Still, Amazon’s Gupta said that despite problems with the U.S. healthcare system, actions like Thompson’s murder cannot be normalized.
“Last week was horrifically shocking,” he said. "Are there going to be copycats? That is unacceptable.
“Our health system needs to be better … There’s a lot of things that should cause a lot of outrage,” Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Vin Gupta said. “It’s also true that that (killing) should not have happened. There cannot be this false moral equivalence in our discourse.”
Amazon Pharmacy’s Chief Medical Officer is named Vin Gupta, you say?
There cannot be this false moral equivalence in our discourse
Correct, the shooter killed one CEO whereas the insurance industry is responsible for ~70,000x as much death every single year. One is clearly morally worse
Death Note but light kills all the very publicly known CEOs and politicians would be a very short and very happy story.
Man was watching TV news to find out who to kill when he could have just went on Wikipedia’s top richest people list.
Even from the perspective of his dumbass plan to become worshipped as a god or whatever it makes way more sense to just kill everyone with money and power around the world to create a power vacuum (along with killing off all religious leaders so as to scratch out any competition) than to kill off powerless people already in prison
Not just TV news. Police and prison data. Even if we assume they’re all guilty, he killed a lot of guys who were already apprehended and not any danger anymore. He didn’t even solve any crimes.
Are there going to be copycats?
Are there going to be copycats? That is unacceptable.
They are going to continue to ignore people’s very legitimate grievances then act all
when people continue to be pissed off about getting denied the healthcare that they have been legally obligated to pay hundreds of dollars a month for.Hang on…not having health insurance is actually illegal in the USA?
That was
’s signature piece of legislation.The us is a deeply unserious country
iirc the original bill was, “there will be a public option, and if you don’t sign up for it you get fined.” But then they killed the public option so it just became “if you don’t purchase insurance from a private company you get fined by the public”
Love to have the state designed only to punish, never to help
Yeah you get fined basically
I thought Trump got rid of that? I haven’t been fined on that in a couple years
It’s at a state level now
people were starting to get wise and just not paying for insurance so in exchange for getting rid of “preexisting conditions” which was always utter bullshit they got a massive subsidy via mandatory consumption of their product
“unacceptable” is a funny way of spelling “badass”
“Despite problems” yeah dude people are dead and dying, good use of passive language. They can’t even admit the true scale of their bullshit. Probably not even privately to themselves.
Fucking around
Finding out
“Last week was horrifically shocking,” he said. "Are there going to be copycats? That is unacceptable. <---- YOU ARE HERE
Decade week (AKA the best week ever)
“It’s time for gun control”
Cool zone
Military coup
Are there going to be copycats? That is unacceptable.
This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
It’d be real funny and depressing if THIS is what brings about gun control in America.
Doing the Bojack “America hates women more then it loves guns” bit, but with CEOs.
Maybe the individualist and personnel nature of the assassination hits elites who dogmatically subscribe to individualist ideologies much harder
“Ha ha, don’t kill a health insurance CEO, you’re so healthy”
