No, we are not merrymaking about a CEO'S awful death -- we are expressing our pain.

[Earthrise]

I used to trust my health insurance company - that’s right, I’ve been extremely lucky and grateful to be. In the past, after we met our maximum out of pocket dollar value we could count on the bills stopping. Not this year. For the first time this year my employee subsidized health insurance has denied hundreds and hundreds of dollars of medical charges. The horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for my husband’s Social Security and now we’re guaranteed to have less income and more expenses. So, I connect with the sentiment expressed in this journal.

“Now, I’m no fan of violence, and murder is neither a just solution nor a moral stance. But as I scrolled through the reactions, I couldn’t shake an uneasy feeling: not sympathy for the man but discomfort at how little I could muster.

And then it hit me—this wasn’t schadenfreude over a life lost. It was something more profound: the collective catharsis of those crushed under the grinding gears of profit-driven cruelty.

Thompson wasn’t simply a man—he was a symbol of an oppressive system that denies life-saving treatments to sick children while celebrating cost-cutting measures with champagne and investor applause. He stood for the modern corporate ethos that monetizes misery and reaps dividends from people’s despair.

CEOs and The Wealthy have killed us off for years—All for profit, and no one is safe, not even children.”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/6/2290531/-No-we-are-not-merrymaking-about-a-CEO-s-awful-death

[Wonder Why]

1. I remember the '60s race riots in our cities. Protesters burned down stores

that were providing their only access to less expensive groceries or supplies in addition to the ones owned by the leeches. Their rage was against the system that forced them to live in substandard housing, overpriced food, worse education, worse jobs, bad medical care and no possibly of bettering themselves. But they had reached the limit which they could take. The difference now is that it is happening to far more people and the disparities are bigger than ever.

While many states had no interest in doing anything to help, the federal government did many positive things albeit not enough. Starting Jan 6, the federal government will be worse than the Southern states of those days.

Violence will get much worse.

[ColinC]

2. I dont celebrate the execution of a murderer

Because killing them isn't generally any better than what they did.

But I certainly don't mourne them as I would an innocent person. Unless of course I knew them.

In all cases my heart goes out to the family and friends that loved them.

[Otto_Harper]

3. I have heard it said that we should only say good things about the dead.

He's dead.

Good.

[Magoo48]

4. Perspective perhaps.

When a huge ruckus is raised for a man who makes 23million a year, and whose corporation has fucked thousands of people at a vulnerable time of their lives, because he’s gunned down, gunned down in a fashion which has also happened to untold thousands of people with little more than a murmur in their communities, the responses to the event may generate varied responses.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. At least one person was enlightened to the fact

that it is Corporations that are running and ruining America. (And mentored by a Putin directed wanna be tyrant).

The media is all over this story, after not reporting on the hundreds of thousands of Deaths due to the Supreme MAGAots ignoring the Covid Pandemic, or the thousands of deaths due to these Medical Insurance companies restricting or rejecting medical care......

I can certainly understand where this assassin's mind was at....

I think that in reality, we can expect the dissolving of the United States of America, along with the constitution as we know it.
They will substitute a new "Manifesto 2025" instead of the the Constitution, and instead of the USA, call their new Government:
THE UNITED FASCIST CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA.....

If some are appalled at what he is saying he is going to do, just wait. You Ain't seen nothing yet...............

[nakocal]

5. The world is a better place

now that he is not in it.

[orangecrush]

6. Fuck that guy.

EOM

[Initech]

7. They don't care about us, they only care about enriching their pockets.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

https://www.yahoo.com/news/slain-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-190541924.html