Edit: Here’s a link to what is most likely the real manifesto: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
Ken Klippenstein is a very reliable journalist and this version of the manifesto contains the snippets that have been released by law enforcement. Also, considering the thing was hand-written, that very long version involving his mom is dubious. (And there’s not any good evidence that his mom is in anything besides decent/good health)
So... Pain makes people radical.
Solution: Let ban pain!
How do we ban it? Well Universal Socialized Healthcare of course!
Just saw a post about companies firing people for being disgruntled in a survey.
Socialized medicine would benefit every single sector of the economy besides the insurance industry. It would deradicalize millions of Americans in an instant. It would increase the amount of doctors and nurses and healthcare workers tremendously. It would save them tons of money. But the government won't do it because they aren't powerful enough to tell roughly 20 of the 1000 most powerful executives in the country to fuck off.
Unfortunately, a lot of doctors oppose it as well because the increase in the number of doctors would dilute their negotiating power.
I have only ever heard opposition from doctors (or medical students) that were right wing/conservative to begin with. Most of the doctors I've worked with (especially those in emergency medicine and family medicine) are very much in favor of universal healthcare.
Pain makes people desperate. Desperate people are not known for being particularly calm about things, and it is entirely unreasonable to expect calm and decorum from someone in constant pain (that can be improved if not eliminated by certain treatments that are unfortunately usually quite expensive).
Apologies in advance for severe treatbrain
Steven Erickson''s Malazan series had a big bad introduced in the third book named the Crippled God who was the personification of this, a mind subjected to terrible pain with no rehabilitation in the aftermath of its trauma. This god quickly establishes himself as the biggest player in the game, with torturous power that contorts people's bodies, and so pain is presented as something fundamental, something antithetical to meaning that is more powerful to living creatures than the spheres of any other God.
To counteract the treatbrain I'll also bring up the fact that solitary animals do not tend to cry out in pain like social animals do. They do experience pain, even though some people will try to classify it as something lesser with words like "nocicpetion," but the important distinction is that they aren't usually sent into fits of screaming and paralysis like social animals. This tells me that, for social animals, pain is something that MUST be answered, even to the point of wanting revenge when the pain is gone. The CEO (I spit on him let's be clear) would be alive today if Luigi's pain had been addressed properly. But if this CEO had pushed such a policy, my guess is that he wouldn't have been made CEO in the first place.
I've read that spinal surgeries are especially iffy, with roughly 1/3rd chances of improving/stagnating/worsening. It's a shame that his pain only resulted in one dead health insurance demon when there are so many to choose from. Thousands just walking around as the most prolific serial killers in history. Put me on the jury.
At almost the exact same time the United Healthcare CEO was assassinated, a gunman walked into a religious school near Oroville California and shot two young children before killing himself.
god damn america
Death to America
Never understood why someone chooses to be a absolute villain in their last moments instead of potential glory.
If he is the shooter, than we can also confirm he chose to act out by targeting an insurance.
A grammar error, good to see this was human written. Less good to see that they're just trying to pull stuff out of their ass to fluff the article.
