Erik Uden 🚩Dec 4, 2024

I'm not gonna say Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, deserved to die. If you really think about it: no one deserves to die.

However, if you turn a profit off of algorithmically denying people the necessary medical care they need to survive, then you've made a decision about who deserves to die many times. Tens of thousands of times. With an arbitrary criteria. UnitedHealthcare actually has the highest claim denial rate of any health insurance company in America. You've built one of the world's most profitable businesses off of that.

There's just a sort of irony of someone doing to him what he's done to millions: deciding whether to live or die.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 5, 2024
And the Not-My-Job-Award goes to...
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 5, 2024
thoughts and prayers are out of your network, sorry
Show threadErik Uden 🚩
Deny — Defend — Depose 🔥🔥🔥✍️
Dec 5, 2024 at 6:03pmWeb
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Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 6, 2024

November 14th: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield won't pay for the complete duration of anesthesia for patients' medical procedures.

December 4th: UnitedHealthcare CEO executed publicly on New York City street.

December 5th: Anthem takes back plan to limit anesthesia coverage.

Deny. Defend. Depose.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

FULL SINGLE: DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE OUT NOW!

✊ https://youtu.be/MqIJUnPcSgw

Never heard such a good and sharp critique of our healthcare system portrayed with such rhythm and melody! I cannot recommend this song enough.

Deny, Defend, Depose

Thanks everyone for the love🫶🧌Cover Art: Jack Ludkey (@highwaysnobbery)

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Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
Luigi Mangione was right, these parasites had it coming.
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

They found him. Deny. Defend. Depose!

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-news

Suspect in Health Care C.E.O.’s Killing Charged With Murder

The suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged by New York prosecutors. He was arrested and arraigned in Altoona, Pa., on Monday after being spotted at a McDonald’s.

The New York Times
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
New York stands in solidarity
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
It literally never happened, idk what the NYPD is talking about.
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

“Science fiction - It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’’

— Luigi Mangione, Anti-Capitalist Activist, 9th of December 2024

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

Just an hour ago, Luigi Mangione's Twitter Account (@PepMangione) had about one thousand followers.

Now he got around 121k.

I don't think Elon will keep him on the platform for long.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

So the guy walked into a McDonald's, written manifesto (admission of crime) in hand, with a 9mm ghost gun (exact weapon of crime), the silencer seen in the video, four fake IDs (all with names used for his getaway), all in his backpack.

He's also literally named “Luigi's Mansion” you can't make this shit up

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
I don't remember this game
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024

I don't really care if he has some absolutely insane beliefs. That isn't uncommon. He still chose to take his anger and resentment and target the source of the problem: The upper class who exploits us all for their profit. We've seen plenty more people in this country lash out towards the most innocent and vulnerable people, in violence, due to their, often justified but misguided, rage.

I'd rather he become a symbol of class solidarity if it will lead to systemic change, than to fall for yet another opportunity to be torn apart by the upper class.

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Show threadErik Uden 🚩Jan 4, 2025
Bernie is too old, it's time for something new!
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Jan 4, 2025
Make this happen
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Nov 23
Oh, what a year it has been
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 4
One year ago today, Luigi Mangione did what he'd later become known for.
Show threadJackieDec 4
@ErikUden one year of propaganda of the deed anarchism being decisively shown as stupid.
Show threadJoachim SellikenDec 4
@ErikUden One year ago someone did, what Luigi Mangione is accused of doing.
Maybe he did. But words matter, when the verdict has not yet been passed.
Show threadOtownKimJan 4, 2025
@ErikUden hahahha. Love it!
Show threadNoel KellyJan 4, 2025

@ErikUden

He can's run until 2036, too young.

Show threadjonathankoren™Jan 4, 2025

@ErikUden never forget. They hate us.

https://youtu.be/RHU_ThTBuzU

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Meet Champagne Drinkers (ABC News)

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Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Jan 5, 2025
@ErikUden @MythingPerson
Je sui Luigi
Show threadGnome KatDec 9, 2024
@ErikUden
Wtf the more I learn about this story the more wild it gets... When did we slip into a literal cartoon???
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@gnomekat 2015
Show threadBenareshDec 9, 2024

@ErikUden IF anything its good its a right wing guy.

Not only will it cause Peter Thiel's insane shit be scrutinized by his own ilk.

But also if it was a Leftist it would cause so much backlash. Think of Lina E. versus Reichsbürger and how the media reacted to them.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@Benaresh real
Show threadAndrocatDec 10, 2024

@Benaresh @ErikUden Also, there seems to be a trend of those angry young men that the right wing has been stringing along for fuel are feeling sort of used, somehow.

And they aren't happy about feeling like a schmuck.

It's not a feeling they love.

Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 9, 2024

@ErikUden

Why as a german you even go into deep into this problem of the US?
You care or don't care?
About the problems of the worlds Nr1 capitalist society while sitting in a comfy chair in Germany?

At least you could try to draw some lines to german politics that try to envision the US system and it's politics as some kind of goal to achieve.

Kinda embarrassing all this meddling and opinionated comments on problems that are far far away from your own reality.

Show thread廃墟猫 🐈🌈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛Dec 10, 2024

@jesuisatire @ErikUden Geezer can do whatever he wants.

And he doesn't have to "draw lines to German politics".

Thought you Americans were all about the free speech?

Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 10, 2024

@Haikyoneko
> can do whatever he want

Same as those of us who are exposed to his (public) toots ..

> Thought you Americans were all about the free speech?

Who is "you"?

Since when does free speech mean that you wont harvest responses? You mean reactions and responses are not part of that "free speech" concept?

.. interesting ..

