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  • That is horseshit for a very Important reason.

    The CEO took action. He accepted payment. This was an active confidence scheme.

    Take their money, promise to provide care through claim fulfillment when the mark inevitably gets sick.

    When the mark inevitably gets sick, reveal the con, keep the money, let them die when you actively presented yourself as their sickness preparation.

    Brian was a murderer. His murder weapon was snake oil, a false agreement.



  • Yeah that is strange, the affluent usually have gold plated plans that aren’t subject to the same murderous tyranny most’s base level and/or employer provided garbage is. I thought those are the plans they point to as the US having the “best Healthcare in the world…” for the right people, god’s chosen affluenza sociopaths.

    I always saw those plans as the “In the little self-protecting country club” plans provided for the owners fellow owners in actual good faith since they’re seen as bona fide human beings and not exploitation livestock.

    As with anything in the owner’s completely seperate, segregated world, from vacation spots to Healthcare, the only gate they need to keep is prohibitive expense.











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    This likely isn’t even the guy as others have been pointing out.

    Too many clothing mismatches, backpack straps, pockets, different from the shooting site.

    The NYPD just needs to arrest… Someone.

    A low level owner was targeted and killed by a peasant in one of their centers of power, New York City. That isn’t allowed to stand.


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    If he gets caught, he should slow roll the trial as looooooong as he can…

    … And run for President in 2028 🇺🇸

    Felonies and civility don’t matter anymore… clearly. He has a platfom I’d like to hear more of.

    Seems to have a face that would look good on a campaign poster.


  • In the near term, people increasingly not being able to afford basic necessities like housing and food will lead to increased societal violence, but that likely won’t cause collapse.

    Climate scientists are increasingly warning of ecological collapse, meaning core climate systems will fail, like the Atlantic Gulfstream which will cause global famine and destruction, and that might be the end of human civilization all together, we won’t know until we do it within the next half century, and see the full extent of our fine work, a climate hostile to agriculture, dependable fresh water, possibly even standing structures not made of steel and concrete.

    But man are we speeding towards that cliff for short-term private shareholder profit, wheeeee!


  • No. Of course not!

    Failing to Reject the Reagan Revolution, and mass embrace of the Jack Welsh style “trickle down” economics lie, by BOTH parties was the point of no return, almost half a century ago at this point. This car was already totaled.

    Citizens United years later was just a victory lap by the owners pissing on the long dead corpse of the dream of societal equity.

    Trump is just another symptom of that intransigent reality we all live in.

    I’d say hope for collapse, as painful as it is, to have any hope for a better life for our children, maybe, but oligarch greed made climate change and at this point inevitable ecological collapse in the coming decades means there really isn’t hope for a better society/civilization for generations(if they eventually develop technologies to better cope with the new hellish climate reality) if at all.



  • The enshittification continues.

    Turns out greedy fuck capitalists trying to streamline and privatize the creative process of art to be just another cog in their money printer… turn all art to shit a dog wouldn’t bother to piss on. There have always been studio notes maligned by the creatives hindered by them, but now the studio notes are basically the entire script, generated by algorithm based solely on what the algorithm believes will sell. It’s wrong, but it makes the capitalists feel like they’ve got this art crap pegged, and no amount of box office bombs or reality will make them accept the truth that their core value of avarice poisons any capacity to comment on the human condition in an engaging way.

    There’s no deeper truth, no engaging narrative possible in “give me MOAR! I want MOAR! Give it to me NOW!” which is all these soul killing, unloved, blatant attempts at IP nostalgia manipulating cash grabs are. “Hey, my conglomerate owns the film rights to this character, here, they’re standing in front of an explosion like that game you stupid peasants loved 20 years ago for reasons I don’t care to understand! You pay me now yes?!”

    From games to movies any other form of media, if you traded your heart for that gaping blackhole in your chest that needs to suck up ever MOAR capital they installed when you got your MBA, you can’t be creative, and you can’t be inspirational, because the great stories creatives dream up usually have someone like you in them, the one dimensional, buffoonish secondary villain complaining about what they own not being respected over the course of the narrative.

    Even some greedy fucks of the past understood that their place was on the golf course sucking each other off in their dapper lil pastel polo shirts while the creatives and actually talented/useful cast and crew made them their money.