UnitedHealth CEO Assassinated
The murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO is a strange story. On the one hand, the killer obviously was taking steps to avoid getting caught. He was wearing a hoodie. He used a silencer. He clearly had an escape plan.
On the other hand, he was wearing a distinctive backpack. He may have left a food wrapper and a water bottle at the scene. And there was writing on each of the three shell casings (the words "deny," "defend," and "depose").
Until I hear otherwise I will assume his wife ordered a hitman
I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that health care executives deserve to be murdered in cold blood, but I am going to sit here and tell you:
1. I have no problem laughing that this piece of **** is dead
2. I have no problem with telling his widow and his children that this man was a piece of **** who caused human suffering on a scale they can’t comprehend and I will laugh in their face that he’s dead
Donk's perspective has a lot more merit than this perspective. I personally would have a big problem laughing in the face of this guy's kids. WTF.
On a related note, I talked to a woman at a party last night. She first asked whether I was a Trump voter. When I said no, she proceeded to tell me for about ten minutes about how she thought the shooting of this guy in midtown Manhattan was a "sexy" move.
Dunno right now but I checked when articles were written about Zuckerberg spending millions/year of meta money on security, and the heads of JP Morgan and the like all spent less than 500k
Zuckerberg is a special case.
I think that a lot of what gets classified as an security expense for your average CEO is closer to a corporate perk (e.g., private drivers, state-of-the-art home security systems, kidnapping insurance, etc.).
I mean if the prevailing criticism is ‘how do you laugh at the murder of a husband and a FATHER my response is ‘pretty ****ing easily in this case’
My wife has a condition that requires surgery every few years that she (now we) have to fight tooth and nail for months to get a bill in excess of 100k expunged. Each time it’s a struggle and each time it gets harder to the point where now we have to lawyer up just to be safe. Her mom has been ****ed over by UHC for reasons that border on the implausible
And I’m being asked to feel sympathy for the widow and children of a predatory mutlimillionaire?
Ya **** right off and take your moral high ground with you
I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that health care executives deserve to be murdered in cold blood,
Are you sure about that? It's just that I get the impression you'd dearly love to say exactly this.
but I am going to sit here and tell you:
1. I have no problem laughing that this piece of **** is dead
2. I have no problem with telling his widow and his children that this man was a piece of **** who caused human suffering on a scale they can’t comprehend for profit and no other reason and I will laugh in their face that he’s dead
Laughing in the face of kids over their father's murder is indeed awesome. The younger and more innocent the better. Props to you for posting what we'd all secretly love to do only we don't have the balls to say it unlike you. If I may add I also think we could kick any pets the family had, the younger and cuter the better. Then after that we could laugh in the kids face again over the pet cruelty as well as their dead father.
NOT that I think he deserved to be murdered in cold blood mind ahem..
I. Don’t. Care
Hope this helps
If the French hadn't murdered a few atrocious humans many more people might have starved to death.
I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that health care executives deserve to be murdered in cold blood, but I am going to sit here and tell you:
1. I have no problem laughing that this piece of **** is dead
2. I have no problem with telling his widow and his children that this man was a piece of **** who caused human suffering on a scale they can’t comprehend for profit and no other reason and I will laugh in their face that he’s dead
Nobody, and I mean ****ing nobody, will ever succeed in making me feel guilt for this sentiment
And if you want to sit there and claim some moral superiority it’s because you are fortunate enough to never had to feel the struggle first hand, in which case, good for you, but ****ing spare me
one of you NYC folks check this out today?
Re: whether to feel bad for this guy and his family
There’s thousands of stories of people suffering endless physical and financial tortured because of insurance companies.
Does anyone think the dead CEO felt at all bad hearing about any of those stories?
The general talking point to this POS getting it and general mockery of his murder seems to be ‘hE hAd A wIfE aNd KiDs!!!!!’
