Some say he rode a pale e-bike

  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I understand the word play and see the effort making the corresponding image, but the glorification of this person is not acceptable for me. There’s a line between malicious joy and glorification or open call for violence. Even in meme format. Maybe I’m the party pooper here, but I can’t grasp the collective hate the last days.

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      16 days ago

      Exactly. I, an everyday normal person just like you, think that murdering CEOs is bad. I am definitely not saying that because I am a CEO of a health insurance company. It is important that health insurance CEOs be spared, and not at all for personal reasons! We- i mean they deserve to live. This is an opinion that all normal everyday people - of which I certainly am one myself - should share.

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      16 days ago

      people don’t like a boot on their head. in a broken system violence often is the answer. the outpouring of support you’re seeing for our new folk hero is the collective masses cheering one less fucking boot on their head.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      the glorification of this person is not acceptable for me

      Why did you click on this post then?

      but I can’t grasp the collective hate the last days

      How many people died early because their insurance claims were denied and they could not access life saving medical care?

      How many people lost relatives who were screwed by this evil company?

      How many people were forced to live with debilitating conditions because insurance decided not to cover a procedure that would significantly improve their lives?

      How many people were bankrupted after getting emergency care only to find out the claim was denied and they’re on the hook for the ridiculously inflated cost that the hospital charged them? (If you don’t know: Hospitals in the US charge orders of magnitudes more for medical treatment than the treatment actually cost, because insurance companies will only pay a fraction of what they’re quoted, but if you don’t have insurance and/or you’re denied coverage, you’re actually on the hook for the entire amount because you alone have no negotiating power.)

      How many were exploited for that CEO’s profit? How many more have to be?

      He caused real, material harm to millions of people. His victims shed no tears for him and understandably feel vindicated.

      Imagine you give your hard earned money to an insurance company every month of your life, and they promise to have your back should you need medical care, but the one time you need them to do the one thing you’ve been paying them for and they’ve been promising you, they decide to just not do that and tell you to go fuck yourself, you’ll probably harbour some hatred toward their leadership.

      A medical insurance company behaving like this is on a whole other level of scummy than most types of corporate price gouging out there. This isn’t just charging too much money for a subpar product, it left millions of people with worse than nothing. If they had no insurance plan and just put the monthly payments in a box as an emergency fund, they would at least have had that money to pay for the medical procedures they needed. Instead this company took that money and gave them a middle finger when they desperately needed it back. Its sole function for millions of people was to be a parasite that stole their savings with the empty promise of helping them should they fall ill. This backstabing vile scum preyed on the human desire for a safety net and refused to give them that safety net when the time came.

      That’s the reason for the collective hate.

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Maybe you’d understand better, if you or someone you love had to suffer from arbitrarily denied UHC insurance claims.
      For some this action seems to be a drastic move to hold someone accountable for the pain he caused, who couldn’t be held accountable though other means.

  • zippythezigzag@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    It was just Eithan Arelius veiled again.

    (I hope that at least one person gets this reference. It’s too good to go to waste.)

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I’ve never seen or heard that variant of that name. In my head it sounds like it’s pronounced like someone with a heavy southern drawl saying the name “Ethan”.

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        17 days ago

        I’ll try to put the name in the way it’s pronounced. Hopefully this works…

        A-th-an Uh-rail-lee-us

        It’s from the Cradle book series by Will Wight.