Show thread廃墟猫 🐈🌈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛Dec 10, 2024

@jesuisatire I literally said he can do what he likes. I never said you could not.

You, however, started telling him what he should and should not do.

We are not the same. 😉

Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 10, 2024

@Haikyoneko

> You, however, started telling him what he should and should not do.

Did I?

> We are not the same.

Hope so.
zwinkersmilie

Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 10, 2024

@Haikyoneko @CStamp

Apparently I was wrong about the origins of @ErikUden , at least as what I can understand from this toot of him:
"our healthcare system"
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113624398015427062

I had him as a german in charge of german mastodon servers ..

Erik Uden 🍑 (@[email protected])

FULL SINGLE: **DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE** OUT NOW! ✊ https://youtu.be/MqIJUnPcSgw Never heard such a good and sharp critique of our healthcare system portrayed with such rhythm and melody! I cannot recommend this song enough.

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Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 10, 2024

@jesuisatire @Haikyoneko @CStamp I lived in the United States from 2019 to 2020. I'm a member of the DSA and helped the Bernie Sanders primary election campaign in California back then (canvassing and other management stuff). I got many ties there, good friends, and people I'd call family as well as people who are, biologically, family.

I dunno, I guess I never really snapped out of it, and considering I needed to get a surgery in the U.S. I think I can say “our healthcare system” as I had to deal with that as well. Sure, I'm not as affected by it, you could say I'm privileged since I'm not. However, I still do care and would like to see the working class, be they from the U.S. or Germany, as one. Since whatever happened to the U.S. can happen here too.

Show threadSuePChickenDec 10, 2024
@jesuisatire @Haikyoneko @CStamp @ErikUden deine Art und Weise hier zu formulieren erinnert mich sehr an die Toxizität von Twitter. Ich nehme Erik bei vielen Themen wahr und er lässt Deutschland nicht aus. Gehörst du zu den Menschen, die Links sind und auch noch auf links Gesinnte draufhauen, wenn sie dein links nicht bedienen? Das spaltet uns als Gegenkraft.
Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 11, 2024

@SuePChicken

Twittertoxizitaet?
Keine Ahnung.
Wurde auf twitter mehrmals geshadowbanned weil ich im arabischen Frühling englische tweets von Menschen vor Ort ins spanische übersetzte, seit dem bin ich hier im fedi.

> Gehörst du zu ..

Würde das wahrscheinlich verneinen wenn dem so wäre ..

Versuchen mich möglichst nicht in die inneren Angelegenheiten anderer (Länder) einzumischen und vor allem nicht ihren Schwachsinn oder ihre Unmenschlichkeit zu importieren.

@Haikyoneko @CStamp @ErikUden

Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷDec 11, 2024

@SuePChicken

Deine Erfahrungen und vielleicht auch selbst erworbenen Verhaltensweisen von #Twitter finde ich interessant und ein Austausch ob und wie ihr die hier importiert, bzw wie wir dies hier verhindern können auch.

Was gehört zu dieser "Toxizität" denn so?

* Ignorieren von #Kommunikation unter dem Scheinargument "don't feed the Troll!"?
* Platzieren von aus der Luft gegriffenen fragenden haltlosen Vorwürfen weil sie so am besten ihre zersetzende Kraft entfalten?

#fediverse

Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Dec 9, 2024

@ErikUden

Ghosts of CEOs past?

(Sorry, too soon?)

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque It's never too soon for this 
Show threadWayne’s The Name!!!😁Dec 9, 2024
@ErikUden Too Soon but, right on time.
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@engineerminded I would agree, like 1.5 hours after the news dropped it was indeed, too soon.
Show threadMilliDec 9, 2024
@ErikUden even better he is called "Luigi the great eater" in italian
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@Milli exactly... Mangione... He was very hungry indeed
Show threadJonChevreau 🇨🇦Dec 9, 2024
@ErikUden more likely Eloon will give him a free blue check and use his algo to superpromote his Xcretions
Show threadGondorDec 9, 2024

@ErikUden How come
so many quotes of "V for Vendetta" come to mind, like:

"Our masters have not heard the people’s voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember."

Oh, weird, violent times to be alive. 😦

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@grootinside Truly. V for Vendetta should be a cautionary tale, not a soon-to-be reality!
Show threadPicks the EvangelistDec 9, 2024
@ErikUden idk bout y'all but i've certainly had this exact thought
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@greycat well, oh boy... I got the manifesto for you!
Show threadNo Gods , no Masters! RESISTDec 9, 2024
@ErikUden
The brilliance of this man makes me wonder why he would keep any evidence connected to a possible crime.
Show threadJ.H.NoyesDec 10, 2024
@ErikUden I fucking like this guy.
Show threadSherlock SchafDec 9, 2024
@ErikUden hä? Einerseits existiert ein Ton was mich irritiert andererseits ist kein Schuss zu hören. Haben die Umgebungsgeräusche den Ton geschluckt? Das das einzige was ich mir jetzt vorstellen kann.
Show threadstarkraving666Dec 9, 2024
@ErikUden looks like a heart attack to me
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Dec 9, 2024
@starkraving666 I didn't see nothing
Show threadAndrocatDec 10, 2024
@ErikUden He clearly just walked there, and then he fell over. Mustabeen something he ate.
Show threadhonk if you want to honk Dec 6, 2024
@ErikUden cowards
Show threadWombatDec 6, 2024
@ErikUden ...tja - wenn es hilft...
harte Bandagen
Show threadRalfMaximusDec 6, 2024

@ErikUden

They ran the idea up the flagpole to see if anyone would open fire.

Show threadhonk if you want to honk Dec 6, 2024
@ErikUden das abgeänderte UHC Logo macht mich als Grafik-Gourmande ganz wuschig