A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park

[u/ExactlySorta]

[u/AndYetItTrolls]

https://preview.redd.it/yttequp4jh5e1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2411fa19251f6607ea8c2027dfbaa6fcb6185683

[u/Twenty_twenty4 → u/AndYetItTrolls]

If you have never watched the movie John Q, watch it. It’s very relevant to this situation.

In that movie, Denzel Washington’s character takes a hospital hostage after his insurance company denies his son a heart transplant. The public sympathizes with him in that movie too. That movie talks about the policies and techniques insurance companies use to …. Deny, defend and depose to come out on top while telling people who paid and trusted them to fuck off.

A must see if you’re enthralled by this whole UHC saga. That and V for Vendetta. Anyone else have any other good ones?

[u/Miserable-Army3679 → u/Twenty_twenty4]

The original Law & Order has an episode in which a father kills a healthcare executive who denied his cancer-stricken daughter an experimental drug which could save her life.

[u/crazygem101 → u/Miserable-Army3679]

Dam good show.

[u/Morganbanefort → u/Miserable-Army3679]

Which episode was it

[u/M_Shepard_89 → u/Twenty_twenty4]

Damn, if you asked me if I have seen John Q I would've said no, but your synopsis made me realize I have seen it two decades ago but didn't know the name of it. Great movie for sure.

[u/yuppyuppbruhbruh → u/Twenty_twenty4]

Mr robot

[u/huskyoncaffeine → u/Twenty_twenty4]

Star Wars Andor.

It's not a movie but a series about the start of a rebellion in the Star Wars Universe. It elaborates on how the cruel and indifferent treatment of an unjust system just may turn the right person from an apathetic bystander to a motivated rebel who is willing to commit everything.

As I have been reading through social media these past few days, I recognize much of the ideas and rhetoric used by the rebels in that series.

Edit:

Here is a small taste of what that show is like. SPOILER WARNING though. I can highly recommend it.

https://youtu.be/mSVsJHfKYPU?si=qBoj23T5xTabzZkv

"I imagine that no matter what you tell me or tell yourself, you'll ultimately die fighting these bastards. So what I am asking is this. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once for something real, than carve off useless pieces until theres nothing left?"

[u/aka_chela → u/huskyoncaffeine]

The fact that Andor gave us THREE iconic monologues about fighting power that go incredibly hard, two of which were in the same episode, is just staggeringly good tv. Even if you aren't a fan of Star Wars it's incredible.

[u/Zachiyo → u/aka_chela]

One way out!

[u/HazzaBui → u/huskyoncaffeine]

Also Andor is just some of the best television from the last handful of years (ever? I'd make the pitch for that, but I'm sure I'd get tons of pushback 😅)

[u/solepureskillz → u/huskyoncaffeine]

Andor is my favorite show ever, bar none. It is such a piece of art I’ve watched it three times and found new, profound meanings each time. It’s not just the exceptional writing and acting - it’s how I reflected on politics after watching that show. I am a better person for it, and how often do you get to say “yeah, that changed me?”

[u/Rabiesalad → u/solepureskillz]

I grew up on Star Wars and I'm a big fan of the first 6 movies and Rogue One.

Andor is the best star wars media ever made. I am so excited for season 2.

[u/mr_remy → u/Twenty_twenty4]

Man ima go rewatch that excellent idea, it tugged at my frustrated heartstrings years and years ago.

[u/cardmanimgur → u/mr_remy]

Not one of his most popular movies, but Denzel's "I will not bury my son! My son will bury me!" might be my favorite of his acting scenes.

[u/Wzryc → u/Twenty_twenty4]

Look up George Pickering. He is a real life father who about 10 years ago, armed himself to protect his son from having his life support shut off. Sure enough his son woke up and recovered.

[u/GdinutPTY]

Police: Which one of you is the real shooter?

Everyone else:

[u/WhyTheMahoska → u/GdinutPTY]

I am Spartacus!

[u/JosephMadeCrosses → u/WhyTheMahoska]

I'm Brian!

[u/chillwithpurpose → u/JosephMadeCrosses]

His name was Robert Paulson!

[u/john_the_quain]

I wonder if 1790’s France was just a big outdoor party at certain times.

