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[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

I mean, they should be monitoring me because I want to see them toppled and replaced with a democracy, not just because I like seeing rich assholes get assassinated.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No shit, the NSA was already monitoring everybody to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

And they're still monitoring everyone. Everyone hates their healthcare. The "List" is just everyone.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And have been since 2002 at the latest

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, like 85% of the adult population?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn't a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Add me to the list plz. Thx.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monitor me all you want. Monitor me while you suck my balls.

What are you going to do about it? Nothing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You think the trump regime is going to do nothing with a list of people who are opposed to the crimes of the rich?

Violent autocrats love lists of people to persecute and kill. That's been a hallmark of trump style regimes since at least sulla in the roman republic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I think trump has some pretty dark plans but infighting and a focus on drama will derail a lot of them like it did last time. True authoritarianism is too complex for his cabinet to pull off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's a very optimistic position.

I think it overestimates the competence of fascists past and underestimates people like Leonard Leo who orchestrated the fascist take over of the courts and has publicly committed to doing the same to every major industry and institution.

Either way we'll find out I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Monitoring all nurses, got it.

[–] [email protected] 243 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So did they just download the US Census and start from there?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When pretty much everybody is on the list, it's more conspicuous to not be on it.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So, they're finally admitting that they're monitoring all of us.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Of course they are.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It's your first amendment right, use it. Don't comply in advance.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago

Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so... everyone?

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago

Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You can't put us all on the little list

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

In his manifesto, Mangione suggested the health insurance industry had “gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.” He could just as easily have been describing the national security state.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago

"Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's fun. It does nothing to stop the near-daily in-person conversations with coworkers, friends, and family about this one topic that unites us all. So long as we're beholden to this health insurance system that screws us over at our most vulnerable of times, those conversations aren't going to stop.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

That's not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UHC just sent me a survey. I was honest. I'm on a list now!!!

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so, like most people who have ever had to attempt to use it combined with those who could only hope to afford it? thats prolly a long list.

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