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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Addressing the problem with increased surveillance and beefed up security for executives is not addressing the problem. It's exacerbating it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Really the people should be monitoring insurance industry executives more often.

For safety.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

So literally fucking everyone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

So they're monitoring everyone? Nothing new, they have been doing so illegally for decades. If only someone could inspire the masses to resist elite authoritarianism... Mario?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Something something monitor deez nuts.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I wish the Health Insurance companies a fourth layer of hell.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] blarth 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. We already knew that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And there are also tons of people who take the sorta-centrist view that "no matter how bad the corporation's acts, killing its ceo is wrong!!!!!!!" and only view using a gun against a black (now mexican/muslim bubba fetishes as well) 'robber' as valid self defense.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Everyone post their favorite bounty posters!!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

The beatings will continue until the morale improves.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So they are monitoring basically everyone.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Openly since the Patriot Act

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Sooooo, most people.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days 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...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 249 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So did they just download the US Census and start from there?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 3 days ago (1 children)

fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

the misery will continue until tolerance and acceptance is achieved

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It was to be expected but I didn't think it would be public this soon

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So, like 85% of the adult population?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn't a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 days ago (8 children)

So, they're finally admitting that they're monitoring all of us.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can try and suppress a revolution, but it will only make it better. And more brutal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Except for all of those other times when the revolts were successfully suppressed....

Lol... I mean seriously dude?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I meant that it just comes back later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That seems unlikely to me tbh, even an inept revolution can be dangerous to a government, and that would require a level of government control over media and long term planning that would be nigh impossible to use without the common person being somewhat aware of it. Id suspect it's more something like celebrating revolutionaries being part of the US's "founding myth" so to speak, and a lot of movies being made here. Having your heroes be rebels is an easy way to tell the audience theyre "the good guys" in such a culture.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 days ago

Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so... everyone?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They can't monitor everyone. With AI they think they can, that's our biggest advantage

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 3 days ago (12 children)

You can't put us all on the little list

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We're gonna need a bigger surveillance apparatus

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago

The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It's your first amendment right, use it. Don't comply in advance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We already knew they were monitoring everyone, this article is redundant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Average redditor comment: why did you post this article? obviously! this article is redundant.

You can choose to not be like this, no one is forcing you to be like this.

You can simply not comment if you don't have anything that adds to the conversation to say, but upvotes to the left kind person.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago

Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I would like to be on your list

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 days ago

"Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?"

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