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When it's your job to profit off of human misery, don't be surprised when you find out what human misery feels like.
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.
Oh shit, he was elected Homecoming King?? Well that changes everything.
He won a popularity contest at a dance when he was a teenager. This means he was a good person.
I have good memories of Brian Thompson. grabs a pipe for a good solemn smoke
Why I remember when he was there on a cross next to Jesus himself, comforting the poor messiah. He actually got into the business hoping that less people would die of crucifixion related injures. It's why he declined so many people, the money had to be there so that if they crucified Christ again his old friend would recover this time.
No I'm just fucking with you. Brian was a mass murderer and his passing is not mourned, not even by the billionaires. They don't give a shit about Thompson, they're just worried they could be next.
Also is that really his picture? I'm not one to judge people for their appearances, but I'm not sure they could find a douchier looking picture of him if they tried.
This is a better one, DUI in 2017:
He had to have been the best drunk driver I knew!
He was innocent I tell you, he was just drinking a nice bottle of water to keep his hydration up. So it turned into wine at some point, why should we lock a man up for witnessing the miracles of our Lord and Savior....
....God I wish I believed in God....
Anyone can drink and drive, but it’s so “pedestrian”. You can only cut short like what, 50-60 lives. It takes a special talent to hurt or kill millions
Wasn't there a reddit post about this guy and how he was like a womanizer or something and he and his wife have been separated for years, basically saying this guy wasn't the pillar of humanity the media was making him out to be? If there was a post, was any of that true?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/slain-healthcare-ceos-life-airbrushed
No idea about cheating or a womanizer, but he and his wife were separated for years. He had a DUI, was sued for fraud, and possibly engaged in insider trading.
Yeah, he came drom humble beginnings, but he didn’t stay humble.
I can't find it but wouldn't surprise me.
So ambitious small town guy with no empathy or ethics moved up the chain until he profited off the pain and suffering of others. I'm sure many of these trash humans trying to praise him have never had to worry about how they were going to stay alive. You notice they are all just like him. Trash.
So it takes 1 generation to become a class traitor.
Robert Sterling eh? makes note
One of the big lies that the elites tell themselves is that anyone and everyone of merit with be lifted to their rightful station in society. They need this illusion because otherwise, they'll have to face the fact that their success is just based on birth circumstances. They latched on the the few working class slobs that somehow navigate up the rungs of society.
But what exactly did Brian Thompson achieve with his success? Did he funnel his excess wealth back to the community he came from? No, he just accumulated wealth like all the rest.
Also, pretty sure he was cheating on his wife and doing insider trading, which checks out with the elites.
If we really have a society where everyone is lifted to their rightful station... Then someone really needs to explain to me why anyone is homeless? Why any child goes hungry? Your average trailer park and 50 bucks in Food Stamps is still well below what the worst of us deserves.
If you ask the elites, it is because "Because you're all lazy bas'!".
It's their prosperity gospel. They think that being poor is a sign that you've lived a sinful, wrongful life and their wealth is a sign that they've lived a righteous life. Why do you think whenever some poor person(or immigrate) commits a heinous crime, mainsteam media puts them on blast, but when a CEO does something that can be calculated to cause may times more harm, it's ignore or even praised?
What's worse? A single rape committed by a vagrant or a health insurance company denying 100 rape kits? What's going to get more coverage on the nightly news? I'm sure those news anchors believe that they're where they are purely though their individual merit.
I suggest checking out this dudes twitter posts. He is truly the worst of us - on par with the binned CEO. Fuck you Robert Sterling.
I virtually have the same background as this dipshit except that I didn't become a fucking awful ghoul. I'm not impressed.
Bet you also don't drive drunk too.
I hope the media will speak about luigi mangiones parents and his love interest once he is punished by the law.
It was reported that he didn't even live with his wife. If that's true, why are we talking about his failed family?
To try to make us feel guilty for cheering his demise.
"HE HAD A FAMILY!!111"
I don't care if his kid was Tiny Tim who's now spending every second of Christmas in debilitating agony, tears streaming down his face till his ducts run dry.
It doesn't change that because of this monster we call Brian Thompson, thousands of people who "had families" died from diseases that could have been cured with the simplest of anti-biotics, but saving money was just THAT important to this Butcher of the ill and broken.
The man was accountable for creating Tiny Tims because his company denied claims.
Media shilled whatever they could to make the working class develop sympathy for this lion of business administration
This is linkedin, it's ai generated.
Imagine what a fucking cuck you would have to be to actually post on LinkedIn.
Robert Sterling CFO | M&A and Strategy Advisor
Mergers and Acquisitions… Another soulless capitalist whose only purpose is to:
If he's not ai, he should be 2nd against the wall. I mean...it won't happen, but it would be nice.
So what you're saying is he's on the List.
IMO, a “decent man” would have turned down working in a company that made health into a profit-making machine. He would have at least resigned when AI was pushed forward to deny even more medical claims, but instead gave his blessing. One can be evil and deadly without having to pull a trigger, look at the ton of politicians that do it daily and they get away with it because they look polished.
I would have taken the job and tried to not be the leader in denied claims. Truth be told, I would probably funnel my excess income to single player supporting politicians.
There’s a lot of distance between an executive and those whose lives they impact. It’s probably too easy to forget there are people involved, and just pay attention to the numbers
Unless you're a piece of shit, I imagine that would not last very long before you became disillusioned.
Probably, but I could always kick the lantern over on my way out. I'm already pretty disillusioned from how I was treated in school anyway.
Some of them also fuck children and get elected anyway.
Yeah, this rural kid from Iowa grew up to be an evil parasite on society. This isn't the flex you think it is.
