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The amount of people who died as a result of Brian Thompson's leadership of united healthcare should be investigated instead
Western democracy is at risk until this is done. We literally don't deserve to exist if we can't figure this basic stuff out - i.e. when our own people are dying, maybe the empty private hospital beds and ample staff resources should be used to save those lives. Because people are.. gonna die otherwise. The fact that anything else needs to be said is the problem.
‘Western style democracy’ has never been truly democratic because of how money influences elections and politicians. True democracy isn’t possible as long as there exists a capital class in society. The capital class will not give up its wealth without a class war.
Hence the need to remove
- money as Free Speach
- corporations are people
- lobbying is legal
But changes to these policies won't occur because these policies already exist.
And they are self sustaining, as long as money can buy politicians, no politician would ever be able to stop it on their own.
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And on that score, I often muse if we should be grateful that MAGA and Trump are accelerating the timetable as they have... Capitalism, world economics and geopolitical problems as they were 20 years ago could have been sustained well into the 22nd century. We are so good at avoiding change at all costs!
Now we are headed for a societal collapse, once the ruffians who instigated it are out of the way I think the future for humanity looks quite bright indeed. We may even beat climate change, so long as we.. beat all the nasty billionaires, nazis, dictators and oligarchy first... holds head in hands
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I might be being a bit daft here, but why western democracy, not just American democracy? I ask cause on USA has privatised healthcare.
I'm in Australia, which is supposed to have universal health care, that system has been eroded into dysfunction by decades of neglect and downsizing by subsequent conservative governments. Right wingers slash and burn budgets, and then "left leaning" centrist governments come in with the weakest possible reform agenda, never returning things to where they were but preventing others from fixing it either.
I'm not sure where Canada, NZ and other English speaking nations are at, but I assumed that their health systems are negatively affected by neo liberalism and similarly face problems that didn't exist 10-25 years ago. Even if they have universal healthcare on paper, shenanigans by lobbyists, slashing of budgets and other institutional neglect has led to a breakdown in the care people can access.
The UK has an even worse issue with the NHS. It was already as bad as Australia before Brexit, now it's been a prolonged period of people on public waiting lists where patients wait for over 2 years, unable to see specialists or book in surgeries. Untold amount of misery, and even death, that was preventable.
Countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland seem to have done a better job protecting the interests of the public from greed. But then there's western countries that have huge social issues like Spain, France, etc.
My perception is that western democracies are not good at protecting their citizens because law makers, the media and other mechanisms in a western democracy allow for abuse by greed and self interest. It seems like despite strong laws and traditions existing, ongoing campaigning by those with money and allowing those people to earn a profit from essential services results in those services being eroded.
Thank you for this, it’s really well written.
Yeah, I get you. I was being dense.
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If the courts had intervened to stop Brian Thompson before his healthcare murder spree then maybe Luigi wouldn't be being prosecuted right now. This trial isnt about luigi, its about covering up the chain of political failures that led us here.
A single death is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.
Luigi killed a dad, husband, ceo, etc, etc etc.
Brian just inflated some numbers...
I hate how the world works.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is record profits for a health insurance company
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The real uplifting news is bootlickers getting kicked in their metaphorical shins in the comment section.
I'd lick a boot if they payed enough, but they're not. I get that other people are worse off than me, but seriously, what the fuck? The current regime isn't paying. period. I'm angry and I don't know what to do with it.
What makes a bootlicker is that they continue to lick the boot even when it isn't paying off in the slightest.
But you are right, there is no longer any reward for participating in society. The wealthy have forgotten fear.
Life under Capitalism was better while there was a sizable Communist bloc on the other side of the world. The fear that the commoners might wake up and make their voices heard by force of violence resulted in all manner of concessions. Unions were stronger, public services were estabilished, workers' rights were signed into law. Then the Soviets showed weakness in the eighties, and the Capitalist class was quick to invent Neoliberalism and begin the slow but assured gutting of all those concessions. While manufacturing consent through the media and convincing people that this was what they actually wanted.
Now we see the end result.
As for what to do about it, I don't fucking know either. Because the only thing that is known to work would require a mass movement of a size that I don't think even can be achieved nowadays. Society is too fragmented. People are too propagandised.
I have basically embraced doomer hedonism. Life will not get better, so I make a point to just enjoy myself as much as possible, I have no intention of breeding more slaves for their flesh-mill, and I personally hope to die young. (to a definition of young anyway, I'm this close to being legally considered 'middle aged')
Love to see it
I have it on good authority from my son that Luigi was in a haunted mansion that day.
Gonna wanna see the source code on that "Pray" button. I don't think it actually does anything.
on desktop the button has a counter for how many people have pressed it, so it does something :)
Holy crap! Do we now have the technology to quantify thoughts and prayers?
we have the technology!
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Luigi's Mansion 2
Thats hot
When the government fails to protect us, and corporations won't protect us, we must take it upon ourselves to engage in self defense. Luigi did nothing wrong.
A true American hero
How a 30k donation to a murderer counts as "uplifting news"? If anything it's depressing
Innocent until proven guilty.
Before we engage in name calling for this suspect, know that yesterday was blatantly clear the system is stacked against him to the point where the courts did not Los him to go into PA for another legal procedure.
See the thing here is that they were giving evidence even to MAX for the documentary and not his legal team, who correctly called some of the evidence inadmissible in court.
So before you feel like calling him a murderer see. The facts and wait for the events to unfold.
How's that boot taste?
He didn’t murder anyone.
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Oh, go lick a boot, dweeb.
Why are you lying? Nobody's been convicted of murder.
It’s the best news all day, go back to Reddit corporate shill
You're asleep at the wheel.
this is like saying donating to a guy who killed someone actively killing others is never uplifting news. Sure leave the school shooters alone
The donation doesn't go to a CEO who has murdered hundreds, possibly thousands of people.
It is going to someone who acted in defense of others. Or who might not be the person who even did that, which is why he deserves a fair trial.
They're saying that they find due process to be lacking and the prosecution to be political.
Do you think it's depressing that someone would donate money to the defense of someone they think is being inappropriately prosecuted?
If you think they're guilty, you should still want them to get the best defense possible, so that when they're found guilty it's airtight. Our justice system is based on an adversarial model. If the prosecution, with the resources of the state, can't successfully argue that they did it and that their arrest and all procedures were properly followed, do you really want that to still mean someone faces the death penalty?
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Taking out the leader of an evil (corpo) empire is heroism, not subject to murder charges.
I don't want to dampen the good mood, but even if this is sent anonymously, is there any risk of the information of who is the donor being hacked, especially by corporate overlords who have every incentive to see Luigi and his supporters get punished?
It's anonymous to us, not the website. Payments are the most trackable thing in the world
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What does this mean, exactly? More resources to hire more lawyers or something?
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