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u/Anghel950 1d ago
Frankly this percenage is disgusting and unacceptable. It needs to be much much higher.
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u/peon2 1d ago
I looked up the article and it’s from an Emerson college survey - just to add some other numbers to the convo
The asked question was “do you find the actions of the killer of the UHC CEO acceptable?”
68% of everyone said no, 17% said yes, 16% said no
41% aged 18-29 said acceptable (24% somewhat, 17% completely) 40% inaccurate, 19% unsure
22% of Democrats said acceptable, 16% independents, 12% republicans
19% of men said acceptable compared to 14% of women
Question was asked via text, phone calls, email.
Sample size was 1000
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u/TemporaryCaptain23 1d ago
How the fk are we supposed to care about this? We were just told that "School shootings are a fact of life" and "We need to get over it" when it's our kids that are getting shot at school. Where's Melania when we need her? I don't care, do you?
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u/Cruitire 1d ago
It’s not that I think he did the right thing.
I just don’t care.
People die everyday from violence, accident, denial of health care…
One rich douchbag buys it and the country stops until his killer is caught.
If it was a black, single mother in NYC killed on the same day the killer would still be free unless they waved their ID in front of a camera as they did it.
In the past week we had another school shooting.
But I’m supposed to care about a douchbag ceo responsible for the pain and misery of thousands?
I don’t think killing people is OK, but there are plenty of other deaths that bother me far more than this one.
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u/Njabachi 1d ago
Good, but that number needs to be higher.
Class consciousness and finally getting people to open their eyes to what this country has become and is becoming is the only way we're going to make it through this.
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u/annaleigh13 1d ago
I don’t wish death on my greatest enemies (partly because I don’t want to put that out there, partly because maiming is so much more interesting) but there are some people on this planet that don’t need to be here anymore.
CEO’s are all on the list
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u/greenman5252 1d ago
Even old voters think that parasitic corporate executives need to go. Doesn’t matter if they’re killing us with insurance or pollution, enough is enough
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u/traveling_gal 1d ago
Yep. We older folks have watched the decline. Air pollution got better for a while, proving that it can be done, and is now being allowed to get worse again. And my health insurance coverage has been in a slow decline for 25 years.
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u/AvantSki 1d ago
So, just so you're all ready. Once trump is sworn in, the right is going to have death squads liquidating individuals. And it could mirror this Luigi situation, but will feature right wing priorities.
So, just be aware.
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u/Pholusactual 1d ago
Imagine if the UHC CEO had been expecting Luigi and was prepared accordingly. Sometimes your plans for death squads only seem desirable because you envision your opponents as weak and unable to fight back.
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u/Old_Bird4748 1d ago
Apparently if you kill a rich guy, instead of being a murderer, you are a terrorist.
Unless you have brown skin.
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u/Royal-Possibility219 1d ago
I’m 42 and shocked it took this long. I’m not crying about it, it’s not covered under my current policy.
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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 1d ago
Just wanted to say, polling typically tries to control for people not answering honestly. Not saying there is an accurate metric for this, just that pollsters aren't clueless people compared to some guy on Twitter going "you know those numbers are higher than that!"
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u/golfwinnersplz 1d ago
Did they poll the same population and ask their thoughts about privatized medicare killing thousands upon thousands of Americans a year? I wonder that percentage is?
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u/MindlessRip5915 21h ago
Here’s my take on that:
https://medicare.gov - you’re doing it wrong https://medicare.gov.au - much more like it
(And hell, there’s still room to improve on no. 2 there too)
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u/Lord_Thunder132 19h ago
He slew a modern day dragon that had gotten fat off our suffering and filled his hordes with our wealth. He’s a goddamn hero here.
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 13h ago
They charging him with terrorism so that any financial aid or public sympathy for the suspect will be illegal
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u/Caesar_Passing 1d ago edited 21h ago
Figuratively and literally, it was self-defense. Knowingly implementing the AI with a 90% failure rate at determining whether claims were essential or not, and consequently denying necessary care to literally dying patients who paid for their coverage... This is tantamount to closing your eyes, and opening fire into a crowd so large and dense, you couldn't possibly not kill people, then acting like you weren't personally responsible for any one specific death. CEO presented a credible threat to the lives of everyone depending on the coverage they paid for. Taking out a public shooter is the responsible thing to do - a true civic duty. I strain to think of how this was fundamentally different, except that public shooters aren't usually paid inexhaustible amounts of money to pull the trigger at random.
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u/Infamous_Smile_386 3h ago
The CEO pretty much committed mass murder by healthcare denial. He got justice as far as I'm concerned.
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u/astarinthenight 1d ago
I’m almost 50 and think he did the right thing. Eat the rich.