“It’s not us and the millions of dollars in lobbyists we spend to make sure the health care system is the way it is, it’s the health care system that’s flawed.” The United Healthcare CEO was being investigated. The way they’ve shifted the narrative to say “Hey, we were fighting for you all along, we are the good guys!” is absurd but predictable. Though it took hurting them where it mattered to them - tanking their share price - for them to do it.

In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple storey buildings. Who can say? It’s not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people’s lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.

There’s two barriers to justice in today’s world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.

Actually, you didn’t, if we are being pandantic about it. 🙃

This thread appearing on lemmy.world is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

And we have several pandemic vectors on the rise - again. Well, with one major change, we now have a vaccine denialist in charge of core agencies. Prospects look good for the vulture industries.

Well, depose isn’t actually a type of pat, so I don’t know what you are on about.

You mean basically the same sort of vague threat Trump has thrown around for decades that no one does anything about when it isn’t directed at the rich, just at society in general?

Mitch McConnell was right there behind him, and neither side will see it differently regardless of what that crone says.

Delay, deny, and depose the FBI. The FBI isn’t acting like this during a Trump presidency, this is the most lenient it gets at, during a democratic presidency. With a Trump presidency, Americans should familiarize themselves with current Russian society to know what they should expect for its future. Fuck your messed up police state, Americans, and fuck a constitution that only seems to be propaganda bullshit that is too much for the FBI to live by.

For responding with the catchphrase insurance companies themselves created and live by. This isn’t the suspect’s catchphrase, but apparently even uttering these words back at health insurance companies is too much for them.

Fucking A for some fucking A, this will probably sting them more than the death of their last CEO.

Literally ignoring the slaughter of Uyghurs and Ukranians, never mind how China is essentially building up the hate speech against Japan and Taiwan within the populace through their state controlled social networks. Get back to us when you can criticize China in the same way. Same for Russia, extreme jail sentences are dished out for anyone who criticizes Putin. You are too much of a caricature, and exactly what the meme refers to.

The USSR was a victim of trying to outimperial an imperialist power and going bankrupt, and now it’s an oligarchy with Putin at the top and any serious opposition dead and out the window / irradiated with polinium / poisoned by Novichok. China has literal execution vans driving around the country, has extended its secret police deep state overseas to intimidate Chinese who don’t play ball, and constantly rewrites its map to expand to land they want to claim as theirs. They are in border disputes with India, they are actively preparing to invade Taiwan, they have blockaded the island several times now, they have cooperated to cut undersea cables, have militarized fishing fleets that migrate world wide and bully local fishermen and exhaust the local stocks. And all you have is that raging desire to whatabout “b-b-but the US does it / does worse!” right about now and a whole bunch of rhetoric that makes you a puppet of it.

Russia is where it is at because it has chosen this road. Before Putin tried to use the myth of restablishing USSR to enlarge the rule of his oligarchy, it was well on its way to being quite influential in Europe, so much so that it was a major partner of Germany. Russia chose conquest and sides with dictators who exploit their people. It’s telling that the US is at its worst when it has the people who collude closest with Russia.

There’s a simple explanation: He wanted to keep on the move, and he wanted to be able to take down other targets.

People with jobs serve their paycheck. People with authority let it go to their heads. Cops are the combination of the two.

What I’m reading is that they want to deport Americans in “mixed status families”, and then go after them as criminals when they don’t just continue paying taxes and fulfilling the ridiculous reporting requirements as they try to resettle their life in a new home and the US demands that their new local residence actually be treated as foreign assets. Which is great for the rich, because it basically saturates the system in such a way that the focus is taken away from rich tax evaders and tax avoidance schemes as it is driven to deal with these new “criminals”.

Ending birthright citizenship would lead to a lot of relief from the people leaving the US who are seeking renunciation - except I have a feeling that greed and the aforementioned reasons are going to find a way to still make them have to seek it.

In an alternate universe, Joker is considered a hero because he killed the criminal and the corrupt while Batman allowed them to live. Joker, a hero against the system, the vigilante who is a vigilante and not just status quo, the vigilante the city needed but not the one it deserved. The Joker movie could set a pretty sweet alternate universe.

Also Americans: anything else is a commie!

NYC attracts a lot of opportunistic assholes for mayors. I am not surprised at this reveal. If anything, he was roleplaying being the stereotypical “democrat” that has no real values the GQP always uses as a escape goat too much. Party association is nothing more than a funding option in the US, nothing more, so it doesn’t surprise me the guy would go full Julianni.

He kept the get out of jail card himself, though.

Their salary shouldn’t matter as much as their insurance claim denial rates.