Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome BlackRock CEO?
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Is Mr Fink aware of the fate of the last CEO who tried to extract profits from those in need? Because I'm starting to think he and his lot are asking for a refresher on the matter.
Hello my American friends, as an observer from outside, it looks to me like you all need some of that "democracy" you've been bombing across the world for decades.
More than half of us agree with you but overcoming the inertia necessary to change our current condition of minority-majority rule is apparently going to take some kind of political (if not literal*) bomb.
*Not advocating violence, just feeling hopeless about the likelihood that we meaningfully change things at this point through anything short of an actual revolution.
It's very difficult to use logic and try to reason with hatred. Majority of people genuinely want to settle disputes peacefully but it's getting harder and harder to deny that's simply not going to work against a minority of loud, angry and ignorant people cheering on a demagogue.
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I know it doesn't matter because money, but in what world does Blackrock have any semblance of standing to sue?
If they're shareholders, they probably have standing to sue over lost shareholder value or some such bullshit like that
according to the supreme court standing is no longer required
Hooray for laws that make it your legal responsibility to maximise profits for shareholders! Those are doing such amazing things for the overall public good!
/s just in case
The Punchline That Isn’t Funny
BlackRock will probably win this lawsuit. Or settle for millions. Either way, they’ll extract value from a system designed to extract life from patients.
They’re not just suing UnitedHealth — they’re suing the very idea that health insurance should provide health insurance. They’re fighting for their constitutional right to profit when people die and lose money when people live.
Welcome to American healthcare, where caring too much is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Dear Sweet Mother of God, this article does not hold back on the biting truth.
It's a worthwhile read with only one small mistake contained within:
Luigi Mangione didn’t just kill a CEO
There is no reliable evidence to suggest Mr. Mangione killed anyone. And I, for one, remain convinced he did not do that deed.
There is no reliable evidence to suggest Mr. Mangione killed anyone.
I'm so sick of everyone making me repeat myself with this:
Luigi was.
With me.
The morning.
Of the murder.
He physically could not have committed the crime from another location. We were setting up for our friend's dad's birthday party and he was busy getting the balloons ready.
Not guilty.
Can confirm, I was there too. It was an early one and we had to get him up, I remember; that guy could sleep through like fifteen alarms.
Like Brian Thompson, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, is one of the people that Luigi Mangione didn't kill.
Thank you for this link. Goodness, this guy is a horrible human being.
I keep coming back to this, but why do the evil twisted fucks behind evil PURE evil shit always have comedic "cartoon villain" names like fucking Fink?!
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I'm pretty sure a piano fell on that guy.
Hope Mangione is found innocent and he suits the shit out off all the media companies that declared guilty without any proof.
I'm fully convinced that if it ever starts looking like he might legitimately walk, he'll be Epstein'd. They want to keep that option for last resorts only because they understand the optics behind it, but I'm sure it's not completely off the table.
I doubt it in this case. He's not holding onto any secrets that he might spill. Killing him is only to their advantage if it sends a message "don't mess with us or you'll die". That works if he's convicted and executed, that doesn't work if it's seen as "a company will just assassinate you". They'd have to keep the assassination a secret, which would defeat the purpose.
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Sounds like they're admitting the CEO murder brought about a good change. We should do it more often 🙂
We saw what was a perfect three-word alliteration as found on certain shell casings for a healthcare CEO, but what comparable three-word alliteration would be suitable for an asset manager? I don't know...
"Too much care" is great if you're fine with passing up on the alliteration
I am also wondering that, you know, to make up something when the people who Extract all the value from society, Extinguish all alternatives to their monopolies are Eliminated.
That was so very well said! Yes, yes!