Allonzee @ Allonzee @lemmy.world

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Can he talk to the public while in custody? Is that a right that he has or are there legal mechanisms to keep him segregated from making any public statements if they don't like what he wants to say?

I've always said crypto isn't completely useless, it should just be what it was always meant to be and no more:

A currency to buy drugs anonymously on the darknet.

Could have just stopped at OG bitcoin for that. All the rest is idiocy. It's good for that niche, and nothing else.

Somewhere in a firepit in hell, Reagan is extra sad.

Can't I just punch myself in the face to demonstrate my love and call it a proposal instead?

Use that money to improve the honeymoon instead of an artificially expensive rock?

For profit insurers absolutely did, because they did the math and knew the mandate would more than make up for the new rules, and it did, hence the ever rising profits since. I'm sure neoliberals and Republicans don't see that as a problem because herp derp it'll trickle down lol, but everyone else correctly does.

That was the supposed trade, but surprise surprise, for all the protections the ACA proponents claim it enshrines, they still find way to initially deny 1 out of 7 claims, and now some with AI.

Great deal, a larger captive customer base without a public option, and still denying swaths of claims using technicalities and loopholes their floors of attorneys never stopped working on in bad faith since. Because publicly traded companies never, ever operate in good faith towards their customers, there's always an angle to goose earnings beyond what was overtly agreed to.

It helped some people, but it didn't address the core problem of American Healthcare that makes it the most expensive on Earth with some of the worst outcomes in the developed world at all: the profit motive middleman dictating who gets what care instead of doctors. The more Americans who prepared for illness and paid them in good faith that they murder, the more gold in their pockets, to the applause of the profiteers on Wall Street.

I vote blue out of harm reduction, but don't kid yourself.

The single greatest acheivement Democrats crow about was a healthcare band-aid originally conceived by the Heritage Foundation and instituted by a Republican governor designed to further enshrine private, for profit insurers like United Healthcare cut in as the entire point.

When the people screamed "Help us left wing from this for profit deathcare hell! Here's a supermajority!" they protected the profit motive in what gets covered and declared victory.

They can make excuses, there's always several, but as the decades go by and nothing changes, advocating patience starts to sound like "well just be patient, maybe my nepo great grandkids will magically decide to start being civil and equitable with your peasant great grandkids, lol."

Trump is a billionaire who furthers the cause of the owners and not a turncoat to the owner class like Luigi.

The current system is designed so the owner class can do as they please, including slaughter us for a tidy profit, and so that we cannot do anything that interferes with that.

Kind of the whole point.

Did we just become best friends?!

One of these men is an alleged hero.

The other is exactly what our society rewards most:

A sociopath.

A well trained, well beaten dog.

An economic Uncle Ruckus. They train us from birth to see shame in not being wealthy, it sadly works. Some of our economy's victims internalize their own dehumanization and see it as the natural order to report on their fellow inferiors to their betters.

The same people mourning BriBris loss by hilariously trying to shame everyone for not condemning his murder while conveniently ignoring all the people he murdered through policy, and whose policies murdered people yesterday, and will today, tomorrow...

They said it in 2018.

When they thought there couldn't possibly be any consequences.

They probably still do, unfortunately.

The owners are trying to stop us from being able to.

GoFundMe, a for profit organization, took down an attempt to raise money for him.

He allegedly killed a low level owner, after all! Not some poorie livestock!

Raise all the money for poories you like though. Use GoFundMe, a percentage of your charitable transaction will go to their glorious private shareholders!

(don't use GoFundMe anymore)

Exactly. Housing is finite and other people live here too.

It means even more when you're born into a position to just take the money and live like a pharoah on all of our backs as almost all born into such circumstances do...

...but instead choose to fight on behalf of those your class subjugates and murders for profit.

That is more than desperation. That is more than vengeance. That is conscience.

I've also seen them try to smear him as an elite because he went to a school that they spelled out cost 40,000 a year.

All that tells me is that he was on track to shut up and claim a privileged position, but destroyed that to send a message of conscience.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/person-of-interest-in-fatal-shooting-of-unitedhealthcare-boss-brian-thompson-idd-as-luigi-mangione-an-ex-ivy-league-student/

Man the owners hate him. I hope they continue to overplay their hand on that.

Last time I donate on that platform.

I hope some way to donate to his defense fund opens up.

I wish I could take his consequences so he could remain free.

I'm a coward that takes the beatings and whinges on the internet, he is a man who won't accept defeat, even under entrenched oligarch occupation.

Blah, blah, blah... and more blah.

Maybe you prefer more visual replies.