[u/Bopshidowywopbop → u/john_the_quain]

Lots of heads rolling around though

[u/Telcontar77 → u/Bopshidowywopbop]

Man, I wonder if they played Heads Will Roll

Edit: meant the song, but I guess the game works too

[u/RealWarriorofLight → u/Telcontar77]

Excellent game , glad to see another man of culture.

[u/Novel_Anxiety_113 → u/RealWarriorofLight]

I thought it was just a song by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but TIL it’s also a game! Thanks for this nugget of information

[u/p_epsiloneridani → u/Novel_Anxiety_113]

A-trax remix is 👌

[u/Telcontar77 → u/Novel_Anxiety_113]

Yeah, I meant the song. It's a TIL for the game for me a well.

[u/Juzaba → u/john_the_quain]

The Women’s March on Versailles is a good example. Even before the mob broke into the palace it kinda turned into an all-night party. And the return March in the morning, with the mob surrounding the Royal carriage and everyone carrying pikes with the severed heads of the Royal Guardsmen, was described like a parade.

[u/Tal_Onarafel → u/john_the_quain]

Revolution often does have a festive feel. It's because people realise that they can have some agency over their lives and make a difference, so they give a shit, step up, support the community, talk and debate with everyone else around, and have a good time.

Lots of writings from different revolutions say this.

[u/anabakrahelzonug → u/Tal_Onarafel]

Egyptian here; can confirm this wholeheartedly. I can still remember the high we felt back in 2011. Puts a smile on my face seeing communities get together. Even during the time when there were looters amuck, the neighborhood watch that we formed had a feeling of camaraderie that hasn't been replicated with me ever since. There was a lot of humour in regards to the whole situation and its chaos too, which is something we haven't foreseen seeing how the whole country was very close to civil war.

[u/Tal_Onarafel → u/anabakrahelzonug]

That's amazing to hear, thank you for sharing!

[u/Morth9 → u/Tal_Onarafel]

Yes, they often talk about this phenomenon on The Rest is History podcast. Politics aside, it's simply fun to turn hierarchies and given 'normalcy' upside down. And quasi-legitimate outlets for this kind of thing, like the Festival of Fools in the medieval times, arguably acted as a sort of 'inoculation' against full-scale revolt. 

[u/freekoout → u/Morth9]

Same with the feast of Saturnalia in Roman times. Roman masters would pretend to be slaves and they'd treat their slaves as masters.

[u/no_u_mang → u/Morth9]

Traditional carnival is Europe is celebrated in this way, with a newly elected joker being handed the keys to the city, drunken anarchy and lots of merry opportunities to ridicule the establishment without fear of repercussions following suit.

[u/ToothsomeBirostrate → u/Morth9]

Another day, another storm cloud gathering..

[u/really-stupid-idea → u/Tal_Onarafel]

What I’m hearing is that if we have a revolution, I could finally make some friends?

[u/OptimisticOctopus8 → u/really-stupid-idea]

Yes. Such things create extremely strong bonds. Of course, the downside is that participants in revolutions generally have a much shorter average lifespan. But that's worth it to some people at some times.

[u/AshyLarry_ → u/really-stupid-idea]

If you believe capitalism alienates people, and the revolution was anti capitalist, then yea

[u/alison_bee → u/Tal_Onarafel]

Makes sense… I have felt a sort of “giddyness” seeing everyone feel the same way I do about this.

It’s been an odd camaraderie, but a welcome one.

[u/DeadInternetTheorist → u/alison_bee]

Yeah I've been watching the news clips on YouTube where they try to make this seem like it's a bad thing, and just immediately pausing them to scroll down and see that the top comment is a "Pre-existing condition" joke or some other bit that's been done to death already. And like I'm not even annoyed that the comments are hacky, I'm just happy to see everyone having fun and actually getting the joke.

[u/OptimisticOctopus8 → u/DeadInternetTheorist]

Yeah, and those jokes are a useful shorthand for expressing one's feelings on this without going full rage-monster.

[u/Tal_Onarafel → u/alison_bee]

❤️ same :)

But also disclaimer real quick I think that people need to organise collectively in their workplace rather than rely solely on robin hoods like this, but it's wonderful seeing right and left wing working class people realise their common class interests and their power to make a change.

[u/oopgroup → u/Tal_Onarafel]

Which is exactly how it feels to be wealthy, not worried about your next meal or rent, and in complete control of 350,000,000 other people.

