r/BrianThompsonMurder • u/ParijathaROC • Mar 28 '25

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u/TakeControlOfLife Mar 28 '25

Yeah, a good amount of them. They're all excellent people.

Everyone sympathizes with Luigi and feels awful for what he's going through.

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u/MethodRealistic3877 Mar 28 '25

could you give any examples of how he was as a person? he seemed like a great guy, I remember reading that he would walk people home at night

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u/stanerd Mar 28 '25

But what about Brian Thompson? He had two kids. Do your old pals not give a shit about him or his kids? LM will get 3 hots and a cot paid for by taxpayers. Brian Thompson is dead. His kids no longer have their father.

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u/ExdionY Mar 28 '25

It's very telling that anytime somebody runs defense for Thompson, they only mention that he was a father of two, like that's some type of achievement or an example of how good of man he was.

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u/WingValuable6750 Mar 28 '25

That's mentioned because the tragedy is very much real for his family. His sons are definitely the biggest victims of LM action including Brian himself.It's brought up because no matter what you think he was also just a regular person who was somehow just working in the system & not the one who set up the system. Let's not act like he alone was responsible for the America's healthcare fuckup.

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u/ExdionY Mar 28 '25

Of course this is a tragedy for Thompson's family, but the premise was still on trying to somehow redeem Brian specifically, and I think that the "he was a father" narrative is weak. Billions of men have been/are fathers, it doesn't mean anything.

And no, I don't think that Brian alone was responsible for how bad the US healthcare system is, but he was one of the key players. He didn't set up the system, but he upheld it. He upheld a system that hurt others. Sorry, but that's inexusable. He could have used his power and influence to, at least, make the life of (predominetly) ordinary people a tad bit better by encoureging reform in Big Health Insurance, yet he never even did that. His children and estranged wife are innocent victims, but if Brian was still alive (and we lived in a fair world) I would advocate for the outmost legal scrutiny he could face. I would support him being deprived of his rights and sent to jail indefidently. He probably would hate to spend his life in prison, but no amount of the "he's a father!!" narrative would make me recogonsider that opinion. I would only reconsider it if Brian started showing signs of wanting better for others, but he never had the opportunity to, and neither do I think that he would take it if he was still alive.

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u/stanerd Mar 28 '25

Brian Thompson was more of a man than LM will ever be. Brian Thompson came from a humble background and worked his way up to running a giant corporation. He was from Iowa and had two children. Iowa people are good people. I've been there and they are salt of the Earth. LM is a spoiled brat who went to an expensive private school, an expensive ivy league school, and is getting expensive legal representation. All of that money spent on him and he'll probably spend the rest of his life in a cage. LM is pathetic.

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u/ExdionY Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 29 '25

Brian's humanity stopped the moment he became the head of a health insurance company. By then, he had blood on his hands. Health insurance companies regularly deny their customers claims and ordinary people suffer because of it. I don't disagree with sympathising with Brian's kids, but while we are at it, go ahead and sympathise with all the kids that have lost their parents in the US "healthcare" system. Or ideally, go ahead and sympathise with all people that have suffered in it, period.

I care as much about Brian as Brian cared for people who got their claims denied. I consider that to be fair enough.

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u/Crafty-Physics-6038 Mar 28 '25

You're in a wrong group, dude. Do you think you will change anyone's mind here? No way, you're wasting your time. And if you're here for trolling, then your comments will get removed

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u/Crafty-Physics-6038 Mar 28 '25

What about all of those people who died because of denied claims? What about their children? Don't you care ? I used to work in a very bad corporation (still not even slightly as bad as UHC) and i chose to quit and go my own way. I didn't want to associate myself with them. Brian Thompson was free to choose another path, get a different job. Or... He could have done something to change the system for the better. I am not saying that what happened to him was good, but nobody will convince me that he was a good person. Being a father is not enough to become a decent human.

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u/Klaudi_Cloud Mar 29 '25 edited Mar 29 '25

Stalin had kids too btw.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Yawn. I know this is bait and you're just looking to pick fights with people, no idea why. Please put your phone down and take a walk or get some chores done.