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next time I hear "there is just too many (brown) people" i swear

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[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

Not saying that the general point of corporations doing more harm than people is wrong. Just that if you think that the corporation is just one person, I've got a bridge to sell you.

[-] AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

United Healthcare's stock is down 60% since the incident. United Healthcares board and new CEOs lowered the rejection rate of patients out of fear as well. Say what you want about the morality of what was done. The efficacy speaks for itself

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

The efficacy lasted for all of a month before returning to where it had been before.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So, UHC stock was up around 600, dropped to a bit over 200, and is lately around 300. So like ¾ of the drop is still there in linear terms, or something like ⅔ in logarithmic terms.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

That's true, and my bad for implying otherwise.

But I also think much more critically, they're back to denying coverage exactly the way they were before Thompson died.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I have no knowledge to refute that latter point, and I am inclined to think it is very likely true.

[-] voidsignal@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

if that continues to happen, trust me, eventually none of these fuckers will be left in line.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yup. After 9/11 for a while it seemed every week or two the news would report that "The leader of Al Qaeda" had just been killed or captured. Not a false statement, yet it happened again the next week.

[-] meejle@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe we should assign these fuckers playing cards like Bush did 👀

Kemp is alive and governing Georgia as far as I know but I'm happy to be corrected if that's wrong. You may be thinking of Brian Thompson who involuntarily resigned his position as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a NYC sidewalk.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ah damn, you right. Should have Googled it. Too many Brian's in the news, lol. Got the wires crossed.

Editing to fix.

You did have my hopes up for a moment.

Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

Their HP definitely went down. And, anecdotally, I heard from a pharmacist friend that they were approving claims like nobody's business for the next day or so

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

... So kill the entire board.

That'd probably make a more uh, substantial material impact on their bottom line.

Oh, they keep doing evil shit with a new board?

... repeat.

Or, I guess you can just either ... well, either try to run away and hide, pray to the normalcy bias gods that one of these days the legal systems they own will do something against them, or just resign yourself to a kind of smug, self defeating moral solace in being doomed, but being right while being doomed.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Which one of those things are you doing?

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There is also a societal dependance on some of the status quo. The bigger issue is how hard they actively resist the change. A lot of places still rely on trucking at a minimum to fill the groccery store with food wrapped in plastic, most of which is powered or made by fossil fuels. We need to electrify and diversifying but they cling to oil and have way too much power in governmental decisions to prevent or reverse any reduction in dependance for their products.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 0 points 1 week ago

The way in which Luigi was arrested is part of their safety checks. A way to motivate working class to turn people in, without paying them. I generally thought reward money worked.

I learned it did not work from a podcast that no longer exists. Michael Bazzel’s OSINT podcast talked about it within the context of people who used OSINT to find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works. (Podcast doesn’t exist any more, the copies of the casts went away with the podcast.). Sadly, there’s no replacement for this type of news and info condensed down into one place. It’s also a niche area of information, not followed by many.

Those McDonald's workers were not paid for turning Luigi in. But they thought they would be.

Even so, look at the bigger picture. How many Luigi’s have there been since 1981?

Most people avoid confrontation, spending most of their days sitting in a chair or lying down, and thinking/hoping/wishing a white knight is going to rescue them from their situation. It’s one reason why so many people exist in bad relationships (1 or a chain of them). Because they think that other person is going to rescue them from their sad days of avoiding confrontation while sitting in a chair or lying down, most of the day for most of their days. Hoping. But never doing. Thinking about doing. Maybe spouting off on the internet about doing. But never doing.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works

How does it actually work?

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Generally? It doesn't.

See making the call to tip off the cops makes you eligible for the reward. If you called the correct tip/reward phone number. So that's the first road block.

Even then, you aren't automatically getting the reward. No. There are still hoops to jump through.

As a note these additional hoops also apply when there isn't a specific phone number.

According to the FBI's website, I'd link but I'm on my phone, someone (an agent, a prosecutor, etc) has to put your name forward in a nomination package.

This is then reviewed by the FBI and other agencies, it's kind of vague.

Anyway these agencies decide if you get a reward and what percentage.

And none of this can start until after a conviction is secured.

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