They don’t want to share or diminish that feeling. At all. So they keep their foot on everyone’s necks.

[u/settlementfires → u/Tal_Onarafel]

beats the shit out of just taking the boot to the face.

yeah you might get a boot in the face during a revolution, but you're taking that boot so your children and comrades don't have to.

[u/RetPala → u/Tal_Onarafel]

Those paintings of the guys running the guillotine had fuckin' smiles on their faces

[u/Independent-Choice-4 → u/Tal_Onarafel]

"Divided we are weak, but together we are strong" - the single most terrifying thing for any government is the people remembering that *they* were always meant to be the ones in power.

Hence why smallman Trump will do everything possible with his second presidency to take away as much power from the people as he can, all while protecting himself, his interests, and his money over all else.

[u/this_is_not_a_dance_ → u/john_the_quain]

If you’ve never done a deep dive into the French Revolution it’s pretty nuts. It’s also controversial given the sheer amount of violence involved. The brutality. I would not want that.

[u/Toadforpresident → u/this_is_not_a_dance_]

Yeah I love studying the French Revolution but it was extraordinarily brutal, and there were a ton of innocent people swept up in the killings.

September Massacres is a great example of how ugly it could get when the insanity really took off. Total break down of a society with revolutionary tribunals dealing out mob justice.

[u/twee_centen → u/john_the_quain]

It does have an oddly festive feel about it. I almost feel bad for laughing when the short girl went "I just have a green jacket!" and joined the group photo.

[u/ppdeli]

How epic would it be if he showed up

[u/DulceEtBanana → u/ppdeli]

Who says he didn't?

[u/DrRoxo420 → u/DulceEtBanana]

He came in 4th place

[u/Cheesetoast9 → u/DrRoxo420]

Dolly Parton entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. And lost.

In her memoir, Dream More, Parton tells a very amusing story. One day on a trip to Los Angeles, she heard about a Dolly Parton look-alike contest that was being held at a local bar. She had a kooky idea – wouldn't it be funny to go down there and enter the contest herself. To do that, she decided to over-exaggerate everything about her appearance – she made her beauty mark bigger, her eyes bigger, her hair bigger – she made everything bigger. When she was all dolled up, Parton and a group of her friends made their way down to the contest.

When Parton got to the bar, she didn't let on that she was the real Dolly Parton. She was given a number, like everybody else, and told to get in line.

The contest was to be judged by the audience. Contestants were instructed to walk across the stage, and the votes would be cast by applause. The biggest applause would win. So one by one, the contestants paraded in front of the audience.

When it came to Parton's turn, she smiled and sashayed across the stage. And lost. To a man. Not only that, Dolly Parton got the least applause. She said she was dying of laughter inside. Little did the contest know they had the real thing in their midst.

[u/ImaginaryCatDreams → u/Cheesetoast9]

Did she tell them or just leave

[u/SharkMeifele → u/ImaginaryCatDreams]

It would have been cool if she Stone Cold Stunned the winner. Would have been an eye opener and completely out of character for such a classy lady.

[u/sir_posts_alot → u/Cheesetoast9]

Adele did the same thing

[u/Maniacal_Monkey → u/Cheesetoast9]

Charlie Chaplin did the same in a look alike contest & didn’t win. There are varying accounts of what he actually placed but it definitely wasn’t in the top 2.

[u/Sirboomsalot_Y-Wing → u/DrRoxo420]

Charlie Chaplin moment

[u/Stonna → u/DrRoxo420]

Were the police doing the judging?

[u/SomeOneOutThere-1234 → u/DrRoxo420]

[u/Blockhead47 → u/DulceEtBanana]

We got him Reddit!
He’s right there! Grab him!
It’s the lady in “the fucking green jacket”!!

[u/A_Gent_4Tseven → u/DulceEtBanana]

Something tells me he’s working right now.

[u/turbopro25 → u/A_Gent_4Tseven]

Gotta be able to afford that Healthcare somehow.

[u/nephelodusa → u/ppdeli]

Chalamet goes and becomes a legend.

[u/SnowDay111 → u/nephelodusa]

Coincidentally, the supposed photo of the killer looks a bit like Chalamet. He could be his athletic looking cousin.

