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Osama bin Laden had kids. Heck one of his kids was shot in the raid that killed him too.
Not one of these news outlets called for a moment of remembering the humanity of them, right?
Murder is wrong, murdering a murder isn’t good, but let’s not pretend to have principles on the matter if we don’t have them
Also, what does it have to do with whether he was a father or not? If he had had no kids, would that change anything? Can it be more acceptable to kill someone who hasn’t had kids? What’s the point in that?
I mean, if it’s not obvious, the point people are making is that his kids are innocent and that celebrating their father’s death increases their suffering.
I agree with the logic, but I don’t think it’s enough to shut down the conversation.
This assumes the kids didn’t already hate his guts.
I am not at all worried about his kids. His kids are set for life.
I am worried about other kids- and adults- suffering due to a much less discerning and less accurate copycat vigilante. It hasn’t happened so far, but it is something that greatly concerns me.
Thompson was divorced. My understanding is he had either limited or no contact with his kids.
I wonder if he updated his will since the divorce
Literally fatherless behavior
There are more people who can say “Brian Thompson killed my father”, than there are “Luigi Mangione killed my father.”
Or… maybe, just maybe, people can have the opinions they want and have their reasons for them.
The idea I have to consider my parents’ role as my parents undermined if they did something scam-ish is arguably appalling.
This is turning into a collective shame kind of culture.
Yeah. Kids are allowed to love their parents. My parents are flawed. They’re not evil, but they’re the kind of people I wouldn’t spend time with or associate with if they weren’t my parents. We simply have different values and opinions.
But I still love them and love spending time with them, and they feel the same.
Kid probably happy too, since, odds are, the dead person was shitty to the kids.
Geneally, you don’t become a CEO without being a shitty person, and therefore a shitty parent.
Paul F. Tompkins is excellent and ‘No You Shut Up’ should have gone on for 20 more seasons
I miss Dead Authors Podcast but I’m happy for his success.
Whatever, piss pig
What Tompkins is failing to realize here is that the people who are elated know absolutely jack shit about who Thompson was, and Thompson’s own kids know a lot about who he is.
I don’t know much about who Irmgard Furchner was but I know she was a piece of shit because only a piece of shit would do that job.
Tompkins was a garbage human and the species is better off without him. If his kids didn’t think poorly of him for having that job they could not have known him.
Just because a monster goes home to a family and manages to keep them in the dark about the horrors they willingly commit for money… Or worse, maybe the family is aware of and approve of the inhuman way he takes your money… Having a family does not make a monster less monstrous.
It doesn’t matter how many Little League games he went to, how active he was in the PTA, whether he volunteered at his local church. He was a terrible no good very bad person. And I don’t need to have sat down and played Canasta with him to see that.
I think you meant Thompson, hopefully not Tompkins.
Their dad didn’t give even a single thought to the people who died because of him, why should his priveleged-ass kids get even a seconds thought from me beyond potential future followers in daddy’s shoes?
He made life changing mind and his kids will get it all. I doubt they give any fuck how he made it.
They will live large while rest of us are at risk of getting screwed by the health insurance industry when we are most vulnerable.
Could not care less about some trust fund kids.
Man. Keep the kids out of the discourse. Have a little class.
Nobody cares about his kids and they were not a topic of discussion until media pulled them in.
If you gonna do this moral grand standing, talk to the big media.
I’m sure that seems like the right way to feel. But honestly his kids will grow up to hurt poor people just like their dad.
Jfc. You people are gaslighting his children, whose father was murdered weeks ago.
Get a fucking grip.
Not what gaslighting means…
To manipulate a murdered person’s sons to reevaluate their perception of their own father because of some public lynching?
No one is being manipulated? Their father was the head of an objectively evil corporation (by any ethical philosophy I can think of) and people were celebrating that he was dead, 99% of whom had never heard of him before. Probably worth evaluating why at some point.
No one is hunting down his kids and screaming “YOUR FATHER PERSONALLY MURDERED MY FAMILY”.
Not one of the people cheering for Thompson’s death had actually heard of Thompson before this.
They are cheering because of his job title. This has nothing to do with Thompson’s character or who he was.
This man is an asshole
I mean, I can feel bad for his kids (especially if they’re too young to understand, no idea how old they are) and still be of the opinion fuck that guy. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Grief is not a conscious decision and we do not get to choose who we will mourn for and because of that, I do feel for them, but the rest of us are under absolutely no obligation to mourn along with them.
It’s hard to grow up with no dad.
It’s also hard to grow up with a dad who’s a bottom feeding scumbag.
Brian Thompson was a scumbag. We can’t say whether it will be better or worse growing up without him. We can only say that if he wasn’t a scumbag, he’d probably still be here.
