mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Ok, then lets convince them.
We already know they do not like the current system.
United Healthcare CEO killed in Midtown NYC; Luigi Mangione in custody of NYPD awaiting trial
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We already know they do not like the current system.
They don’t like the system you’re proposing either
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
it never been put forth to the nation in a bill, so we don't know that.
What I do admire is you are too afraid to try for universal healthcare.
1/11
@INDIEWASHERE
not the felon talking about how it’s bad to like criminals
[Quoted tweet]
Donald Trump shares opinion on Luigi Mangione:
“How people can like this guy…that’s a sickness.”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1868711810649485312/vid/avc1/1280x720/nOCg2KNs7JekLCAJ.mp4
2/11
@notverygoth
according to america, you aren’t a criminal if you commit crimes and are visibly white. apparently that’s just a “patriot.”
3/11
@brownnsunn04
here comes the felon supporters
4/11
@jdarnell66
Still trying to ride that train? It's old and nobody pays attention to the "felon" thing.
5/11
@theandrewkase
I wouldn’t be surprised if he, or any of his rich friends, are next!
6/11
@lochhead
2025 is going to be a (very) tough year for you
7/11
@TommyS24999083
The felon response is getting old and nobody cares about the Trumped up charges ....Please get a clue.
8/11
@jreed
Not a terrorist nation supporter complaining about some business documents
9/11
@gtrxman
fukking idiot has an opinion
10/11
@tylerasonofgod
u are following the mob mentality moron
11/11
@castilloadina1
The left made a m*rder a fashion craze!
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@INDIEWASHERE
not the felon talking about how it’s bad to like criminals
[Quoted tweet]
Donald Trump shares opinion on Luigi Mangione:
“How people can like this guy…that’s a sickness.”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1868711810649485312/vid/avc1/1280x720/nOCg2KNs7JekLCAJ.mp4
2/11
@notverygoth
according to america, you aren’t a criminal if you commit crimes and are visibly white. apparently that’s just a “patriot.”
3/11
@brownnsunn04
here comes the felon supporters
4/11
@jdarnell66
Still trying to ride that train? It's old and nobody pays attention to the "felon" thing.
5/11
@theandrewkase
I wouldn’t be surprised if he, or any of his rich friends, are next!
6/11
@lochhead
2025 is going to be a (very) tough year for you
7/11
@TommyS24999083
The felon response is getting old and nobody cares about the Trumped up charges ....Please get a clue.
8/11
@jreed
Not a terrorist nation supporter complaining about some business documents
9/11
@gtrxman
fukking idiot has an opinion
10/11
@tylerasonofgod
u are following the mob mentality moron
11/11
@castilloadina1
The left made a m*rder a fashion craze!
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‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets used to killed UnitedHealthcare CEO
The cryptic message found on the bullet casings at the scene of the Midtown murder could refer to the ‘the three D’s of insurance’ — deny, delay, and defend — which is also the title of a book critical of the insurance industry
‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets used to killed UnitedHealthcare CEO
Kelly Rissman
Wed, December 11, 2024 at 9:59 AM EST·3 min read
‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets used to killed UnitedHealthcare CEO
The 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it has become a bestseller on Amazon in the week since the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The book’s title is reminiscent of the three words carved into the bullet casings — “deny,” “defend,” “depose” — found on the Midtown Manhattan street where 50-year-old Thompson was fatally shot on December 4. Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with murder in connection to Thompson’s death.
Investigators believed the cryptic words found on the bullet casings alluded to “the three D’s of insurance” — deny, delay, defend — which are tactics that critics say insurers use to avoid paying claims.
As of Wednesday, one week after the murder, Jay Feinman’s 14-year-old book skyrocketed to the top of Amazon’s insurance law category. The book is an “expose of insurance injustice and a plan for consumers and lawmakers to fight back” and includes stories from dozens of Americans who were “unfairly denied payment,” the description says
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, poses shortly after being discovered by police at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Reuters)
The insurance executive’s death and Mangione’s arrest have sparked wide-ranging reactions across the country and fueled conversations about the health care system, with some celebrating the killing as a statement encapsulating Americans’ grievances with the industry. UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest health care networks in the country, insures nearly 30 million Americans, according to its website.
