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What about Hitler's kids and kids of his family members?
Ah, they made their choice to never have kids.
I kinda think they don't need to do that, they are different persons with different backgrounds who'd act differently being knowledgeable of what Germany did there.
But I want this question to hang over the heads of these CEOs, their peers and families. I want them to question themselves.
Not one of the people cheering for Thompson’s death had actually heard of Thompson before this.
They are cheering because of his job title. This has nothing to do with Thompson’s character or who he was.
This man is an asshole
It's funny. When I started reading about him, I found him to be just exactly the sort of person to be running the worst health fund in America
Not a meme.
What is a meme?
By Dawknin's original definition (cultural) memes are ideas, behaviors, styles, or practices that spread within a culture by imitation (Greek mimema, meaning "imitated") and carry symbolic meaning. Some examples would be the "Keep Calm And Carry On" posters during WW2, the concept of the "American Dream" or toasting with glasses.
However in this context we're talking about internet memes which is not synonymous with cultural memes. An internet meme is a picture or video that is funny, ironic, or relateable.
Or... maybe, just maybe, people can have the opinions they want and have their reasons for them.
The idea I have to consider my parents' role as my parents undermined if they did something scam-ish is arguably appalling.
This is turning into a collective shame kind of culture.
What Tompkins is failing to realize here is that the people who are elated know absolutely jack shit about who Thompson was, and Thompson’s own kids know a lot about who he is.
I don't know much about who Irmgard Furchner was but I know she was a piece of shit because only a piece of shit would do that job.
Tompkins was a garbage human and the species is better off without him. If his kids didn't think poorly of him for having that job they could not have known him.
Just because a monster goes home to a family and manages to keep them in the dark about the horrors they willingly commit for money... Or worse, maybe the family is aware of and approve of the inhuman way he takes your money... Having a family does not make a monster less monstrous.
It doesn't matter how many Little League games he went to, how active he was in the PTA, whether he volunteered at his local church. He was a terrible no good very bad person. And I don't need to have sat down and played Canasta with him to see that.
Man. Keep the kids out of the discourse. Have a little class.
I'm sure that seems like the right way to feel. But honestly his kids will grow up to hurt poor people just like their dad.
Jfc. You people are gaslighting his children, whose father was murdered weeks ago.
Get a fucking grip.
Not what gaslighting means...
To manipulate a murdered person's sons to reevaluate their perception of their own father because of some public lynching?
No one is being manipulated? Their father was the head of an objectively evil corporation (by any ethical philosophy I can think of) and people were celebrating that he was dead, 99% of whom had never heard of him before. Probably worth evaluating why at some point.
No one is hunting down his kids and screaming "YOUR FATHER PERSONALLY MURDERED MY FAMILY".
Nobody cares about his kids and they were not a topic of discussion until media pulled them in.
If you gonna do this moral grand standing, talk to the big media.