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[–] [email protected] 115 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 61 points 18 hours ago

The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It's your first amendment right, use it. Don't comply in advance.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That's fun. It does nothing to stop the near-daily in-person conversations with coworkers, friends, and family about this one topic that unites us all. So long as we're beholden to this health insurance system that screws us over at our most vulnerable of times, those conversations aren't going to stop.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

That's not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So, they're finally admitting that they're monitoring all of us.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

What the fuck... Really? Holy shit and what the actual fuck. As example ever heard about Snowden? Chelsea Manning? Assange? Unbelievable wtf

[–] [email protected] 33 points 16 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

People forgot about Snowden after a month, it's been 12 years already, let it come back to the public consciousness

[–] anindefinitearticle 38 points 17 hours ago

In his manifesto, Mangione suggested the health insurance industry had “gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.” He could just as easily have been describing the national security state.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The fun part will be when Trump rips apart the alphabet soup intelligence apparatus and displaces much of the senior leadership. Those guys have spent decades building webs of deep and strong connections, and I would be 0% shocked if those guys were able to successfully mount an insurgency against the Trump presidency, and they'll likely take with them the list of dissidents and malcontents to contact.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 20 hours ago

Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so... everyone?

[–] Bakkoda 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

UHC just sent me a survey. I was honest. I'm on a list now!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

If you got the survey you were already on the list.

[–] [email protected] 217 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So did they just download the US Census and start from there?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

When pretty much everybody is on the list, it's more conspicuous to not be on it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They want a list because there’s a zero percent chance that they’ll successfully manipulate public opinion through social media.

“Hello fellow capitalists! Ready for a new day of supporting free enterprise by simply caring for ourselves?” #nevergonnafuckinhappen

[–] [email protected] 68 points 20 hours ago

"Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?"

[–] [email protected] 85 points 21 hours ago

Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

You can't put us all on the little list

[–] lurch 44 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

A list that includes everyone is useless from a data analysis point of view.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

This is not about data analysis. This is about justifying oppression. And if it comes to "we have found you all to be dangerous" the conclusion is "we need to oppress you all"

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You can't put us all on the little list by definition, because then it would be the big list.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Human person #6382808222 has been identified. Added note: Dislikes being exploited.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone is on the list now, some are just higher up than others.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Ohh, I wonder what my rank is. I can get very competitive. 😈

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

You can monitor this dick.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

"We already have. And there is literally 'Nothing to see here.' "

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[–] the_crotch 3 points 12 hours ago

Believe me, if you've got a dick worth monitoring they are already monitoring it

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

so, like most people who have ever had to attempt to use it combined with those who could only hope to afford it? thats prolly a long list.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago

Nah, only those who dare to speak out.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 23 hours ago

Hi, FBI agent! How are you doing today?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 22 hours ago

I hope more die.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

But anyway don't download RedNote the Chinese censorship is just so terrible...

(Oh he's super popular on that app btw lmao)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 22 hours ago

Hi, I guess?

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