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How many Americans die each year from decisions made about their healthcare?

How does that boot taste?

this.

That's a lot of money.

Yes, we have gotten numb to the thousands killed to satisfy corporate bottom lines

i'll start giving a shit about this when the # of CEOs gunned down in the street equal or exceed the # of children who have been murdered at school. when it exceeds the # of people shot by cops for little-to-no reason. when it exceeds the # who died because medical treatment was too expensive.

Sir, this is Wendy’s.

But the systematic dehumanization of people as profit-generators in a healthcare dystopia is to be tolerated at all costs, got it.

So the entire publication deserves to be disparaged.

This isn't the only stupid article published by them recently. I finally cancelled my subscription to The Atlantic. I don't need to read articles telling me I should just bend over and take it. Let them have MAGA support them.

Nobody should be cheering the killer. All it takes is a nut with a grudge and a gun for a tragedy to ensue. But the bigger tragedy is why so many share the same grudge. The decline of civilization began the moment it became ok for wealthy powerful people to make life & death decisions for profit.

There’s a reason less divided countries around the world have landed on universal healthcare. Business-run healthcare has too many conflicts with the common good.

That's great advice! They won't listen so we ignore them

youtu.be/0k5aVLi_yhM?... A good time to remember that no one spent a minute in jail for the death, financial ruin, and other human devastation that resulted from the housing fraud of the 00's. That's civilized society apparently.

Wouldn't it be nice if we got these types of in-depth articles about the fuckery that is private insurance, why Uncle Sam should make the entire system illegal and take over healthcare and provide deep introspection of the history and psychoanalysis of people like Obama who perpetuate such misery?

You're a fucking quisling piece of shit.

Or maybe those inured with the profit-over-people mantra of today's ultra wealthy are just catching a glimpse of what "reap/sow", "FAFO", "karma" looks like.

They certainly haven't battled UnitedHealthcare for their cancer meds.

I see this a little differently than most commenters. What I take from the piece is, this event isn't a wakeup call for the part of society that's already seen the warning signs. They're the "choir" in this instance. This is a strike at late-stage capitalism and greed, not just 2A and gun violence.

Holy fuck, you're like a decade to late with this take. This wasn't a "blaring warning", that came years ago written in the blood of children. This was the fading of the last bell ring, heard clap in every board room around the world. This is the quiet part as the echo fades and the holiday comes.

Well said.

I mean... that would not be my takeaway from that article.

OMGGGGG They are literally playing in our faces 😡

I mean, I didn't follow the case that closely, but it seems like the law is more the problem than the verdict.

People oppressed by a system that is openly hostile towards them with leaders who claim to represent them yet actively feed the system of oppression tend to lash out eventually. The guillotine has fallen many times throughout history and it repeats itself because the gluttons don’t learn

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Hey Adrienne, we don’t give a fuck about billionaires that profit off our misery. We do care about elected officials looking the other way when our kids get killed at school, however. Why don’t you look into that instead? Fuckwit…

Décivilisation is actually the title of a book written by Renaud Camus, the French far-right author who invented the Great Replacement Theory. Absolutely unconscionable.

Not the “healthcare” industry trying to do everything to not cover you. Murder in mass by PDF > Mass murder getting killed in the street. Corporate lobbyists have taken any civility out of our county.

The alarm bells should’ve started to ring when corporations and CEOs were denying basic healthcare so they could make an extra 1-2% profit. Healthcare companies are both directly & indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans and have essentially engaged in “legal” murder.

You’ve named two people who attacked him first. Try again. Who did Rittenhouse shoot that wasn’t actively attacking him first if he murdered anyone?

You missed an important part. Rosenbaum continued to chase Rittenhouse until he was cornered by cars and lunged for his gun. That is why he shot him in self defence (for less than a second). Huber then repeatedly beat him in the head with a skateboard (which can cause death). Self defence.

“Certainly school children, the elderly, people at concerts, movies, supermarkets, church, etc, can defend themselves but who’ll think of the CEO’s?! Won’t someone protect our rich from gun violence?!”

You want trust in institutions to improve drastically? Throw out civility and fix the system by any means necessary. All this “institutions above humans” politics does is demonstrate to the people you are trying to influence that they are disposable and less important than decorum.

True

Hi. So... School shootings every day and the right saying we need to get used to them wasn't it?

oh fuck off, kids get shot up all the time and y’all just chalk it up as “that’s showbiz baby” but when it’s a rich white dude in the health care it’s a “warning signal”

Stares in every school shooting since 1999.