[u/[deleted] → u/ppdeli]

He’s the Banksy of assassins. Maybe it is Banksy 🤔

[u/ileppane → u/[deleted]]

Banksy is from the UK with taxpayer funded universal healthcare. He wouldn't have a motive.

[u/profnachos → u/ppdeli]

Legend has it that Charlie Chaplin showed up his own lookalike contest and placed 20th.

[u/GenesisCorrupted]

And this is when United healthcare finally accepted that the American people would be literally no help at all.

[u/Late_Again68 → u/GenesisCorrupted]

Just returning the favor!

[u/maxintensity → u/Late_Again68]

👏

[u/Grimsmiley666 → u/Late_Again68]

Exactly

[u/TK82 → u/GenesisCorrupted]

Let's be real, whether or not this guy gets caught makes no difference to UHC's quarterly profits, they don't give a shit

[u/jack2012fb → u/TK82]

Next CEO will undoubtedly be influenced by the fear of another assassination ESPECIALLY if he’s still on the loose.

[u/smoopy62 → u/jack2012fb]

No. He will just have included a security detail 24/7 in his already bloated compensation package. Board members won't blink an eye to adding several million

[u/Joyage2021 → u/smoopy62]

Security can only help so much.

[u/pub810 → u/jack2012fb]

The salary is high enough the spot won’t be hard to fill. The machine will continue to move they’ll just enhance security.

[u/justwannabeloggedin → u/[deleted]]

Yes, security losing is very much the exception. Most presidents don't get assassinated, CEOs with infinite company money to use even less so. How many billionaires have been murdered ever?

[u/GenesisCorrupted → u/TK82]

Oh sure they do. They want him to be executed for killing one of them. Billionaires can’t have people go and just do things without repercussions.

They want this person to be marched through the street to the guillotine.

They aren’t going to get what they want. Just like the American people.

[u/erizzluh → u/GenesisCorrupted]

lol billionaires probably have the most hyper selfish personalities. they don't give a shit about each other. it's just one less person to compete with. one less person taking a slice of their pie.

[u/Anon1039027 → u/erizzluh]

They understand game theory, though. One less slice, yes, but someone else will take it now, and that risks someone less agreeable with weaker social bonds to them and / or less restraint rising up. Cut off enough heads and the ones that grow back will necessarily be weaker.

That, and it sets a precedent that they hate.

[u/ithinkitslupis]

Wake up babe, new Guy Fawkes mask just dropped.

[u/Johnsendall → u/ithinkitslupis]

https://preview.redd.it/fkdh597xnh5e1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0367b0838d0eb5a53807577a89797b5148f50cba

[u/Illinois_Yooper → u/Johnsendall]

Remember remember the fourth of December

The jacket, backpack, and gun

He approached from behind

With one thing in mind

His healthcare claim should have won

(Edited to remove “been” from the final sentence)

[u/themolestedsliver → u/Johnsendall]

That's amazing.

[u/sunshine_fuu → u/ithinkitslupis]

I'd give this an award if I had one to give.

Edit: This is wild and I thank you so much. I leave you with the wise words of Bill and Ted: Be excellent to each other.

[u/_lord_ruin → u/sunshine_fuu]

I gotchu

[u/sunshine_fuu → u/_lord_ruin]

Thank you, kind stranger, please have this upvote and know it is a high five.

[u/DarthBen_in_Chicago → u/sunshine_fuu]

Have another high five!

[u/Hasextrafuture → u/ithinkitslupis]

Next year, on December 4th....

[u/Deadboyparts → u/Hasextrafuture]

I think his actions also influences BCBS to reverse their horrific new policy of limiting anesthesia coverage. Dec. 5th, a day after the shooting, they reversed this plan:

“On Nov. 1, 2024, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield did announce it would restrict coverage of anesthesia costs in accordance with surgical procedure time limits set by the federal agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. However, in response to a backlash to the announced policy change, Anthem walked back the announcement on Dec. 5, 2024, and said it would not proceed with the change.”

[u/tm0nks → u/Deadboyparts]

They'll probably just try to roll it out slowly over the next year or two instead.

[u/Nateosis → u/ithinkitslupis]

Remember, Remember, the 5th of December

edit: 4th!

[u/_Not_this_again_ → u/Nateosis]

Didn't the ceo guy get killed early morning December 4th?

