my experience. Extrajudicial murder and domestic terrorism are part of the zeitgeist of most people? This is your claim? This is some kind of new standard for a stupid statement. Aside from you being wrong in more than one aspect, I'm not going to debate your sense of media class loyalty. Which you are wrong about in a multifaceted manner. The fact is that they are pushing the narrative. It's in black and white. >I'm sure you are aware that doctors are not a monolith. Gp is not making things up: I'll second them with the less-than-sorrowful response elicited by the news of the CEOs demise among administrative staff in my circles (who know how the industry works and what role is performs) I didn't say that they were. But they are largely, monolithically not insane, not murderer adjacent, and not domestic terrorist adjacent. Your appeal to authority stories are either total bs or aberrations full of people that should probably be surveilled by law enforcement. >Gee, I wonder if the public discontent the media and politicians tapped into in 2020 has abated or gotten worse since. It appears you refuse to acknowledge that a huge fraction of the population is unhappy with the status quo across the world (see number of governments voted out). That America has a populist president-elect isn't surprising Trump supporters are not remotely supportive of this, barring fringe crazies and false identities. The media didn't "tap into" anything in 2020. They wound-up a vast quasi-criminal underclass and organized domestic terrorists for nine months, and over thirty murders of innocents, running up to an election for a candidate that they were on a war-footing against for the four years prior. They gave tacit and even direct permission to riot, and political cover for the riots, which is all that these criminals need in any given timeframe to carry out domestic terrorism and extrajudicial murders. Now they're at it again, right after another election. People who sympathize with this type of thing are, at the least, domestic terrorism adjacent. If not directly supportive. You should be monitored.
- arcbyte 2y agoYou're in a bubble. Four of my family members are in the medical business plus three friends. Two are doctors. Only one person has expressed sympathy and that was for the family. The rest were exactly as OP described: we don't condone murders, they hope this person is brought to justice, but they don't feel any sympathy. Emphasis on the the emotion there - no disgust, no sadness, no sympathy. Just a logical recognition that they don't condone this.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago> There's massive sympathy for Thompson. From whom? Other than LinkedIn posts from his fellow travellers in the health insurance industry, significant public expression of sympathy is hard to find.
- mrangle 2y ago>From whom? Everyone who doesn't sympathize with violent political extremism. In other words everyone who isn't a bot, isn't on any number of watchlists, isn't terminally online, isn't a drug addled crazy, or isn't one of the media that exists to stir them up for political purpose.
- Freedom2 2y ago> Everyone My parents are none of whom you listed yet they do not have "massive sympathy" for this CEO. Perhaps "everyone" is inaccurate?
- mrangle 2y ago[flagged]
- bigfatkitten 2y agoSo everyone who messaged you privately in support of your position?
- mrangle 2y ago[flagged]
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- emeril 2y agowhere's your evidence of this massive sympathy? I bet even his own family isn't too sad about this - most C-Levels I've worked with are grade A psychopaths whose family doesn't care for them besides money this guy is probably moderately responsible for a significant amount of needless suffering and death