Can't access it from his profile, interesting.
As for the suggestion that Thompson’s murder should be an occasion to discuss America’s supposed rage at private health insurers, it’s worth pointing out that a 2023 survey from the nonpartisan health policy research institute KFF found that 81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.” Even a majority of those who say their health is “fair” or “poor” still broadly like their health insurance. No industry is perfect — nor is any health care model — and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.
I hate how the last quoted sentence phrases people as “customers” rather than people…
“Unique evil” is also ironic…we’re surrounded by unique evil in so many directions, and compared to every other civilized country, yes, this system is uniquely evil. It’s the banality of evil Hannah Arendt described.
Which is more barbaric: a lone vigilante killing 1 human or a system which kills roughly 70 people per day due to lack of care? If we had a serial killer who took 70 lives every day, would the news be trained on them?
A single death is a tragedy. Multiple deaths is “business as usual” in America. We’ve lost our humanity.
No, we're not.
It's one issue: unregulated capitalism.
And I know there are technically regulations, but they're written by lobbyists and not even read by politicians anymore.
What's worse is the deregulation of campaign finance law. In a similar fashion it would be illegal for me to donate $3,000 to Kamala directly.
But Elon Musk gave $275,000,000 to trump and that's cool because it was thru a PAC.
Similarly I could have donated the max to Kamala, and then used the "victory fund" to use the max donation to each of the 50 state parties, but instead of going to them, it would first go to the DNC and that's a literal black hole of accounting because it's a private organization.
We don't know how 2020 or 2024 went, but in 2016 this was the result of the victory fund:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
With Jaimie Harrison resigning, I hope someone with the integrity to open the books up gets DNC chair.
A shit ton of people didn't vote because they believe both parties are corrupt. The best way to get their votes is to root out the corruption we already know has been there since 2015.
The establishment is blind to structural violence as usual.
the news would be trained on them, for a month, maybe two. after that it's no longer surprising or shocking, so it gets ignored, maybe they make a yearly special.