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Friday, December 13, 2024

Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying, celebrating and rationalizing the shooting. There's a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it's unsurprising. Of course, if any MAGA professors or journalists were online publicly defending the killing of perceived political enemies, there would be thousands of wringing hands lamenting the menacing rhetoric of conservatism. And rightly so. ... . None of this is to maintain there isn't right-wing violence. Of course, there is. It's simply to say that we should acknowledge that a lot of our contemporary political violence emanates from the Left. And a lot of it is girded by the hard-left progressive turn in mainstream America's politics

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Fascists are by definition violent. I can't imagine being lectured to on the subject by any fascist.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-13 12:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Zed is on his faux moral crusade once and forever again.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 12:56 PM | Reply

Jeff just throws up crap hoping something sticks. Par for the course with him.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 12:59 PM | Reply

I guess I'll say it the UHC CEO was performing right wing violence on a scale far surpassing the one death in the shooting.

We are talking using the manipulation of the health insurance industry to cause death and theft on a massive scale.

Being he was part of the system, and rich, his violence is not only condoned, but celebrated.

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

" Being he was part of the system, and rich, his violence is not only condoned, but celebrated.
#4 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-12-13 01:03 PM | FLAG: "

A lot of people on the left are "part of the system" who are reviled.

What do we do about them? Mass murder? FFS think about what you are advocating and its broader implications

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 01:08 PM | Reply

And what jeff (cause his is an idiot) and many pundits are missing is that this killing is tapping into something. An overwhelming anger among the populace. An anger at the injustice in our system, the abysmal wealth inequality, the lack of accountability for our politicians (------- being prime example) and the rich.

People on a daily basis are suffering, are lied to, witness obvious criminality go unpunished, the rich exploiting them, they've watched loved ones die due to an inability to pay for necessary medical care.

This injustice is actually a big motivator for the magat scum movement, though, of course, them being the evil morons they are latched onto just about the worst perpetrator of that unjust system.

This violence is decidedly NOT leftwing vs rightwing, this is rich vs the rest of us.

Only a partisan troll like jeff would think otherwise.

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

&0% are happy with their health insurance.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 01:11 PM | Reply

" Being he was part of the system, and rich, his violence is not only condoned, but celebrated.
#4 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-12-13 01:03 PM | FLAG: "

A lot of people on the left are "part of the system" who are reviled.

What do we do about them? Mass murder? FFS think about what you are advocating and its broader implications

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

I am neither advocating or decrying the use of violence.

I am pointing out the fallacy of it being leftwing violence.

Yes, a lot of the left are "part of the system"

Luigi apparently did not kill this guy for a leftist cause, he killed him because he was personally damaged by this guy's actions. This guy's actions resulted from the inherent evil in a for-profit healthcare system.

This is all very obvious.

It is the sort of killing that presages many class revolutions be it the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, WW2, the end of Jim Crow, etc.

The support Luigi is receiving crosses political boundaries, but I would bet dollars to donuts that it does not have major cross class support, i.e, there probably ain't a lot of 1%ers giving this guy money.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

www.newsweek.com

Conservatives and Liberals Find Rare Agreement Amid Insurance CEO Killing
Published Dec 06, 2024 at 12:24 PM EST
Updated Dec 06, 2024 at 12:24 PM EST

Online, conservatives and liberals alike have expressed reactions ranging from indifference to schadenfreude over Thompson's murder, citing their gripe with the U.S. healthcare system and the companies, like UnitedHealth, that have denied their medical claims in the past.

Thompson was shot dead outside a Hilton hotel by a masked gunman in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. More than 48 hours later, the suspect remains at large.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

" This violence is decidedly NOT leftwing vs rightwing, this is rich vs the rest of us."

The murderer of this CEO is a trust fund baby.

It's ironic that you love left wing violence when it mirrors Nazi purge.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 01:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

&0% are happy with their health insurance.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

Piss poor polling.

