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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago
[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Luigi saved many lives. More people need to live up to the example set by one of our greatest heros

[–] Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

Wake the fuck up, Samurai.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

In this specific case, the long unlucky journey was being born in the USA... They could have gotten treatment of they lived in a country with healthcare. That sucks so much.

[–] AlJones@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

As someone that works tangentially to healthcare c-suites, they were scared of Mr Mangione.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 38 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Luigi Mangione sacrificed so much for essentially so little, just heads on a hydra for a complacent populace still asleep at the wheel. What the fuck.

[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 2 points 4 hours ago

The populace isn't at the wheel and isn't asleep, and to suggest otherwise is cruel. There is genuinely nothing they can do about it except implode their own lives for zero net benefit.

Oh wait, I forgot Luigi's actions totally solved healthcare forever. I guess it's not a zero benefit if there are tangible benefits.

Please tell me the tangible benefits I can experience right now.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Once is a fluke, Twice is coincidence, three times is a trend. People notice trends.

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

St. Luigi Mangione is innocent, and even if he's not -- he is.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Besides, he was with me at my house when he was killing that guy

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

tbh i heard that guy had a family history of just doing that

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago

Any antifascists who are actually terminally ill and physically able who aren’t planning on taking direct action on their way out can go ahead and kick off now.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Two months now waiting for them to "pre-approve" a cheap calcium score test the doctor wants me to get (high cholesterol since forever, no symptoms no family history of stroke or heart attack so no way to know whether to bother treating it without looking). The lab has rescheduled it thrice now.

Which makes zero sense because finding out with what the doctors call a primary cardiac event would be exponentially more expensive for them.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Calcium scoring is almost certainly going to be a self pay. The good thing is, it's pretty cheap relative to most healthcare ($100 collected up front). The bad thing is, cheap is relative.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 25 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I'm not american (thankfully). But if I were, and I had a terminal illness, I'd suicide bomb a health insurance headquarters on my way out. Because fuck it...I'm dead anyway.

[–] goosygirl@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 hours ago

True. And then you dont have to worry about facing the cops/legal system cause y'all both be dead. And its better than dealing with an illness where the end result is death. Its on your own terms!

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I'm honestly surprised more old people don't go out removing problems.

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[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

Greedy old fucks are the reason we are in this mess.

[–] deviantfemboi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it seems to be a generational thing. that generation which is old now isnt radicalized like some of the younger folks will be by that age.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Boomers are a bunch of coddled pussies that had the softest easy mode lives handed to them. They were pandered to as a generation and pulled the ladders up behind them at every step of the way. I hoped that as they died off as a voting block we would finally be able to make real progress as a society,. But the sociopaths they put in power know that they'll never win on policy, and so fascism and putting an end to democracy is their only way to avoid consequences for their crimes.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 56 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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