Mangione’s friends have said that the 26-year-old suffered from chronic back pain that interfered with his romantic life and ability to surf in Hawaii, where he had been living, the New York Times reported. He underwent surgery on his spine in 2023 and disappeared shortly thereafter. Just two weeks before the Manhattan attack, his mother reported him missing, the San Francisco Standard reported.
Thompson’s “targeted” death sparked a nationwide manhunt. Police pieced together the suspect’s movements and circulated photos of him. Six days later, a McDonald’s employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania recognized a customer nibbling on hash browns from NYPD’s photos, leading to the arrest of Mangione.
‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ has become an unexpected bestseller in the wake on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder (Penguin)
Mangione was carrying “multiple fraudulent IDs,” a ghost gun, a suppressor, clothes and masks, all of which were “consistent with” the suspected shooter, NYPD said following his arrest Monday. He also had a handwritten three-page manifesto that “speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” police added.
Mangione faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with Thompson’s death in New York and forgery and gun charges in Pennsylvania.
At an extradition hearing on Tuesday, a judge denied him bail and the 26-year-old contested extradition to New York. He will remain at a Pennsylvania jail as the extradition process plays out.
“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!” he shouted after exiting a police car.
Amazon keeps having to pull ‘deny, defend, depose’ merch from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
www.independent.co.uk
Amazon keeps having to pull merch related to Brian Thompson’s murder from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
Graig GraziosiSaturday 14 December 2024 10:58 GMT
Related video: Luigi Mangione: What we know about United Healthcare CEO shooting suspect
Amazon has been racing to remove merchandise sympathetic to the gunman accused of killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from its online marketplace.
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, on Monday in Pennsylvania.
Merchandise with the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" — the words reportedly written on the bullets used in the shooting of Thompson — have been cropping up on Amazon items like hoodies, mugs, caps, pint glasses, and more, according to the Washington Post.
Some have taken the three words to be a reference to the 2010 book “Delay, Defend, Deny: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.”
The book is critical of the privatized and profit-driven US healthcare industry. It is now sold out on several online book retailers.
Amazon isn't the only retailer to experience an influex of merchandise related to the shooting, with Etsy, eBay, TikTok and other online marketplaces also impacted.
Amazon told the Washington Post is was removing merchandise using the phrase, claiming it violates their guidelines.
Amazon did not specify which guidelines were violated by the products.
The Washington Post asked eBay about the items available on its platform. The online auction site said that items with the phrase "deny, defend, depose" are not banned, but "items that glorify or incite violence, including those that celebrate the recent murder of...Thompson, are prohibited."
GoFundMe has also had to pull pages made in support of the suspected gunman.
An spokesperson for the charitable platform told The Independent: “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes. The fundraisers have been removed from our platform and all donors have been refunded.”
The merchandise and fundraising efforts reflect the mood seen among some social media users, who have used the shooting of the health insurance executive as launchpad for broader criticisms of the US healthcare industry in general.
A report by NBC News found that “internet slueths” who typically would jump at the chance to track down a criminal alongside their followers were sitting out the manhunt for Thompson’s killer. One, a woman named Savannah Sparks, wrote that she and her community were sitting out the search, but would offer up “concepts of thoughts and prayers.”
“It’s, you know, claim denied on my prayers there,” she said, clearly referencing the denial of healthcare insurance claims.
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, arrives for his arraignment at Blair County Court House in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania (via REUTERS)
Healthcare costs in the US far outpace inflation, and the for-profit model used in the US incentivizes companies to reject claims rather than ensure customers receive treatment.
According to KFF, a leading health policy organization, some insurers reject nearly one in five claims made by consumers. Medical bankruptcy is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Mangione made an appearance Blair County Courthouse, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. He was denied bail at the hearing and is fighting extradition back to New York.
Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
Manhattan DA's office went with terrorism. Wow. If this is a viable prosecution path, if they are willing to take this swing, Southern District will file similar one.
But on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Mr. Mangione’s actions were “in furtherance of an act of terrorism.” They were, prosecutors said, “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population” and to “affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder.”
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Amazon keeps having to pull ‘deny, defend, depose’ merch from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
www.independent.co.uk
Amazon keeps having to pull merch related to Brian Thompson’s murder from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
Graig GraziosiSaturday 14 December 2024 10:58 GMT
Related video: Luigi Mangione: What we know about United Healthcare CEO shooting suspect
Amazon has been racing to remove merchandise sympathetic to the gunman accused of killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from its online marketplace.
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, on Monday in Pennsylvania.
Merchandise with the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" — the words reportedly written on the bullets used in the shooting of Thompson — have been cropping up on Amazon items like hoodies, mugs, caps, pint glasses, and more, according to the Washington Post.
Some have taken the three words to be a reference to the 2010 book “Delay, Defend, Deny: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.”
The book is critical of the privatized and profit-driven US healthcare industry. It is now sold out on several online book retailers.
Amazon isn't the only retailer to experience an influex of merchandise related to the shooting, with Etsy, eBay, TikTok and other online marketplaces also impacted.
Amazon told the Washington Post is was removing merchandise using the phrase, claiming it violates their guidelines.
Amazon did not specify which guidelines were violated by the products.
The Washington Post asked eBay about the items available on its platform. The online auction site said that items with the phrase "deny, defend, depose" are not banned, but "items that glorify or incite violence, including those that celebrate the recent murder of...Thompson, are prohibited."
GoFundMe has also had to pull pages made in support of the suspected gunman.
An spokesperson for the charitable platform told The Independent: “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes. The fundraisers have been removed from our platform and all donors have been refunded.”
The merchandise and fundraising efforts reflect the mood seen among some social media users, who have used the shooting of the health insurance executive as launchpad forbroader criticisms of the US healthcare industry in general.
A report by NBC News found that “internet slueths” who typically would jump at the chance to track down a criminal alongside their followers were sitting out the manhunt for Thompson’s killer. One, a woman named Savannah Sparks, wrote that she and her community were sitting out the search, but would offer up “concepts of thoughts and prayers.”
“It’s, you know, claim denied on my prayers there,” she said, clearly referencing the denial of healthcare insurance claims.
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, arrives for his arraignment at Blair County Court House in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania (via REUTERS)
Healthcare costs in the US far outpace inflation, and the for-profit model used in the US incentivizes companies to reject claims rather than ensure customers receive treatment.
According to KFF, a leading health policy organization, some insurers reject nearly one in five claims made by consumers. Medical bankruptcy is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Mangione made an appearance Blair County Courthouse, Pennsylvania,on Tuesday. He was denied bail at the hearing and is fighting extradition back to New York.
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Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
wow this is disgusting, they're calling him a terrorist
Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.www.nytimes.com
wow this is disgusting, they're calling him a terrorist
The prosecutors have their mandate, I don't think it's reasonable to cal lit unfair, if this was some other CEO of Goldman or something, they would absolutely do the same, and no one would take as much issue. Pretty sure they charged some Iranian dissonant plot in Brooklyn like that in 2022. Federal case but same kinda of thing.
That is an outrageous fukking charge. The jury better shut that shyt down.Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
Manhattan DA's office went with terrorism. Wow. If this is a viable prosecution path, if they are willing to take this swing, Southern District will file similar one.
But on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Mr. Mangione’s actions were “in furtherance of an act of terrorism.” They were, prosecutors said, “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population” and to “affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder.”
So they want the new standard to be: a wealthy person/CEO gets killed = terrorism; "regular" person getting killed is simple murder.
1/61
@charise_lee
Gen Z enters the chat
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1867375775600754688/pu/vid/avc1/576x1024/63uzJBh_T3RZOJ1C.mp4
2/61
@InstaMntalMasta
Y’all need to understand the guy was finna speak at a conference. He was likely going to say something the elite ruling class didn’t want him to say. They flipped the script and y’all bought in completely. Sad how easy it is to propagandize people today. Old people knew you can’t believe everything you see on TV but kids believe everything they see on the internet that validates their beliefs.
