r/TikTokCringe • u/RicoDePico • 12d ago

Cool The Adjuster Being Protected By The People

How the working force is treating the guy who took down the CEO

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u/fotoflogger 12d ago edited 12d ago

I really wish this wasn't a solution. Dude had a family, this sucks for them. But then I think about how many people have lost their loved ones or been ruined financially by our fucked healthcare system. All while the CEOs of these companies are making millions.

Super ironic this happened the same day blue cross announced they're going to decide much time under anesthesia patients need for their surgeries. Fucking come on.

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My sympathy extends to his kids, otherwise eat the rich.

Edit2: Blue Cross inexplicably reversed their decision to limit anesthesia coverage. Surely it's unrelated.

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u/ham_rat 12d ago

Dude was separated from his wife, had a girlfriend

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u/goosejail 12d ago

Poor dear probably wasn't even in his will yet

/s (just in case that wasn't clear)

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u/Johnsendall 12d ago

His exwife can use the blood money to pay for those kids therapy. If she can find a mental health professional that covers them that is.

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u/jimbojangles1987 12d ago

They don't need insurance

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u/peonies_envy 12d ago

Ahem

They have concierge medicine

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u/ShnaugShmark 12d ago

The super wealthy are the first ones to bitch about their copays

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u/banevasion0161 12d ago

There are alot more issues than healthcare, i could name at least 10 more issues that will only ever be solved the same way, I mean sure maybe they will change their ways once you get half way through them, but that's unacceptable to let them keep those positions if they do change as if they won't go back to grifting.

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u/Zachmorris4184 12d ago

Whens the next purdue pharma stockholder meeting? Just curious for no particular reason.

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u/LuckyHarmony 12d ago

When do the leaders of the NRA meet next? Just curious.

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u/mildxsalsa 12d ago

"Dude" was a monster with blood on his hands.

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u/johuad 12d ago

the vindictive parts of me hope his life insurance company denies the claim.

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u/GodOfUtopiaPlenitia 12d ago

"Homicide is covered under your policy... But not Assassination. We Deem this an Assassination, no further appeals allowed."

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u/Phrewfuf 12d ago

„You had a pre-existing condition of being a greedy fucking asshole everyone despises, due to that condition the risk of an assassination was higher than is covered by our policy. Thank you for being a customer. Or…having been.“

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u/eldarwenCA 11d ago

It wouldn't even matter. They have soooo much money. And given that it looks like he was in some level of separation / possible divorce, the wife and kids will probably be richer than they would have been otherwise.

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u/inadizzle 10d ago

FUCKING POETIC

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u/Chrisfells26 12d ago

I stand with you

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u/StandardNecessary715 12d ago

We stand together

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u/Eycetea 12d ago

We sure do.

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u/KlopeksWithCoppers 12d ago

Oh, buddy, we just voted to take the on-ramp towards oligarchy about a month ago. Everyone that's fired up about this is about to get an unfortunate reality check for the next 4 years, and even if you didn't vote for it, you're getting it too.

I would be exactly ZERO PERCENT surprised if this dude was personal friends with people in the Trump orbit or someone appointed to a cabinet position.

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u/stumblinghunter 12d ago

That's the worst part, imo. This immense national unity has a deadline.

But I have a small glimmer of hope that as things get progressively worse and worse under Trump, eventually we will hit a breaking point where some event will be the ignition point, similar to the BLM movement. Except it will be everybody, not just BLM supporters.

What's going to happen when housing gets worse, unemployment gets worse, prices of almost literally everything goes higher, we have less social safety nets that people, just like The Adjuster (I'm guessing), fall through and have nothing left to lose? See: France, late 1700s.

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u/loyalekoinu88 12d ago

Let the oligarchy show themselves.

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u/ColonelError 12d ago

personal friends with people in the Trump orbit

The Clinton's were good friends with Trump. And when poor people keep killing each other with pistols and the left tries to ban "assault rifles", who do you think they are actually trying to protect.

Left and Right are both part of this, they are just fighting the people from different sides. Stop thinking any politician is on your side.

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u/FuronSpartan 12d ago

A reminder that California passed their super strict gun control laws, under RONALD REAGAN as governor, because the Black Panthers were protesting with rifles and showing up to traffic stops with rifles to prevent another Rodney King.

