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  • France is currently on its fifth Republic, while the United States is still on its second

    Maybe the problem is that refreshing our tree of liberty would stifle the metastasis of our beloved economy, so we’ve left the tree to die of thirst.

    Personally, I would have chosen liberty over a few rich sociopaths having pet mega yachts to keep their original mega yachts company. I’m a bad American in that sense I guess 🤷


  • I see it more as speed of descent.

    I’m of the opinion this country is sold, and died about half a century ago as a democracy, and this is just leftover momentum. All but waned momemtum.

    Our vote isn’t on whether to reorient the economy to reflect the priorities of its citizens, merely how, and if at all, to manage some of the social issue symptoms of our crumbling commons, the ruins of public education, as the owners search for new vectors of exploitation.

    I see voting blue as akin to requesting we leave the water pumps turned on for this sinking ship to buy time(D), and voting red a vote turn them off because some passengers have been deluded into hating other passengers and really, really want to watch them drown® despite being in the same boat with them.

    The holes are our economic policy, but ask either party about patching them and you’ll get something akin to “What holes? This ship is unsinkable! If you think there’s holes, you’re the problem.”

    Dont worry though, there are lifeboats, just enough for the politicians and their donors. Wealth means not having any national allegience.



  • Have you seen the absolute ruins of our public education system, defunded over and over to cut sociopath’s taxes for half a century?

    This isnt just “these people are awful” these people were made by unchained capitalists.

    They act like tribal animals fearing and hating the other because educating someone is the same as civilizing someone.

    We don’t do that here for most. Our public ed has become little more than laborer daycare.

    We can barely even manage it being laborer daycare, since our defunded public schools can’t pay shit, choosing to become a teacher in public ed is choosing a life of scraping by and trying to educate classrooms of 30+ children by yourself, of being punished for trying to help society for a living.

    Meanwhile, those with enough time not working to complain on behalf of their children are given charter escape hatches that the owners profit off of despite claiming charters are “non-profit” through for profit, publicly traded charter management corporations, and even charters tend to have a conservative “helping society bad” bias in their curriculum. You should hear some of the shit my local “Challenger schools” advertises, students being interviewed saying they learned they should seek friends who can help themselves today. Yikes.

    Then the owner’s children are educated, at private schools, where they are taught that owners don’t empathize or concern themselves with the plight of the livestock.

    Never wonder why the citizens of prosocial nation’s impression of average Americans is that we are complete ignoramuses. It’s not an accident. It’s intended. A bone dead stupid laborer is a compliant, easily manipulated laborer.




  • Allonzee@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSt. Luigi
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    cold blood

    No, he seemed pretty justifiably angry.

    The guy he allegedly killed on the other hand almost certainly had ice in his veins approving denial policies that would make his company a lot of money by denying the necessary care his customers/marks paid for in advance through premiums. Now those customers/marks are dead with more on the way at their hands, and they keep all those dead customers/marks premiums. Score amirite?

    Whoever sits in that chair has to be a cold blooded sociopath that murders with indifference. That’s the job.

    The glorious shareholders demand it. Bezos has a pet mega yacht for his main mega yacht and they have fomo.


  • Hard disagree.

    The UK, for example, has had universal healthcare since 1948.

    Still, we’re told be patient. Decades go by, be patient.

    The bribed politicians use “be patient” on us to passify us.

    We’ve tried patient for decades. That didn’t work.

    It’s been over a week since the American public’s patience ran out. Still no universal healthcare. What in the actual fuck.

    Be less patient.


  • The announcements for the three states said the company would begin denying “claims submitted with reported time above the established number of minutes” initially targeted for anesthesia services—though the policy would not apply for people under 22 or maternity-related care.

    https://archive.ph/CPro4 Forbes mirror

    Surgeons and anesthesiologists doing the surgery need to be the only voices estimating how long surgeries need to be, and should not be punished, nor their suffering patients, for their expert opinions on how long it will take to do it right.

    Different patients of different/ages/states/complications will take differing amounts of time for the same procedure, not to mention unforseeable complications during said surgeries.


  • Allonzee@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlTo those patients... It matters...
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    I’ll bet the BlueCross CEO has gotten an earful from her fellow sociopath healthcare CEOs for loudly rescinding the policy in response to what happened.