Ask them if they would like better healthcare, that covers more things, at significantly lower cost-you know Medicare for all

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Luigi was a Tucker Carlson listener and a fan of peter theil.

Give the trolling a rest, strawbringer.

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 01:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 5

" This violence is decidedly NOT leftwing vs rightwing, this is rich vs the rest of us."

The murderer of this CEO is a trust fund baby.

It's ironic that you love left wing violence when it mirrors Nazi purge.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Look at the ------- ---- trying to claim I love something when I have specifically stated I have taken no stance

Just YET ANOTHER example of you lying jeff.

Why are you such a horrible human being jeff?

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

It's ironic that you love left wing violence when it mirrors Nazi purge.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Yet another example of your ignorance on display.

Luigi's killing of a HC CEO is decidedly NOT mirroring a Nazi purge.

Nazi violence in running up to power was directed at Unions, Social Democrats and Communists, you know NOT the capitalists.

You're just an ignorant evil ---- jeff

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

" Luigi apparently did not kill this guy for a leftist cause, he killed him because he was personally damaged by this guy's actions."

Does this count as "the marketplace" addressing the problem?

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-13 01:30 PM | Reply

www.aljazeera.com

No surprise Americans are rooting for' the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killer
There is a class war raging in the US, and the healthcare system is one of its most violent fronts.

#16 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 01:34 PM | Reply

" Luigi apparently did not kill this guy for a leftist cause, he killed him because he was personally damaged by this guy's actions."

Sounds like a Republican to me.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 01:34 PM | Reply

" ... you love left wing violence ... "

Now THATs a strawman!

Did you see what you did? You made up a ridiculous "fact", and then you attacked that person based on the made up fact.

You built a strawman, for the sole purpose of burning it down.

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-13 01:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

I'm disappointed as hell that Brian Thompson being shot to death in the back is being celebrated.

I understand why people are angry.

But this shooter is no ------- hero.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 01:36 PM | Reply

The shooter was heavily influenced by his repug cousin.

msa.maryland.gov

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-13 01:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"nazi purge"

The first thing the nazis did when they took over was to purge their own rabble rousers. "The night of the long knives"

Jeff, one of the six of you should probably get a library card.

#21 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 01:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

- Zed is on his faux moral crusade once and forever again.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger

Obviously the dopey OP hasn't the morals it would take to buck the criminal traitor who leads his Party.

The most significant internal violence of this young century happened when your Dear Leader sent an armed angry mob to stop the peaceful transfer of power in this country for the first time in our history.

But you are here for him, which speaks volumes about you.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-13 01:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This guy did not deserve to be shot in the back.

You people are sick.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 01:56 PM | Reply

Who on here is defending the killing or are you lying?

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You people are sick.

Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 01:56 PM | Reply

So sorry I am uninsured and can't get better. If we had Universal Healthcare coverage I might be able to get better. I do so apologize Jeff.

#25 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Who on here is defending the killing or are you lying?

I pick Door #2.

#26 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-13 02:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

all jeff does is lie and use strawmen.

#27 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 02:19 PM | Reply

all jeff does is lie and use strawmen.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-13 02:19 PM | Reply

He's a Trumper. What did you expect??

#28 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 02:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

#23

And a Liar, too, like his cult leader.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-13 02:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Look at Jeff.

Doing his best to turn class warfare into social warfare.

What a servile moron.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-13 02:39 PM | Reply

I pick Door #2.

Actually I take that back. In this case he not lying, he's just trolling.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-13 02:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

People like Jeff have forgotten about the fact that the Uber rich had been warned that the pitch forks and torches are coming. Yet he scoffs when they are appearing.

#32 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-13 02:44 PM | Reply

#32 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

Strange, Luigi was the Uber rich and the guy he shot was from the middle of America.

#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-13 02:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

Garbage poster posts garbage.

Stinkerbell is a garbage poster.

Stinkerbell needs a swift kick to his kamel-toe.

#34 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-13 02:48 PM | Reply


Who on here is defending the killing or are you lying?
#24 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Look like quite a few. I'll throw in AOC and Warren for good measure.


