• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    world’s most important companies

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

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

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

    This changes everything.

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

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      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.

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        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.

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

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

          🍻 Cheers to you

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    I love how “overseeing $280B of revenue” is supposed to be some indicator of the guy’s goodness. “Wealth = virtue” indeed.

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      Yeah that shit was top of the list not his everyman background or happy family. Shows where this asshole’s priorities lie.

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        not his everyman background or happy family

        He’s going through a divorce and his kids hated him. But this isn’t unusual for the “everyman” who climbs over a hill of his neighbors’ corpses to get that brass ring.

        Once you’ve gone from pleb to president, you feel entitled to certain things that only a visit to Little Saint James can provide.

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          To be clear I don’t actually believe that bit about his background. That’s just how the other guy was spinning it.

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    By the same logic, let me introduce you to the story of a young man rising from a failed Austrian artist to a national hero…

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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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    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