r/behindthebastards • u/Streetwalkin_Cheetah • 7d ago
It Could Happen Here United Health’s share price dropped $100 since the death of CEO Brian Thompson
Probably for more reason than one but still…
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u/SyntrophicConsortium 7d ago
Oh no, the investors lost 1 of the 8 zeroes in their net worth! Whatever will they do? I'd love to see it at $1 a share, though.
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u/eidas007 7d ago
I mean, I'm on board with murder profiteers losing 90,000,000+.
Would it be nice if they became destitute? Sure. But losing 1 of 8 zeroes is a hit that gets attention.
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u/hitlerosexual 5d ago
And for people with that much wealth, thsy might not experience any change in luxury, but they are obsessed with their number being the highest number. It's all a dick measuring contest, and hurting their ego might almost feel to them as bad as physically hurting them.
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u/livinginfutureworld 7d ago
See CEOs provide so much value to a company and that's why they're underpaid! /s
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
And that’ll be the only impact of all this. Nobody followed up on his momentum, so this is all that happens.
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u/KTFnVision 7d ago
Alright, go get em. What are you doing?
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
I live in the UK
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u/eidas007 7d ago
I'm pretty sure there are some CEO'S destroying society in the UK. You seem just as performative as you accused leftists of being.
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago edited 7d ago
Well, I’m not the one advocating for it. I think random unorganised acts of violence like this are largely unhelpful in bringing about change.
The only real recent exception I can think of in this regard is the assassination of Shinzo Abe in Japan, but Japan is a much different society to the United States.
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u/eidas007 7d ago
Then why are you disparaging leftists who decided not to do the thing you find "unhelpful"?
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
I’m disparaging them for celebrating this act as if it meant anything, or that things are somehow better now.
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u/eidas007 7d ago
Except you didn't. You (more than once) made negative comments about their lack of followup.
So they're bad if they do it and bad if they don't. You're just a serial complainer.
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
I was not indicating that people should follow-up, just that these people are all for supporting acts like this but never do follow up on them.
I’m trying to speak objectively here about how willing the left is to venerate violence without participating in it, to the point where it devalues the point of any violence in the first place.
This murder of the CEO is barely about health insurance anymore. It’s about Luigi Mangione and his killing now. This killing has become so stupidly over-popularised and saturated that it doesn’t matter if some other guy stabbed a CEO not long after, because he’s not Luigi. That guy got, maybe, what, two days of attention? Luigi is being perp-walked by the mayor of NYC, meanwhile I’ve not even seen the other guy’s name mentioned once.
I’m finding it difficult to express exactly how I feel about this in words, but I do not think that this obsession with Mangione and his particular killing is useful for advancing any cause. The important thing should be the message, of which nobody has continued to spread to any meaningful extent. It’s all about Luigi, and free Luigi, and Luigi is innocent, etc, etc.
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u/jskullytheman 7d ago
It’s because he’s a handsome boi. We need more handsome bois doin some reckonings
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u/eidas007 7d ago
This murder of the CEO is barely about health insurance anymore.
Gee, I wonder why the Mayor is perp walking him around town? I bet denigrating leftists will bring the focus back around to healthcare.
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u/Nerve-Familiar 7d ago
Give it time
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago edited 7d ago
Time for what? Who are we waiting for? No offence, but western leftists have been almost exclusively non-violent in recent times.
Mangione wasn’t a leftist, he was some weird other thing, so are we just waiting for more people who happen to share the same exact grievances and circumstance as him?
Nothing will happen. Leftists are too busy setting up reading clubs and photoshopping Mangione into a saint to actually do anything.
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u/frenchinhalerbought 7d ago
Gatekeeping "leftists" is my favorite thing about this sub 😂
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
What do you mean? That wasn’t my intention, I am just pointing out that, despite the support for Mangione’s actions, violence or violent terrorism carried out by leftists is virtually nonexistent in recent times.
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u/Nerve-Familiar 7d ago
Mangione disappeared for months before Dec 4th. Seemed like he planned this for awhile.
Maybe you’re right. Maybe you aren’t. I think it’s too early to tell.
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
True, but I’d wager that most of that planning was to do with getting away with the crime, which is not really necessary. If you commit an intentionally spectacular crime like this, you should not expect to get away with it.
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u/BisexualCaveman 7d ago
Mangione is a tech bro, closer to Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried, Joe Rogan and RFK Jr than he is to Bernie Sanders. Kinda got a libertarian but not racist vibe.
Complicated character in this story, for sure.
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u/theykilledk3nny 7d ago
Libertarian is probably the most appropriate base-level label for him, but yeah he’s a bit more complicated than that. He doesn’t strike me as someone with much political allegiance.
Really, I think he’s an anomaly in terms of a political assassin. He is not radical in his politics and his issues with the healthcare industry seem mostly to be from a personal and humanistic standpoint versus, for example, a direct opposition to capitalism as a whole.
The tech-bro stuff is part of it, but he’s also in this sort of sociological clique that I’d call futurist functionalism (maybe it has an actual name, idk). He is very concerned by technology’s impact on society and the changing roles that institutions play in keeping society functional in an increasingly post-modern world.
This quote from him, I think, is quite telling of that:
Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.
Using this type of language to describe a society is unusual. It’s sounds more like someone trying to patch a bug in a piece of software. This is how they think though, that society is a machine that must be made as functional as possible, and culture is the software that dictates the machine.
He does not talk about inequality much as a cause for anything, it’s always culture. How humanity’s advancement is poisoned by wokeism, how mass shootings are caused by culture, etc, etc. He is, ultimately, centre-right, but probably not a fan of Trump and probably not a fan of any recent Democrat candidate either.
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u/BisexualCaveman 7d ago
Here's an interesting take on where his politics, such as they are, come from:
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u/BisexualCaveman 7d ago
Great insights, by the way, and everything you write seems to be 100%.
I came from tech and I also have the weird viewpoint that culture is just the software stack that we're running on top of our biology and our tech, but at the same time I recognize that I have no right to force anyone to change their culture or beliefs.
Not sure if his kind of bro has that feature or if they might go in a more faschy kinda direction with it.
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u/CHOLO_ORACLE 7d ago
Liberals and many leftists still deeply fetishize non violent activism. You can’t even criticize pacifism without getting a downvoted off the page.
And not even like Luigi type stuff either, i stg the liberals have fainting spells if you so much as propose graffiti (to them property damage = violence)
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u/TheLastPanicMoon 7d ago
As the punk scene learned in the 80s, you’re not gonna beat the fascists with a strongly worded letter.
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u/MothMan3759 7d ago
Not quite. There is at least one suspected copycat, the stabber of Erik Denslow. Doesn't seem like the CEO died though.
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u/Suspicious-Simple725 7d ago
Also could have just been personal since the guy was the stabber’s boss. Not sure if it is a copycat or not.
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u/hitlerosexual 5d ago
Dawg this shit takes time it's not like we were gonna storm the homes of the villains of health insurance or rise up in glorious revolution the next damn day.
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u/Powderkegger1 7d ago edited 7d ago
The unfortunate probability is that some opportunistic investors will make money off of this. United Health’s share price will eventually recover and people who bought this dip will profit.
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u/AdhesivenessSea3838 7d ago
Buy the dip
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u/Radioactive_Fire 7d ago
if the internet was truly organized WSB could buy the dip and then dump on the investors who follow them
but we're not that coordinated
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u/HarpyJay 5d ago
I swear to god if wallstreetbets starts buying the dip I'm gonna journal super angrily about it
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u/aricene 7d ago
Weird. Usually investors love it whenever headcount is trimmed.