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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 24 minutes ago

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

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 29 minutes ago

Something something monitor deez nuts.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 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 4 points 5 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 3 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes 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 1 points 6 minutes 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 6 points 6 hours ago

I would like to be on your list

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 12 points 8 hours ago

Sooooo, most people.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. We already knew that.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 19 points 12 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 22 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 47 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

The beatings will continue until the morale improves.

[–] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 18 points 14 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.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 6 hours ago

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

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 49 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

So they are monitoring basically everyone.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

Openly since the Patriot Act

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 12 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.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

We're gonna need a bigger surveillance apparatus

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Leaked image of their new detection system:

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

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 17 hours ago

I think it will be expanded: no need to worry about that, citizen!

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 30 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is there such a thing as an insurance co-op? If not, can that be a thing?

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

religious people tried that, ended up as bad as you'd think lol

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

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

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[–] WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world 24 points 18 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.

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

Well... You also have to have good morals, and worst of all, care just a little. Can't have that.

The US is already 90% towards fascism.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 15 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 18 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 62 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked

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[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 31 points 22 hours ago

Add me to the list plz. Thx.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, like 85% of the adult population?

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