Anonymous wrote:I don’t glorify Luigi, but I do empathize with him. Debilitating, chronic pain mixed with the feeling of helplessness with our healthcare system is a special kind of hell.

Separately, he is too intelligent, educated and handsome to spend his entire life in prison while POSs like OJ & Rittenhouse walked and POSs like Trump get to be president (twice!). I hope his hotshot NYC lawyer can get him a lenient sentence and he is treated for whatever physical and/or mental ailments led him to this drastic and atrocious act.

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Anonymous wrote:Things are getting weird.

I think this is supposed to be a dark edgy humor thing. Gen Z is quite depressed and desensitized to violence and are not afraid of telling a messed up joke.

I didn’t click the link (do I want to see whatever it is? Probably not). Just observing that Gen X grew up practicing for the moment when someone would enter their school and gun them and their friends and teachers down. Meanwhile, they watched this very thing happen again and again to kids just like them. Month after month, year after year, for their whole lives, we as a society said “gun violence is ordinary, good luck out there.”

Desensitized? I mean…yeah. Did we think they somehow wouldn’t be?

THIS. THIS. THIS.

After mass shootings of children and other citizens going about their daily lives we've been told by the gun rights advocates that it's the "price of freedom." We have an absolutely fetishistic gun culture in this country and if you shoot the right person you can get off scot free. I am sorry Brian Thompson was killed. I am sorry for his family. I believe a crime was committed and it was wrong. But the shocked articles and hand-wringing and lecturing are over the top. We've spent over 25 years telling school kids that gun violence is just something that happens in America/it's not a big deal, what did we expect?

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Anonymous wrote:He is a jail house hottie

Him being attractive and well educated is doing him a lot of favors in the court of public opinion.

And young
And tall
And well read (but mostly newer books out, not classics).

Don’t forget rich. None of his peers have came out and can come up with a negative thing to say about him either and from the outside seems perfectly nice. He would be a perfect boyfriend to the Gen Z girls if he wasn’t a killer.

His peers are saying nice things about him because he was a nice, smart young man.

Something happened after that.

He went through a period of growth, journey, and dislocation; a transformation, whether for good or bad. Lots of people go through this type of transformation and convert, become activists, and commit to a different path. Most of them do not tip over into violence, let alone cold-blooded murder. Whether some kind of mental illness made that additional step possible, I don't know. He may have come to view the CEO as simply one-dimensional, similar to a character in a video game or in a movie, or as a collection of numbers (salary, number of denials, etc.) tied to a position, but not the living and breathing person. In some ways, this is similar to what UHC leadership does, as well as its staff: insurance participants are just a collection of numbers (age, premium, coverage limits, costs, medical codes, etc.). UHC staff and leadership make decisions about who lives and dies, too. They just don't pull the trigger.

And you know, that post about Governor Shapiro writing messages on those bombs has really stayed with me.

Anyway, Luigi murdered a man. He will do his time. There is no way he won't go to prison.

I can actually think of scenarios where he doesn’t go to prison. Jury nullification is one of them. Good luck finding 12 jurors to convict a handsome, educated, young guy who in the eyes of millions is a “modern day Robin Hood.” Fwiw, I don’t agree with that, I’m just stating what I am seeing online, including in comments under articles from reputable newspapers, leaning both left and right. Next to no sympathy for BT and massive amount of support for LM.

Not everyone thinks he’s handsome nor is he robbing the rich to give to the poor. Stop romanticizing a cold-blooded, cowardly killer. He’ll be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison.

If he does, hopefully he will get to read dcum, read books and maybe even write a book from there.

No surfing the web in prison. Book and letters only

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

How do you think he found and hired his brand new, high powered NY attorney? And who is paying for her?

Lawyers that wealthy do it for fame.
But the family has the medical records so could have too. Who cares. He’s in prison forever and will be on drugs forever too so he doesn’t flip out on himself or others again.

Anonymous wrote:"A gunman, who investigators tell CNN was waiting for some time before Thompson’s arrival, opened fire from 20 feet away firing multiple times, striking Thompson. The 50-year-old was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the NYPD"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-healthcare-death/index.html

I'd be shocked if that weren't targeted unless the facts are very different than what's being reported now.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

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Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

Not a lawyer so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Can he “plea” out early for a lower sentence so they can avoid the media attention from the trial? Apparently the minimum sentence for his conviction is 15 years to life with parole.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

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Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

I think the odds of him being alive in a year are unfortunately slim.

What an odd thing to say. If he’s still alive after being on the run, why would he die in the next year?

Suicided.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

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Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

I think the odds of him being alive in a year are unfortunately slim.

What an odd thing to say. If he’s still alive after being on the run, why would he die in the next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we stop portraying Thompson as this aw shucks Midwestern husband and father? He had been living apart from his wife for years, was being investigated for insider trading, and probably had to step on at least 50 people to get his job

Not to mention all the people dead because of his policies.

You mean dead because companies buy crap plans for their employees and then blame the insurer? You mean dead because hospitals and doctors upcode and charge ridiculous prices for mere moments of clinicians time? You mean dead because doctors and surgeons continual prescribe meds and procedures that people don’t need and in some cases could kill them? There’s so many fingers in the pie my man. If hospitals and doctors acted appropriately there would be no need for the insurance companies.

Give it up, health insurance shill. Nobody buys the nonsense you are selling.

Wow the depth of your rebuttal is breathtaking. Guess that’s what you do when you have no rebuttal.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

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Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

I think the odds of him being alive in a year are unfortunately slim.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

+1

Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand people not feeling moved by the grief of the UBC CEO’s kids but I have to say surprised people aren’t feeling some empathy about Luigi’s parents, whose incredibly bright and promising son has messed up his life beyond repair in the midst of a mental decompensation.

I feel sorry for Luigi and his family, yes.

Luigi can rot but i feel sorry for his family who were probably unable to help him.

+1

Agree, Pretty boy can rot.

Schizophrenia is awful and dangerous. If that is what he’s going through, I would like to see him get the help he needs and get out of prison in a couple of decades, after serving some time.

Won’t get out of prison. Will have a “nicer” prison if truly hearing voices and nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we stop portraying Thompson as this aw shucks Midwestern husband and father? He had been living apart from his wife for years, was being investigated for insider trading, and probably had to step on at least 50 people to get his job

Not to mention all the people dead because of his policies.

You mean dead because companies buy crap plans for their employees and then blame the insurer? You mean dead because hospitals and doctors upcode and charge ridiculous prices for mere moments of clinicians time? You mean dead because doctors and surgeons continual prescribe meds and procedures that people don’t need and in some cases could kill them? There’s so many fingers in the pie my man. If hospitals and doctors acted appropriately there would be no need for the insurance companies.

Give it up, health insurance shill. Nobody buys the nonsense you are selling.

Wow the depth of your rebuttal is breathtaking. Guess that’s what you do when you have no rebuttal.