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[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

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.

[–] FriendlyN3rd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] vane@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours 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.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Plenty of horrible men had kids who damn well deserved better fathers.

[–] digitalnuisance@infosec.pub 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Aliens, that s is very important and it actually conveys a lot about what the movies are about.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Exactly, they're about why the fuck did they write out Newt

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago

Just a single mother trying to feed her kids. smh

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

Ripley was an anchor baby.

[–] TurtleMelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing sad about Thompson's death is how quick it was.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 21 hours 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.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day 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.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only good CEO is a Luigi’ed one.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Greenwashing corporate profits means little. B-corps fight hard against their employees unionizing, it's just branding.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who did nothing to him

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

[–] Azteh@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except the president has much less control over gas prices than an insurance CEO has control over their half of the deal.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Yes... Fascist Idiocracy be like it do.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 39 points 1 day ago

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!?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 117 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he took

Oh really? Where's his conviction?

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

And I don’t even know this guy. No way I’d recognize any of these people from a jury box.

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 147 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago

The ceo caused the prolonged distress of tens of thousands of people, that is far longer than a normal lifespan.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (10 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 😝

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago (1 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.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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!

[–] don@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day 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.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 97 points 1 day 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.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

He was doing her a favor so obviously yes jk

[–] FragrantGarden@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 1 day ago

Remember, EW is a Polish Nazi.

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