3/61
@Christo38886665
To be fair, Brian Thompson was not wearing his bulletproof backpack.
4/61
@RHEN_TRC
A lot of adults can’t comprehend that some schools have shooter drills where they don’t let the students know it’s a drill for minutes. It’s psychological torture. They want sympathy for a corporate serial killer in a mercenary culture full of guns.
5/61
@DOMINIONVT
We used to have FIRE DRILLLS! Not school shooter drills. Like suprise suprise
6/61
@InstaMntalMasta
At least half gen Z is already cooked
7/61
@TracyLinco
Gen Z's been raised w/gun violence; but, I'd like to point out something that many of them don't realize;
IT'S THE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS WHO ARE DOING NOTHING TO PREVENT THESE SHOOTINGS! They're receiving $$ from the NRA to support guns!
DEM'S ARE TRYING TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS!
8/61
@sol_roi
Yeah, older people in media and politics ask themselves, “Who desensitized these kids?” Uh … look in the mirror.
9/61
@ModeratelyMused
It breaks my heart that kids going through school just a few years after me were forced to deal with so much shyt I couldn’t ever imagine. It’s psychotic, it’s not normal and it isn’t fair.
10/61
@LordQueso
Gen X here, enjoying a cheeseburger
11/61
@Lemehol_A_dollA
Kids say “nikkas die every day B”
12/61
@hasbro79
They are the idiots shooting each other
13/61
@Vraghubir1
Pretty sure gen z voted for this year. The complete opposite of " opposition to gun violence" is going to the Whitehouse.
14/61
@Polterzeitgeitz
To be fair...... he got shot around sunrise so you can't really say "broad daylight"
Let's get serious here
15/61
@FlynDutchman466
So this Gen Z is admitting that they are the school shooters?
Also: no lawmaker has said that the solution was bulletproof backpacks.
It’s like NyQuil when you have a cold. It won’t cure it, but it’ll help.
Government can’t stop school shootings. Laws won’t stop school shootings. Bans won’t stop school shootings.
The idea that people think another law will be able to prevent a person intent on committing an atrocity is absurd.
16/61
@lawrenk74
these people are breeding and making more of these stupid fukks please end the dept. of Education because this end product is trash
17/61
@DavosJohn40409
Weeks off of school? No you don’t. Only a few schools did this as a publicity stunt before realizing they were training a potential attacker. Regular Tuesday? The chances of you being a victim of a school shooting are 0.0000086%
18/61
@NickJointson
Absolute brainwash.
The media pushes inflated numbers that count gang shootouts at nights and on weekends and label them as school shootings.
19/61
@_txniz
Sounds like gen z is its own problem to me
20/61
@Bongomia
21/61
@orgBlackbirdSPL
22/61
@asselin_dave
Very VERY well said.
23/61
@LenceVincent
Intriguing.
24/61
@Midnight_Swami_
25/61
@TheMuzlimz
CEOs should carry bulletproof suitcases.
26/61
@sevynmins
Fr
27/61
@Bridget_Mapes
My 14 year old high school freshman's first reaction to the shooting was "maybe CEOs should hold lockdown drills at their board meetings."
(He considers himself Gen Alpha, not Z, but he's basically a Z/Alpha cusp kid and the violence was normalized since preschool.)
28/61
@gonzoville_
I think one of my early “radicalizing” moments was in third grade, hearing about Sandy Hook, and that fear never left, even now that I’m in college. A little over 10 years later I was on campus as a freshman for Michigan State’s mass shooting. It never ends.
29/61
@jorgie82
Completely true, but no one is asking for sympathy for the CEO. I can think the action of killing a person is wrong, without feeling empathy for the victim.
