I figured this is the correct community to post to since UHC is a multi-national company but if this is more suited to US News I can move it.
This is tragic. Nobody should be gunned down in the street like this. I expect the NYPD, the media, and the politicians to spend exactly as much time and resources on this horrific crime as they do for every other individual that has been murdered in NYC this year. Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.
This is tragic. Nobody should be gunned down in the street like this.
I agree. Which is why we should address the problem by dealing with the absolutely ghoulish situation that is American health care, profiteering, and late-stage capitalism writ large. If thereās one thing I am very happy about, it is the fact that the number one thing being talked about due to this ā besides the shooting itself ā is the problem that caused it and so many other deaths; not a preference for vigilante justice, not guns, not terrorists, but a desire for profit above all else, regardless of how many die from lack of care as a result.
To be clear, I suspect you agree, at least with the āghoulish situation that is American health careā part. But what I want to highlight here is that I donāt think almost anyone wants to live in a world where things like this happen, much less one where so many of us are happy about it. In the end, though, we donāt get a choice. We live in that world, and it is far more important for us to worry about fixing that than it is for us to wring our hands when one of the 1% dies while the millions heās killed got nowhere near as much sympathy.
Murder is obviously bad. Even when itās justified, it is a tragedy, and indicative of a failure to find a better solution. But this is a failure of the system people like Brian Thompson helped to create. On some other sites, I see a lot of people saying things like what youāve done here. They spend time focusing on how his death is tragic, prefacing anything else they wish to say with statements to that effect as though they were warding against a curse. Individually, I donāt find this to be a problem. But when a lot of people are doing it? I think thatās an insult to his victims.
Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.
Is this sarcasm? Iām going to assume this is sarcasm.
Iām dead serious. I oppose the misanthropic celebrations of someoneās killing. At the same I resent the classism of treating this particular killing as more important just because it is a rich person.
Iāve been thinking about this today. The chickens really are coming home to roost. The US military has spent decades dumping cash and assets into our media to convince young men that the best way to solve problems is to kill ābadā people. Weāre primed to celebrate death already. Even in the 19th century when Anarchists were going around killing people who literally hired private armies to gun down strikers, the public was generally unsympathetic to violent retribution. Nowadays violence is the standard even when itās visited upon the investing class that the military was established to serve. Americans see a bad person getting killed and weāre happy about it because we as a culture now believe that this is the way to solve problems. Considering that this is the public reaction, this could contribute to a solution where it wouldnāt in a more sane culture which would not have allowed a mass murderer like Thompson to kill thousands every year in the first place.
The gunman continues firing, interrupted by a brief gun jam,
sucks when that happens
Finally going after vermin instead of schoolchildren. Good. Slow progress is still progress. Hopefully, consequently, toppling the toxic system that produces these vermin in the first place.
Damn thatās tough bro, unlucky
