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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Bill Burr calls out insurance companies over LA fires—"Free Luigi!"

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Bill Burr calls out insurance companies over LA fires—"Free Luigi!"

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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Comedian Bill Burr called for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, to be freed from jail.
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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    He didn’t just call them out, he called them out on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

    Kimmel averaged 1,720,000 viewers a night last year and that doesn’t count people watching the next day, or even later, on YouTube.

    Bill Burr has always been a “no fucks given” kind of guy and I respect him for that.

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      He won my respect when he won over Philly by insulting every single person in it - while in Philly. (I can’t believe this happened 18 years ago.)

      https://youtu.be/bWuXfIZiSqY

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        Damn. Booing Dom Irerra is low even for Philly.

        That guy is like comedy dynamite. He makes sports funny to me and I couldn’t give less of a shit about sports.

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        It turns into almost an aristocrats joke. Not really a fan of his, but he delivered it well.

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      Bill Burr became culturally relevant by being controversial.

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        You mean like most successful stand-up comedians?

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          Like Joey Diaz or Bill Cosby?

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            Or, you know, George Carlin or Richard Pryor.

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    Clip article is referring to.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7wcU4W4tDE&t=0

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      At 2:45

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    I don’t want to be the one defending Insurance companies because seriously fuck them.

    But… Please correct me if I got it wrong, but for the California fires they are accused of refusing to sell insurance policies or asking very high prizes for them, which is a very different thing than selling the policy and then denying and delaying payments after something has happened.

    An insurance company saying they won’t insure you means that the risk is visibly and insanely high. Which it clearly was. If anything this should have been a pretty loud alarm bell that has been ignored.

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      What is the difference between refusing to renew a contract and refusing to pay the insurance claim from an “ethical” point of few?

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        If they refuse to play the claim, they are refusing to provide the service you have already paid them for.

        If they refuse to renew a contract, they are not taking your money, and not agreeing to provide the service.

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    The clip in question.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7wcU4W4tDE

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      They cut him off :(

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        Yea that was annoying, it’s like the billionaires don’t want that to be discussed on their network. No such thing as free speech when the platform is owned by the enemy.

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    Good for Bill Burr.

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    I thought we were talking about Bill Barr, and was surprised enough to click through. Then surprised in a different way! Glad we’re not feeling positively about Barr at least

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