Funny events in anti-woke world

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Not going to lie the CEO assassination had me thinking would this be "woke" or anti woke. Like I feel the fuckery of private insurance in America would to a a temporary uneasy armistice for a hot minute.

Maybe the assclownery of private insurance transcend it maybe I don't know.

I just know due to my line of work Humana is number one on my shit list.
 

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Not long ago a sheriff shot and killed a judge at his desk all recorded on cam with few details available as to motive. Aside from minimal hints at sexual impropriety and possibly communication with the sheriff's daughter. Though if this released testimony is anything to go by, is a whole lot more corrupt than just that
 
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Amusing timing aside, did said backlash by any chance look like this?
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Well, kind of. There's also an argument that he's a product of the system, and unless it's an effective way of taking down the system killing individuals is pretty pointless because they'll just be replaced by the next.
And there's another argument that the system would work fine if sociopaths didn't go above and beyond to exploit it. It's impossible to "asshole proof" any system.
 

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Currently, capital gains is volatile for two reasons: firstly the amount depends on share price fluctuations, and secondly the realisation and timing both depend on the personal decisions of the owners to sell. Unrealised gains tax still has the first element, but completely negates the second. So it's definitively more reliable than capital gains.



"What about X other issue??"

Irrelevant distraction.
People don't usually sell unless the value goes up. There will also be easy workarounds like having a spouse hold those assets or manipulating the market at end of year so you don't really gain anything or just selling each year so you only have to pay for gains a single time.

You just said the government needs more money, what if they didn't need more money?
 

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Driving through Ohio it's just hilly enough to block your vision but not enough to be interesting, it's driving in a featureless ditch for endless miles.
...and here I think of it as a break from the twisty, hilly, mountain on one side, cliff on the other nature of many WV roads.

and unless it's an effective way of taking down the system killing individuals is pretty pointless because they'll just be replaced by the next.
Do it enough times and the people involved will take down the system (or at least accept it coming down) because they don't want to die. The problem is the required consistency.
 

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Should note with most these cases of rich people being dramatically murdered, the perpetrator usually ends up being a disguised someone they already know or are related closely to, motivated by family feuds and/or money/inheritance. Have noticed an increase in rich-on-rich killing lately from the true crime/psychology coverage sphere, family annihilations and all sorts - there's a unique sense of despair behind a few where they've trapped themselves in a cycle of extreme luxury they cannot, will not let go of, so when bad financial choices and debts pile so high they cant be hidden any longer, they'd rather take out everyone in the vicinity they lied to, then themselves, than live with the shame of being seen as failure and having to live a more modest life. Or just target a family member for their life insurance, property or will/inheritance. In a way it kinda provides a crumb of relief as a poor, knowing I don't have to maintain a constant facade of success cos my bank account replaced personality and self-worth long ago, or fear my own sociopathic kids eying up the life insurance payouts.

Wtf was I going with this? Ah can't remember. Have a weird story about a mayor being killed in a police chase after he tried cutting their pay and they staged a public walkout/quitting of their jobs days earlier. The catch is the police claim he wasn't being chased for any wrong doing, they were only trying to, uh...protect him? lol.

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The reason the US can't do public healthcare is that our politicians are invested in healthcare companies. Can't do anything that would hurt the bottom line of their investments!

Which dovetails directly into

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It’s wild how fast their ‘independent, honest journalism’ shtick falls apart when it conflicts with their demographic’s outrage quota. Seems like their opposition to cancel culture only applies when it’s their side getting called out. Hypocrisy at its finest, but hey, at least it’s consistent!"
Remember: If you criticize me for my opinion, that's cancel culture. If I demand that you be destroyed for not being 100% in lockstep with me, it's patriotism.

I've often repeated the truism "if a poor man robs a rich man with a gun, that's crime; if a rich man robs a poor man with a pen, that's business". It's never really occurred to me until now how easily we could replace "robs" with "kills".
 
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People don't usually sell unless the value goes up. There will also be easy workarounds like having a spouse hold those assets or manipulating the market at end of year so you don't really gain anything or just selling each year so you only have to pay for gains a single time.
These are just basic manipulations that 1) already exist and impact capital gains, and 2) already have well-known methods of address.

You just said the government needs more money, what if they didn't need more money?
You expect the entirety of the deficit to be covered by efficiency savings, do you? Delusional.

And even if it was at all realistic: there would be the argument to shift the existing burden from workers onto those who accrue wealth without working, or from those with lesser means to those with greater means.
 
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Make fun of Ohio all you want. Meanwhile, the "nicest" Midwestern state is taking Ls for this.

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Do it enough times and the people involved will take down the system (or at least accept it coming down) because they don't want to die. The problem is the required consistency.
In theory, yes. And I'm not 100% opposed to it...

Unfortunately, I suspect what actually happens in practice is that the people at risk of dying end up charging the public even more so that they can afford extravagant personal protection details or - even better - get the state to do it off the taxpayer's money.
 

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Americans consume more healthcare because they are already rich vs. the rest of the world and decadent in their goods and services consumption, again relatively speaking what else is there to buy. The answer does not come from throttling healthcare to those who aren't 'economically viable'; it doesn't come from forming death panels and insurance companies gatekeeping healthcare. It doesn't ultimately come from shoveling the sick, worried, and old into a public option (the only reason I support this is because the Overton Window on healthcare has been moved.). It doesn't even come from either cost-rationing staff salaries or rationing healthcare in a universal system, even if right now that's the best option available.

It comes from innovation; it comes from technology that at first makes people uncomfortable, like robot/AI surgeries, better scanning tools, and better consumer-grade querying tools like ChatGPT that give you side effect profiles on drugs from which to act as a starting point for googling treatments. A president that invests more in this would help, but funding isn't an issue; the US already funds new treatments like this on a high scale. It's a very non-interesting take that a head of state, a team of scentists, or even a single company can't solve this by themselves, but it's the truth.

Note this is in response to a substack account defending the company UHC. It states Americans are too fat, consume too much healthcare, have too many 24/hr hospitals, etc.

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