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[–] 156 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im glad every time I im reminded when that CEO died. I'd like more of that warm feeling.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hope that heartless, sociopathic pile of shit had time before he lost consciousness to feel as alone and confused and scared as he made so many hundreds of thousands of people feel to line his pockets with more money than he'd ever know what to do with.

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    he took

    Oh really? Where's his conviction?

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago

    Yeah fuck that CEO and everyone in charge that have a hand in those kind of decisions. Fucking board should of been shot as well.

    Also Luigi is innocent and not the shooter.

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    who did nothing to him

    Except deny him medical care and put him into a massive medical debt.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But he didn't do that personally, so it's not his fault /s

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Unironically, this argument is likely used by the same people who blame the president for gas prices.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I find that those who cry most about wokeness are those most infected with the broke mind virus.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    One of the stupidest parts is labeling "woke", aka empathy, as a "mind virus". Empathy requires continual effort to maintain your commitment to the well-being of others, something that's more and more challenging these days.

    But abandoning empathy? Giving yourself over to fear, greed, and hatred requires no effort or commitment, and the longer you maintain such a vile, poisonous state of mind, the more you become such in such a perspective.

    But, as we know, projection projection projection 😝

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Their abandonment of empathy is perhaps the greatest reason why I revile them.

    A mentality of fear, superiority, bravado, main character syndrome, otherism (a fear of altruism), superstition, religious indoctrination, paranoia, the lost cause…

    even conservative immigrants are in the find out phase. Broken minds.

    Be woke, or be broke. All my homies respect trans rights, and personal pronouns.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    One of the stupidest parts is labeling "woke", aka empathy, as a "mind virus".

    At least some of them have gone full mask-off, and is outright calling empathy a sin and greed a virtue.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I was unaware that being an empathetic person required any effort.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It requires far more effort than hatred to maintain a self capable of empathy. For many, they feel it is an insurmountable challenge to come to terms with the people they are and the actions they’ve committed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's weird because it requires no effort on my part to be empathetic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Doesn't it though?

    Do you not see your internal suffering by seeing other people suffering as work? You could force yourself to stop caring and then you wouldn't have to carry that weight off other's suffering.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I totally understand; I think many of us kinda choose to ignore/accept the cost of maintaining an empathetic perspective, simply because we are unwilling to accept the alternative.

    But everyone walks their own path! In any case, I applaud your way of thinking.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Studies have shown that conservatives have smaller areas of the brain related to a sense of empathy on average compared to others. It could be said that they are outright physically less capable of feeling empathy compared to the rest of the population.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hmmm. Solution must be MORE lead in our food and water, right?! 😝

    I am curious if that's an inherent trait and this the cause, or if it's damage over time (the effect). But I don't doubt your claim.

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  • Honestly could be a little of column A, a little of column B. Or even the lead, like you mentioned. Lead is one of the leading theories for why there were so many serial killers, but it's also a theory on why the Baby Boomers are so much more conservative than the generations before and after them. Symptoms of long-term lead poisoning include things like heightened aggression, violent tendencies, and impaired cognitive abilities, and the theory also correlates the coincidence of serial killers largely disappearing in the time since lead was banned from gasoline, paint, pipes, etc. - but that also fits for the political stance of generations before and after the introduction and banning of leaded gasoline.

    Obviously, there's more to it, but I can't say that I think banning the lead was a bad idea!

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How dare you cheer on the alien from "Alien" dying at the end of the movie. She was a mother!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you're talking about the Powerloader/Queen fight, that was the second one.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All this whole CEO murder thing is is an effective application of Reagan's "Trickle Down" economics...

    You make... cuts... at the top, and things get better for everyone else.

    Are you telling me Reagan was too "woke" for today's conservatives!?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    I was a child when I lost a parent to cancer. It wasn’t until my mid-30s that it occurred to me to wonder whether or not they’d have lived if we’d had health insurance. And this was decades ago. Of and years after that before I thought about what if we’d had universal healthcare.

    Fuck all ceos. Also private equity.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Didn't Jack Posobiec get caught cheating on his wife? And he's trying to lecture me on family values?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    While I'm certain he would deserve the pain and suffering of a slow death while his coverage denied any life saving treatment.... I'm honestly not sad that it was quick.

    Quick or slow, it's one less profiteering glutton in the world, and I can't be mad about that.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago*

    Thompson’s net worth was estimated at approximately $42.9 million as of February 16, 2024, according to Wallmine.

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    Oh no millionaire left his fortune for kids that won't see him again and can do anything they want. Looks like Richie Rich movie start scene.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    Insurance also tried to kick me off and deny coverage because of a cancer diagnosis as a child. My poor mother. 👨‍🔧

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    The fact that he allegedly took his life on behalf of others who had been screwed over by him despite having no personal grievance with him makes it more commendable.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Anti-Luigi posts only serve to illustrate the underlying fatal flaw with our culture in the US. It’s a flaw with humanity, sure, but we seem to specialize in it. To wit:

    Violently hurting another person, or even stealing their stuff, is inexcusable. The only exceptions are life and death situations.

    Destroying the lives of many people indirectly in pursuit of money, however, is just an unfortunate fact of life. Cause and effect is apparently irrelevant as long as the CEO isn’t literally throwing rocks at them as he pours their insulin down the drain.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Destroying the lives of many people indirectly in pursuit of money, however, is just an unfortunate fact of life.

    Hey now. That's not always true.

    Consider the Twin Towers Attacks (which indirectly enriched the Saudi Royal family immensely). Americans were so enthusiastic to avenge the honored dead of Cantor Fitzgerald financial services that they flew to the opposite side of the planet and started wars with multiple other countries on totally false pretenses.

    Similarly, we've been gungho in funding the massacre of Gaza residents when they greedily and villanuously attempted their Right of Return to homes lost in the '47 Nakba.

    And let's never forget our 50 year crusade against the money grubbing, land stealing, economy looting Communists.

    The Suez Crisis, the Iranian Revolution, Vietnam? I think we can all agree they were unconscionable and deserving of an unlimited Holocaust of native peoples in response.

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    Have y'all seen all the happy UHC ads everywhere? "My life is great because of UHC" again and again.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Remember, EW is a Polish Nazi.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Heydrich had 4 kids. It doesn't matter, he deserved to die.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A dad, like I'm supposed to care that this guy nutted in some skank.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I'd be a dad..

    If I got paid fair wages for my labor, had the means to care for a family and my partner was able to access modern reproductive care.

    All things that health insurance companies deny people as a business model.

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  • didnt he also have like crazy back pain or smth and was denied???

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Does Luigi know where "End Wokeness" hangs out? Asking for a friend

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