Well, yeah, the health care system in the US is a disgrace. Everyone who's running it should, if we're feeling generous, be given the opportunity to resign and work towards making amends, or be shot dead.
All the billionaires, too. And a lot of other CEOs that enshittify their services to make a little more money.
Too many people are like "oh we can't talk about violence" while violence is being done to most of us every day.
I liked the way it was put on a recent episode of trillbillies: you're going against thousands of years of cultural programming to root for the underdog against the powerful (especially when the powerful in question has fucked many of us as well), and the guy you want us to root for instead is some asshole legal-killer CEO with severe goober-face.
One of them has, in the eyes of the law, not killed anyone. He has to be proven guilty for that, and the public does not have enough evidence to come to the conclusion that he did even if we disregard the principle of innocent until convicted by a jury.
Meanwhile the public does know for a fact that Thompson has killed thousands of people.
i’m convinced the majority of Americans simply don’t care but feel compelled to answer considering cultural morals, so they choose to express some level of disapproval. not caring here is a symptom of political apathy which is itself a symptom of a exhaustion from living under an oppressive and failed ideology. they don’t care that he died, whatever. worse things to focus on. but they “know that’s wrong” and respond to these questions in the perceived expected way.
so in my mind, the people who don’t care and the people who sympathize with the shooter likely make up more than anyone who criticizes them. i haven’t met a single person who hasn’t had a terrible experience with health insurance. we have all suffered in the health care industry. brian thompson was a social murderer and a fucking parasite.