When we're being brutalized that's the system working as intended.

only when we, the masses, have our own Atlantic. this one belongs to the ruling class of the US empire.

TELL EM

Of course we're inured to it we're it WE'RE THE ONES FUCKING BLEEDING

The president sent an armed mob to assassinate his own VP in 2021, I think that might have constituted at least a minor push notification about our society’s penchant for political violence

I think there is a Joker monologue somewhere that addresses this exact situation

Yes, for The Atlantic, oligarchs are a protected class

Exactly. The lower orders can die like flies but no one shall touch a single hair on the sacred heads of the wealthy!

A teenage Trayvon Martin being stalked and then killed. A 12-year old Tamir Rice playing in the park and being extra-judicially murdered by police within seconds.

My brothers and sisters in Christ at The Atlantic! You have spent a decade telling us affordable medical care is an "indulgent fantasy," so now we indulge in another kind of fantasy. This is what you worked so hard for! Rejoice in the fruits of your long labors!

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

Yeah we are though. We should absolutely be above killing someone for political reasons, but that goes hand in hand with building a healthy society. Not having a just universal healthcare system is a failing. The wealth gap is failing. Prioritizing growth vs sustainability is a failing.

Womp womp

Power always acts to buttress power. The murder of a member of the ruling class by an ordinary citizen is unforgiveable. Poor people killing each other is the system working as intended.

This 👌

I wonder why you Omiscient Gentlemen are more worried about this than all the school shootings

The current editor in chief of @theatlantic.com was a former Kahanist in his teenage years, and was inspired to become an IDF prison guard: mondoweiss.net/2016/04/jeff...

The wealth-hoarding class & talking heads who fellate them have assumed that claiming a monopoly on violence gives them impunity to lie, steal & kill at will. They are shocked (shocked I tell you) when anyone refuses to play the game they've created. Class war is binary & wealth isn't a shield.

Rodney King video. Biden calling black men “super predators.” The govt sponsored crack epidemic. Black Wall Street. The Tuskegee study. George Floyd. Nobody deserves to die like the CEO did, but don’t act like America was some utopia. This place has been hell for large groups of people since day 1.

When you start reporting on how health insurance CEOs are *personally* responsible for making decisions that end peoples lives unnecessarily, and acknowledge that doing so is murder, then I will give a shit what you think about CEOs being murdered. Until then, GTFO.

editorial charcuterie board

Save some for us.

Killing evil rich people is bad -Guy named after one of the OGs of killing bad rich people because diplomacy and the court system had Ben failed

That's why they make smorgas-boards

You're taking the boot so deep it has entirely stomped through you.

It’s curious how you don’t have the same reaction when it’s Palestinians being bombed to pieces, or wannabe warriors summarily executing homeless people on the subway.

💯💯💯

I mean 75 million people just voted for a rapist and convicted felon

The CEOs of a health insurance companies are one and all mass murderers whom are exempt from the law and will never face consequences for the pain and suffering they inflict every day upon their captive "customers" on an unimaginable scale.

That CEO was responsible for a lot of bloodshed. He led an insurance organization with the highest rate of denied claims. As a case manager, I personally witnessed his organization, refusing very appropriate and much needed care. They place lives in jeopardy. He didn’t care if people died.

I don't recall you hand wringing about Jordan Neely. You're just mad a CEO caught lead because he's one of the few people you consider human. Take your sanctimonious tone and ram it.

Who did Rittenhouse shoot that wasn’t actively attacking him first if he murdered anyone?

Now do J6

I’ve finally found a use case for generative AI. Replacing Adrienne LaFrance

"back" to a robust democracy? Was the US ever a robust democracy???

maybe, just maybe, a little less “thoughts and prayers” and some actual restrictions on ARs and white males between 16-25yo would have left us less “inured”.

Direct, succinct, and missing only "by a rusty chainsaw."

A society where people brutalize one another.

Who's too inured? "On the 2021 phone call, which was recorded by the company, a nurse told her colleague that a doctor contracted by United to review the case had concluded that McNaughton’s treatment was 'not medically necessary.' Her colleague reacted to the news with a long laugh."

This article is trash and you know it.

Honestly I’m pretty sure ridding ourselves of billionaire murderous ceos shows humanity is starting to peek out of the mess that is our society.

The death of that monster is a sign that society is healthier than we realized.

Shut da fuck up