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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 45 seconds ago

the misery will continue until tolerance and acceptance is achieved

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

It was to be expected but I didn't think it would be public this soon

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 hours ago

I don't know if I would trust an American who doesn't have a negative view of the health insurance industry

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Everyone post their favorite bounty posters!!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 hours ago

Something something monitor deez nuts.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 hours ago

I have a negative view of health insurance companies. In fact, I have a negative view of corporations, from the local mom-&-pops that underpay their employees and expect long hours, to Amazon. They all suck.

But people who create policies that cause immense loss of life (and cost and destruction) are really asking for ten-plus times the vengeance that actually comes their way.

I'm not interested in that vengeance since it won't solve the problem, but I don't begrudge those who suffer at their hands from wanting to kill them back.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You can try and suppress a revolution, but it will only make it better. And more brutal.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Except for all of those other times when the revolts were successfully suppressed....

Lol... I mean seriously dude?

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 4 points 2 hours ago

But Star Wars!

(Movies about revolution, designed to program us to be terrible, inefficient, failing revolutionaries. In case we ever get ideas. It's a long game.)

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 hours ago

I would like to be on your list

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The desperation to intimidate people is palpable. This won't work and the 1% will turn to dividing the people along racial and/or national lines.

What can I say, if it works it works.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 14 points 10 hours ago

Sooooo, most people.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 40 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. We already knew that.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They don't. I've met one person since that useless human got deleted that couldn't understand why everyone was unsympathetic toward him. The person was very wealthy and has no understanding of how things are for the majority of people in the US. These people are really a lot like the french nobles before the french revolution.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

And there are also tons of people who take the sorta-centrist view that "no matter how bad the corporation's acts, killing its ceo is wrong!!!!!!!" and only view using a gun against a black (now mexican/muslim bubba fetishes as well) 'robber' as valid self defense.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago (1 children)

Sure but this person wasn't one of them. She was born into a wealthy family and has never wanted. for anything. There are plenty of these types around who would probably end themselves if they ever lost it all.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

I wasn't contradicting you or trying to say that my assertion was the correct one about your example, just adding on to how many different ways we are deviating from the "so pretty much everyone" idea. I probably should have put in there how they don't even look at the corporation's acts as bad, justifying it in the typical 'money is all that matters' view commonly held, and that's what truly guides their statements about killing of ceos.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 22 points 14 hours ago

...well let me say here for whoever in the FBI / DOJ might be monitoring: the health insurance industry is a pox on american civilisation and stochastic remediation is the inevitable manifestation of celebrated principles of the declaration of independence...

[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 49 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

“You will have your bad healthcare system, and you will LIKE it!”

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 21 points 19 hours ago

The beatings will continue until the morale improves.

[–] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They can't monitor everyone. With AI they think they can, that's our biggest advantage

AI is pretty good at identifying anything suspicious.

But AI can't monitor analogue very well.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 53 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

So they are monitoring basically everyone.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago

Openly since the Patriot Act

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Go ahead fuckers. If I didn’t have so much to lose I’d go take out one of those fucks myself

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Petrol bomb their houses? Harder to trace that and a lower priority than murder

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Lol aren't like a solid 3rd of Zach Star's comedy channel videos about insurance?

I think he mentioned he didn't get work coverage so he made one for each kind to joke about gow much of a scam it all is.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

The health insurance industry needs to be changed significantly as it neither makes care cheaper, more accessible or more available.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Insurance in general is fucked. Home insurance just broke in Florida and now California.

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[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

We're gonna need a bigger surveillance apparatus

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Leaked image of their new detection system:

It puts out a green ball whenever someone has unkind thoughts about health insurance companies

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[–] WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

An evil company was evil. A very understandable thing happened when evil people are killing Americans. Now I'm going to get put on a list for liking a post.

It's like you don't have to do anything besides exist and you get put on a list. I'm sure this won't be used by the new administration to silence dissent.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago

The US healthcare system is a massive fucking dumpster fire. There, I typed it.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 17 points 19 hours ago

If the list includes everyone, what good is the list?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No shit, the NSA was already monitoring everybody to begin with.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

And they're still monitoring everyone. Everyone hates their healthcare. The "List" is just everyone.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 20 hours ago

I mean, they should be monitoring me because I want to see them toppled and replaced with a democracy, not just because I like seeing rich assholes get assassinated.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked

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