UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York in targeted attack

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York in targeted attack

www.cnbc.com /2024/12/04/unitedhealth-cancels-investor-day-after-reports-of-executive-shot-in-manhattan.html

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York in targeted attack

www.cnbc.com /2024/12/04/unitedhealth-cancels-investor-day-after-reports-of-executive-shot-in-manhattan.html

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Thoughts and prayers to the other ceos out there
Surprised this hasn’t happened sooner, and at the risk of sounding callous I hope it happens more.
When all non-violent methods of bringing on systemic change fail, all you have left is violence. Perhaps if a few more CEOs got murdered they would think twice about eternal growth at any expense.
How many people have died or suffered as a result of UH’s strive for bigger profits.
- It can't just be CEO's. While CEOs are certainly "no-angels" they are the public face of late-stage capitalism. Board Members and "share holders" who often don't even have their name publicly associated with any industry of misery are the ones profiting from the existing misery. You have to get them all.
- Shame on you for wishing murder on people.
  
  Absolutely not. Whether it was the reason behind it or not, this person and others like them earned such a fate. They are a menace to public health and they are consistently and knowingly complicit in many avoidable deaths and widespread suffering as a result of their actions. I am critical of this kind of action in the sense that I don't think it's a viable strategy for producing change and improving society, but I'm as critical of this assassination as I am of the many assassination attempts on Hitler.
  Shame on anyone who defends such anti-social humans.
  
  John Brown did nothing wrong, when someone is killing through there actions and hyper exploiting, there death is justified.
Vaxxed?
As cathartic as it may be, assassinating CEOs will do nothing but embiggen the police state.
- Absolutely, random violence isn't going to lead to any sort of systemic change, and it will be used as an excuse to implement fascist policies at an accelerated rate.
  
  Will it? Black people also spontaneously got rights after assassinating the police. Elites never compromise unless they have something to fear.
  
  Random acts of violence never improve things, targeted acts of violence absolutely act as catalysts for change, including on the systemic level. Whether that change is an improvement or not, depends on how much parallel power an organization has.
  
  So centrist of you.

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