We live in a capitalist dystopia

Rhinox

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And herein lay the problem with Jesse Watters. He lives in the shadow of Tucker Carlson and is desperate to be the new big trendsetter. The trouble is, he's just not good at what he does. So he says jive like this, trying to stir controversy and rally the same audience Tucker had, but he has no ******* sense. he can't read the room, has no ability to tap the zeitgeist that his predecessors could, and is just overall a terrible person.
I'm surprised he's lasted as long as he has in his time slot.
 

KidTDragon

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And if you'd like a cherry on top of that sundae:

 

Rhinox

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So if we can't have you, no one will? Super classy!

and the end result will be the same. Less choice, less variety for customers.
 

NovaSaber

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If you had told me last year that a Pokemon YouTuber would be explaining the connection between Breloom, an assassination, the American healthcare system, and the Bible, I'd have thought you were joking, but here we are.

 

Rhinox

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Wheelimus

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Marksman training takes time, be patient. Most of those who already have sniper training are the type to have cheered his arrest.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
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FB friend:
I love the way most Americans will readily agree that for-profit health insurance is evil, but they recoil if you change the wording slightly and say that CAPITALIST health insurance is evil. Because ... you know ... capitalism is pure good and all that.
I guarantee that Brian Thompson had absolutely no idea that anyone hated him. It's not because he's too stupid to understand how someone could be angry at being made to suffer or watch a loved one suffer. It's because he never even gave his victims a second thought. They were like insects to him.
Why did the CEO killer write "Delay", "Deny" and "Depose" on his shell casings? Because if he didn't, the media would have manufactured its own narrative about why he did what he did.

We'd be hearing about mental illness, or perhaps he's going through a bad divorce, or maybe he's a radical supporter of some fringe ideology. Maybe it was just random violence, or a homeless person who's jealous of a CEO's fancy car and nice clothes. Anything but the obvious reason, and then the media would harp on all of these made-up alternate reasons and bring in experts to talk about them until the horrible nature of the man he killed becomes forgotten in the noise.
Health insurance is the only industry where you can pretend to deliver the product the customer paid for, only to pull the rug out from under him when he goes to use it, then watch impassively as he dies from the consequences, and somehow not go to jail.
UnitedHealth Group proudly announced to investors that it made $8.7 billion profit in the last quarter alone. But we should listen to all the politicians telling us that they're not a greedy evil corporation at all.

 

NovaSaber

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Because if he didn't, the media would have manufactured its own narrative about why he did what he did.

We'd be hearing about mental illness, or perhaps he's going through a bad divorce, or maybe he's a radical supporter of some fringe ideology. Maybe it was just random violence, or a homeless person who's jealous of a CEO's fancy car and nice clothes. Anything but the obvious reason, and then the media would harp on all of these made-up alternate reasons and bring in experts to talk about them until the horrible nature of the man he killed becomes forgotten in the noise.
Some of them are trying to do that anyway, but a lot less people are buying it.

I've seen coverage of his arrest saying his angry outburst indicates "disturbed thoughts" and that he might "not understand that what he did was wrong".
And also an article trying to blame the fact that he played Among Us. (Because of course someone would try to blame video games.)
 
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Ungnome

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Yea, The shooter IS a murderer but trying to paint the CEO of United Health Care as a saint is patently ridiculous.. The story is simple. A man got pushed to the breaking point by a giant corporation and snapped. He killed ONE man. The CEO's decisions have cause suffering on a MUCH larger scale. In arguing that said CEO was a good man, the media is has made itself complicit with the acts of the for-profit medical industry and especially the insurance side of said industry. Upshot is it doesn't look like the corporate media narrative is winning this time. The seething hatred towards our medical system is too strong. Corporations are rightly scared that the issue may spread beyond just the medical industry and frankly I hope it does, though I hope for needed changes to be made with minimal violence.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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Millionaires and billionaires have created an entire system perpendicular to regular society to ensure their progeny not only retain the family wealth, but have access to opportunities that no one else ever will. There are people out there whose SOLE PURPOSE is to lie about rich peoples kids in such a convincing way that they are giving priority for access to education and immediately moved to the front of the line for high paying, high powered business positions regardless of their actual qualifications.

The time for change without violence was like 50 years ago, but no one knew back then how bad it would be. And you cannot be allowed to loot the labour and production of an entire species, an entire ******* planet without there being a firing squad at the end.
 

Pale Rider

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FB friend:
Every single political pundit in the media is saying that murder is the wrong way to deal with the health insurance industry's evil, and the correct way is the way that's been failing for 40 years.
Many of the so-called liberal media personalities expressing total confusion at the folk hero status of Luigi Mangione are the same people who went out of their way to try to understand the reasoning of white nationalists.
WTF. I thought this was a joke, but that's a real NYT article, and that's the actual headline.

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Wheelimus

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I can't wait for the NYTimes editorial after Luigi walks post 3 hung juries.
 


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