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kleinbl00  ·  14 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UnitedHealthcare executive killed in Manhattan in targeted attack

Speaking as a mechanical engineer who spent a lot of time in the biomedical industry, followed by a lot of time in architecture, followed by a lot of time in entertainment:

I threw myself 80 hours a week for three years at building a healthcare facility that serves 33% medicaid and employs roughly 80% minorities because representation is the most effective method of affirmative action.

And you know what? I:

- didn't grow up with millions

- or go to Penn

- or have the luxury of joining a commune on Oahu where I could break my back surfing

Or, I mean, here. You tell me, Spence. What could this guy have done.

If my grandparents owned nine fucking skilled nursing facilities? I'd maybe try working within the system. Particularly if I had been exposed to the way it gives short shrift to individuals on the client side. But then, I don't look at the world as if it existed largely to inconvenience my hopeless ass.

Do me a solid. Take that learned, impotent helplessness of yours and fucking do something about it in 2025, mmmmmkay? Because given a choice between "throwing your life away in violence" and "anything else" the points go to "anything else" and the fact that this is difficult for you is why ISIS is almost entirely Europeans off on a jaunt.