30/61
@scottachange
GenX here
/search?q=#DedMoreCEOs
31/61
@Anosognosia77
815 billionaires in the US. Seems doable. /search?q=#FreeLuigi
32/61
@ChubbyAngelNYC
Facts
how is more guns the answers smh
33/61
@samGriffArtist
Fantastic point!
34/61
@bertem21
Do I feel bad for his family? Yes, nobody should have to receive news their family member was killed. However, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the CEOs who are now cowering in fear of being next because they know they have screwed so many people over throughout the years.
35/61
@Jonnypg1991
The usa is getting closer and closer to another French revolution situation
36/61
@therealoodorii
Let’s be real, any working person that makes less that $60K a year, doesn’t care.
37/61
@forgetsleep
Excellent point, and the giant blue snuggie makes this presentation pop
38/61
@Mom_of_2_in_SJ
Terrible, yet completely valid points...
39/61
@Colossis2
She raises an excellent point
40/61
@black_rhino
We send our thoughts and prayers
41/61
@happymike
Sounds like CEOs now need bulletproof backpacks! She makes very excellent points.
42/61
@SleepyJ2065
Thoughts n prayers go out to the 1%’rs cause the eat the rich season has arrived
43/61
@Trump_sucksass
@gabbard__tulsi
44/61
@unblindjustice
Not a man...a rich man...who was in a position of power that hurt a lot of people, just like them...
45/61
@DistopianGirl
46/61
@soph_a_pia
Gen Z started the chat— Luigi’s elder Gen Z
47/61
@emecries
this is so true actually never thought of it this way
48/61
@Marq75054076
Heartbreaking and absolutely true…
49/61
@KingofCoffeeTea
There was a gun sighting in my school we didn’t even go into lockdown, we just had a no pass period. We was all chilling someone said they wished it was a lockdown so they could call their parents early
50/61
@KM_Bill
Very sad reality.
51/61
@dionrs94
ZERO crumbs
52/61
@AromaseraphyA
Ny thoughts and prayers go out to the ceos and thier families. There's nothing else that can be done
53/61
@avaparker877
And any parent of Gen Z/X too
54/61
@m32bmine
Welcome to Tuesday
55/61
@iamcoryb
That part
56/61
@Sebswuzhere
If this happened in Kentucky then yea I’d get it, this happened in New York
57/61
@CobeyJ513
She’s got a point…
58/61
@nicole85ks
Damn.... she's right
59/61
@superzac
Incredible
60/61
@dgorgan
61/61
@bradlestix
Nobody takes “weeks” off of school for active shooter drills. You are lying for attention!
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@charise_lee
Gen Z enters the chat
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1867375775600754688/pu/vid/avc1/576x1024/63uzJBh_T3RZOJ1C.mp4
2/61
@InstaMntalMasta
Y’all need to understand the guy was finna speak at a conference. He was likely going to say something the elite ruling class didn’t want him to say. They flipped the script and y’all bought in completely. Sad how easy it is to propagandize people today. Old people knew you can’t believe everything you see on TV but kids believe everything they see on the internet that validates their beliefs.
3/61
@Christo38886665
To be fair, Brian Thompson was not wearing his bulletproof backpack.
4/61
@RHEN_TRC
A lot of adults can’t comprehend that some schools have shooter drills where they don’t let the students know it’s a drill for minutes. It’s psychological torture. They want sympathy for a corporate serial killer in a mercenary culture full of guns.
5/61
@DOMINIONVT
We used to have FIRE DRILLLS! Not school shooter drills. Like suprise suprise
6/61
@InstaMntalMasta
At least half gen Z is already cooked
7/61
@TracyLinco
Gen Z's been raised w/gun violence; but, I'd like to point out something that many of them don't realize;
IT'S THE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS WHO ARE DOING NOTHING TO PREVENT THESE SHOOTINGS! They're receiving $$ from the NRA to support guns!
DEM'S ARE TRYING TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS!
8/61
@sol_roi
Yeah, older people in media and politics ask themselves, “Who desensitized these kids?” Uh … look in the mirror.