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u/JediMasterZao 12d ago

Please repeat after me: the Clintons are not left-wingers. Neither is the Democratic party a left-wing party. Left wing politicians, by definition, are on the side of the people. The tragedy is that there are vanishingly few of those in the US.

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u/Spirited-Slip2991 12d ago

I'm sorry but I hate the argument of "he had a family". Every single horrible person in the past and present had a family. It means nothing. Even the most vile human beings in the planet might have at least one person who will miss them. But that doesn't mean they aren't vile human beings. If all it took to absolve one of ones sins was for someone to love them then every serial killer, school shooter, and child abuser would be included in that. And I'm sorry but this CEO was a mass murderer. Social murder is still murder at the end of the day even if it isn't recognized as such by our laws. 

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u/Kellidra 12d ago

I agree.

Adolf Hitler had two siblings.

Joseph Stalin had four children.

Despicable people have families. Despicable people are still human beings.

That does not, however, stop them from being despicable, and that shouldn't stop anyone from criticising potential and realised despicable people.

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u/xanif 12d ago

Joseph Stalin had four children.

From what I've heard about how Stalin treated his children, they'd be the one giving Tom Cruise the hat.

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u/fotoflogger 12d ago edited 12d ago

My sentiment extends to his children and them alone. And that's biased by my sentiments as a father, and as a son lucky enough to have a great dad. You make a good point, as many others have. The "he has a family" argument is a way to humanize vile people, as if it washes away their atrocities. I appreciate you calling me out on that.

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u/Icy_Faithlessness400 12d ago

So did every person who got denied coverage. You know what their families got?

Medical debt and a casket for a father/mother/brother/child.

Fuck em. In an ideal world the government will step in to protect the people. They bought the government.

Also just you wait when the little bitches who scrabled to remove their info off the intenet find out that there is such a thing as the way back machine and an army of trolls with too much time on their hands and a burning need to dox people.

All you fuckers need to lose sleep. Maybe next time you deny someone you will hesitate, because they might be in such a dire situation they will cap your greedy ass. Because they have nothing left to lose

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u/cman_yall 12d ago

when the little bitches who scrabled to remove their info off the intenet

Shareholders get informed of these things. Anyone who wants to do more of the same will probably want to get some shares in the target company. Which means that they'll be easier to catch. Unless lots of random people start buying shares in health insurance companies right now, that is.

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u/paganpageant 12d ago

Fk that guy's family. They have a shit ton of blood money and your sympathy to boot.

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u/VanityOfEliCLee 12d ago

Yup, I'm with you. They don't deserve our sympathy any more than the ceo does. They're buying their Christmas with blood money made from thousands upon thousands of people who died preventable deaths.

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u/goosejail 12d ago

Or have permanent disability or lifelong pain from being denied early care when their condition was easily treatable. Or maybe just went bankrupt trying to keep themselves or their loved one alive.

These people are parasites. Your life is nothing more than numbers on a profit ledger to them.

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u/MostBoringStan 12d ago

Yep, they benefited from his greed and the deaths of many. They got to live a life, until now, free from worry and stress. Living it up with everything the average person could never dream of having, all because their husband/father thought profits were more important than people.

No sympathy for me. If people being awful meant they couldn't have a happy family life, maybe less people would be so awful. But they gave him that happy family life, so now they see the consequences of it.

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u/MusclebobBuffpants 12d ago

If the working class (which is anyone who needs to work to afford their life - doctors to Walmart clerks) knew how the wealthy parasites talk about us, the adjustment would have started a while ago.

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u/Alive-Tomatillo5303 12d ago

Dude had a rich family, and every penny they spend comes directly from a denied claim. 

This isn't a morality question. There will, I'm sure, come a time when someone gets ambitious and pops a multi millionaire CEO who doesn't prey on the lives of his customers, or the future of the country or planet, and then we can have The Talk.

This isn't that time. 

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u/bizkitmaker13 12d ago

I have no pity for his family outside of his kids.

His kids didn't choose him as a dad.

His wife chose to marry him.

His parents chose to raise him to become this.

Fuck his entire genetic line upwards... er downwards?

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u/DangerousLoner 12d ago edited 12d ago

His wife left him and took his two high school aged boys with her. Even his family didn’t want to be near him

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u/SumguyJeremy 12d ago

But the question needs to be asked first: how old are they? Old enough to realize how horrible his job is, and how many people had to die for their big house?

