Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing

anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder how many deaths that ceo is responsible for…

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No more than the politicians who won’t pass single payer health care reform.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the only reason we even have the ACA is because the Dems had a filibuster proof majority for a handful of weeks, over a decade ago.

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      • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Jesus fuck it’s been almost a decade since Obama…

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I live under a rock; what is “single payer”?

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      • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Single payer is a term generally used to describe government-paid, or socialized medicine. The government is the “payer” of the healthcare. In the absence of private-insurance companies, they would be the single payer. At least that’s how I think of the term.

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  • inv3r510n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    NYT CEO? Well they did cheerlead the Iraq war, reported lies without question like a fucking press release and slandered anyone who dare speak against it. How many Iraqis died? 200k?

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not true.

  I hated the insurance companies yesterday, but I wasn’t posting about actually killing anyone.

  People have been talking about guillotines in the abstract. Now they are talking about it in concrete terms.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe you but I am serious when I say we should start guillotining billionaires.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Read up on what happened in France after the guillotines… Maybe not the best idea to repeat that error.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s the thing. The French and Russian governments were unprepared for massive civil unrest.

      Here in America we have companies like Blackwater [or whatever they are calling themselves this week] Staffed by ex-CIA hotshots with access to a massive data base and lots and lots of money.

      I’d bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize onthis attack.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize on this attack.

        My guess is they’re currently consulting their legal teams and politicians, trying to figure out how to get the public to pay for their own private Secret Service for corporate executives.

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      • kmaismith@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This whole story-arc gives first move advantage to the opposition, the oligarchs are being forced to react instead of execute plans as they wish

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      • inv3r510n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some of us have nothing left to lose. Fuck the private military contractors. Guns and drones are the great equalizer. They’ve waged war on us for decades it’s about time we fight back.

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  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ex US attorney Preet Bharara says that an important boundary is when a fantasy “graduates”, going from protected free speech to credible threat.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is very elastic.

      Think of it this way; no one is threatened by the sight of Al Yankovic coming down the street in a tank. People run for cover when Joe Pesci walks into a store and asks how much for a chainsaw.

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    • inv3r510n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thought crimes don’t exist. One has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the thought crimer is taking actions to carry out real crimes.

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