9/61
@ModeratelyMused
It breaks my heart that kids going through school just a few years after me were forced to deal with so much shyt I couldn’t ever imagine. It’s psychotic, it’s not normal and it isn’t fair.
10/61
@LordQueso
Gen X here, enjoying a cheeseburger
11/61
@Lemehol_A_dollA
Kids say “nikkas die every day B”
12/61
@hasbro79
They are the idiots shooting each other
13/61
@Vraghubir1
Pretty sure gen z voted for this year. The complete opposite of " opposition to gun violence" is going to the Whitehouse.
14/61
@Polterzeitgeitz
To be fair...... he got shot around sunrise so you can't really say "broad daylight"
Let's get serious here
15/61
@FlynDutchman466
So this Gen Z is admitting that they are the school shooters?
Also: no lawmaker has said that the solution was bulletproof backpacks.
It’s like NyQuil when you have a cold. It won’t cure it, but it’ll help.
Government can’t stop school shootings. Laws won’t stop school shootings. Bans won’t stop school shootings.
The idea that people think another law will be able to prevent a person intent on committing an atrocity is absurd.
16/61
@lawrenk74
these people are breeding and making more of these stupid fukks please end the dept. of Education because this end product is trash
17/61
@DavosJohn40409
Weeks off of school? No you don’t. Only a few schools did this as a publicity stunt before realizing they were training a potential attacker. Regular Tuesday? The chances of you being a victim of a school shooting are 0.0000086%
18/61
@NickJointson
Absolute brainwash.
The media pushes inflated numbers that count gang shootouts at nights and on weekends and label them as school shootings.
19/61
@_txniz
Sounds like gen z is its own problem to me
20/61
@Bongomia
21/61
@orgBlackbirdSPL
22/61
@asselin_dave
Very VERY well said.
23/61
@LenceVincent
Intriguing.
24/61
@Midnight_Swami_
25/61
@TheMuzlimz
CEOs should carry bulletproof suitcases.
26/61
@sevynmins
Fr
27/61
@Bridget_Mapes
My 14 year old high school freshman's first reaction to the shooting was "maybe CEOs should hold lockdown drills at their board meetings."
(He considers himself Gen Alpha, not Z, but he's basically a Z/Alpha cusp kid and the violence was normalized since preschool.)
28/61
@gonzoville_
I think one of my early “radicalizing” moments was in third grade, hearing about Sandy Hook, and that fear never left, even now that I’m in college. A little over 10 years later I was on campus as a freshman for Michigan State’s mass shooting. It never ends.
29/61
@jorgie82
Completely true, but no one is asking for sympathy for the CEO. I can think the action of killing a person is wrong, without feeling empathy for the victim.
30/61
@scottachange
GenX here
/search?q=#DedMoreCEOs
31/61
@Anosognosia77
815 billionaires in the US. Seems doable. /search?q=#FreeLuigi
32/61
@ChubbyAngelNYC
Facts
how is more guns the answers smh33/61
@samGriffArtist
Fantastic point!
34/61
@bertem21
Do I feel bad for his family? Yes, nobody should have to receive news their family member was killed. However, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the CEOs who are now cowering in fear of being next because they know they have screwed so many people over throughout the years.
35/61
@Jonnypg1991
The usa is getting closer and closer to another French revolution situation
36/61
@therealoodorii
Let’s be real, any working person that makes less that $60K a year, doesn’t care.
37/61
@forgetsleep
Excellent point, and the giant blue snuggie makes this presentation pop
38/61
@Mom_of_2_in_SJ
Terrible, yet completely valid points...
39/61
@Colossis2
She raises an excellent point
40/61
@black_rhino
We send our thoughts and prayers
41/61
@happymike
Sounds like CEOs now need bulletproof backpacks! She makes very excellent points.
42/61
@SleepyJ2065
Thoughts n prayers go out to the 1%’rs cause the eat the rich season has arrived
43/61
@Trump_sucksass
@gabbard__tulsi
44/61
@unblindjustice
Not a man...a rich man...who was in a position of power that hurt a lot of people, just like them...
