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[-] poo@lemmy.world 269 points 2 weeks ago

Can't remember the last time that a headline about someone being shot and killed brought a smile to my face, but here we are. Brian Thompson deserves no sympathy.

[-] Shadywack@lemmy.world 103 points 2 weeks ago

Comment's still up after an hour, yup, looks like the mods here are pretty good. I like this place. Over in /c/news the modlog is insane, looks like it'd be easier to just remove themselves from the Fediverse rather than try and remove all the comments that might hint at "celebrating violence".

[-] poo@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully it stays that way! Most communities here seem to have a fucked up version of moderation where going "I'm glad Hitler is dead" yields a ban for celebrating violence lol

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 112 points 2 weeks ago

Personally I'm glad Hitler is dead but I don't approve of the person who shot him.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago

My congratulations to Walther for their fine engineering.

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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

The thing is that none of us celebrate violence and certainly not murder, but when this is the closest thing to justice that we get for people like him?

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Id like to formally propose !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world as the new /c/news lmao

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 weeks ago

I have an old friend named Brian Thompson who is 100% not this Brian Thompson.

I feel bad for him having this guys name today and how much shit he'll hear about it.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

My college buddy has a last name of Epstein. He did not have a good time for two months straight. And my poor friend Karen now goes by Karey.

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[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

The NPR article right now on this guy is disgusting

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago

Huh, from your post I'd assumed it painted a brutal picture of him. Instead, it's basically just his family and company saying "he was such a nice man".

I expected better, NPR.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

NPR has been targeted by republicans for reporting on facts in the past few years that they've been scared shitless and now report on the most shallowest softest version of news to avoid offending anybody.

Shame, as Trump will still defund them.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Not a single mention of all the people fucked over by United Healthcare.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 260 points 2 weeks ago

FBI searching for the killer: United Healthcare denied 2.8M insurance claims in the last year and most of those people have families, so it looks like we have around 10M suspects.

[-] Shadywack@lemmy.world 98 points 2 weeks ago

Thoughts and prayers to the victims of the victim.

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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 60 points 2 weeks ago

From this year.

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[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 161 points 2 weeks ago

Thoughts and prayers are considered “out of network” on this one my dude

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 132 points 2 weeks ago

Bulletholes are actually a preexisting condition. Claim denied.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 129 points 2 weeks ago

One thing that should scare the shit out of these fuckers is that nobody is blaming it on their political enemies. Both the left and the right secretly hope it was one of their guys that did this.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 55 points 2 weeks ago

Pick any rural county, and you can find a bus load of people who’ve been screwed over or denied care by health insurance. And for those who do not have a specific, personal grudge, healthcare options in the sticks are increasingly geographic monopolies run by a single provider, with a Byzantine network of in/out network insurers.

Someone driving their mother four hours for biweekly dialysis or cancer care because the local provider is not covered is going to be pissed. A parent buying their child because the local provider ‘streamlined’ care while slashing nursing headcount is going to be a lot more than pissed.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 23 points 1 week ago

I knew healthcare was messed up but I legit didn't know how messed up until it happened to me. My daughter got put on a specialty medicine because of a relatively rare kidney condition. It had to be compounded, because she is a small child but the medicine only came in adult doses.

Aetna denied coverage, stating I had to get the medicine from CVS (which is owned by the same parent company of Aetna). CVS does not compound medicine, so we couldn't get it from them. I spent almost a full year on the phone arguing with them and around $6000 paying out of pocket before I was able to switch insurances.

I consider myself reasonable. Even in a functioning system, mistakes can happen and need to be resolved, and I spent the first month or more assuming this was just an innocent mistake. What got to me was the total lack of recourse. Day after day on the phone with people, some of whom genuinely seemed to care but could do nothing. They intentionally separate the patients from the people making decisions so that all the decision makers get is a few fields in a form, not the whole story. The people in charge are even more separated so they never have to hear anything about the people they're screwing over. And if I couldn't afford the extra $6000 burden, I just wouldn't have gotten the medicine and in the best case she would have spent that year in and out of the hospital and in the worst she wouldn't have survived the year.

I tend to think most people are decent. But the system we've built makes sure to separate people by impenetrable layers of bureaucracy to ensure that the decent people either can't do anything or never know there's a problem, while the indecent never have to be confronted with the damage they do. It's insane.

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[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the sentiment in comments I’m seeing are taking this as the working class fighting back against the ruling class. They should be scared of the 99% waking up to the fact that the 1% are not invincible and their fortunes and bunkers won’t save them.

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 123 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't even know who this guy was until a few hours ago, but holy shit I am glad he got what was coming to him, and I hope the shooter never gets caught and lives a long and prosperous (and most importantly, free) life.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 2 weeks ago

Jury nullification exists for this very reason.

Did the shooter do something illegal? Yes

But was it wrong? If I was on his jury, I'd acquit.

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[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I hope his list is just as long.

1% death squad Santa.

He's making a list.

and checking it twice.

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[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 103 points 2 weeks ago

Proceeds to play the worlds smallest violin.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 weeks ago

Here, you can borrow mine

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

Watch this be the catalyst for stricter gun control

[-] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 2 weeks ago

Lol thoughts and prayers.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Perhaps the 9mm pistol is the guillotine of the next American revolution.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NGL if there were copycat crimes targetting other health insurance CEOs, most people would probably herald the vigilantes.

Yeah murder is bad and all but these guys are responsible for so much death and pain and suffering for making a profit.

Killer here is a legit antihero. Like Dexter Morgan. In the earlier seasons.

Really I'm just picturing the scene in Dogma where Matt Daemon and Ben Affleck drop in on a Mooby's board meeting and kill nearly all of them.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago

Makes sense. 9mm is protected under the second amendment. And our incoming VP says that shootings are a way of life.

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[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 46 points 1 week ago

Didn't trump claim he could shoot someone in the streets of New York and get away with it? Maybe it was him.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 49 points 1 week ago

It's hard to imagine Trump riding a bike.

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[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 weeks ago

Now his life insurance should consider pre existing condition of being a shitbag CEO to deny it.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago

After being denied .... everyone else's premiums increased by 20%

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago

This is HORRIBLE news! I'm talking about the News about ONE person dying not the MILLIONS he Kills each year!

[-] tomsh@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

They gave him a reward, crimestopper!

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't look like anything to me.

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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity, or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant's case, that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant. Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. Nullification is not an official part of criminal procedure but is the logical consequence of two rules governing the systems in which it exists:

  1. Jurors cannot be punished for passing an incorrect verdict.

  2. In many jurisdictions, a defendant who is acquitted cannot be tried a second time for the same offense.

A jury verdict that is contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it; however, if a pattern of acquittals develops in response to repeated attempts to prosecute a particular offence, this can have the de facto effect of invalidating the law. Such a pattern may indicate public opposition to an unwanted legislative enactment. It may also happen that a jury convicts a defendant even if no law was broken, although such a conviction may be overturned on appeal. Nullification can also occur in civil trials; unlike in criminal trials, if the jury renders a not liable verdict that is clearly at odds with the evidence, the judge can issue a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or order a new trial.

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[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] uis@lemm.ee 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not as embarassing as being worse than even Russia. American tourists will receive more healthcare in Russia than american citizens in America. I don't know what you need to create universal healthcare system. Medics, academics, ministers of healthcare, communists, all above, books, equipment - anything can be provided, just please make universal healthcare in your country.

Hopefully at least this will cause some positive change to happen.

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