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    The only thing that’s alarming is that congress hasn’t nationalized private healthcare companies in response to this.

    These acts of defense will surely surely continue until their mass murder is put to an end.

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    Ya know what’s extremely alarming? Children dying of preventable causes because an insurance exec and their board want more profit. What’s not alarming? A CEO became another statistic.

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    It’s upsetting to CEOs to know that we see them, the same way as they see us. Expendable. Very tragic, thoughts and prayers.

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    Brian Thompson is a mass murderer. Luigi only killed one person therefore possibly saving many more lives. And they want us to think Luigi is the bad guy?

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    What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.

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    Why do they keep framing him as a father as if that should make us feel empathy?

    Osama bin Laden was a father to 23 fucking kids.

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      Unconscious pronatalist bias.

      People don’t talk about it much, but there’s an unconscious tendency to give more sympathy to parents. There’s a million reasons why this happens but I’m not gonna go there.

      The media is pretty heavy handed with this manipulation because it usually works. Any article about a murdered woman mentions if she’s a mother, and if not it’s “she didn’t get to have kids yet.” It gets lots of clicks.

      That CEO is so disgusting that they can’t even activate people’s unconscious biases and the media is panicking because they’ve lost control. It’s kinda impressive and funny tbh.

      Side note - I’m not an antinatalist or anything, I’m just a philosophy/sociology nerd.

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      The fucking asshoke fucked over and denied care to fucking children with cancer.

      He also fucked over who knows how many other people, many of whom were also parents.

      The all had family. And he fucked then all over without a single moment of regret.

      His kids get to inherit his blood money. So fuck them too.

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    “Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity

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    so it’s very alarming, but not so much as to even mention the underlying reason for the rhetoric

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    On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/

    Thompson was a rich 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs. That includes you Mayorkas, so thats enough with your complaints.

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      I feel like, if nothing else, Luigi chose his target extraordinarily well. Other than being a father, which just about anyone with testicles can do, Thompson doesn’t seem to have done one redeeming thing.

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        Well don’t forget that he came from the middle class and so intimately knew their struggles and turned his back on them and became a class traitor.

        I mean… hold on let me put on my capitalism glasses… “he achieved the American dream”

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          Well as he was separated and not living with his wife and kids, I suspect he likely wasn’t a great partner/father either.