[u/Nateosis → u/_Not_this_again_]

You're right, and luckily it still works with 4th

[u/ExMachima]

This is the response to people quietly dying when they get that denial of coverage.

[u/outkast767]

In all honesty I’m surprised it took this long before a ceo or something like this to happen. Could you imagine if Enron would have happened in today’s age. 100k people losing their job and all their savings because some rich ass hole wanted a second home.

[u/Marvin2021 → u/outkast767]

Most ceo's have security. this ceo had security but they weren't there when he was walking, big mistake.

[u/BuddaMuta → u/Marvin2021]

Security is mostly theatrical. 

If someone doesn’t care about coming home chances are the CEO isn’t making it home either 

[u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year → u/Marvin2021]

They got vaporising security details along with the target with massive bombs, both suicide and of the non-suicide variety down to a fine art during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Just a historical observation.

[u/elbenji → u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year]

or, historically, when the security details themselves do to the deed, which was pretty exceedingly common

[u/HugSized]

"Hello, officer? I have information about the killer. He's actually 5 people."

[u/GreenEggsSteamedHams → u/HugSized]

I heard it was three dogs in a trenchcoat. Maybe they got denied on their dewormer meds

[u/Spiritual-Promise402]

https://preview.redd.it/e6j3jg9xgh5e1.jpeg?width=1004&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec15ce14ace62366eb59477c042c684931d54db5

Edit: thanks for all the upvotes! I can't take the credit ---> Yerr.nyc

[u/NeuralCartographer → u/Spiritual-Promise402]

My condolences are out of network.

[u/NikNakTwattyWhack → u/Spiritual-Promise402]

This goes hard.

[u/New-Skin-2717]

Wouldn’t it be great if the NYPD took this much interest in murders of people that weren’t rich?

[u/poopscooperguy → u/New-Skin-2717]

I’ve been saying the same thing. Do they pour this many resources into everyone that gets Murdered in NYC? Doubtful.

[u/axiomaticreaction → u/poopscooperguy]

I’m not gonna go double check but I think I read that there were 5 other homicides in NYC that day.

There was also a couple kindergarten kids shot at their school in Northern California the day before.

[u/ipenlyDefective → u/axiomaticreaction]

It's about 400 per year, so just over 1 per day. Just under half get solved.

If Brian Thompson were a random person, and someone killed him with this much planning, they would 100% get away with it. This guy will probably be caught because of the focus on it.

Or at least, someone will be caught. Much like the Central Park 5.

[u/BaphometsTits → u/New-Skin-2717]

Why would they want to do that?

[u/Ok-Assistance-6848]

this is gonna be the top halloween costume for October 2025

[u/sphinctersandwich → u/Ok-Assistance-6848]

Oh, this will be long forgotten by then. Not because it's insignificant, but because there will be plenty more circus in the meantime

[u/SeaMareOcean]

Remember, remember, the 4th of December.

[u/No_Stand8601 → u/SeaMareOcean]

The deductible and CEO lost 

I know of no reason 

Why the deductible fees  

Should ever be forgot.

[u/Triceracops0115 → u/No_Stand8601]

Deductible malfeasance*

A bit more rhyme-y, anyway

[u/tooful]

I bet all the billionaire healthcare execs are sitting in their mansions/yachts with shocked Pikachu face with zero understanding of their part in this

[u/Fiyah_Crotch → u/tooful]

It’s actually surprising how out of touch with reality people in that income bracket can be.

[u/CollegeBoardPolice → u/Fiyah_Crotch]

Definitely. Even the guy's own wife was stunned at his death being due to "a lack of coverage or something". It's like she doesn't even know what she's talking about, yet she gets to reap all the benefits of her husband's disgusting career. My god.

https://preview.redd.it/g3jpvovyli5e1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e2905c7ae4bd2eb8a7919ca265dd3a99c0564d1

[u/octopush123 → u/CollegeBoardPolice]

That's some Marie Antoinette shit if I'm being honest.

[u/___TheKid___ → u/octopush123]

I hope somebody explained it to her by now

[u/silverking12345 → u/octopush123]

Give her a break, she isn't as bad as the other lady, she was an Austrian princess basically sold off as a political gift to the King of France!

