• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    I virtually have the same background as this dipshit except that I didn’t become a fucking awful ghoul. I’m not impressed.

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    Hitler loved animals.

    Your point?

    The worst people in the world are still people. Doesn’t mean we have to excuse their evil.

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    What do you expect from a CFO of mergers and acquisitions? They’re more inhuman than healthcare execs, if that’s possible, since their entire job is to buy companies and fire people, thus leaving them completely without insurance.

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    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”

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    I suggest checking out this dudes twitter posts. He is truly the worst of us - on par with the binned CEO. Fuck you Robert Sterling.

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    tl;dr: The beginnings justify the ends. If you’re a teenager thinking about becoming a murderer or rapist later in life, consider learning the trombone.

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    Ah yes, the American dream. Making billions by siphoning the blood-money from the dying you denies Healthcare to.

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    One of the big lies that the elites tell themselves is that anyone and everyone of merit with be lifted to their rightful station in society. They need this illusion because otherwise, they’ll have to face the fact that their success is just based on birth circumstances. They latched on the the few working class slobs that somehow navigate up the rungs of society.

    But what exactly did Brian Thompson achieve with his success? Did he funnel his excess wealth back to the community he came from? No, he just accumulated wealth like all the rest.

    Also, pretty sure he was cheating on his wife and doing insider trading, which checks out with the elites.

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      anyone and everyone of merit with be lifted to their rightful station in society.

      I think that’s part of the protestant work ethic. People are predestined to a level of holiness in the material world we live in, and their predestined level of holiness grants them the ability to produce a quality and quantity of work that achieves their said level of predestined holiness. Thus, the wealthier a person is, the more holy they were predestined to be (sounds like a loophole in predestination to me). If you look at religion from a sociological lens, then the protestant work ethic is a great leadership tool to encourage the workers to produce as much as possible for several reasons: it creates a belief in social mobility that is based on work, workers are teased with being more holy if they worker, workers are threatened with being less holy if they work less hard, and leaders and wealthy individuals are seen as being the more holy. This was a revolution in Christian values at the time of the Protestant Reformation because it made wealthy people more holy, which was in contradiction to Christian dogma at the time. Roman Catholics, who were dominant before the Protestant Reformation, valued only actions directly related to the church, and anything else was irrelevant. I’m not an expert on this, so I may be wrong, but I think part of predestination to Roman Catholics was applied at the creation of a person because by being human, they were already predestined by God to be a certain level of divine. In essence, what mattered in terms of holiness were works for the church. Labor was less motivated to produce goods for the sake of creating wealth. The impact was that Roman Catholicism was a better match for a feudalistic society in which works contributed to their lord and church. Whereas, Protestant Christianity was better suited for a market economy in which individuals were encouraged to produce for the sake of becoming wealthy (ie holy). Therefore, Protestant Christianity took hold well in the developing United States of America as had a synergistic relationship with the economic model, which we continually see portrayed in media as the American Dream and that wealthy individuals are morally just and given unlimited get out of jail free cards (unless they betray other wealthy individuals).

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      If we really have a society where everyone is lifted to their rightful station… Then someone really needs to explain to me why anyone is homeless? Why any child goes hungry? Your average trailer park and 50 bucks in Food Stamps is still well below what the worst of us deserves.

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    And Bin Laden made 20 children with 5 wives that were all loved.

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    Chickens will roost. He should know that having come from Iowa.

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    It was reported that he didn’t even live with his wife. If that’s true, why are we talking about his failed family?

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        This is linkedin, it’s ai generated.

        Imagine what a fucking cuck you would have to be to actually post on LinkedIn.

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      To try to make us feel guilty for cheering his demise.

      “HE HAD A FAMILY!!111”

      I don’t care if his kid was Tiny Tim who’s now spending every second of Christmas in debilitating agony, tears streaming down his face till his ducts run dry.

      It doesn’t change that because of this monster we call Brian Thompson, thousands of people who “had families” died from diseases that could have been cured with the simplest of anti-biotics, but saving money was just THAT important to this Butcher of the ill and broken.