In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson.

Still, people still found a way to express how they felt ― to the tune of more than 90,000 laughing reactions as of Friday.

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    I took one for the team and went to Fox News to read the user comments on the first story I could find about this. It’s pretty telling that even there, the overwhelming sense I got – in between the “Obamacare is why healthcare is so bad!” and the “where’s Hunter’s cocaine, Mister FBI?” and the “our so-called nation is secretly run by acolytes of a shady transnational world government” – is that they don’t understand why this is getting any more attention than any other random street crime in the big bad city.

    Even MAGA doesn’t care; wrong kind of billionaire, I guess.

    • @Ledivin@lemmy.world
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      The MAGA public doesn’t like billionaires in general, they just like Trump and Musk. That’s it. It’s a cult of personality, not anything based on actual values or policies.

      Obviously MAGA is funded by them in the background, but the average MAGAt doesn’t know that or care.

      • Yeah, MAGA doesn’t have principles or anything even resembling a coherent world view.

        I’ve had more than a few conversations with MAGA types who agree massive corporations are running rampant and are a major problem, but then go on to advocate for deregulation.

        • @Quadhammer@lemmy.world
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          No you see regulation is bad, because government.

          Which is a sentiment I could almost agree with if regulation wasn’t actually a tool in the arsenal for the working man and the community