[u/BrendaHelvetica → u/CollegeBoardPolice]

I read that she’s a physical therapist. Even more baffling that she doesn’t know the woes of insurance claim denials if she works in healthcare.

[u/tooful → u/Fiyah_Crotch]

Completely out of touch. I was raised among them....until I became an adult and had to make do on my own. Complete reality check. I still have friends/acquaintances in that tax bracket (all in Europe) who casually decide to take their private jets to the Caribbean for a few days because they need a "break".

[u/CrowsInTheNose → u/tooful]

I'm willing to bet most CEOs are a bit shaken. Especially if they just did lay offs while taking a bonus.

[u/NotASalamanderBoi → u/CrowsInTheNose]

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reversed their anesthetic policy real quick after the shooting.

[u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

Somebody ate the rich, that's what happened.... and the world is waiting to see if anyone else is hungry

We all felt similarly when OceanGate happened.

People are sick and tired of being sick and tired

[u/CrowdStrikeOut → u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

We all felt similarly when OceanGate happened.

not even close

ocean gate was a collective rich fucks FA and FO, except for that kid. it wasn't so much celebration and jubilee, more like indifference and mockery.

this is way wilder

[u/jhard90 → u/CrowdStrikeOut]

OceanGate was rich assholes being done in by their own hubris. There’s a lesson in there, but the message is not nearly as clear as a rich asshole being killed (presumably) as a direct response to the exploitative behavior that made him rich.

[u/HappyHarryHardOn → u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

[u/misterfakiebig → u/HappyHarryHardOn]

Although I’m not sure this is what he meant by this, it fits so well.

[u/ooMEAToo → u/misterfakiebig]

Ya times have changed so much that peaceful protests do absolutely nothing. It’s basically laying down and becoming a door mat for the rich to wipe their feet on, evil only understands evil.

[u/N3wW3irdAm3rica → u/ooMEAToo]

Power only understands power

[u/PrestigiousAd6281 → u/ooMEAToo]

”Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”- JFK

[u/fujiman → u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

Also being starved into complacency. Hopefully meat's going to be back on the menus soon.

[u/ooMEAToo → u/fujiman]

Meats back on the menu boys grab your briskets… I mean muskets and let’s go.

[u/zeez1011 → u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

The question doesn't seem to be "Who did it?" but "Who's next?"

[u/MazeMouse → u/ResurgentClusterfuck]

People are sick and tired of being sick and tired

I've seen a few bootlickers go "where's the humanity?"
And my response to that would be "If you treat people inhumanly enough for a long enough time I'm not surprised you get an inhumane response"

[u/Puncharoo]

[u/HuffleCatXxX]

Who would have thought after that election that the death of a CEO would bring us together for a short time.

[u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo → u/HuffleCatXxX]

It is pretty wild seeing the right praise this after electing a multi-millionaire to office who stepped all over normal people while he was a CEO to increase his own profits, whose being endorsed by a Billionaire immigrant whose family fortune came from blood diamond mines in Africa who used that endorsement to buy his way into government.

Like I’m happy we are all on the same side with this shit stain being murdered, but the right literally just went all in on men just like this as THEIR GUYS.

[u/H8rsH8]

This lookalike competition got more coverage than UnitedHealthcare ever gave.

[u/Lost_Television7128]

Love how this is becoming a thing just like at the end of the Joker > many people, one mask, one movement.

[u/Salza_boi → u/Lost_Television7128]

I agree, this will definitely start a movement. Not a full on revolution I think but something that the media will definitely cover for a while with shocking deaths that will follow

[u/cryptolyme]

V for Vendetta vibes

[u/MissFishLips → u/cryptolyme]

I was thinking that too!

[u/Andr1yTheOne]

I'm low key cheering for him. I no longer care about shit people who abuse other people.

[u/ShrimpSherbet → u/Andr1yTheOne]

This. I don't understand why a lot of people are saying "we shouldn't be celebrating murder" and things like that. If you're a dictator, if you are directly involved in the death of others, if you take advantage of the poor or the sick, you deserve to die. You're doing no good by being alive. I feel zero pity for this guy who got shot, just like he felt zero pity for the millions of people who were denied rightful coverage under his tenure.

[u/octopush123 → u/ShrimpSherbet]

He has ended more people than even a very ambitious serial killer could ever hope to, and it was not only legal but highly rewarded.

