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    You could have donated to a children’s Hospital, which the Republicans are about to cut off all funding to with the government shutdown and again in a few months when DOGE cuts 2.5 Trillion in funding for hospitals, healthcare, research, infrastructure, etc.

    Instead you’re making sure some random killer gets peanut butter and crackers for the next 30 years. SMH

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      You know what might save more children than donating to a children’s hospital? The destruction of our current healthcare insurance system. Of course you know that. You’re just intentionally making a bad faith argument to distract people because you’re a bootlicker and an enemy of the working class. Get the fuck out of here troglodyte.

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        So instead of tens of millions of children having necessary medical care covered, none of them will.

        Great plan, hope it works out like it does in your head.

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            Catsbad wants:

            “The destruction of our current healthcare insurance system.”

            The insurance companies won’t cover any care. The Government certainly isn’t offering to pick up the bill, we just elected a Republican Majority. So the patients are responsible for the full cost of treatment.

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              More bad faith and lies. What a surprise lol. You want to suck CEO dick so badly you couldn’t even consider that a non greed based system is what people want. It’s not like there are many examples of healthcare systems that could simply be copy and pasted to work here. Won’t anyone think of the profits?!

              You’re a joke dude. No one is buying it and your imagined CEO daddy is not going to see your comments and throw you bread crumbs when it’s your turn to choose death or bankruptcy. But I guess you’ll feel good in the moment because you tried really hard to get people who can barely pay their insurance premiums to feel like it’s their responsibility to also pay for other people’s healthcare instead of trying to stop the current, broken system.

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                A literal quote from your actual comment is bad faith and lies? Well, you said it pal, not me.

                You don’t want to copy and paste a system, explicitly. You don’t need to do anything to CEOs if you simply obsolete their entire industry by getting people to vote correctly. Or are you saying you want to end US Democracy? It sounds like you don’t even know what you want and you think your confusion justifies violence.

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                Okay but it’s only an improvement for people can afford it. Other people die. That’s the entire argument behind calling Brian Thompson a murderer, by advocating for not distributing based on need you’re essentially what other commenters in this thread would call a murderer.

                You can have mutual aid and charitable funding RIGHT NOW. Nothing is stopping us, it’s heavily advocated for.

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        His father is the head of Mangione Enterprises which owns tons of real estate including resorts and country clubs. TBH I assume he’d have his peanut butter even if less than a million people paid the prison industry on his behalf.

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      It would cost you exactly nothing to stop this moral grandstanding. Here is your “I am better than you” award, now go away: 🏆

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      I would think that the majority of that donation revenue stream is captured by the crooked health insurers.

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        Alright then, obviously the solution is to just pay for each other’s care without the insurance so let’s start an office that facilitates the pooling and allocation of funds for healthcare costs to be covered based on specific terms to prevent misuse that…

        wait a minute…

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          No, the obvious solution is universal healthcare funded by taxes. Healthcare in the sense of giving care, not withholding care.

          The benefits are so obvious arguing for the current US system is disingenuous.

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            Yes that’s exactly the solution I propose, and the only way we get there is to elect a supermajority of democrats and single-payer minded independents. Many people in these comment threads do not agree with that plan.

            Until that happens, if you intend to throw any money towards Luigi’s jailors, I strongly urge you to throw it towards charity instead.

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      You could say this argument about people buying alcohol or cigarettes or lottery tickets or McDonald’s cheeseburgers. That money could go to better things but that’s not really the point. I mean, it’s their own money, they can do whatever they want with it. If it makes them happy to give it to some dude at a prison why is it any of your concern? You can feel free to give your own money to the children’s hospital.

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        Alcohol, Cigarettes, Lottery Tickets, or McDonalds are all personal use. Giving money away is another matter entirely.

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          You are giving away your money every time you buy something, or when you hand it to a bum on the street, or give it to a registered charity. That’s personal use of your money.