Alice Lastname
@they-themistocles.bsky.social
Professional “area man”, Doug Emhoff truther, Ukraine election-denier. Prosecuted for over-prescribing XR coconut pills.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The 2014-Reddit-ass prose aside, I like this post
NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The 2014-Reddit-ass prose aside, I like this post
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White smoke has just been released from the Academy Museum, signifying that it’s officially awards season in LA.
December 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
White smoke has just been released from the Academy Museum, signifying that it’s officially awards season in LA.
Lmao Burger King being shady af 👑
December 10, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Lmao Burger King being shady af 👑
Lil Boozer Badass III
December 9, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Lil Boozer Badass III
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[Michelle getting a Christmas present from Barack] Thanks Obama.
December 9, 2024 at 2:53 AM
[Michelle getting a Christmas present from Barack] Thanks Obama.
Lmao hell yeah brother
December 8, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Lmao hell yeah brother
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That is a morally abhorrent system, and more than that it is a morally abhorrent system that is embraced with open hypocrisy to silence people who cry out for intervention by courts and politicians.
So when courts and politicians allow death to become money, *what did you think would happen?*
So when courts and politicians allow death to become money, *what did you think would happen?*
December 5, 2024 at 12:53 PM
That is a morally abhorrent system, and more than that it is a morally abhorrent system that is embraced with open hypocrisy to silence people who cry out for intervention by courts and politicians.
So when courts and politicians allow death to become money, *what did you think would happen?*
So when courts and politicians allow death to become money, *what did you think would happen?*
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Daily, Brian Thompson as CEO of United Healthcare decided who lived and who died.
He might not have known their names or the individual cases, but that was his domain: reducing human lives to profit margins, and he was legally encouraged and celebrated for doing so.
He might not have known their names or the individual cases, but that was his domain: reducing human lives to profit margins, and he was legally encouraged and celebrated for doing so.
December 5, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Daily, Brian Thompson as CEO of United Healthcare decided who lived and who died.
He might not have known their names or the individual cases, but that was his domain: reducing human lives to profit margins, and he was legally encouraged and celebrated for doing so.
He might not have known their names or the individual cases, but that was his domain: reducing human lives to profit margins, and he was legally encouraged and celebrated for doing so.
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Our political system and our justice system demonstrably will not save us from being killed for profit, because that is the system working as it's designed to do.
If you're poor and die from insufficient healthcare coverage, it's more or less an expected outcome.
Again, social contract says what?
If you're poor and die from insufficient healthcare coverage, it's more or less an expected outcome.
Again, social contract says what?
December 5, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Our political system and our justice system demonstrably will not save us from being killed for profit, because that is the system working as it's designed to do.
If you're poor and die from insufficient healthcare coverage, it's more or less an expected outcome.
Again, social contract says what?
If you're poor and die from insufficient healthcare coverage, it's more or less an expected outcome.
Again, social contract says what?
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If you insist long enough that everything is fine and working as intended, and America is good, and we value life above money like Jesus said to do, then make someone's healthcare a question of putting millions of dollars into the pockets of the few...
The fuck did you THINK would happen?
The fuck did you THINK would happen?
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 PM
If you insist long enough that everything is fine and working as intended, and America is good, and we value life above money like Jesus said to do, then make someone's healthcare a question of putting millions of dollars into the pockets of the few...
The fuck did you THINK would happen?
The fuck did you THINK would happen?
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UHC's self-serving end-run around the 80/20 rule is morally bankrupt and blatantly defies the spirit of the law no matter how you look at it.
But they have been so far allowed to continue the practice, because I suppose it's "technically" legal.
That's where strain on the social contract shows.
But they have been so far allowed to continue the practice, because I suppose it's "technically" legal.
That's where strain on the social contract shows.
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
UHC's self-serving end-run around the 80/20 rule is morally bankrupt and blatantly defies the spirit of the law no matter how you look at it.
But they have been so far allowed to continue the practice, because I suppose it's "technically" legal.
That's where strain on the social contract shows.
But they have been so far allowed to continue the practice, because I suppose it's "technically" legal.
That's where strain on the social contract shows.
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Instead, UHC devised an absolute monstrosity to get around the 80/20 rule: they bought healthcare providers so they could plow that 80% of income right back into their own pockets in enough of a roundabout fashion to exhaust and frustrate any attempts to stymie them.
And it worked.
And it worked.
December 5, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Instead, UHC devised an absolute monstrosity to get around the 80/20 rule: they bought healthcare providers so they could plow that 80% of income right back into their own pockets in enough of a roundabout fashion to exhaust and frustrate any attempts to stymie them.
And it worked.
And it worked.
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In America we have something called the 80/20 rule, more or less stipulating that for-profit healthcare has to spend 80% of income on providing care to people.
It was put into place in the naive hope it would cause megacompanies to actually do the job other countries wisely decided to privatize.
It was put into place in the naive hope it would cause megacompanies to actually do the job other countries wisely decided to privatize.
December 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM
In America we have something called the 80/20 rule, more or less stipulating that for-profit healthcare has to spend 80% of income on providing care to people.
It was put into place in the naive hope it would cause megacompanies to actually do the job other countries wisely decided to privatize.
It was put into place in the naive hope it would cause megacompanies to actually do the job other countries wisely decided to privatize.
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You can try to wiggle around this truth and handwave it as much as you like, but it remains a truth: we let companies kill innocent people because it's profitable for them to do so, and then we try to pretend that's not what happens.
UHC is an *amazing* example of this.
UHC is an *amazing* example of this.
December 5, 2024 at 12:38 PM
You can try to wiggle around this truth and handwave it as much as you like, but it remains a truth: we let companies kill innocent people because it's profitable for them to do so, and then we try to pretend that's not what happens.
UHC is an *amazing* example of this.
UHC is an *amazing* example of this.
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Every single day in America, for-profit healthcare companies decide who lives and who dies. They don't do this based on morality. They don't do this to preserve limited resources.
They visibly and blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.
They visibly and blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.
December 5, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Every single day in America, for-profit healthcare companies decide who lives and who dies. They don't do this based on morality. They don't do this to preserve limited resources.
They visibly and blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.
They visibly and blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.