Insurance company CEO assassinated in New York

[Yossarian]

If you squint you can see His halo

Yeah, I don't think the optics of that went exactly how the NYPD etc intended

 

[SpookyFrank]

CNN analyst: “The security around Mangione today is because of what they’ve been seeing in terms of the public support for him and their security worries about somebody not trying to attack him, but to try and free him from law enforcement"

And the mayor? How was he helping with that? Surely if there was a legitimate threat to this perp walk (in which case, maybe just don't do a perp walk at all) they'd want to keep important public officials well clear of it. Did we learn nothing from those Batman movies?

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[petee]

New York's mayor, who is facing federal charges of his own, decided to join the perp walk after Mangione was taken to the city by helicopter

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he's gotten thoroughly roasted for it.

 

[Serge Forward]

Nice little video/poem from the anarcho communist Lucky Black Cat on the "violence has no place in politics" cliché.

 

[weltweit]

TLDR

 

[SpookyFrank]

Terrorism, they've charged yer man with.

Dunno about you but I'm not feeling remotely terrorised by a guy who targets millionaire death profiteers. Wonder why that is.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm a little more metal:

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Terrorism, they've charged yer man with.

Dunno about you but I'm not feeling remotely terrorized by a guy who targets millionaire death profiteers. Wonder why that is.

Yeah, the federal charges are silly. There're all kinds of things you could call terrorism, and I wouldn't call this terrorism.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It's amazing how many people hate United Health. If you ask any random person on the street, they'll have a story it seems. I have a coworker who is currently fighting them for approval of $20,000 in claims for her husband. He also needs surgery, which United Health won't approve.

When we had United Health at my previous employer, one of my coworkers got stuck with $12,000 in bills. She ended up selling her house to pay it off.

My personal story with them is that I found a breast lump and bleeding. My doctor said I needed a mammogram so we did that, not thinking it would be an issue with the insurance. That was followed up with an ultrasound. Both were inconclusive and the doctor recommended surgery. They denied all of the claims because I was a year younger than they allow payments for those tests. I ended up paying for the tests myself and decided not to do the surgery. When I got different insurance, another set of mammograms were done, and they didn't find anything. It's been wait and watch since then.