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It's against the rules of lemmy.world to call for violence against insurance companies, and the people who work for them, so I won't. But I don't think it's against the rules to imply I would if that wasn't in the rules.

I watched that clip on Kimmel. I don't normally watch but I like Bill Burr. Kimmel got really uncomfortable after he said Free Luigi. Not just like the network telling him, but in a way that seemed like Kimmel doesn't understand why people like Luigi.

He’s definitely a bit of an asshole, but at the end of the day, from what I’ve seen from him over the years he does have his head on straight on a LOT of issues.

Seeing stuff like this in the uplifting news community instead of shit like ‘local kid spends 60 hours a week selling lemonade to pay for sister’s cancer treatments’ is why I appreciate Lemmy vs Reddit.

That interview on Jimmy Kimmel has an obvious edit shortly after Bill says "free luigi!". I'm not sure if the producers of the show cut the crowd reaction or something else Bill said, but something was definitely cut out.

Fucking just make this guy the face of the dnc and we can be done with all this shit already. Just fucking do it already. Pull the strings, pad his pockets, and get going with reconstruction.

I swear to God if someone passes control of the dnc to bill burr we will skip 50 years of regression.

Always fun when Bill Burr makes a talk show host visibly uncomfortable. I'm worried they'll stop having him on altogether. Supporting Luigi might be crossing the line. I dunno how Jimmy Kimmel feels about Luigi Mangione, but I know how the people who sign his paychecks feel.

If they can't get people to hate Luigi, they'll shift to getting people to forget about him.

This seems pretty on-brand for burr.... He's always kind of rooted for the "little guy" so to speak. He's also blunt and doesn't really give a shit if you don't like what he has to say.

He was going off about CEOs being the new mafia, just mafia supported by the law this time around. And speculating on whacking between CEOs, like Walmart vs Target and such, pre Luigi. And then Luigi happened and he’s like: well yeah.

Really, it all fit with his pre Luigi narrative.

If my faith in humanity were higher before I would think long covid had huge measurable impacts on average intelligence.

Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm a Bill Burr fan, but then he does shit like this and I go all Gaga for him.

This is slightly off-topic, but I really hope someone films this new Broadway version of Glengarry Glen Ross, because Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk doing Mamet? Holy fuck do I want to see that.

Insurance companies are taking the risk of offering insurance. That is why they normally make money year after year after year.

When bad things happen, they take the hits. They take on some debt. They stop making profits... because they decided to purchase the risk from people. That's the gig.

There is a middle ground here that doesn't bone homeowners and doesn't completely bone the insurance companies affected. They should be taking on debt and making zero profits until they pay it off. That's not how things work here though, i'm sure they will be bailed out on taxpayer money or something.... but what should probably happen is that they should be given a federal loan on pretty favorable terms, something like 1-2% interest, until it's paid off.

At the same time standards for homes in areas at risk should be such that fire mitigation is mandated whenever a house changes hands. This will inevitably drive up costs, but again maybe this is another case for low/no interest rate loans to cover the changes. A billion or two today could save 25-100-500++ billion over a few years.

And the only comment on that article a bot decrying the horrible cold blooded murder and that a figure as visible as Burr should invoke the name. We're all cheering the murder you fucks and no amount of pissing on us and telling us its raining will make us stop.

This is the interview: https://youtu.be/r7wcU4W4tDE