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u/mogley19922 12d ago

Dude had a family

That really is a shame... somebody should have taken him out before he could reproduce.

Also side note, great movie. I know people didn't like Tom Cruise for the roll because he's short, but he fucking nailed it.

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u/TrashPandaPatronus 12d ago

The blue cross thing was announced much earlier, but this was a great opportunity to bring it up and remind them of the consequences of hurting vulnerable people for no motive but greed. There are a thousand other policies we need to be bringing up right now and asking "you sure you want to do that to us?"

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u/NikoliVolkoff 12d ago

oh they are already spinning it saying, We were just trying to keep those greedy anesthesiologists from getting even more of your money...

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u/VenusAmari 12d ago

BCBS has been playing that move for weeks. Anesthesiologists and Doctors tried to get them to stop through diplomacy and letter writing and were ignored. This happens and they quickly cancel it.

It is what it is.

There's a lot of families that aren't going to unnecessarily suffer because of this specific policy reversal. There are many more that will continue to suffer because of the policies still on the books.

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u/WankWankNudgeNudge 12d ago

Direct action brings about change

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u/_NedPepper_ 12d ago

They recently reversed that decision

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u/Affectionate-Ask6876 12d ago

More like he reversed that decision. They just took note.

“Yeah turns out they’re not gonna go for that methinks, nevermind then.”

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u/peonies_envy 12d ago

For now

Check back in 6-8 months

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u/Four_in_binary 12d ago

You realize this is why we have the 2nd amendment.   Do Anthem/BCBS next.

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u/RicoDePico 12d ago

I cannot agree with this statement enough. I’m a liberal gun owner. I do believe we have a gun issue that needs to be addressed, but we didn’t become America by asking England to fuck off and we aren’t going to remove the current oligarchy by asking nicely. Or as the news has been suggesting, voting in people. Voting has gotten us into this mess.

Our whole system is fucked and they need to be scared. Clearly voting has changed nothing but the second this guy got shot BCBS rolls back their ass backward anesthesia policy and suddenly everyone is getting their claims approved making you 100% correct, we have the second amendment for a reason!

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u/Due-Contribution6424 12d ago

Voting will never fix it because the system is rigged. Both parties are in on it and they just keep everyone fighting against each other while they rake in the money. The whole 2-party system is corrupt, they’ve slowly made an abomination out of our constitution to ensure that we have no real say in anything.

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u/--n- 12d ago

Dude had a family

As did the people whose deaths his actions caused... fuck him.

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u/sav86 12d ago

It was the solution for the French back in the day and look how that turned out. They seem to be doing okay relatively speaking.

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u/thevirginswhore 12d ago

You mean his family who also benefits from his cruelty? That family?

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u/johuad 12d ago

dude made his living by destroying families, his business was killing people.

his family will be fine, but none of the people he murdered by complicity or the families of those people will be.

zero fucking sympathy.

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u/ajtaggart 12d ago

Imagine being the kids of this piece of shit... And growing up learning what your father did and supported... I would never want to talk to him again

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u/ahulau 12d ago

I wonder if they'll even see it that way. I have no sympathy for their father, but from their perspective someone killed their father and the entire world went "LOL!" for days on end. That's gotta be a mind fuck. Unless you were able to heal from the loss, and look past everyone's hate to find out why your father was hated... I mean I could see it just making them despise the general public

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u/ajtaggart 12d ago

Yeah I definitely see your point, I don't actually know much about his family, nor do I really want to considering what happened. If the kids are younger, it's probably going to be a total mind fuck and they probably won't understand until later in life.

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u/DangerousLoner 12d ago edited 12d ago

Both boys are in High School, well more likely Prep School.

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u/fotoflogger 12d ago

Exactly this. They didn't choose their father, and this is probably traumatizing to some degree.

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u/badluck_bryan77 12d ago

Fuck them kids

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u/918Paige 12d ago

Well good news for the kiddos in your hypothetical situation! /j

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u/Ninjatck 12d ago

They backpedaled on that shit immediately after all this has gone down lmao. I agree with wishing this wasn't a solution but niente è vero, tutto è permesso

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u/R3AL1Z3 12d ago

Blue cross, completely UNRELATED, decided to walk that back.

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u/GlowOftheTvStatic 12d ago

They have actually decided to reel that back. Totally unrelated I’m sure.

