Young Voters Say Killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Was ‘Acceptable’ in Bombshell New Poll

https://www.ibtimes.com/young-voters-say-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo-was-acceptable-bombshell-new-poll-3756017

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  1. I’m not pro-murder in general but I’m also not shedding any tears. There’s definitely a scale of more and less acceptable. It is interesting to see one that sparked the opposite of public outrage though lol

  3. If killing the masses for profit is an acceptable state of affairs then killing the people forcing that upon us would be self defense, wouldn’t it?

  4. Surprise surprise surprise. The generation of students subjected to sitting in classrooms as sitting ducks for potential mass school shootings think the killing was acceptable. Just Shocking!

  8. Is this a shock? This is a generation who knows nothing less than “You’re on your own suckers”.

    The young generation feels betrayed, and they have been. The older generations stripped many of them of a fair chance at a better future. I’m in my 40’s and I feel stuck in the middle of the older establishment doing the fucking and the youngest generation who are the most fucked by this entire system. I hope they are proactive for their future. They need to elect people of the same generation who will strip power from the establishment Republicans and Democrats alike. I still have hope. I just hope they don’t begin to normalize violence. God knows they’ve been exposed to more of it than most Americans alive today have experienced first hand.

  9. They don’t care to do anything about the shooting gallery that is our country but moved the world for their own safety. This is only the natural response the people will have after being screwed over for so long.

  11. There are a lot of lawyers out there that should start reviewing “self defense” options!

  12. I wouldn’t go so far as to say acceptable, but I would say inevitable and expected.

    And, I am not really mournful for the guy. Like I wouldn’t shed tears for others directly responsible for so many dying like he was.

  13. What Luigi did was premeditated, and a crime.

    What the CEO did was premeditated, and capitalism.

    One is chastised and the other celebrated.

    The fact that Luigi is being charged as a terrorist when SCHOOL SHOOTERS are charged with lesser crimes says all there is to know about America, and who they protect.

    MLK said rioting is “the voice of the unheard”…

  16. I don’t think this is boiled down to young voters I think this is people across the board.

  17. If kids can be killed at school, then CEOs can be killed as well. I wonder how they like thoughts and prayers?

  18. I’m not young and I also find it acceptable. At the very least, tolerable.

  19. Does our government not understand that people will see the assassination as acceptable when US presidents continously get away with murdering children overseas?

  20. I mean you told them that school shootings of innocent people were a fact of life, and then you’re surprised when they think the shooting of a CEO indirectly kills people is equally acceptable?

  21. Revolutionary action leads to revolutionary thinking.

    Or is it the other way around?

    Bougie, you gotta look over your shoulder the poor are armed and angry. Hell, not even them your own upper class shot you in the back.

    There’s not enough The Voice and America’s Got Talent to distract this.

  22. The media would do better by just ignoring, like they do on school shootings, to serve their corporate bosses. Feel the more they cover, the angrier people get about the US Healthcare system.

  24. Well in my twenties I paid more in health insurance than I would have ever paid for a doctor. As in had I taken the money I had paid for health insurance and put it in a savings account I would have still had money left over for all my medical bills had I just paid out of pocket.

  25. I’m finding it annoying how some are acting like the idea of someone’s death being celebrated is new. It’s not a new concept at all.

    My mind goes to the evening of May 1, 2011. I was at a WWE show with a buddy of mine, and after the televised part of the show finished up, John Cena started talking on the mic, something not unprecedented at all. Something I noticed early in this promo was the patriotic tone to it. Cena would sometimes do that, but seemed to be really pushing it here, before telling us the armed forces had brought Osama Bin Laden to a permanent end. We were all taken aback, as none of us thought this is how we would find out Bin Laden was dead, but here we are. As the news was being confirmed through the crowd, a swell of cheers began to be felt and heard, and not long we were in a full on USA! USA! USA! chant. We were pumped that Bin Laden was dead, as was seemingly the entire rest of the population. Those same USA chants broke out at baseball games happening at the same time through the country.

    To me this is the most relatable example of someone’s death being recognized as a net positive. The nation was celebrating Bin Laden’s death because, ten years before, he was responsible for over 3,000 deaths on 9/11.

    While data is really tough to come by, you can find thousands of instances where health insurance companies, like the one lead by Brian Thompson, caused people to not have access to care. Like [this](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551102/) NIH study that states over 20,000 people were inappropriately denied care (specifically mentioning hundreds of cancer patients who are denied access to radiation yearly).

    Is it really hard for some to figure out that, like Bin Laden, Brian Thompson was responsible for thousands of people losing their lives and livelihoods, and the death of someone like that is going to be celebrated by many?

  26. Fuck him, unfortunately for his family. But he wasn’t exactly an above board guy who cared about his members or employees

  27. I only have this to offer: Thoughts and prayers! Do the CEOs feel better now?

  28. I’m an old woman, I approve of this message 💯👍👏

  29. Bombshell? I’d be surprised if anyone who’s ever been screwed by a company hasn’t thought about this.

  30. I’m curious what the reaction will be if he he’s not convinced bc I think there’s a very good chance it will end in a deadlock.

  31. you can keep trying to encourage copycats and instigate a movement but it aint happening, Luigi was a one off and nothing else is gonna happen except him going to jail

  32. Well, what did they expect. Young voters’ futures are being sacrificed to prop up these parasite.

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