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Florida Woman Arrested for Allegedly Saying 'Delay, Deny, Depose' to Her Insurance Company (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 years ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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Your affiant asked Boston if she used the phrase “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.” during her call earlier today with BlueCross BlueShield to which she acknowledged she said it and apologized. Boston stated she used those words because it’s what is in the news right now. Boston advised she learned of the phrase because of the current events regarding the UnitedHeathcare homicide. Boston stated she did not own any firearms, and she was not a danger to anyone. Boston further stated the healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil.

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[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't make threats, just act...

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Be the Luigi you wish to see in the world.

[+] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm going to assume you mean by voting. Please be careful about what you say, I don't like removing comments.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 22 points 2 years ago

Voting, yes. And also communicating regularly with our representatives. They can't possible get things right without input from their constituents.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

An action I'm in favor of is canceling policies. "Since your company is in such a habit of denying customers the service they have paid for, I'm no longer paying for your service." Get a few million of us to do that and maybe something will get done. Money talks louder than ballots especially when the ballot box is just piped to /dev/null the way it is for so many Americans.

[–] sprittytinkles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I am new on this instance, came from .world, and it's nice to see a mod give someone a chance rather than just swinging the ban hammer.

[+] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I will temp ban easily if I'm pretty sure they're a troll. Every mod is different too, just like the place that shall not be named. I love this instance though.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would discussion of the break down of the efficacy of civil venues for change, leading to this kind of violence, as an outcome of their own actions, be acceptable?

[+] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Talking about what lead to "this kind of violence" and calling for it are 2 very different things. You all are extremely smart, you can figure it out.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know from experience some mods don't see the difference. Which is why I asked.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TBH, it kind of sucks being a mod. I don't have time to mod that often and I rely a lot on reports. I try to give the other mods the benefit of the doubt that they didn't have time to really check in most cases. There are definitely some exceptions to that though. I also have a lot of experience with trolls from the r/ place so it doesn't take much for me to see genuine comments most of the time. Of course, I'm still sometimes wrong and try to apologize if I can.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool, I know being a mod sucks, used to do it when I was younger. Just, have had my comments that corpos, having spent decades, and billions, destroying any civil means of change, will mean they will suffer violence for it, get me banned on an instance.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

World is a weird place. An admin was shadow banning my comments which is why I'm here. They seemed to have stopped that though, so it might have been a rogue admin. I really like this instance and the admins are great.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Heh, It wasn't world, I bailed there when I saw they banned others for telling people to jury nullify luigi's case. It was on an account I mostly use for NSFW content, which was not the account I expected to get a ban for political speech.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd wager the "Delay, deny, depose" part had less to do with her arrest than the "You people are next" part.

[–] Dashi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yes! I was so confused as to why those words got her in trouble. Then I read what she actually said and thought "ok yeah I can see how that can be construed as a threat"

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Context matters.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

... after my car was stolen, a few days later, after I'd noticed my car in the lot of used car dealership, and they acted like it was not my car, I flagged down a police car.

Single officer got out, I explained my phone and ids were in the car, and this dealership did not give a fuck, denied everything I said, stonewalled me.

At one point I literally told the cop, with a body cam, that I would burn the dealership to the ground if they sold off my car.

....I did not get arrested for this much more direct threat.

???

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

start making shirts

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect