• Event_Horizon@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Why would the 1% be nervous?

    It’s not like the Americans will actually do anything. At most there will be some light trolling, some graffiti and maybe a twitter hashtag. Tjen everyone will pat themselves on the back and feel slightly superior before returning to their slave jobs, without healthcare

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      26 days ago

      I remember posts like yours from a while back… and then one day a young man with a bright future and as lot of advantage chose to leave that behind to shoot a CEO in the back of the head on the open street in broad daylight.

      “Why would the 1% be nervous”

      Your post is a weak attempt to sow defeat in the hearts and minds of those who started to perk up and think a bit more after seeing what Luigi decided needed to be done. On balance, your post reads like you’re actually nervous.

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          26 days ago

          Sure, but rumors have it there are people that go out and actually touches grass between their slacktivism sessions.

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            It really helps that increasingly the internet just feels shittier and shittier so people actually WANT to “touch grass”.

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          26 days ago

          I mean, “nobody wants to work anymore!”… Maybe you’re just repeating buzzwords because the blind repetition is comforting enough to help you feel sure about an unsure world? Maybe you’ve long since stopped questioning the meaning of these catchphrases and their perceived validity before you plainly parrot them, as designed.

          How about people actually do shit, take action in real live, and then they supplement that with additional online activism. I’m out marching, I’m picketing, I’m supporting unions, I’m researching candidates and their funding and I’m voting. I’m educating younger people who are curious and welcoming back misled friends and family when they wake to the tactics of conservatives and realize they need to stop refraining or voting against their best interest.

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      26 days ago

      I’ll be honest. I’m not sure. I grew up outside the US. Things were far worse but in some ways, less bad division wise. I was mostly a child or a teen but I did live thru two revolutions. Both regime changing.

      It all starts rather complacent and lazy. But the bubbles. They are not feeling new to me.

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        26 days ago

        They’re going to attempt to appeal even more to conservatives by running a previous candidate for the Democratic nomination.

        David Duke.

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          26 days ago

          The fact that his administration was one of the most progressive/productive in history overall says a lot about this country.

          Oh well. T-minus 30ish days until the death cult starts using prison slave labor to put brawndo on all the crops to own da libz!

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            The fact that his administration was one of the most progressive/productive in history overall

            I mean, people underrate how progressive he is and how he handled the presidency, but that’s going a bit far. FDR, Truman, etc

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    26 days ago

    Just pointing out if an insurance office shuts down for the day then no claims are getting approved.

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        Two weeks ago people were posting stats on the front page showing the industry average denied claims is around 16% and UnitedHealth denies double that at 32%, so that means the vast majority of claims are approved even for the worst examples.

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          Ideally it should be 0% (this is too optomistic, but I am not one make that figure) people pay into an insurance system to distribute risk. If a company cant resolve the inflow/outflow problem (not even going to get into profits, for-profit insurance is unethical) then it needs to be managed by an organization that can. ~30 governments (USA not amongst them) that have solved this problem for their citizens and anyone requiring medical assistance within their borders.

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            Right right right all cool, but I was conversing with that other user who claimed nothing was getting approved.

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    25 days ago

    Remember remember!

    The 4th of December

    A CEO dies all alone;

    On the street he was lain,

    cold, pale and in pain,

    thousands of deaths that he own.

    The decisions he’d struck,

    Layers removed from the slaughter,

    Were a shareholders treat,

    Your dead mother or daughter.

    Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

    Still unaware of profit potential they’d mourn,

    Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

    As Brian’s when he denied and delayed at great pace

    Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

    Luigi didn’t do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

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    25 days ago

    Eugene V. Debs will always be my favorite imprisoned candidate. Respectable vote count too, given their situation.

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    No. I mean I get that it’s tongue-in-cheek, but just stop. This social media edgelord shit is just Q-Anon of the left.

    I mean if we wanna turn this guy into a hero, maybe we should talk about the fact that he shot some relatively powerless, fake-title CEO of a subsidiary while retweeting praise of Elon Musk, the biggest oligarch in the world. He’s not even a quality villain, much less a hero.