When someone goes on a rampage, we applaud the person who had the courage to take them out. This is that times about a million.

[u/delayed_potato → u/ShrimpSherbet]

32% in an already shitty industry that rejects an average 16% of claims. So it’s not like he was part of the system. Noooo, he was exceptionally shitty within it.

[u/IndieBenji]

[u/68ideal]

Imagine getting murdered and the world just laughs at your ass. What a fantastic legacy to leave behind lmao.

[u/ansibleCalling → u/68ideal]

Also though, imagine preparing to murder someone knowing you'll probably get caught and never see the light of day, knowing youre choosing this issue over ever living a normal life again, willing to give it all up... and then you do it, get out clean, and all of America wants to shake your hand. Must  be surreal. Hopefully he has someone to share this with, and didn't already lose them to denied coverage.

[u/Hunter1127 → u/ansibleCalling]

I honestly for his sake hope he doesn’t have anyone to share it with. Only way 2 people keep a secret is if one is dead

[u/mystic_chihuahua → u/Hunter1127]

Yep. I want him to stay free and he stands a much better chance if no one knows.

[u/___TheKid___ → u/ansibleCalling]

If he ever get caught and they let him make a public statement, it will just legitimate him even more.

What he did has a story and loss behind it that will probably turn the last person on his side that was not already on it.

[u/RemoteRide6969 → u/68ideal]

People of all walks of life. People who hated each other a month ago and still very much do are all on the same side of this. They could rewrite Watchmen and seamlessly use this event as an alternate ending.

[u/68ideal → u/RemoteRide6969]

You have to be a REALLY nasty scumbag of the absolute worst kind when literally everyone agrees that murdering you is morally perfectly fine and the lesser evil.

[u/pottapotty]

Don’t assist the FBI. The public has been seeking help from the federal government in dealing with the abusive healthcare industry for decades and gotten no help; instead they’ve only empowered them to hurt us. Now that the federal government (via the FBI) wants the public’s assistance, it should get none. In fact, the public should assist its only AVENGER; the man on the run.

[u/WesternWitchy52]

2025 is gonna be wild.

[u/GrimOfDooom]

For all we know, the real one is there & the fake one took the bus out

[u/Chalky_Pockets]

I love how this killer United us all in celebration of this guy's death. Left, right, center, doesn't matter, we're just glad it finally happened to one of them. 

I do wonder what it's like for his kids. "Someone shot our dad and a bunch of people who didn't even know who he was before the news are now celebrating...wtf?"

[u/wdwerker → u/Chalky_Pockets]

This is how his kids find out about the horrible things dad did so they can live in luxury.

[u/SmokeyBare → u/wdwerker]

This is how you create more terrorists healthcare CEOs

[u/wdwerker → u/SmokeyBare]

Anyone who works in claims denial should have their name, picture and list of fatalities published annually!

[u/Remote-Animal-9665 → u/wdwerker]

50% of them were AI 'reviewed' so you'd have at least half the list full of bot names :[

[u/chillwithpurpose → u/Remote-Animal-9665]

Easy. Whoever implemented the bot shares those kills in their entirety.

[u/DevonGr → u/chillwithpurpose]

Right? Do you think any of the soulless ghouls who want to decide people's fate ALSO have the ability to implement AI to do this? Someome sold their soul to do this for pennies to make the investors billions. And they should understand their role in it.

[u/pfft_master → u/wdwerker]

It is algorithms now for the largest health insurance companies. Automatic denials based on what they calculate will save them the most money and then make someone jump through a bunch of hoops if they want to (maybe) get approved by a human after the first few rounds of a program denying again.

This happened to a family member and they still live with an untreated chronic illness because they can’t afford the treatment they should be covered for, but the insurance doesn’t want to pay because it is pricey and rare (I wonder what the insurance was bought for… hmmm).

[u/brumac44 → u/pfft_master]

Even if they eventually are forced to pay out, by denying treatmentt they're doing a lot of harm to patients because of the stress of the whole situation. This is never quantified but I guarantee its lowering life expectancies.

[u/ResurgentClusterfuck → u/Chalky_Pockets]

Makes me wanna live my life in such a way that millions don't celebrate or laugh maniacally at the news of my demise

[u/queen-adreena → u/Chalky_Pockets]

You gotta love the right-wing. They literally just elected an entire administration of billionaires and scumbags who want to remove any and all regulation that might protect them...

