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Murdoch Outlets and Bezos’ WaPo Demand More Sympathy for Health Insurance Execs

fair.org Murdoch Outlets and Bezos’ WaPo Demand More Sympathy for Health Insurance Execs

Many news outlets’ pontificators were incensed that anyone would voice frustration with health insurance when an industry CEO has fallen.

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This had previously been posted to !politics@lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/post/23131889) but was removed as "not politics." Personally, I think pointing out instances of manufactured consent very much is politics, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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- Because .world admins, and by extension their mods who have to enforce their policies, are corpo bootlickers
  
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  It does seem clear from the messages they write which, coincidentally sound entirely like Reddit marketing tripe, that they are gunning for a corporate buyout and golden parachutes, for a Lemmy instance, which is laughable.
  
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Kinda off topic, but I wish more of these posts were not on the .world instance. They seem to be giving into the censors and becoming more reddit-like over time.

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- Very on topic imo
  
  Get off .world yall
  
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  As someone that started on Lemmy post Reddit, I found .world to be the most up front and easy to sign up for. I would love to change off of world but I'm not sure the best alternatives or ways to find them? Do you have any recommendations?
  
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- Feel free to crosspost!
  
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Fox News (12/6/24) quoted one of its own contributors, Joe Concha, saying, “I think this encapsulates the far left’s worldview: If you run a company that isn’t to their liking, you deserve to die.”

This is not about running a random company to someones liking. Its about the company that decides whether people die or not. It literally decides about the life and death of its customers and they wonder why people respond with death threats when the company tries to kill them.

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- Support for him is also all across the political spectrum. It's not just leftists.
  
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- its not just that, it includes forcing people to live with completely treatable unnecessary chronic pain or issues.
  
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  It's profiting off of the suffering of others. It's evil.
  
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I demand that Bezos and Murdoch outlets shut the fuck up.

Note how both demands will be equally successful.

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The common people demand more sympathy for Luigi

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Out of all the people who have been shot in NYC in 2024, Brian Thompson is the one I feel the least sorry for. And that includes people I've never heard of.

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I demand more sympathy for americans with medical issues. Enough to get action to get them healthcare. Once we have that I might have excess sympathy that could be applied to health insurance execs. so get cracking.

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I have concepts of thoughts and prayers

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- I don't even have those.
  
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  didn't get prior approval
  
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Sorry, my thoughts and prayers are out of network.

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I want the population to exercise more civic engagement and vote to their interests, not their social identity. But the Zeitgeist is a force of nature that cannot be bargained with.

Hence an absolute monarchist is the President Elect and the death of a rich CEO is lauded.

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- That time has been and gone! There are no free and fair elections in USA. It's another blinder from Putin's playbook. Those freedoms will never be restored.
  
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  They'll never be given back.
  
  They could be taken back.
  
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- And of course Trump is a million times worse than the dead CEO in every respect. But the vice-signalling of a successful murder makes it cooler to kill the CEO than to vote against Trump.
  
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Best I can do is deny, defend, and depose.

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They can demand all they want. Afaict bezos and murdoch should be more worried about themselves

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- Oh, I think they are worried. They control the media, and the fact that they are trying, and failing, to steer public opinion away from supporting a vigilante act terrifies them.
  
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Internet users are declaring that the man police believe to be the shooter, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, is certifiably hot

That's just a fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not you're sympathetic to him.

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And I demand that millionaires and billionaires start getting taught more lessons with bullets more often lol

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How can Americans simultaneously hate health insurance CEOs while simultaneously shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot?

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- Neither party was offering single payer. American voters are stupid as fuck but I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
  
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  Well, as poor as the choices might seem, last time Trump was in power he spent every day not on the golf course trying to sabotage the ACA. It wasn't exactly a zero sum choice at the ballot box.
  
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- Because the man on TV said changing the system would be communism.
  
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  No, people started to understand a bit about communism so the new term to fear is 'woke.' Nobody can define it so it's the perfect boogeyman. Don't like something? It's woke. Bad stuff, I tell ya.
  
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- Notice the subject of the headline: the people distributing the news and information to those voters are upset that people aren't feeling "how they should". Those same news outlets edit stories to make people feel negatively towards things that are in their own best interest. People are cutting through the propaganda and starting to unite over healthcare.
  
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- shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot
  
  Did somebody offer single pay?!
  
  Also, ACA is how we got here dear. Single payer or more dead CEOs likely IMHO
  
  There should not be such job as CEO of health insurance company.
  
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  Perhaps there should not be health insurance either. Many other countries fund health care as an obligation to their citizens.
  
  How did non-medical middle-men get into such a crucial responsibility?
  
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- yeah I see a lot of "oh what a wonderfully dialetctically materialful moment of class consciousness this is" and, uh, great, but try doing anything with it. get those people to join your communist book club if it's so easy. willfully ineffective leftist challenge: figure out that political illiteracy stops bourgeoisie electoralism but also stops every other political activity (impossible)
  
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No.

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OK, I read the various finger wagger quotes. I’ll concede one point: the shareholders (capital) bear greater responsibility. Yes, he was “just doing his job.” But it’s dirty work, this job.

It’s true that the primary utility of this type of CEO to a shareholder is liability encapsulation, but if someone hires you to do their dirty work, and you take their money, it doesn’t matter that you’re just doing your job.

In short, any henchman should know what he’s signing up for. Those exorbitant salaries are hazard pay, make no mistake. If you take these dirty jobs, and prolong the suffering of millions, I think it’s reasonable to expect that you’ll need to watch your back. Forever.

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- Sorry to go straight for Godwin's law, but Eichmann's entire defense relied on saying he was just doing what he was told, "My fault is only my obedience". It's not much of an argument.
  
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Glad I got rid of The Washington Post subscription. We should have significantly less sympathy for either Bezos and Murdoch.

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- If it was Murdoch or Bezos instead of this guy the parties would still be ongoing
  
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  The party is still going but normie socials have came out with heavy suppression and ban hammers.
  
  Revolution is not being televised.
  
  A lot of politics is being shilled again and plebs do appear to be getting back into the circle jerk.
  
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No

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👎

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Normally when you 'demand' something, you would have some sort of necessity or something of value that you can withhold until the 'demand' is met...

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As they've shown us already, strongly worded articles and protest don't do shit.

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- For every article for team pleb, fake news will whore up 20 pro owner class narratives.
  
  Each little sub groups gets one with their own angle so they really know it is "correct and true"
  
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I pray for them to receive a karmic, consequentialist outcome for all the things they've done.

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Cancel your cable or satellite subscriptions. Don't let Fox raise their carrier fees. https://www.nofoxfee.com/ https://www.commoncause.org/work/no-fox-fee/

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No

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At what point is we gonna cross chattel slavery territory, daddy?

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His face looks small

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https://c.tenor.com/bFY_W7mb024AAAAd/tenor.gif

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No.

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Damn uhc obviously didn’t cover Brian’s dental

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https://youtu.be/_n5E7feJHw0

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So where's the ~~grave~~ new toilet going to be installed?

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Truth!

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Cool wow best of luck to them I hope they get it.

https://y.yarn.co/d1e03788-2453-4bad-90aa-ef9bf0991fd9.mp4

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