I’m not putting words in anyone’s mouth.

This is absolutely a relevant story, but it’s important to note that it’s from July.

Red: “I wish Blue didn’t have terminal cancer anymore.”

Blue: dies

The medical examiner’s office has not released his cause of death, but police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”

Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company.

Mmm hm. Sure.

I was told that Europe and the European Union were the same thing.

Because the health insurance industry is operating exactly as designed.

So Switzerland is not in Europe, got it.

https://european-union.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/embed_large/public/2024-05/european-map_en.jpg

Is Ukraine not in Europe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

The game Monopoly has hotels in it. You know what happens to executives outside of hotels.

Was it AT&T fiber? I know that our neighborhood had fiber put in by a different carrier.

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Great, I’ll make sure to “understand” while they’re rounding people up and putting them into camps.

People can only learn to recognize fascism if other people point to it and describe it where it exists.

But that’s not enough. Please tell me what more I should be doing.

I’ve been calling out this fascism for years. Not sure how that makes me a dick, but okay.

Hear me out - Monopoly variant with combat mechanics.

You know all about me, don’t you?

Unfortunately, large parts of our economy are blocked off from competition by laws and regulations. This allows monopolistic corporations to charge exorbitant prices.

No, no, no, no. No. This is libertarian bullshit. Laws and regulations ideally force a fair playing field, and ensure consumer safety. Take away regulation, and “whoever is most unethical” scoops up mad profits until and if consumers catch on to the scam.

But even regulation can’t make a fair playing field when the market is dominated by megacorporations who have the economic power to prevent any new competition from challenging them, unless that new competition already has huge economic power itself.

The problem isn’t the lack of competition. The problem is capitalism.

I do. I have. Hence my previous comment.

Are we stupid??

Yup.