Womp womp

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    I mean, capitalism preaches the necessity of winners and losers. The owners demand there be millions upon millions of losers so they can win largely enough to buy pet mega yachts for their primary mega yachts.

    Guess he lost.

    Welcome to the free market baby.

    Oh I’m sorry, does that only apply to the innumerable members of our society dying of exposure and police capital defense force brutality in your local gutter for the crime of not generating enough value for the shareholders in the “wealthiest nation on Earth?”

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    CEOs should be scared. Especially extra ghoulish industries like this.

    Make them feel like they need security.

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      Make them feel like they need security.

      You mean some kind of safetynet to make sure they’re protected if something unforseen happens to them?

      What a novel concept! Maybe we should create an economic equivalent for everybody in society…

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      Yeah I don’t know the details of this murder, but I do want these types to be extra paranoid. I want them to live in fear of the choices they make

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    No one who is in a position to determine the life and death of millions should ever feel “safe” from the people they have the power to harm.

    French Royalty learned that the hard way. Maybe it’s time to remind people again.

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      Hope gun man gets away. Fuck the first article I read of how great he was and how touch the lives of so many. Just forgot to mention it was touching them by allowing people to die and suffer. I am with you fucking billionaires and rich CEO should be scared and shitting their pants.

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    • Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning in a targeted attack outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
    • Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference when he was killed.
    • The New York Police Department reported that the suspect fled the scene and remains at large; no arrests have been made.
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      Thompson was in Manhattan for UnitedHealthcare’s 2024 investor conference

      LOL

      He sure as fuck wasn’t there for the “help people access affordable, reliable, high quality healthcare conference”.

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        The cops said he waited in the freezing cold in one spot for ten minutes before taking the shot and fleeing down an alley to a bike he had waiting. This was 100% premeditated.

        In unrelated news, I have an erection that will probably last longer than 4 hours.

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    As I said on other posts about this: Remember that jury nullification exists. If you’re on the jury for the shooter, or someone like him, you can just say not guilty and there’s nothing they can do to you. The court can’t tell you that you gave the “wrong” verdict.

    Just don’t tell them you’re going to nullify, because they’ll remove you from the jury.

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    Think it’s time for Biden to redeem both himself and the institution of the Presidential Pardon.

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    I offer Brian my most shallow of thoughts and prayers, and my heartfelt condolences to the families and individuals that have been brought to ruin by his unchecked greed and corruption.

    Get fucked, Brian.

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    The casings had „deny”, „defend” and „depose” written on them.

    I sure hope all of those leeches are going to be scared