UnitedHealthcare Posted A Tribute To Slain CEO On Facebook — And 90,000 People Reacted With The Same Emoji
UnitedHealthcare Posted A Tribute To Slain CEO On Facebook — And 90,000 People Reacted With The Same Emoji
More than 90,000 people mocked an online tribute to Brian Thompson with laughing emojis.
In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson.
Still, people still found a way to express how they felt ― to the tune of more than 90,000 laughing reactions as of Friday.
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I don’t care if banned from LW I’m done w this instance
Billionaires, and those like this guy who enable them, must face consequences
This is a ripe time for a movement
We must capitalize on this now. The trump trash have dominated any sense of a movement for far too long
Death to tyrants
Bats to bootlickers
Why would you be banned? Everyone has been posting about this
Some people need the extra drama in their lives
Cause lemmy.world has been banning people for expressing that sentiment lol
Because I already was!
“Seems like justice was served” was all I commented to be banned
This is my last comment from the instance in done w it. I encourage all to change instances. Fuck .world
Ah fair enough, that's a reasonable reason to be concerned
Because extremist rhetoric is banned in any decent space.
In what world is: "An individual who has been earning millions from allowing preventable deaths to take place deserves to die" extremist rhetoric?
In the pearl-clutching liberal world where people still can't understand why she lost when it was her turn
Advocating for anybody's killing is extremist. It's literally the most extreme thing you could inflict upon somebody.
Revenge and justice aren't the same thing.
No, you're right. It's fine that these executives go into meetings and enact plans that harm and kill sick people, while they profit. They should be allowed to do that without consequence. The fact that this one man killed only one person, and without personal profit, is abhorrent.
We do it once, and people are up in arms, they industrialize the process and make billions.
They actually sometimes are the same thing.
Would any sane person advocate against Hitler's death after learning what he did?
The difference is that our government sanctioned that target ~80 years ago, but this one was against the law. Both people brought large numbers of innocent people to early graves in this world.
When patients are denied necessary care, they suffer. I would argue that this was not an act of revenge, because that would have been much more gruesome.
Posting about it is one thing.
Specifically calling for violence is against LW's TOS, and they seem to be ban happy when the violence is directed at the owning class.
As for people calling for violence being posted, I've seen very few comments more than 30 minutes old on LW doing that, but plenty on other servers. I'm not sure how LW is handling other instance comments though.
Billionaires, and those like this guy who enable them, must face consequences
I would propose the following approach:
You need to put them on trial in a legitimate court (i.e. exclude compromised judiciary systems).
If the oligarch/senior lackey is found guilty, you could use real rehabilitation methods that would creates incentives for good behaviour for other criminals:
- Full asset seizure (every last cent, home, house, everything).
- Extended family and business partners being required to sign affidavits detailing their knowledge re: assets in [1], with an understanding that if the affidavit was found to have not been signed in good faith, they will be subject to full asset seizure and their own family and business partners will also have to sign similar affidavits for their own case. No statue of limitations for affidavits.
- 20 years mandatory live-in community service as junior support person at a hospice centre (minimum wage). Exact focus of community service would depend on crimes committed.
I am not saying this is currently possible. Just pointing out that there are "win win" approaches that do not require extra-judicial killings (albeit the nature of human history is such that sometimes people are left with no other options).
I agree that’s a more proper response. I was super drunk last night but there is no longer a court in America that isn’t corrupted because the Supreme Court is corrupted and they overrule
One could leverage fully independent courts/tribunals. I believe the ICJ has done something similar for countries with non-functioning judicial systems.
You could start with the corrupt members of the highest court. This would be a good "shit just got real" moment for the oligarchs and their senior goons.
I heard US supreme courts judges feel they are capable of working on complex cases past their 80s. They should be able to do a few more decades providing full-time community service para-legal support for honest pro bono lawyers as part of their rehabilitation program. 😀
I am being glib of course. I recognize the challenges with my proposal in context of the US. But then again, every movement towards progress typically starts with something very simple, sometimes as simple as formulating and brain-storming ideas.
We need to organize to create change.