It’s a popular look!

Instead of “No worries!” he heard "No, worries!*

My point is that he was more than just a cog. He may not have been the sole villain and mastermind, but he was more than just a cog - he was a driver.

He could have done a number of other things. He wasn’t just a cog, he actively drove many of the problems with the health insurance industry today, as the person in control of the most egregious offender.

I’m sure he’ll be replaced with someone similar, and I’m sure he had plenty of encouragement; but that doesn’t make him any less culpable.

It kinda sounds like he did this with at least the bones of a plan. And aren’t silencers relatively easy to improvise, if you don’t need it to last?

Died, disabled, or went through other unnecessary, avoidable pain and suffering. It’s… quite a pool of candidates.

It sounds like he was receiving regular death threats and considered it par for the course.

If the CEO disagrees with the directions of the board, the CEO has a number of options. They can easily be considered culpable.

Per NPR, an annual investor’s conference for their parent company was scheduled to start this morning - https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5215881/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-new-york

I like grow up, myself

Hah, didn’t catch that when I saw the episode - Pelia knew Cary Grant!

I can be mad at both.

Democrats could have tried to improve the lot of the working classes.

People could have voted not to throw their neighbors to the wolves.

Do you really not know who your family likely voted for, or your roommates? People like this don’t need a registered ballot result to make an inference that lets them act violently; unless he’d had the foresight to play at being a Trump convert months ago, I think this story is extremely credible.

Many microwaves have a timer that can run without microwaving things.

I’m not confident the nurse was wrong!

better for Dems if he doesn’t drop out of the race

Need to be careful with this kind of thinking - that was the Dems’ attitude towards Trump during the 2016 election.

GURPS has a specific disadvantage that is essentially this.

That was my first thought!

…I think that might be less far-fetched. After all, our black VP is competing for her next job with a guy who’s a few oranges short of a basket…

Oh yeah: https://instinctmagazine.com/white-nationalist-gavin-mcinnes-plugs-himself-to-own-the-libs/

There’s probably better sources, that’s just the first Google result.

I don’t think it’s bullying, because bullying involves tormenting them - finding what they react negatively to, and pushing on that. Here, you’re letting them know that there’s something you need them to do before you’re comfortable playing with them. You might think of it as modelling how to protect your own bodily autonomy!

For me, when my kids were going through that, I’d say something like “Ack! Don’t touch me with poo hands! Go wash first, then you can climb on me!” It’d generally get a giggle, then they’d go finish washing up. You’ll want to pay attention to their reaction whatever you do, but if you make it clear they’re still welcome to play, I don’t see how it could be bullying.