• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    55
    ·
    6 days ago

    world’s most important companies

    That’s hilariously American defaultism considering most of the world doesn’t need companies like UHC

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    48
    ·
    6 days ago

    Mussolini interned at a bakery one summer and attempted to learn the harmonica, you judgemental monsters…

  • Llamatron@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    6 days ago

    I read a comment the other day that’s stuck with me, I can’t remember the precise wording but it was something like:

    “Every cent spent on this man’s funeral was made on the back of someone else’s”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    6 days ago

    I didn’t have any sympathy for him until I found out he played basketball and the trombone.

    This changes everything.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    42
    ·
    6 days ago

    When it’s your job to profit off of human misery, don’t be surprised when you find out what human misery feels like.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      I think if he had any personal friends who thought he was a good person the media would have made time for them to speak up about it. But only other rich executives have.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 days ago

        Even if you are a good friend, why muddy your name by associating your self with him now?

        You ain’t gonna get any of that 10 million per year salary he earned.

        His wife and children will and they are smart to avoid publicly.

        This whole story highlights that when given a chance, peasants will turn on their masters.

        But the elites got police doing show of force photo shoots to send a counter message?

        Who are they intimidating? A guy like luigi, will execute anyway, rest of us limp dick cucks will still shit post in his support.

        The entire circus actually is feed the shit posting even more. Emperor has no clothes.

        With that being said, they will fuck us over even harder for this.

        • orcrist@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 days ago

          It was said he didn’t live with his wife and kids. If true, of course they’d STFU.

        • falcunculus@jlai.lu
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          6 days ago

          Reading this feels like I’m at the bar. Kinda agree with the sentiment though.

          🍻 Cheers to you

  • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    6 days ago

    Gang you are missing the point. Thompson worked really hard from humble beginnings to become the absolute best at being a horrible human being. That’s gotta count for something, right? /s

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    6 days ago

    Got rich trampling over as many people as possible then died by gun violence. A true blue american boy

  • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    7 days ago

    Wasn’t there a reddit post about this guy and how he was like a womanizer or something and he and his wife have been separated for years, basically saying this guy wasn’t the pillar of humanity the media was making him out to be? If there was a post, was any of that true?

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    7 days ago

    So ambitious small town guy with no empathy or ethics moved up the chain until he profited off the pain and suffering of others. I’m sure many of these trash humans trying to praise him have never had to worry about how they were going to stay alive. You notice they are all just like him. Trash.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        6 days ago

        Saying this is disingenuous… Immigrantion as administered by the western regimes is first and foremost an anti labour policy to supress wages.

        • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 days ago

          Wow you’re part of the problem. You boss doesn’t pay you because he doesn’t want you pay you “intelligent centrist”, not because Ahmed down the block that can’t speak English moved in.

          Wow you dumb as shit.