My view is that extrajudicial vigilante killings are not good, but the incuriosity of well-compensated columnists about why millions of people’s horrific, life-changing experiences with a sprawling, cruel, bankruptcy-inducing health care system might lead them to feel differently makes me really sad
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extrajudicial vigilante killings are not good (period) (exclamation point is even better)
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All the things that make us sad, including extrajudicial vigilante killings.
not saying Dems are angels or aren't greedy themselves, but it's undeniable that many excellent provisions were removed by Repubs
worse.
I'm surprised there wasn't more Maggiones out there. Murder directly or indirectly is bad.
Kinda where I'm at fwiw.
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elon told them their lives would get worse and they voted for him anyway, bc he's not rich enough and they need to defend him
I simply don't think catching him was worth the effort when we could spend time enforcing laws against insurance companies
The list of people the state enacts violence on:
Healthcare insurance recipients
Homeless
People of color
Religious minorities
Mentally and physically disabled people
The list goes on.
Replace hunger with lack of health care, and you have the reason why no journalists are covering it.
i am so unsurprisingly disappointed in so, so many people.
that's a good thing
now we just need to support a whole lot more independent reporters and ignore the Bigs. not sure calling the money-sick to account will have an effect but for God's sake someone's gotta have the balls to do it and we've gotta pay them
If you murder with a spreadsheet, they give you the keynote at an industry convention.
I'm just reducing this CEO's death to another line item on a spreadsheet. Yes, murder is objectively wrong, but a lack of sympathy in the name of capitalism is the game you played, and we can play it, too.
this is what they're afraid of and why they plan to live in retrofitted nuclear silos. it's here, now
"No one mourns the wicked"
THere are no life experiences that justify supporting murder.
I buy insurance that costs $10,000 a dollar and doesn't reimburse me for "covered" out of network costs. bc my adult son is mentally ill and needs the promised coverage they don't actually provide
next year I'm paying $1800 for crap insurance instead
More people are insured than ever before but those who aren’t & those who miss Medicaid by $80 or care insurers deny or the expenses of over priced meds or care in top of insurance all add up to reasons people are disillusioned
or, to put in bluntly, they lie and steal. that's bound to piss people off. especially the ones whose credit is wrecked bc they can't pay outrageous hospital bills
outraged people have their limits
Even Shapiro’s congratulatory speech could have include some reference to the need for compassionate care for all US residents.
Even if he’d said “not excusing murder but the pain is real for many people”.
And I am a Manichean girl
(You know that we are)
We are living in a Manichean world
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Corporate violence is still violence.
When one produces a nation-wide manhunt and the other produces…shareholder profits…
Am I the only person who read about the French Revolution??
The media are a bunch of brainless, unethical ghouls.
As someone who has worked in health insurance billing, I am angry that at the pundit class that helped make this kind of violence inevitable, and who draw paychecks by willfully misinterpreting warning signs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I think should be spotlighted here, is the effort & attention given to finding the killer of a CEO compared to a regular working stiff
Not to say all journalists are like this, of course. Wrong to generalise in that regard.
A few years ago here in Canada the Munk Debates invited two Americans to debate the future of American democracy; David Frum, speechwriter for Pres. George W. Bush, and Steve Bannon, speechwriter for the next blight on the office.
Commence the extrajudicial removal of CEOs and billionaires.
I wouldn't have advocated for the killing beforehand, but I'm not going to shed a tear about it afterwards, and I'm very much looking askance at those who are.
We lost our child and went bankrupt.
Our healthcare system is immoral.
For the loss of your child, and for the fact that our credit scores are affected by righteously ignoring rapacious debt. For hospitals overcharging.
The govt, including Dems, has allowed billionaires to immiserate the rest of us.
If people take matters into their hands, oh well.