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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has vowed to ‘uncover any illegal activity’ as has launched an investigation into Superior HealthPlan and its chief executive Mark Sanders

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[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Do you get in trouble for upvoting this stuff with Lemmy?

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Not unless a billionaire owns the server.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only on servers run by Bowser.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which domain would bowser use for his lemmy server?

[–] rice@lemmy.org 7 points 1 year ago

nintendo.com

[–] wischi@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

For upvoting a picture of Mario's brother?

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Not that I've seen but I don't give a fuck.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 9 points 1 year ago

Seeing that all votes and post are public - I assume that some three letter agency is already running one or more instances and is feeding the user behavior into a tool like Palantir.

So, trouble? No. Are you likely associated with your opinion on some sort of database? Yes, unless you keep immaculate opsec.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Lol, you must be new here.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm glad this isn't Reddit. lol

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans need to smash these corporate cocksuckers in the face and cause them permanent brain damage.

More guns than any other country on the planet and everyone’s complacent just taking it from the billionaires.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There may be more guns than people here, but there are far fewer gun owners than not, and they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo that armed them

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Some dude at the local gun store armed me, not Elon Musk. The vested interest that keeps me from using my firearms is the fact that I have to be alive and not in prison to take care of my family.

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago
[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where's the Luigi sky beam signal?

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

indeed, I should have known that already existed... Good one. I wanted to laugh, but health"care" companies killing thousands of patients for profit is not a laughing matter. :(

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago

Someone want's to get Weegee'd

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They probably aren’t paying enough to the GOP which is why Ken is after them.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"glean background information on state lawmakers"

some of this, some of that

[–] doug@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago

Another bullet for the bullet point list.

[–] jared@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Stop feeding these monsters!

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago
[–] TotesMcScrotes@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Add him to the pile of shit to burn.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Need AI version of Luigi in car with "without me playing"

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

They probably aren’t paying enough to the GOP which is why Ken is after them.