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121·2 hours agoGreat points!
Mind you, murder is bad
Yes for sure.
and this murder on this CEO was bad, no matter how you turn it.
I don’t want to live in a world where murdering eachother is the only conversation left.
Me neither. Let’s see if they are ready for any other kind of conversation now. OP makes me think they aren’t. Let’s not forget this murder happened because of all the other murders.
15·2 hours agoI mean, I want to have hope, but the major first world nations of the world didn’t build a god damned surveillance state over the last 40 years for nothing
Tinfoil hat
I’m 100% convinced the drones in the news lately are prototyping a new mass surveillance program to be kicked off after Trump takes office, likely funded by Musk, likely for purposes related to his planned mass deportations, and so little is being done about it because folks are being told Jan 20 isn’t that far away, you better not.
/Tinfoil hat
My slightly less tinfoil hat option B is that it’s only your garden variety mass surveillance program being piloted, kicked off under Biden, and that will be unlikely to be curtailed under Trump.
Because as a veteran, I refuse to believe that craft the military weren’t intimately familiar with would receive nothing but a shrug in reaction to this, yet that’s all that has happened.
You rock!
Absolutely. The entire article makes it clear that they don’t even have an inkling of what it’s like to have to worry about your health or how much money you have.
They’d do it on the daily if it makes them more money…
Sure. They’d run a hundred grandmas a day through a woodchipper, each of them clutching a puppy, if it made them money. However, I am quite sure there isn’t a way that replacing your CEO daily, or even often, makes more money. And yes, I understand hyperbole.
I also understand that the impacts on a company of having multiple CEOs shot in a short period of time, or having multiple CEOs come in, try to be decent humans, and fired for it in a short period of time, would have destabilizing impacts throughout any sizable organization. They would run into problems with manpower and staffing, investment dollars, and generally the ability to do business. It would harm morale and reduce efficiency. And probably a bunch of other things I haven’t thought of in the 3 minutes I’ve been typing this.
Thank you!
Robert Evans? The man is a national treasure.
If you haven’t heard his miniseries “Behind the Police” (ironically a four episode special in a much longer running serial podcast called “Behind the Bastards” which is not only about police) I strongly recommend it.
Fair, but in the context of a company being willing to just replace CEOs every time they have to fire one (or especially when someone shows up to fire the CEO for them, Luigi-style), I think there’s a small number of cycles they would go through before logic would dictate that they need to conduct business differently.
I’ll try to find it so I can link it.
Oh god please do.
If a CEO puts their personal safety over the investors, the company gets a new CEO.
How many times will they be willing to get a new CEO before they make changes? How many times will someone accept promotion into that position? I wouldn’t take Brian Thompson’s job for any amount of money right now, would you?
“People are in disbelief that they would be making this kid into a hero,” he told Fortune.
Attending a conference for CEOs in New York this week, just blocks away from the site of the shooting, George found that many were shaken and deeply concerned by the reaction to Thompson’s killing. “They’re having plenty of meetings right now to discuss beefing up security,” he said of the business leaders, even as some question how much security coverage is enough. People are asking themselves, “‘What does that say about our society? Where’s our society going?’” George said.
So they’ve learned absolutely nothing.
Plenty of meetings to beef up security. How about plenty of meetings to understand how your greed has caused this? They sound one logical leap (that they are unwilling to make) away from understanding exactly what the problem is.
They managed to find one and only one CEO quote that reflected anything resembling self-awareness.
“When I was growing up, CEOs didn’t make millions more than everyone else in the company. I think we have to reflect on why there’s so much anger and do something about it.”
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, 2024. The public response was generally not sympathetic.
I mean, as an ex-president he received nothing more than a stern look for anything. Now he’s president-elect. You will not be proven wrong, I’m sorry to say.
Hows the echo chamber? Dont challenge ur own beliefs. Btw why u need to announce that ur blocking me?
LOL you dumbfucks think somehow you are making the world a better place by forcing people who don’t want to interact with you to interact with you? The only belief you’ve challenged here is that basic courtesy is a good thing.
And your challenge failed.
Plonk.
5·9 hours agoHe may be part of a misinformation campaign or a victim of misinformation.
Ah, so a Trump voter! ;)
There’s lots of reasons. Here is todays:
5·22 hours agoI’m really confused. (I know the song, I just don’t know how we got here from there two comments up.)
If you don’t think the entire internet rising up an celebrating that assassination is going to cause some changes, I don’t know what to tell you.
Is it the beginning of the end of the healthcare industry? No. Not directly. And I don’t for one second think the selfish pricks at the top will voluntarily release their grip one bit.
But can there be ANY doubt what the popular choice will be the next time we try to get true universal healthcare in the US? This grassroots celebration of this shitstain’s death is all anyone needs to point to when someone suggests that they can’t put single payer healthcare or other broad sweeping healthcare reform into their political platform because votes.
Anyone who has been arguing for this behind closed doors in Washington just received all the polling data they could possibly need regarding the electorate’s appetite for healtcare reform.
Luigi’s backstory and motives don’t even matter one bit compared to what is now a very clear message being heard in boardrooms everywhere. He took action that will help us all eventually. I’m not going to begrudge him a little undeserved hero worship in the meantime.