• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    the top three DOJ officials under Attorney General Merrick Garland have all represented massive healthcare companies during their respective stints in private practice before joining the DOJ.

    Because of COURSE they did! 🤦🤬

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          The awareness is lovely to see.

          Interestingly enough I don’t think we’d have arrived here without COVID. It broke the routine, slowed the inertia, pushed self reflection.

          And it made the house of cards that is the healthcare system visible to all.

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            I agree completely.

            It also disproved the “once the crisis is big enough, everyone will hold hands and work together for the common good” myth that pro-establishment people used to trot out to mollify critics of the status quo.

            The people radicalized by a combination of the inequities of the status quo and the gaslighting of opportunistic far right politicians (who are of course themselves very much part of the establishment) didn’t suddenly set their collective delusions of self-sufficiency and their scapegoating of vulnerable people aside to help themselves and other people get through the pandemic as safely as possible. They only got WORSE.

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              On a local level, we really do see humans band together to overcome crises. But not everyone, not all the time. And on a national level, stopping the rich motherfuckers is a struggle that goes back millenia.

              Some people think that “progress will happen” as if it’s inevitable that society improves over time. But a quick glance at history proves otherwise.

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      The club you are in it’s bigger though, they don’t want you to find out about it.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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    You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn’t the normal way of things??

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      He’s only made his plea. Yes, that part happens quickly.

      EDIT: Look at the upvotes on the parent comment. Y’all are really dumb enough to think this man is going to trial right now.

      It’s misinformation, it’s ignorance, it may even be a lie. Downvote this crap.

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        thank you for having some sanity….
        i’m pro luigi, anti health industrialization… but yes obviously the doj will charge you for shooting someone.
        the terrorism charge is probably where the pressure went

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          No, it’s not obvious. The DOJ rarely charges anybody with murder. It’s almost always charged under state law, in state courts. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil hasn’t been charged with a federal crime, and probably won’t be.

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    it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.

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    There was a school shooting on the same day Thompson was killed. Without looking it up, can anyone name a single victim?

    I’m not saying I support murder, but I don’t understand why I should care more about his life than those who are objectively more innocent.

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    I’ve heard people suggest that school shooters stop butchering our kids, and instead throw their lives away doing something useful that will have them remembered as heroes.

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    That’s fine, I’m pressuring the neighborhood schizophrenics to directly pressure healthcare CEOs.

    Pressure is fun, right health insurance leaders? It can make all sorts of fun things happen. Brian knows knew this, if only for a few seconds.

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          Idk usually that’s the case, but when I think “mentally ill in a way that’s susceptible to being pressured to kill rich people” I’m more inclined to think paranoid schizophrenics than did folks. Still shouldn’t use them as a joke like that.