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If violence isn't a solution why does the government use it?

When you crush folks into the ground for decades, ensure there's no legal recourse, and bleed them for every dollar until the money runs red. It's hardly a surprising outcome.

Here's the song that's been playing in my head last couple days, for no related reason: https://youtu.be/o9mJ82x_l-E?si=y7r9kDydchPhNPAp

Seriously though, don't do violence.

Why not? It's a perfectly fair response to the violence perpetuated upon millions of "customers" annually, made "legitimate" by paid off lawmakers. Why should we not be allowed to respond in kind when they're allowed to kill us - just because it's in a more roundabout method? Fuck 'em. I've never been a gun type, but right-wingers have really been getting me to rethink that stance.

correlation is not causation.

repeat the experiment.

Denying healthcare = violence

"Violence is bad"

-Sincerely, every country that came into existence from the violent overthrow of the country that existed before it.

violence is bad

I was really hoping we would avoid violence by electing people like Bernie Sanders. Instead it looks like the class warfare will come to violence.

The legislature and violence monopoly are there to ensure all people have legal recourse instead of needing to turn to violence. If you corrupt that system and use it to oppress the masses, they become violent.

I neither agree with, nor condone violence, but it does not surprise me at all. Just surprised that it took so long.

If it works it works. Humans have been using as an effective way to accomplish things for millennia.

The current capitalism overlords may not be happy when it's used the other way around to what they are used to.

Maybe if several more CEOs and C Suite suits are murdered in the street, then my insurance rates will only rise by single digits next year.

Violence gave us (the US) freedom from being a colony, freedom from slavery, workers rights, women's rights.....wait a minute.

Why do we get told to not do violence again? Seems like we just need a little bit of organized violence and we can solve problems.

For legal reason I wish to say that I don't advocate violence. I also say that, I really think this was the only way this was going to happen.

Billionaires only do the right thing if it's profitable or if they're afraid.

“Your health insurance doesn’t want you to know this one cool trick!”

Violence is neutral.

Human nature is bad.

When someone is violent to someone else and doesn't need to be violent, they are bad.

When someone unintentionally wrongs someone, you try to settle the situation without violence in a way that is fair to both parties.

When they don't settle or they keep wronging people, you need to escalate.

When the person wronging the people is in a place of money and power, and you cannot escalate, there should be consequences.

I'm not a big fan of vigilantism, If the world ran that way, we'd have a lot of innocent deaths. But if the government and laws don't protect the people, stuff like this happens, or at least it logically should. If anything, I'm kind of shocked this isn't more commonplace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

Ah, good. So the corrupt, evil, and greedy tactics of health insurers are finally mitigated to... checks notes oh, to what they were last week.

You know they're sitting on a wish list of awful policies while they're waiting for this to blow over so they can implement them when we aren't looking. Fuck that.

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"

~ Asimov

And here we are, nailed to the fucking wall. I'm fine with expanding this "incompetence".

This was self defence. Insurance companies conduct violence on a grand scale. The adjuster just defended himself.

Don't do violence

This wasn't violent. It was calm and deliberate and it really seems like what Brian wanted with how he led his life. Seems like a lot of other CEOs of insurance companies and other hyper predatory industries are likely a bit jealous of Brian getting the result they all seem to be aiming for with their own calm, deliberate actions in life.

Also, the stock went up, so weird that we aren't really celebrating the boost to shareholder value - again, this was the endeavor that Brian committed his life to. He'd be overjoyed to have made an additional $7million on paper for man also worth $14 billion in family wealth.

Did you think it was easy for Brian to sign the death warrants of tens/hundreds of thousands of people? Through a lot of indirect action and often while enjoying a very lovely omikase sushi lunch with a different chef flown in from Kyoto each day to prepare? No. It wasn't easy. But you know what, he rolled his sleeves up and he did it, because that's just the kind of man he was until he was shot in the back of the head.

Hope you all have a good day at work today with your own decisions, remaining CEOs, board members of predatory industries and random billionaires. We know you'll stay focused on doing the most valuable thing with your time today

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses decision… for now. They’ll wait a month and then introduce it again.

Except when it isn't.

It goes to show how morally bankrupt these people are that it takes the fear of death being out into them to get them to do something even remotely good/ethical.

It also unfortunately proves, once more, that violence can absolutely be the solution.

It's self-defence.

Its Afraid.