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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 127 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 44 points 1 day ago
[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 19 hours ago

Of course they are.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monitor me all you want. Monitor me while you suck my balls.

What are you going to do about it? Nothing.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

You think the trump regime is going to do nothing with a list of people who are opposed to the crimes of the rich?

Violent autocrats love lists of people to persecute and kill. That's been a hallmark of trump style regimes since at least sulla in the roman republic.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I think trump has some pretty dark plans but infighting and a focus on drama will derail a lot of them like it did last time. True authoritarianism is too complex for his cabinet to pull off.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 20 hours ago

That's a very optimistic position.

I think it overestimates the competence of fascists past and underestimates people like Leonard Leo who orchestrated the fascist take over of the courts and has publicly committed to doing the same to every major industry and institution.

Either way we'll find out I guess.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Far more scary than Trump would be a president with the same ideas he espouses but who actually is a true believer (rather than somebody who just says what he thinks people want to hear), competent and persistent in taking his promises all the way (instead of a flip-flopper like Trump).

It's the reason why the Democrat Party going even more to the Right is dangerous: it's keeps the Republicans in Fascist territory and sooner or later they'll produce America's very own Hitler rather than "just" Trump.

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[–] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 day ago

Monitoring all nurses, got it.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 112 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So, they're finally admitting that they're monitoring all of us.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago
[–] WeUnite@lemm.ee 63 points 1 day ago

The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It's your first amendment right, use it. Don't comply in advance.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 229 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So did they just download the US Census and start from there?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When pretty much everybody is on the list, it's more conspicuous to not be on it.

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[–] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 102 points 1 day ago

Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so... everyone?

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's fun. It does nothing to stop the near-daily in-person conversations with coworkers, friends, and family about this one topic that unites us all. So long as we're beholden to this health insurance system that screws us over at our most vulnerable of times, those conversations aren't going to stop.

In his manifesto, Mangione suggested the health insurance industry had “gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.” He could just as easily have been describing the national security state.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

That's not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago

Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 71 points 1 day ago

"Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?"

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 125 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You can't put us all on the little list

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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UHC just sent me a survey. I was honest. I'm on a list now!!!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago

If you got the survey you were already on the list.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 80 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so, like most people who have ever had to attempt to use it combined with those who could only hope to afford it? thats prolly a long list.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 74 points 1 day ago

Hi, FBI agent! How are you doing today?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

I hope more die.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You can monitor this dick.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"We already have. And there is literally 'Nothing to see here.' "

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