Lets_Eat_Grandma

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[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, the argument that communism is slavery to the state is a real and valid argument as of 2024.

It's not like capitalism is any less a form of slavery, except instead of stealing from everybody to give to everybody it steals from everybody and gives it all to insurance companies and other businesses benefiting oligarchs. The whole system is slavery under another name, work for the luxury of having a place to sleep at night so that your owner can live a comfortable life. Slavery to many masters who use your body for their gains.

There's not going to be a system that you're not a slave to though, unless we somehow find a way to trivially convert matter to energy and vice versa and build a utopia where machines do everything for us... and we all share the rewards. All hail science fiction communism? (and keep in mind science fiction keeps becoming reality! Just don't hold your breath for this in our lifetimes.)

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cool, now sell it over the counter. Is there any compelling reasons for this to require a prescription?

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't understand how you can convict someone based on the testimony of a person getting a plea deal for turning in another person.

The last thing the person getting the plea deal would want to do is turn over someone loyal enough to them to rob a place and shoot another person with.

Does anyone think this would have happened if the accused was the son of a wealthy white couple? How about if it was the police chief's son? Any senator's son?

Just saying. Testimony without hard evidence shouldn't be enough for criminal conviction, let alone a fucking execution.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This shit is the 21st century witch hunt. Covid cripples the economy from all the governments basically telling you to stay inside and businesses shuttering all over followed by ballooning the national debt by giving out tons of handouts for this. Then once they say "ok it's been enough time, go out there and get back to work" suddenly all that covid money given to people is being spent, driving up the cost of everything.

Now just a couple years later, everyone is looking for someone to blame for why costs are so high. "They gave us money to survive before... now it costs so much to do everything! It must be the BROWN people's fault!" simply because they are the newest wave of immigrants in a country built by immigrants for centuries.

Surely it can't be due to poor zoning laws, bad economic policies by the last administration (which set us up to fail with massive multi-trillion dollar debt thanks to all those big business tax cuts) and a news media gone wild, controlled by a handful of oligarchs who have more money and power than ever before after profiting from it all.

As always, a masterful performance by the rich and powerful. Let's make america get fucked again! #Recession2029

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really? a 66k maple syrup dollar pension is somehow outrageous? is this a joke?

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Make sure the 17 year olds in the military get the good stuff though.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey, we have to draw the line somewhere. Let's stop at a gigaton.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 123 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I think if people had even more guns this could have been avoided. What if there was a six year old with a 22 there to respond to the gunshots with some of his own? maybe less people would be dead.

Guns make everyone way safer. We need to start providing them in utero.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

I feel horrible for the guy and his family. They've already weathered a real tragedy, now they get to weather another one that is completely unnecessary and avoidable.

Accidents happen. Spewing hate doesn't have to.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

it’s factored into your total compensation so you’re still the one paying.

I never understand why so many people assume insurance is "free" from the employer or that they pay 0-1000 per week/month. What we see is the tip of the iceberg. Insurance companies are perfectly lucrative and they pay tons and TONS of money to workers that make sure they make as much as possible.

80% of premium revenues must be spent on treatment, the other 20% is what they have to profit off of. If they don't spend 80% of the premiums on treatment they MUST refund excess earnings. See: https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-review/

This means if they took in 100 billion in premiums in a year, they MUST spend 80 billion dollars on treatments. The 20 billion left over is where they can make money. So they will make sure 4/5ths of everything they make goes into treatment so they never give refunds and they maximize potential profits. If they can convince companies to raise premiums 10% next year, costs will rise 10%, profits will rise 10%. It's so obviously designed to raise the cost of premiums and treatments at the expense of all else it's insane.

They also don't spend a dime over 80% of what they make if they can help it. There's where claim rejections come in. They have mathematicians figuring out the ideal numbers and those guys make stupid amounts of money.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

That's so cool! All we see is ******* even though you see hunter2

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