• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          Tomato / toh-mah-toe.

          They are both bad people who got to where they’re at by exploiting people in one way or the other.

          Aside of their nationality, how would you consider them different?

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          13 days ago

          So we’ve established that there are some people you’d be happy to see gunned down, we’re now just quibbling over who qualifies.

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            13 days ago

            “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”

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            13 days ago

            I wasn’t being serious. Someone like Putin should be in jail.

            I don’t support the death penalty.

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              Indeed, having some disconnected powerful authority figure handing out decisions on who should live and who should die is a pretty repulsive concept.

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              13 days ago

              I applaud your moral high ground stance, but it’s worth saying there’s no court that can punish a man like that. They are above the law.

              What’s your idealist’s heart say about what to do about people like that when the system that’s supposed to protect us from them is completely and utterly broken?

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      Well, you see, the blood was warm when it was spilled. Unfortunately, because the customer was in the 3rd tier SuperSavings Freedom Unlimited* HSA Semi-Preferred SelectChoice Healthcare plan, all claims require a 24-hour waiting period after symptoms erupt to allow rebuttal from the primary physician. The blood was only cold after the grace period elapsed.

      *Limited

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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        There’s always unknown consequences.

        I keep having to go back to the French Revolution- eventually they were executing hundreds of people per day. I’m sure all of them were guilty and deserved Capital Punishment.

        Even Robespierre was executed, and the whole thing blamed on him, though he was adamantly against these executions.

        We’ll never know what would’ve become of France if a different approach had been taken rather than just start lopping off heads.

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          France seems pretty chill today, actually. Relaxed people that aren’t afraid to unify and protest when they feel the government isn’t on their side.

          The appeal of Le Pen to them is worrisome but humanity as a whole seems susceptible to right-wing populism, unfortunately.

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      Society is deteriorating this is what it looks like…

      When CEO cheers at his pay check after denying claims of sick people WHO PAID FOR THIS SERVICE, do you ever find yourself saying:

      Yes, killing a man in cold blood by gunning him down in the street. What a joyous occasion.

      Now think about it… why not?

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        It’s not a good place for society to be, I quite agree. Yet here we are.

        There are probably ways we could change things so that vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs isn’t considered a reasonable option.

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          We would need a lot more philanthropic billionaires for that to happen.

          Actually the more I think of those two words together the more it seems like an oxymoron.

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            And so, as I said, here we are. In a place where vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs is considered reasonable.

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      13 days ago

      It is for every person denied healthcare by UHC, and to a smaller extent anyone who’s ever dealt with an insurance company in general

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        12 days ago

        This comment needs to be higher and with more upvotes.

        I’ve heard this rumor already but haven’t seen a source on it. Thank you