Brian Robert Thompson murdered 51,000 innocent human beings.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Please cite a source. It's gotta be much higher than that.
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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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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Billionaires deserve to live in fear for their lives.
I would like to know how we can all do more to bring this about.
Advocate for their killing, far and wide. Eventually someone without anything to lose will get the job done
Or we all end up patriot acted away into oblivion.
I get what you're saying and I'm all for it, but I also wonder if there is a more sneaky way to achieve the same end result.
Maybe we need to democratize Adjustor targets. Start a worldwide coalition with some sort of anonymous forum and voting system.
Dark web crowdsourced CEO bounty hunting?
Now we're delving into the cyberpunk world I can get behind.
Or not.
Live, that is.
*Oligarchs.
Find me one ethical billionaire
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
The ones that donated all their money away (while living) so that they would no longer be billionaires, would be as close as you could get.
proving the only good billionaire is a dead billionaire.
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Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.
Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.
"I demand you respect me!" said the person who is fundamentally undeserving of respect
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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.
Message control.
This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.
it's happening on here too. I've had numerous people argue that his death changed nothing.
bots must be cheap.
There's no prior authorization for thoughts and prayers.
my beliefs prevent me from providing prayers.
Lmao that’s fucking perfect
I stole it from the Internet.
You made this?
I made this.
People you fucked over don't sympathize with you?
Boo-fucking-hoo.
I'm so tired of seeing this ugly bastard.
All we could do for pity is to throw a fire extinguisher into his grave. Where he is, he will need it.
Sorry, fire extinguishers are wasted on dragons.
You guys aren’t reacting to the way we want you to react!! Stop it now!
My sympathy deductible hasn't been reached, darn!
Why would I have sympathy for a mass murderer? The man is burning in the Pit of Hell right now.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - An Accounting of the Victims of Brian Robert Thompson.
Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…
Thoughts and prayers :
- I think it should happen more often.
- I pray it does (instead of school shootings, let's say).
We should offer to help them stand with him in solidarity, so to speak
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.
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.
That costs money.
Also: no.
The persecution complex is going to get even more people killed as CEOs grow more paranoid and bodyguards more trigger happy.
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i don't cover that - sorry!
unfortunately being an asshole is a pre-existing condition and as such cannot be covered at this time.
Sure, just as soon as they meet our demands for better compensation.
Fuck the American oligarchy!
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