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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Might have start going after shareholders if this crap keeps up eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how Mario feels about this while Luigi is on lockdown

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Always more castles

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To the absolute shock of all the people praising Luigi as the ultimate solution: nothing has changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because work needs to be systemic. Not one-time adventure, but every tuesday in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can kill an infinite number of people across all of time, but it's not going to change the fact that profit exists to be made. The only solution is legislative. We have to vote DNC, like we did in 2010, but instead of stopping at 58 we need to get to 60. Only then will there be progressive reform with no compromise.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

You're gross and you enable grosser people

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you've had 60. it doesn't matter. what you need is to vote local and in primaries. you can't keep letting the party establishment rot take hold and hope it will lead to change in the general elections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you’ve had 60

When was that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

when Obama was elected. democrats had the presidency, the house and senate, with a supermajority. guess what they did with it: dick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

yeah really, idk whay that is but a table only gives you a snapshot. 111th congress I believe had at one time majorities in both houses, and a 60-40, including the democratic caucusing independents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But when the 111th congress voted on Public Option Healthcare it came up 1 vote short because the Caucusing Independent Joe Liebermen voted Nay alongside every republican.

They effectively didn't have 60, despite the caucus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

yeah that's exactly my point, hence my original comment about general election majority not meaning anything without voting for actual progressives if not leftists in primaries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every DNC voted Yay for actual progressive policy.

I'm saying we need to put 60 of them in the Senate, and you made some stupid point about how 58 of them is basically 60.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

that's distinction without difference. Bernie is independent, Sinema and Manchin were democrats. getting democratic seats no matter who it is won't change anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

LITERALLY WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SINGLE PAYER AND THE ACA

1 INDEPENDENT VOTE

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

it wasn't because he's independent. it's because he's joe fucking lieberman, obama's best bud... again, Sinema and Manchin were democrats. they still fucked over progressives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your point seems to contradict your earlier point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

it doesn't, i repeated the same thing. you can't vote harder in general elections to make change without voting local and in primaries for actual progressives first. let's see if someone gets confused again so I can rephrase the same thing a fourth time

[–] [email protected] 307 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

You'd think UHC would strive to behave impeccably with all the publicity around them lately. But no: they're so shameless and so greedy they even behave rotten when everybody is busy dissecting their every moves. Amazing...

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why? “Line must go up”

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well shoot, what can be done to fix this?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

Your second word.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

Let’s take aim at this problem

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

CEOs will be blown away by the answer.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's she gonna do, appeal?

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ai: "It is safe and profitable to deny this claim as she is unlikely to seek vengeance."

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck this system, it's absolute trash.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How Many Times Do We Have to Teach You This Lesson, Old Man?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Brian Thompson didn't learn shit he's dead. And I doubt that Stephen J. Hemsley, the Executive Chairman of UnitedHealth Group and Brian Thompson's co-defendent in an insider trading lawsuit, likely didn't learn squat either but is currently still alive.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

Respect to the doctor for publicly shaming United Healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They could put out a story like this every minute of every day and never run out. Burn it all down indeed

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Proof that Luigi was right! 2025 is the year we the people start denying their existence. Medicare for all and the doctors that get paid the most do so by having healthy patients. No more pill popping to keep making these insurers rich!

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Hemsley: He is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization's governing body.

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