Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

  • atro_city
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    287 days ago

    Look at who the USAmerican people voted for despite all their hate for the health insurance industry: a bunch of crooks that make the industry profitable on the backs of their voters.

    People can’t help themselves but vote against their interests.

    • @PriorityMotif
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      237 days ago

      ~20% of eligible voters voted for this.

      More people didn’t vote than voted for either candidate.

      ~150M voted with a 2M difference ~90M didn’t vote

      I’ll bet the vote count that actually matters is more like <10% of the country.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 days ago

        just as neglecting to make a decision is still a decision, neglecting to vote is still a vote.

        • @PriorityMotif
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          147 days ago

          You’re ignoring the many people who have been disenfranchised, their registration purged from the rolls at the last second, votes thrown out, intentionally giving certain areas only one voting location for many many people. There’s tons of reasons why someone might not vote that are out of their control.

          • @[email protected]
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            7 days ago

            Obviously those people wouldn’t fall under “neglecting to vote”, now would they?

              • atro_city
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                You’re saying that as if 90M had a legitimate reason not to vote.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Have you seen the state of American society? In case you didn’t hear it has got so bad we’ve got vigilantes killing CEOs

                  • atro_city
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                    15 days ago

                    No, I heard nothing about that in a thread talking about the effect of such an action /s

                    Nobody with a modicum of critical thinking can seriously believe that all 90M non-voters tried everything to vote and just couldn’t.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          56 days ago

          It’s a blatant statement that they don’t consider either candidate to be a legitimate choice.

        • atro_city
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          36 days ago

          Just like upgrading from eating scaps to eating fastfood, better doesn’t mean good.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      76 days ago

      Both candidates were pro-institution. Let go of the delusion that Harris was somehow a champion of the people. She is the system. The only reason she got the amount of votes she did is because she was the only viable non-trump vote possible. The DNC tried to force another neo-liberal on us, and the people stayed home.

    • @friend_of_satan
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      167 days ago

      A crook who coincidentally said he could shoot somebody on the streets of manhattan and get away with it.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 days ago

      That describes both parties. There’s a reason none of the dems are taking advantage of this moment to show the overwhelming majority that they want the same things.