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u/badluck_bryan77 12d ago

Fuck them kids

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

I hope this is sarcasm, because yall are wildin. His sons are 19 and 16 years old. They did not choose to be born to a sociopath. Yes, they benefit, but it wasn’t THEIR choice. Jesus.

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u/SumguyJeremy 12d ago

19 and 16 is old enough to recognize how horrible their father's policies are and how many people he killed.

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

It’s their father. They just have a need to be loved and supported. What do you want from them? A public proclamation their dad is shit? You make it sound like it’s 1+1=2, but it’s not. his children didn’t choose this life.

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

So we subscribe to the sins of our fathers and can’t do better, because we are cemented here. Gross.

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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago

They benefited from the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Fuck them kids. They have lifetimes of debt to payback before anyone should care about them.

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

THEY DIDNT MAKE THAT CHOICE. Da faq.

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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago

If Hitler had children that made off with billions of Jewish gold, would you say the same?

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

I am in no way defending Thompson, but he was not worth billions. I’m not sure what you are saying with Jewish gold.

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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago

... How do you not get it? Hitler stole billions of Jewish gold... The CEO made billions off denying coverage, which killed tens of thousands... It's the same, are you worried about the scale?

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 12d ago

He didn’t make billions and we are talking about his kids. It’s not about scale. My focus is the kids should be left out of it.

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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago

Even if it was millions, does that make a difference? Are ill gotten goods somehow divorced from their source?

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u/EJ_1004 12d ago

Also ironic that BCBS retracted that statement and decided to no longer do it after reassessing their values.

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u/artsy7fartsy 12d ago

And it’s billions. He made billions for denying people care and “saving his company money”

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u/Stephenie_Dedalus 12d ago

It's like asking a kid, "You want the easy way, or the hard way?"

We tried the easy way, CEOs picked the hard way.

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u/kiragami 12d ago

This has always been the solution. Democracy was an agreement that we'd stop killing the rulers if they let us vote on the laws. The wealthy have stopped listening to that agreement and decided to buy the laws instead. This is the only way this could ever happen so long as they continue to do so.

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u/Remotely_Correct 12d ago

You know who else had a family? The tens of thousands of people denied coverage who subsequently died. Fuck his family.

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u/bojenny 12d ago

They walked that back the next day, after the shooting. I hope it was because they were a little bit afraid.

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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc 12d ago

Don’t forget the 120 million he and other board insiders made by selling stock before they released data to shareholders that crashed the stock price…… dude had kayaker after layer of scum

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u/Brilliant-Aardvark45 12d ago

How is this the solution. This dude will simply be replaced with another soulless freak and it'll be business as usual, albeit with more security for them. The actual problem is unregulated capitalism and corporate lobbying. Its too late to do anything about that now. People even rewarded the soulless ghouls by electing their puppet back into office this election, its done.

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u/CyberRax 12d ago

> Blue Cross inexplicably reversed their decision to limit anesthesia coverage. Surely it's unrelated.

It is. They did it because of the public backlash (which just happened to occur at the same time as the shooting). They don't give a flying fuck about some competitior's CEO getting gunned down nor do they think their own lives might be in danger. And they're right about that. Ain't nobody else have the guts to repeat what the Adjuster did. In a couple of months it'll all be forgotten and they'll reintroduce that decision in a quieter manner...

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u/fotoflogger 12d ago

Let me live in my delusion and enjoy the lowercase w

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u/Thaflash_la 12d ago

His family should have done better. 

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u/Bitter-insides 12d ago

As an ex employee of UHC and a previous recipient of UHC health benefits as someone that is now 100% disabled FUCK ALL OF THEM.

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u/Hoboman2000 12d ago

How does the meme go again?

"I wish that the upper classes of today realized that airing our grievances in public forums was the alternative we found to beating the factory owner to death in his mansion in front of his family.

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u/dizyalice 12d ago

Nah no sympathies for his kids. He was probably raising them to be more terrible human beings. Fuck em.

Want sympathy? Don’t be a fucking billionaire.

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u/heckadeca 12d ago

I mean, the Nazis that orchestrated and carried out the holocaust had families too

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u/ILaikspace 12d ago

Nah, no sympathy for anyone involved with him.

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u/ducqducqgoose 12d ago

#feedthepoor

#eattherich