• Llamatron@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I read a comment the other day that’s stuck with me, I can’t remember the precise wording but it was something like:

    “Every cent spent on this man’s funeral was made on the back of someone else’s”

  • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    Gang you are missing the point. Thompson worked really hard from humble beginnings to become the absolute best at being a horrible human being. That’s gotta count for something, right? /s

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    Got rich trampling over as many people as possible then died by gun violence. A true blue american boy

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    world’s most important companies

    That’s hilariously American defaultism considering most of the world doesn’t need companies like UHC

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Mussolini interned at a bakery one summer and attempted to learn the harmonica, you judgemental monsters…

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    22 hours ago

    I didn’t have any sympathy for him until I found out he played basketball and the trombone.

    This changes everything.

  • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I’m not convinced we’re much different except by circumstance. Anyone trying to manage that many human interactions is only going to see numbers. I know we’d like to think we have been or would be filtered out, but I’m not convinced.

    The problem is corporate structures that create these behemoths that essentially can’t have ethical liability. Someone else will do his job now. Killing him benefits exactly nobody. Just more distraction from what we should be focusing on.

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      22 hours ago

      Killing him benefits exactly nobody.

      Well it is provocative, it got the plebs aligned that health insurance got to go.

      Many people will switch from unitedparasites nezt year so at least his shiti employer will also suffer then.

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        21 hours ago

        Most of us don’t choose who insures us - our company or personal finances do. There’s no market here for people to walk away with their dollars. Anything even a little outside the system has been crushed.

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    23 hours ago

    When it’s your job to profit off of human misery, don’t be surprised when you find out what human misery feels like.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 hours ago

      I think if he had any personal friends who thought he was a good person the media would have made time for them to speak up about it. But only other rich executives have.

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        22 hours ago

        Even if you are a good friend, why muddy your name by associating your self with him now?

        You ain’t gonna get any of that 10 million per year salary he earned.

        His wife and children will and they are smart to avoid publicly.

        This whole story highlights that when given a chance, peasants will turn on their masters.

        But the elites got police doing show of force photo shoots to send a counter message?

        Who are they intimidating? A guy like luigi, will execute anyway, rest of us limp dick cucks will still shit post in his support.

        The entire circus actually is feed the shit posting even more. Emperor has no clothes.

        With that being said, they will fuck us over even harder for this.

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          21 hours ago

          Reading this feels like I’m at the bar. Kinda agree with the sentiment though.

          🍻 Cheers to you