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Puts on Luigi hat
Nah, yeah, this is a more effective solution.
Strike at the root of the disease, not just managing symptoms.
I know this is a crazy concept, but stick with me here....
.... what if, and I'm just throwing this out there, not everyone is in a position where they can murder a CEO and there are actually millions of people impacted who each need to consider their own circumstances, allowing us to tackle the problem from multiple directions simultaneously over time?
I know, that's probably insane, and everyone fits in a neat little box that lets you tell random people on the Internet that they shouldn't bother learning to navigate a hostile system and instead "strike at the root of the disease" while invoking the image of a vigilante hero without offering any practical advice, but I figure maybe it's worth considering.
Your advice leads to the problem only getting worse.
Its not sustainable, at scale, over time.
It infact causes further reliance on the system.
It ensures more suffering for more people, in the long run.
You could also maybe just figure out a way to practice of obtain medical treatment that is outside of the system.
That would require courage, less courage than trying to strike at the root cause, but probably more courage than most people have.
The system is broken.
There are various ways of attempting to respond to that, but uh, continuing to engage with the system that is actively, aggressively, nakedly exploiting you?
I mean, if you've got a humiliation fetish, sounds good!
Otherwise... nah this a literally evil joke at this point.
Normalcy bias, turns out, can be fatal, just as well the opposite can be.
So you don't carry any insurance, right? No auto insurance? No health insurance? No dental? No vision? No life? Proudly refusing antibiotics when you get an infection? Anti-vax? Set your own broken bones? No hospitals for you, right? Or do you just take on the massive debt without insurance, never paying it off, and relying on other people to fund your free healthcare?
I can't tell if you're a naive idealist who is going to get fucked over big time some day soon, a hypocrite who preaches rebellion while utilizing the very "evil" they claim to be fighting, or simply an idiot who hasn't thought it through.
Like, I'm not even trying to be an asshole here, but your position is so ridiculously impractical for the majority of people just trying to subsist in a fucked up society, that there aren't any other options.
I also notice that you're posting gleefully on the internet instead of sitting in a jail cell for killing a CEO, Mr. "Luigi hat". What's your excuse?
Also lmao at "obtain medical treatment outside the system". Those are called back-alley doctors and are insanely risky. Unless you mean something like prayer healing and measles parties which is just laughably ignorant.
No, you're just making some shit up, and acting incredulous at other things.
You are indeed trying to be an asshole.
I've turned down ambulance rides, got an uber instead, or fucking walked.
I've walked out of hospitals after ambulance rides, without giving them any id.
Back when Covid was going on, and I actually could have benefitted from having broken bones set... I just sat in a waiting toom for 10 hours.
Needed to eat something that day, got up left.
And yeah, I did set my own broken bone.
(I eventually managed to get my shit together enough to get a whole body's worth of xray's done - doc told i did a pretty good job of setting it
I've been homeless for years and know enough first aid, basic trauma response to keep myself and other people I ran into alive.
My 'excuse' for why I'm not currently doing anything is that I'm fucking crippled, can't afford the ongoing therapy, so I went to a few appointments, got them to print out the excercises, and just do it at home.
What's your excuse?
I don't have a car, and getting to the appointments is too painful, regresses my recovery, because no nearby medical center of any kind has a transit option, and the local charity that tries to is stretched rather thin.
You're acting like I'm an anti vax raw milk drinking measles party promoter.
You're exactly as arrogant as I figured you'd be, as, you know, a status quo apologist.
I hope what happened to me happens to you so you get a bit of reality check. No ids, no money no phone, 2 years. Good luck.
Oh I see. So YOUR life circumstances are relevant to what you choose to do and not do, and why you are in the situations you're in, but nobody else's could possibly be?
Not like other people have families to take care of.
You can pretend all you want that you're taking a stand, but you all but admitted that you were prepared to use the resources of the system in place, you just didn't like how it went when you tried. Or didn't have the means to get yourself there.
I'm sure everyone looks quite small from way up on that horse.
You are exactly the self-righteous, judgemental hypocrite I thought you were.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.