No, we are not merrymaking about a CEO'S awful death -- we are expressing our pain. [View all]

[Earthrise]

I used to trust my health insurance company - that’s right, I’ve been extremely lucky and grateful to be. In the past, after we met our maximum out of pocket dollar value we could count on the bills stopping. Not this year. For the first time this year my employee subsidized health insurance has denied hundreds and hundreds of dollars of medical charges. The horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for my husband’s Social Security and now we’re guaranteed to have less income and more expenses. So, I connect with the sentiment expressed in this journal.

“Now, I’m no fan of violence, and murder is neither a just solution nor a moral stance. But as I scrolled through the reactions, I couldn’t shake an uneasy feeling: not sympathy for the man but discomfort at how little I could muster.

And then it hit me—this wasn’t schadenfreude over a life lost. It was something more profound: the collective catharsis of those crushed under the grinding gears of profit-driven cruelty.

Thompson wasn’t simply a man—he was a symbol of an oppressive system that denies life-saving treatments to sick children while celebrating cost-cutting measures with champagne and investor applause. He stood for the modern corporate ethos that monetizes misery and reaps dividends from people’s despair.

CEOs and The Wealthy have killed us off for years—All for profit, and no one is safe, not even children.”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/6/2290531/-No-we-are-not-merrymaking-about-a-CEO-s-awful-death