... then they turn around and applaud action like this.

[u/charredfella]

This is wild

[u/Hatter_Hoovy]

make the billionaires fear the common

[u/ramonchow]

Two more CEOs and we will see gun control in America...

[u/alien_from_Europa → u/ramonchow]

Trump had ~2 assassination attempts and he still rejects gun control.

[u/Fuzzy-Passenger-1232 → u/alien_from_Europa]

He needed the votes. He could just as easily change his tune now that he can gut US democracy as much as he wants.

[u/Ekman-ish → u/ramonchow]

Lol no we won't. If the powers at be are concerned about what they're seeing now, they're not thinking of the shit storm that'll come from reactionary gun control.

[u/_crunchbang_]

Will the real slim shady please stand up.

[u/Vast_Jellyfish122]

Non American here, I'm lucky enough to have lived in 3 countries with universal health care. I wasn't aware of the medical system issues in America until I saw the movies John Q and The Rainmaker around the turn of the century. Quite frankly, it astounded me. We have both public (free) and private healthcare in my country of birth where I live now. I have the luxury of accessing both systems and have done so in the past 12 months. There has been a national bowel screening program ( bowel cancer kills if not caught in time) in the last year or so, and my poop sample showed blood, so of I went for a colonoscopy and they found a polyp. I was immediately booked in for its removal the following fortnight. My tax dollar paid for the whole process. As great as the US is in many things, looking after its less fortunate citizens and its gun culture are two glaring black marks against it.

[u/Trismegistos42]

Which of you is spartacus?

[u/CommentFrownedUpon → u/Trismegistos42]

I’m Spartacus!

[u/Flowmatic_Lantern → u/Trismegistos42]

I am Spartacus!!!

[u/[deleted]]

The shooter has taken on a sort of folk hero status, hasn't he? Suppose getting assassinated is a job danger when you routinely deny people life saving coverage. And while I cannot condone vigilante murder for solving our problems, I totally understand why people aren't exactly shedding tears over the death of a man who's decisions more than likely resulted in other people dying when they didn't need to.

[u/OTSly]

Imagine if the actual killer was there

[u/burntroy]

Yeah this country is doing great

[u/lungf0rk]

I love this level of satire

[u/JeremyJaLa]

I’m starting to think the rich have bitten off more they can chew.

[u/Worried-Ebb-1699]

It’s amazing that we’re supposed to feel bad for a person (ceo) who ruined countless lives and families.

[u/LandscapeGuru]

Damn. Isn’t it crazy that a tragedy for UHC’s CEO could bring the left and the right together after going through a hellish election? Just a few short days ago there was so much hatred between the two sides that either side didn’t even want to be in the same area with the other.

I know we’re about to go through a horrid 4 years. Probably longer here in the United States, but the recent twinkle of light has brought a little hope back in to my heart.

P. S. Screw Trump, Musk, Putin, and the rest of the shitty people that are about to test the core strength of the United States.

[u/FoamyMuffins]

This is the America I want to live in.

[u/happy_fill_8023]

Billionaires spent hundreds of millions to put all the blame of the societal misery upon the most downtrodden class that makes even less than a minimum wage. Then some random dude in a hoodie whacked a CEO.

[u/LeTigre71]

https://preview.redd.it/wd0y653yih5e1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9994e8b6f73497ed715866e8d897ce53b6e669a7

[u/BlazinItDown]

So like 4 people

[u/INeedANerf]

The police and United Healthcare must've realized by now that now one is gonna help them catch this guy 💀

[u/say_the_words → u/INeedANerf]

It might be time to reconsider actually trying too hard to catch him. If they kill him apprehending him he'll be a folk hero and martyr. If they take him alive, millions of people are ready to hear what he has to say. And jury nullification is making it possible they might not convict him. Might be better to let him keep hiding and hope he takes his win and quits and health care gets off the front page.

[u/ArticArny]

He's the hero of Manhattan, the man they call Jayne.

Stood up to the man
And gave him what for
Our love for him now
Ain't hard to explain
The hero of Manhattan
The man they call Jayne

https://youtu.be/QAo-1U7doLk?si=mKKKDDIhKqjumiHk&t=64