Ask them if they would like better healthcare, that covers more things, at significantly lower cost-you know Medicare for all
#11 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Ask people on Medicare if they've been denied.

Medicare may deny coverage for a number of reasons, including:
The service is not medically necessary
The patient has exceeded the maximum number of days allowed in a hospital or care facility
The patient used a provider outside of their provider network
The patient's medication is not included in their Part D plan's formulary
A health care service, supply, or item is no longer covered by the patient's Medicare plan
The claim contains a coding mistake

Sounds like any other Insurance provider.

I am a supporter of MedicareForAll, but I don't lie about it. The cost is the same, the DR's charge the same, YOU just don't have to pay as much, but someone is paying.

Eventually the way the US seems to work is MedicareForAll will start off cheap, and everything will get more expensive just like Universities.

#35 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-13 02:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Hell even Canada

Holly ---- Canadian Healthcare...

Adam had a health scare and went to hospital with what should have been and indepth investigation but after a check up he was sent out.
He later passed away from aortic aneurysm.

Absolutely heartbreaking and an unnecessary failure
x.com

#36 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-13 02:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

- Sounds like any other Insurance provide

One hopes you are pretending to be this ignorant... the idea that you are is frightening.

Well, more sad and funny, but stil.

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-13 02:55 PM | Reply

"Strange, Luigi was the Uber rich and the guy he shot was from the middle of America."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

#38 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-13 02:59 PM | Reply

#35 | Posted by oneironaut

Wow.

This clown is just pure stupid.

#39 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-13 03:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

This clown is just pure stupid.

#39 | POSTED BY ANGRYDAD

He's the real deal. 100% pure.

Distilled from the finest stupid Russian or Chinese money can buy.

#40 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-13 03:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

- the finest stupid

Certified Stupid is a hot commodity these days... sales are way up!

Which is all that matters in the Oligarch's America of Billionaire Presidents and their Corporate Handlers, who are much further up the food chain from chumps like Trump, who are merely the Circus Masters, not the Circus Owners.

DJT may think that since Vlad was able to intimidate the lives of Russian Crony Capitalist Oligarchs, he will be able to do the same. And maybe someday he will.

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-13 03:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

You can always spot a liljeffy thread a mile away.

Just look for the most laughably disingenuous but attempting to be serious title you can find on the back page.

That's it.

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-13 05:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 2

Fascists are by definition violent. I can't imagine being lectured to on the subject by any fascist.

#1 | Posted by Zed a

first word of first post is stupid ------- shtv.....

so the good news is I'll only read that one stupid effing word....

leftists definitions are shvt.

---now report is that the CEO shooter hero of "you people" wasn't covered by United Healthcare...

and in a starkly related question......where is Pelosi and is she really "sick / hurt ????

#43 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-13 05:08 PM | Reply

Just look for the most laughably disingenuous but attempting to be serious title you can find on the back page.

Clipped directly from some right wing op-ed.

#44 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-13 05:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I guess I'll say it the UHC CEO was performing right wing violence on a scale far surpassing the one death in the shooting.

We are talking using the manipulation of the health insurance industry to cause death and theft on a massive scale.

Being he was part of the system, and rich, his violence is not only condoned, but celebrated.

#4 | Posted by truthhurts

you and the two "newsworthy" posters are disgusting and despicable human beings.

once again....kiss rcades rear end for making this site anonymous....

the only thing lower than you is the garbage talking that I'm forcing myself to listen to... ..AOC....and Michael Moore...

---you don't know the first thing about this entire issue....there is more to it than this coward shooting a man in the back

goddam idiot punk.......

#45 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-13 05:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

---- off you whiny little bitch.

#46 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-13 06:18 PM | Reply

as I write this.....there are looks inside the Mangione rest home empire.

so if they find some dirt,,,,I expect you worthless scum to demand that he kill his parents.

