Luigi Mangione is not a hero. You celebrate him because you’re ignorant. You’re anti rich people and you hate CEOs so you cheer for the murder of someone you’re programmed to hate. You never heard of Brian Thompson before he was murdered, you just cheer his murder because “CEO” and “UnitedHealthcare.”
But you don’t understand that Mangione did not do anything that will result in a positive change. UnitedHealthcare is still UnitedHealthcare. Nothing about its operations will change. Thompson will be replaced and they will continue to operate as usual.
Brian Thompson didn’t even has much control over the company as you believe and Unitedhealthcare isn’t hurt by his murder.
In your hatred you forget that Brian Thompson was a human being who did not deserve to get gunned down in the streets just because he was the CEO of an insurance company.
Mangione did not make a positive change. The world is not a better place without Brian Thompson. UnitedHealthcare isn’t changing or going anywhere. The people most impacted by this loss are Brian Thompson’s wife and children.
Luigi Mangione is a cold blooded murderer who killed a husband and father and if you revel in this murder just because the victim was a CEO you are actually celebrating evil and you need to reexamine how it is you have to stooped to a level that allows you to celebrate murder because you have issues with the status a person holds in society.
Death is death.
But saying this act hasn't echoed in the right places is ... a bit blind. The fact is, he was not a good man. The policies he pushed most probably caused immense suffering, and many thousands of deaths. After all, they made $14 billion dollars in profits last year, and the new CEO wrote that they are ripe for growth this year. That means that $14 billion that could've gone to life saving treatments in a timely manner to the ill who paid for them, instead went ino their pockets.
He was CEO, and he let it happen, signed policies that he knew would mean death, keeping his eyes on the bottom line.
He was not a good person, but he is only the bottom rung of a far nastier ladder of corruption and runaway greed.
That kid is no hero. But what he did has made the right people a little uneasy to make such rash decisions about life and death, thinking we're so beat down and distracted we won't fight back. People are paying a little more attention now.
It is what it is. The healthcare crisis in the US has reached a deadly fever pitch - so much so even staunch conservatives can't explain it away. What are the moral, bloddshedfree next steps when so many are denied cancer meds, or a life saving organ transplants last minute, or even affordable insulin/epipens?
When you're fighting amoral, evil monsters, sometimes the high road will get you nowhere.
They're treading on us. Tell me, what do we do??
[Signed, another americangirl]
