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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The fun part will be when Trump rips apart the alphabet soup intelligence apparatus and displaces much of the senior leadership. Those guys have spent decades building webs of deep and strong connections, and I would be 0% shocked if those guys were able to successfully mount an insurgency against the Trump presidency, and they'll likely take with them the list of dissidents and malcontents to contact.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

Add me to the list plz. Thx.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And have been since 2002 at the latest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Room 641A is a known fact.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days 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 4 days ago (9 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] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The threshold is creeping anyway, may as well dip into accelerationism.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago

Monitoring all nurses, got it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 81 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, like 85% of the adult population?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

30% is minimal support, I don't think you can expect more than 70%.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days 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] 4 points 4 days ago

You know, anyone making negative comments… The bees go get 'em.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

If you got the survey you were already on the list.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 days 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] 136 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

What the fuck... Really? Holy shit and what the actual fuck. As example ever heard about Snowden? Chelsea Manning? Assange? Unbelievable wtf

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

People forgot about Snowden after a month, it's been 12 years already, let it come back to the public consciousness

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You can monitor this dick.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"We already have. And there is literally 'Nothing to see here.' "

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Believe me, if you've got a dick worth monitoring they are already monitoring it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Cool to see another Drew fan in the wild.

Obligatory Garbage Brain University link.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We already know they’re spying on everyone in the country

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

21 minutes too late should-have-been-me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

So what'll this be called, The Health Scare? Ref. The Lavender Scare and all other scares there's been.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 days ago

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

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