#47 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-13 06:23 PM | Reply

#47 | Posted by shrimptacodan

but after reading...HERE.... the jubilant support of governor Coumo for shoving thousands of seniors to certain death

during covid......I know what the tenor of the responses will be.

much more like legallyisapunk than like rational human beings.

--time to go...in more ways than one.

#48 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-13 06:33 PM | Reply

" after reading...HERE.... the jubilant support of governor Coumo for shoving thousands of seniors to certain death during covid......I know what the tenor of the responses will be."

That you never GAF when it was Trump killing seniors by publicly eschewing a vaccine he privately got?

Responses like that?!?

#49 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-13 06:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" kiss rcades rear end for making this site anonymous...."

No one is stopping you from doxing yourself.

#50 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-13 06:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

WaPo was the only mainstream outlet to condemn this murder without a "but" followed by equivocation. Elizabeth Warren and AOC were right there. "I don't condone murder, but ... ... .

Anyone who plays this game is pure trash.

#51 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 09:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" You can always spot a liljeffy thread a mile away.

Just look for the most laughably disingenuous but attempting to be serious title you can find on the back page.

That's it.

#42 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2024-12-13 05:08 PM | FLAG: |"

Your faux rage is so one sided ... ..you are no independent/moderate. Nothing wrong with that other than you being dishonest.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 09:20 PM | Reply

Is the conversation along the lines of "Where did it go?" or "Why isn't left-wing violence remotely close to right-wing violence?" Right-wing media puts out complete bull$#!+ because they'd cease to exist if they went with actual news

#53 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-12-13 09:25 PM | Reply

Any rational and moral person would find a person responsible for the deaths of thousands of people to be despicable-far worse than the worst serial killers.

That this person was rewarded handsomely is a condemnation on the immorality and injustice of our capitalist system

Jeff is seriously upset that this person was killed.

Personally, I will save my sympathy for the victims of his AI scam that killed thousands.

For the person who was responsible for those deaths and all that human misery, I shed not a tear.

#54 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-13 09:27 PM | Reply

- Anyone who plays this game is pure trash.

This is highly dissociative coming from Trump Traitor Trash.

One wonders when not giving a strong enough condemnation for this act became worse than supporting a violent criminal insurrection conspiracy leader?

#55 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-13 10:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Any rational and moral person would find a person responsible for the deaths of thousands of people to be despicable-far worse than the worst serial killers.
- truthNlies

This is why the border fiasco is so disgusting.

Yet Lumpers defend it.
nida.nih.gov

40,000 death increase under the Biden administration....

Incredible.

#56 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-13 10:18 PM | Reply

Yet Lumpers defend it.

Define "Lumper".

#57 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-13 10:31 PM | Reply

The------------- killed 1.2 million Americans.

#58 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-13 11:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Twoothy's answer is to murder everyone he disagrees with.

And he thinks he's the good guy.

#59 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-14 03:40 AM | Reply

"He's the real deal. 100% pure." There is no limit to stupidity it can't be 100 percent. It ais bottomless and ever flowing spring.

#60 | Posted by Brennnn at 2024-12-14 11:04 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Define "Lumper".

Dirtbag has no definition for it.

#61 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-14 01:19 PM | Reply

"40,000 death increase under the Biden administration....

Incredible."

More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record. 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC.

Not so incredible.

#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-14 02:40 PM | Reply

More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record. 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC.

Not so incredible.

#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-14 02:40 PM

bUt cRiMe iS doWn!!!!

#63 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-14 03:01 PM | Reply

How did it turn out after the orange pedo promised an end to American carnage?

FBI: 2020 homicides up nearly 30%, largest 1-year jump ever

apnews.com

#64 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-14 03:07 PM | Reply

bUt cRiMe iS doWn!!!!

#63 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

We were talking about deaths so you moved the goalposts to promote more maga lies. Like no one would notice.

Pull your magapants up. Your ignorance is showing again.

Not all gun deaths are crimes.

And ~54% were suicides.

#65 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-14 03:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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