    Funny thing about capitalist sociopaths though, solidarity with their fellow sociopaths isn’t their thing, their interests when bribing their purchased government merely align. She was just looking out for number 1, that’s all they’re good for.




  • denying more insurance claims

    You say that like that wasn’t their top priority the day before the shooting.

    I don’t mean to antagonize, but I dislike even passive implications that they’ve shown us any quarter or will stop being nice now.

    They were always for maximum murder for maximum profit. At no point does anyone in charge go “well if they’ve paid their premiums for decades and never used their plan at all, let them have the surgery” if they have any technicality to prevent it.

    No amount of Good boy/girl reverence towards them has or will result in anything positive for their customers/marks.

    That’s bad for business. They never used kid gloves, so they have nothing to take off. There was 0 good faith being exercised between private health insurers and their customers on December 3rd.

    If anything, what happened helped a few BlueCross patients not be billed tens of thousands for anasthesia for their approved surgeries after the fact, at least for a few months until they institute it anyway if this moment passes without becoming a movement. Unlike goodwill, they do seem to respond to fear.


  • Calling for anything less than universal healthcare and the abolition of private, for-profit health insurers means they still side with them.

    There isn’t any quagmire, we’re the only “developed nation” that chooses not to have universal healthcare coverage in some form.

    We choose not to solely because there’s a booming industry profiting off selling us a fake guarantee of care, a con, and then killing us instead and keeping the premiums we paid them, score, and that industry pays politicians to be against universal healthcare in practice, lip service when out of power notwithstanding.

    You show me a politician against universal healthcare, and I’ll show you someone who either took the money, or a coward legislating by path of least resistance.

    And reminder “herp derp waitlists” Is a red herring, that isnt a function of Healthcare coverage or payment at all, that’s a function of a Society’s supply of Medical professionals regardless of who pays them, and that’s a whole other conversation about why our society’s sociopathic economy rewards self serving MBAs and Hedge Fund managers and economically punishes what society actually needs: nurses, teachers, etc.

    Our economy incentivise and punish lots of things already, the owners just use their captured government to incentivise all the wrong things and punish most of the right things from the perspective of almost all of the citizenry, whether they’ve been successfully propagandized against their own interests or not.

    “Herp derp well when it Trickles down and Im a millionaire, I’ll just buy buy me a concierge medicine plan, and I don’t want my future millionaire self to have to pay for poor people’s Healthcare! You feel me Cletus? Pass me another beer.” -Capitalist’s sad, deluded victims


  • Communities become ghosttown shitholes when the moderators work against good faith discourse.

    Not the same day new shill mods are installed, but within a few months. It poisons everything.

    Banning the creators/mods of a sub is banning the people that care most about that sub, and tends to lead to installing mods that are just looking to flex power, which makes the posts and discourse toothless, repetitive, and uninsightful, which makes regulars look for a new home, if they themselves are not banned for failing to regurgitate the only correct opinions as endorsed by the new mods tasked with bringing order.


  • Im glad we agree on the problem, Im sorry we can’t on the only possible solution.

    You can’t organize a mass labor movement or major party under the current power structure for one important reason, one of the reasons Unions have been all but defeated from their height, the owners simply have a bigger pulpit, the biggest pulpit, the for profit media pulpit. They also have the pulpits of almost all elected officials. They don’t need to use this pulpit to win any argument, merely divide this new renewed labor movement over petty divisions as they’ve done repeatedly over the last 60 years.

    They own the means of production, they own the means of state violence, and they own the bully pulpit. All that is left is direct action or acceptance of the futility of the situation until climate change induced collapse.

    Because before that climate change induced collapse, they’ll also soon have virtually unlimited bipedal robots they can use to fight their battles for them, which will also eliminate direct action, which will effectively make the only possible agency anyone can exercise suicide.

    This is last call for even a slim hope. If it requires generational struggle, it’s already over. This isn’t ebbs and flows of history, our technology and greed enabling are very well set to put a period on that in our lifetimes.


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    Especially with the Caesar-ish garb, it conflates boomers with owners

    Most owners are boomers, but few boomers are owners.

    The owners are our enemy.

    It’s important to maintain focus on who the enemy is. This is subtle but derails entire movements.

    The owner’s bread and butter is sowing division between the peasants. They are very efficient at it. Kind of their signature move.