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    Thompson’s net worth was estimated at approximately $42.9 million as of February 16, 2024, according to Wallmine.

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    Oh no millionaire left his fortune for kids that won’t see him again and can do anything they want. Looks like Richie Rich movie start scene.

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    Have y’all seen all the happy UHC ads everywhere? “My life is great because of UHC” again and again.

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    The fact that he allegedly took his life on behalf of others who had been screwed over by him despite having no personal grievance with him makes it more commendable.

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      While I’m certain he would deserve the pain and suffering of a slow death while his coverage denied any life saving treatment… I’m honestly not sad that it was quick.

      Quick or slow, it’s one less profiteering glutton in the world, and I can’t be mad about that.

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    I was a child when I lost a parent to cancer. It wasn’t until my mid-30s that it occurred to me to wonder whether or not they’d have lived if we’d had health insurance. And this was decades ago. Of and years after that before I thought about what if we’d had universal healthcare.

    Fuck all ceos. Also private equity.

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    All this whole CEO murder thing is is an effective application of Reagan’s “Trickle Down” economics…

    You make… cuts… at the top, and things get better for everyone else.

    Are you telling me Reagan was too “woke” for today’s conservatives!?

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      And I don’t even know this guy. No way I’d recognize any of these people from a jury box.

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    Im glad every time I im reminded when that CEO died. I’d like more of that warm feeling.

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      I hope that heartless, sociopathic pile of shit had time before he lost consciousness to feel as alone and confused and scared as he made so many hundreds of thousands of people feel to line his pockets with more money than he’d ever know what to do with.

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        The ceo caused the prolonged distress of tens of thousands of people, that is far longer than a normal lifespan.

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    I find that those who cry most about wokeness are those most infected with the broke mind virus.

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      One of the stupidest parts is labeling “woke”, aka empathy, as a “mind virus”. Empathy requires continual effort to maintain your commitment to the well-being of others, something that’s more and more challenging these days.

      But abandoning empathy? Giving yourself over to fear, greed, and hatred requires no effort or commitment, and the longer you maintain such a vile, poisonous state of mind, the more you become such in such a perspective.

      But, as we know, projection projection projection 😝

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        Studies have shown that conservatives have smaller areas of the brain related to a sense of empathy on average compared to others. It could be said that they are outright physically less capable of feeling empathy compared to the rest of the population.

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          Hmmm. Solution must be MORE lead in our food and water, right?! 😝

          I am curious if that’s an inherent trait and this the cause, or if it’s damage over time (the effect). But I don’t doubt your claim.

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            Honestly could be a little of column A, a little of column B. Or even the lead, like you mentioned. Lead is one of the leading theories for why there were so many serial killers, but it’s also a theory on why the Baby Boomers are so much more conservative than the generations before and after them. Symptoms of long-term lead poisoning include things like heightened aggression, violent tendencies, and impaired cognitive abilities, and the theory also correlates the coincidence of serial killers largely disappearing in the time since lead was banned from gasoline, paint, pipes, etc. - but that also fits for the political stance of generations before and after the introduction and banning of leaded gasoline.

            Obviously, there’s more to it, but I can’t say that I think banning the lead was a bad idea!

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        Their abandonment of empathy is perhaps the greatest reason why I revile them.

        A mentality of fear, superiority, bravado, main character syndrome, otherism (a fear of altruism), superstition, religious indoctrination, paranoia, the lost cause…

        even conservative immigrants are in the find out phase. Broken minds.

        Be woke, or be broke. All my homies respect trans rights, and personal pronouns.

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        One of the stupidest parts is labeling “woke”, aka empathy, as a “mind virus”.

        At least some of them have gone full mask-off, and is outright calling empathy a sin and greed a virtue.

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          It requires far more effort than hatred to maintain a self capable of empathy. For many, they feel it is an insurmountable challenge to come to terms with the people they are and the actions they’ve committed.

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              Doesn’t it though?

              Do you not see your internal suffering by seeing other people suffering as work? You could force yourself to stop caring and then you wouldn’t have to carry that weight off other’s suffering.

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          I totally understand; I think many of us kinda choose to ignore/accept the cost of maintaining an empathetic perspective, simply because we are unwilling to accept the alternative.

          But everyone walks their own path! In any case, I applaud your way of thinking.