Aaand, In Other News...

[Animalmother]

That Blue Cross insurance company has decided to backtrack on its anesthesia decision. Several major insurance companies have also removed their CEO's info from the company websites. Murder is never right at the end of the day but the results do speak for themselves.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/busi ... index.html

In one stark example, a Facebook post by UnitedHealth Group expressing sadness about UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death received 62,000 reactions – 57,000 of them laughing emojis. UnitedHealth Group is the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, the division that Thompson ran.

[Mantis]

I wonder if they throw this amount of resources at all the other shootings that occur in New York. It seems there's quite the manhunt underway for this guy.

[Raid]

Just a handful of comments I've read on the topic:

I’m in pharmacy. I’ve been in pharmacy for nearly ten years. I’ve seen grown adults cry and beg for alternatives because their insurance denied it. I’ve seen pharmacists make us leave the room so they could buy a patients insulin and give it to them because they were out of government assistance “the doughnut hole” it was called.

I’ve watched as a patient turned from happy to be progressing through their day to devastated because their insurance refused to cover a medication that their doctor ordered.

Insurance companies are on par with arms dealers and sex traffickers in my mind. They arbitrarily put people in physical, emotional, and financial, hell by applying different rules however they want. They have little to no oversight, and they rape the American populace to the tune of tens of billions ($317 billion this year for United) and I’m supposed to feel bad for the man who leads the charge on cost cutting by butchering the lives of average Americans? How can I shed tears for a man who physically embodied the most ravenous perpetuation of greed and selfish skullduggery in American history.

His family is likely lost and hurt, I feel bad for them. But I hope they realize that the life they lived was from the gleeful rejection of care for the most needy. Their life was built on the backs of sick and dying Americans.

I’m a therapist and my internship was psychiatric residential treatment for adolescents. I’ll never forget how I started my career having to learn to professionally beg insurance companies to not pull funding for a suicidal teen in my care.

What were people expecting to happen in this sort of system? People would somehow celebrate the life of a CEO whose company brought misery and death for families and their loved ones?

[Mantis]

Absolutely. A quick browse through numerous reddit threads, Twitter, Facebook and news site comment sections will tell you that a lot of people regard the shooter as a bit of a hero.

[Wrathbone]

It’s getting more intriguing - police have found the backpack and it was full of Monopoly money.

Also there was a shooting suspect lookalike competition in New York yesterday. The level of public sympathy is off the charts.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/n ... e-contest/

[Animalmother]

If they do catch the guy he's inevitably going to turn out to be a horrendous piece of shit/hired killer rather than someone who just got pushed too far. But until that bubble pops he's becoming a folk hero and a symbol of all that's wrong in the US.

[Raid]

There've been stories of internet sleuths, the types that band together to crowdsource crime-solving, saying they're not going to help out with this one. I've even seen him being given a folk hero name; The Adjuster.

Americans are just completely fed up with this system.

[Animalmother]

The amount of memes on Imgur about the guy is amazing.

[Animalmother]

Well shit...
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crk0ep61p2mt
He kept the gun, the fake ID and some of the clothes. Not a master criminal.

[eny]

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

[Animalmother]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg6n6yq6nyo
Prince Andrew in the new thriller:
Fiddler Groomer Nonce Spy

[Wrathbone]