I love meat. We need more meat. Much, much more meat.
This is an amazing opportunity to have more meat.
I mean from an ecological perspective we don’t, but I appreciate all proposals, no matter how modest.
Let me assure you, eating the rich is ABSOLUTELY vegan. All creatures deserve good health and in practice veganism involves seperating from and dismantling all of the power structures that subjugate others for personal gain, human and animal alike.
I feel no pity for those that taunt a bull and get gored nor do I for insurance executives that systematically deny treatment who get shot.
“The Bourgeois are not human animal”. Though calling them vegetables is still too demeaning to the celery and carrot, who never did anything wrong. Maybe they are mineral? Lead and mercury caused a lot of suffering, and I don’t feel bad about insulting them.
This is the only reason I accept to refusing to call cops “pigs”. The humble swine does not deserve such a comparison.
Well the causal relation there is speculation. The thing that seems odd to me is the shooter seemingly went to great lengths to avoid sending a message - hiding their identity, issuing no public statement, etc. If this was over a denied claim that they threatened over, why bother hiding their identity? It would be trivial to figure it out based on the claim.
Then you have the fact that the shooter apparently used a silencer too and cleared a jam quickly. Seems like rather than a disgruntled nobody sending a message, this seems more like someone trying to make him go away as efficiently and quietly as possible.
So alternate theory: The victim had a lawsuit filed against him by the DOJ related to an anti-trust investigation and insider trading. What if he decided to make a deal with the DOJ, and somebody else found out and didn’t like it?
I guess it’s interesting that there’s an investigation going on, but I wouldn’t take someone’s ability to clear a jam as indication this was professional. You’d be hard-pressed to find a LEO that practice fires a tenth of the rounds that many enthusiasts in the US would blow off just for funsies. Not to mention IPSC participants where you learn to clear a jam damn fast because you’re being timed on the run.
This could just be someone that practiced their firearms skills for quite awhile before making their move. Sure, they don’t seem to have left an explicit message, but that may not be necessary. If they are someone who was cheated by United, well that’s what people will assume anyway. So an explicit note/confession would serve only to provide authorities another method to track them down.
But literally everyone got the message.
This guy killed thousands of people for profit, we don’t need to know which family wanted revenge.
I mean they’ll do an investigation. The most likely thing is a protest/revenge killing, but there are other possibilities. One I thought of - what if someone actually wanted him killed for reasons completely unrelated to him being an insurance executive? For a hypothetical example (which I have zero evidence to believe to be true), what if the wife wanted him killed for the insurance money? Maybe he was as cruel to her as he was to his customers. Maybe the wife hires a hit man to take the guy out. That hit sure looked pretty professional. Again, I have no evidence to suspect this is true. But what if? Anyone who had a motive to have the guy killed could easily try to make it look like a protest killing. And you rarely get to that level of corporate power without having a few skeletons in the closet.
That hit sure looked pretty professional.
I am not expert, but I would be cautious with calling this a professional job.
I live in Ukraine and we’ve had a wide variety of assassinations run by the russian security services. Some where clearly much more professional than this one. Others were less professional than this one, but still organized by the russian security services (this was confirmed by subsequent investigations).
hours before he was set to address an investor meeting about UnitedHealthcare’s 2025 financial outlook, which projected revenues exceeding £375 billion ($450 billion).
Man, good thing Biden said we didn’t need to fix our healthcare system. Otherwise that would be worrying…
Revenue is not profits. The profits are $28 billion, that’s only 6% which is actually low.
OK,
The company expects cash flows from operations to range from $32 billion to $33 billion.
Exactly, so they need to always have cash on hand to cover the insured.
IDK how this is run, and I find the existence of private health insurance despicable.
But for a capitalist system, where health insurance is run like a business, 6% profit on revenue is not a lot.
It’s not the 6% that is the problem. Because an insurance company needs to have profits and a healthy cash flow, to be able to cover the insured.
But allegedly the company used AI to make decisions on coverage, if that’s true, that may have been a way bigger problem.
$28bn is A Lot Of Fucking Money, my dude. Like…a lot.
At a rate of $20 an hour, it would take a person almost 160,000 years to earn that kind of money.
Economic vigilantism is really dangerous and if this isn’t a one off it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
You could look at this as a one off, or if you want to start looking at assassinations in total then you get to include the two trump would be assassins and make a damn strong argument to your point that this is exactly what a society that refuses to hold people accountable looks like. Honestly its the same concept as when the Black Panthers started giving free breakfast to kids, if no one else is going to solve the problem, people will do it themselves.
it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
I think you mean, ‘people are starting to wake up to the fact that justice is unattainable’.
Where have you been the last decade or 3? If you’re rich and not going after other rich people, you’re practically untouchable. Bernie Madoff didn’t catch jail time because he defrauded Anne and Bill out of their pension, he defrauded people who have money matter.
Trump has proven this, and the fact Elon (the richest manchild in the world) is literally in his cabinet now only exacerbates the situation.
I don’t think things are radically worse, that’s the interesting thing… It’s the fact we’ve discarded any semblance of justice at the highest levels. Like, nobody is even pretending now. The highest office in the land is about to be occupied by an openly corrupt idiot.
When people lose hope in their leaders, they realize it’s up to them to change the world. Great acts are often done in the fallout of such times. Both acts of great kindness, and great violence.
Injustices become things to act on when you have zero hope of change from the people who should be enacting change.
So she knew he was receiving threats because of lack of coverage and still had the audacity to refer to the shooting as “senseless.”