45/61
@DistopianGirl
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@soph_a_pia
Gen Z started the chat— Luigi’s elder Gen Z
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@emecries
this is so true actually never thought of it this way
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@Marq75054076
Heartbreaking and absolutely true…
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@KingofCoffeeTea
There was a gun sighting in my school we didn’t even go into lockdown, we just had a no pass period. We was all chilling someone said they wished it was a lockdown so they could call their parents early
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@KM_Bill
Very sad reality.
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@dionrs94
ZERO crumbs
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@AromaseraphyA
Ny thoughts and prayers go out to the ceos and thier families. There's nothing else that can be done
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@avaparker877
And any parent of Gen Z/X too
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@m32bmine
Welcome to Tuesday
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@iamcoryb
That part
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@Sebswuzhere
If this happened in Kentucky then yea I’d get it, this happened in New York
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@CobeyJ513
She’s got a point…
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@nicole85ks
Damn.... she's right
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@superzac
Incredible
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@dgorgan
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@bradlestix
Nobody takes “weeks” off of school for active shooter drills. You are lying for attention!
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You can but Nazi items on Amazon right nowAmazon keeps having to pull ‘deny, defend, depose’ merch from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
Amazon keeps having to pull merch related to Brian Thompson’s murder from online shelves
Amazon said the items violated its guidelines
Graig Graziosi
Saturday 14 December 2024 10:58 GMT
Related video: Luigi Mangione: What we know about United Healthcare CEO shooting suspect
Amazon has been racing to remove merchandise sympathetic to the gunman accused of killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from its online marketplace.
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, on Monday in Pennsylvania.
Merchandise with the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" — the words reportedly written on the bullets used in the shooting of Thompson — have been cropping up on Amazon items like hoodies, mugs, caps, pint glasses, and more, according to the Washington Post.
Some have taken the three words to be a reference to the 2010 book “Delay, Defend, Deny: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.”
The book is critical of the privatized and profit-driven US healthcare industry. It is now sold out on several online book retailers.
Amazon isn't the only retailer to experience an influex of merchandise related to the shooting, with Etsy, eBay, TikTok and other online marketplaces also impacted.
Amazon told the Washington Post is was removing merchandise using the phrase, claiming it violates their guidelines.
Amazon did not specify which guidelines were violated by the products.
The Washington Post asked eBay about the items available on its platform. The online auction site said that items with the phrase "deny, defend, depose" are not banned, but "items that glorify or incite violence, including those that celebrate the recent murder of...Thompson, are prohibited."
GoFundMe has also had to pull pages made in support of the suspected gunman.
An spokesperson for the charitable platform told The Independent: “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes. The fundraisers have been removed from our platform and all donors have been refunded.”
The merchandise and fundraising efforts reflect the mood seen among some social media users, who have used the shooting of the health insurance executive as launchpad forbroader criticisms of the US healthcare industry in general.
A report by NBC News found that “internet slueths” who typically would jump at the chance to track down a criminal alongside their followers were sitting out the manhunt for Thompson’s killer. One, a woman named Savannah Sparks, wrote that she and her community were sitting out the search, but would offer up “concepts of thoughts and prayers.”
“It’s, you know, claim denied on my prayers there,” she said, clearly referencing the denial of healthcare insurance claims.
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, arrives for his arraignment at Blair County Court House in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania (via REUTERS)
Healthcare costs in the US far outpace inflation, and the for-profit model used in the US incentivizes companies to reject claims rather than ensure customers receive treatment.
According to KFF, a leading health policy organization, some insurers reject nearly one in five claims made by consumers. Medical bankruptcy is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Mangione made an appearance Blair County Courthouse, Pennsylvania,on Tuesday. He was denied bail at the hearing and is fighting extradition back to New York.
That is an outrageous fukking charge. The jury better shut that shyt down.
So they want the new standard to be: a wealthy person/CEO gets killed = terrorism; "regular" person getting killed is simple murder.
This would be on him, when you have a manifesto....you have a motive that is beyond personal cause.
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