My talking point to that talking point is so ****ing what? I don’t feel this is a difficult position to explain
I mean if the prevailing criticism is ‘how do you laugh at the murder of a husband and a FATHER my response is ‘pretty ****ing easily in this case’
My wife has a condition that requires surgery every few years that she (now we) have to fight tooth and nail for months to get a bill in excess of 100k expunged. Each time it’s a struggle and each time it gets harder to the point where now we have to lawyer up just to be safe. Her mom has been ****ed over by UHC for reasons that border on the implausi
Eh it was more laughing in the face of children who have no control over their father's occupation which I found just a teensy weeny bit in poor taste. And sleazy. And cold blooded. And morally barren. But hey that's just me.
Very sorry to hear about your wife's health issues. I love my common law wife too. God forbid if anything happened to her though, I still don't think I'd laugh in children's faces and I very very much doubt she'd want me to either.
I’m good with it
The general talking point to this POS getting it and general mockery of his murder seems to be ‘hE hAd A wIfE aNd KiDs!!!!!’
My talking point to that talking point is so ****ing what? I don’t feel this is a difficult position to explain
I’m on board with this.
If he was single and all his family were dead that would make it ok to hate him? Why we gotta feel bad for people who benefited immensely from the actions that we find despicable.
Re: whether to feel bad for this guy and his family
There’s thousands of stories of people suffering endless physical and financial tortured because of insurance companies.
Does anyone think the dead CEO felt at all bad hearing about any of those stories?
I couldn't say, didn't know the bloke personally. But even if he made Mr Burns look like Keanu Reeves, I'm not sure where the justification for laughing in his widow and kids faces is.
I couldn't say, didn't know the bloke personally. But even if he made Mr Burns look like Keanu Reeves, I'm not sure where the justification for laughing in his widow and kids faces is.
My ‘laughing in the face of his widow and kids’ take is based on the premise that I am not supposed to take any kind of solace or joy or amusement in his death because he has a ‘widow and kids’ like that somehow excuses him and means I need to feel anything resembling somberness
So if I need to go down the path of ‘laughing in his face of his widow and kids’ to justify my solace or joy or amusement, then I’m happy to
Them existing does nothing to temper my feelings about this
I’m on board with this.
If he was single and all his family were dead that would make it ok to hate him? Why we gotta feel bad for people who benefited immensely from the actions that we find despicable.
Nobody said this though. The issue was with another poster gloating he'd laugh in the faces of his kids over his murder as if they were also somehow to blame for their father's job, and not innocent victims, which they absolutely are.
Using this scumbag who I hope is rotting in hell’s wife and kids as a shield to try to bully people who are justifiably enraged by the American health care system and feeling some level of even temporarily catharsis into the health care version of ‘now is not the time for politics or gun control, only thoughts and prayers’ is the laziest, most infuriating bullshit tripe ever that deserves nothing less than being told to the face of those saying it ‘**** them kids’. Every self-important ‘journalist’ trying to claim moral superiority by shitting on people for not having empathy for the family he left behind is an absolute piece of **** with no sense of humanity thinking that their pain deserves no Justice
My ‘laughing in the face of his widow and kids’ take is based on the premise that I am not supposed to take any kind of solace or joy or amusement in his death because he has a ‘widow and kids’ like that somehow excuses him and means I need to feel anything resembling somberness
So if I need to go down the path of ‘laughing in his face of his widow and kids’ to justify my solace or joy or amusement, then I’m happy to
Them existing does nothing to temper my feelings about this
Nobody said anything about you taking solace or joy or not. It's the whole laughing in his children'sfaces thingy. I've helpfully bolded it this time around as it just didn't seem to be registering with you the first time. Or second.
Using this scumbag who I hope is rotting in hell’s wife and kids as a shield to try to bully people who are justifiably enraged by the American health care system and feeling some level of even temporarily catharsis into the health care version of ‘now is not the time for politics or gun control, only thoughts and prayers’ is the laziest, most infuriating bullshit tripe ever that deserves nothing less than being told to the face of those saying it ‘**** them kids’. Every self-important ‘journali
I couldn't give a rat's arse what you opine about the US healthcare system or its CEO's.
Just leave his kids out of it.
