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Can we get some context over here, across the pond? πͺπΊ
Dude whacked a CEO responsible for the pain, suffering, and even deaths of millions of people, all for the sake of profit. Plenty of Americans go bankrupt, suffer, or die if they have a medical issue. Healthcare is expensive and insurance companies get to dictate what medical care you receive and will do anything to not have to pay out without having to spend hours on the phone fighting for basic human decency. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to feel bad about having one less monster in the world.
My hope is for the "status quo" to finally be disrupted enough to make a difference. Problem is Americans, and probably a good chunk of the human race, have the attention span of gerbils. Usually a week or two goes by and unless if the Media is continuing to ram it down our throats we move on to the next dopamine hit on TikTok. I might be bitter. I might be really bitter.
The same country just decided they had enough of the status quo and elected a billionaire to the top office.
Americans are all over the place and mostly lack understanding.
Is the short attention span responsible for consistently electing people who take basic rights away from people? Bcs imo that is the real problem - not primarily the scum who do the deeds, but the idiots who keep electing them. It goes basically for most of the human race right now, but for the sake argument, let's stick with Americans for now: WHY did they do that?
You have socialist healthcare. You wouldn't get it
breathe in
breathe out
They know the difference between socialized and socialist, I'm sure
One is commie bullshit. The other is commie horseshit. π¦ πΊπΈ
(sarcasm mode)
I thought this was funny. You just dropped your /s I hope, right? Lol
Yes
the uk has had a decade of the tories privitising the nhs and now the uk has wes streeting coming in to finish the job.
This dude shot and killed a health insurance CEO. After about a day, insurers stopped denying coverage arbitrarily to people. The longer-term effects have not yet been seen, but I expect more to follow.
Edit: bunch of people think it's wrong for me to say that we can't perfectly predict the future.
The second part isn't anywhere close to true. You're going to need a lot more dead CEOs for that to happen.
There's a lot of did ways the situation could develop positively that doesn't involve more assassinations. Most likely, the industry pushes for legislation that disallows some of the scumier practices while allowing the bleed to continue.
More likely to happen:
Captured oligarch media keeps trying horribly to spin this. Eventually, shooter gets caught. Everyone who gets their info solely from mainstream sources will think the shooter a villain. Somehow they find a jury of stooges. Dude gets slapped with the hardest sentencing imaginable but not put to death. The orphan crushing machine pitters on.
Don't be a doomer.
I mean either way I am inspired as fucc from this act. People really do hold the power. No amount of money or lobbying in the world will unshoot Brian Thompson.
Same, tbh.
LoL
Are there tho?
Well aside from what I already mentioned, it's possible for the manufacturing of consent against socialized medicine to be halted out of fear leading to M4A finally being adopted. It's possible that this will lead to non-violent protests that agitate for change. Certain politicians might be able to leverage this in the near future to get a bill passed. It could happen that it'll lead to a sudden increase in community aid and health facilities accommodating such.
I'm not saying what is and isn't likely to happen, all I'm saying is that we don't know. Anyone who thinks they know what will happen is an idiot or a liar, possibly both.