Nothing to see here, move along or we’ll shoot you, no big whoop, OK?

I thought these folks were frothing at the mouth over the opportunity of having “one violent day.” What happened? Are they not entertained?

The insurer that has been paying for her son’s therapy, UnitedHealthcare, has begun — to the befuddlement of his clinical team — denying him the hours they say he requires to maintain his progress. Inside the insurance conglomerate, the nation’s largest and most profitable, the slashing of care to children like Benji does have a reason, though it has little to do with their needs. It is part of a secret internal cost-cutting campaign that targets a growing financial burden for the company: the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country.

This company is the most disgusting of scum. It’s truly hard to comprehend.

The [disenfranchised group within a system of ordering society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status] in Germany weren’t a [disenfranchised group within a system of ordering society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status].

Interesting. Any way to back that up?

Personal income is paid from corporate gross profits (unless your company is failing, in which case your profits go negative, but that is still a profit impact), just like other fees like legal fees or whatever else. The money that is spent will necessarily reduce your profit, but it does not reduce your revenue. This is explicitly a business expense for Meta though, not personal income. This impacts profitability, not revenue. It would be an expense just the same if it was paid to zuck as income, so not much changes, but the point is you were right in spirit, just not in scale, and that’s all I meant

Anyone that doesn’t recognize this meme is about the class traitor and not the name they read on the screen needs to wake tf up

As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school They hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool Till you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rules

A working class hero is something to be

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can’t really function, you’re so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you’re so clever and classless and free But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

A working class hero is something to be

There’s room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me

The money would come out of profit rather than rev, so it would be more like $2.00, but your point still stands gloriously as far as I’m concerned

Edit: there are undoubtedly tax implications that I ignored, I’m not an accountant, I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night

Out of curiosity, I just looked and noticed that Vermont’s GDP is the lowest of every state in the US ($44.4B), but it is higher than Estonia and 15 other European countries still. And the least-populated state, Wyoming (<600k people), has a larger population than at least 7 other European countries, Malta being the largest at just over 500k. Tangential, but I still thought it was interesting.

Well Texas already volunteered to donate land for Trump to build his first concentration camp so I mean, yeah, he’s been open to the idea of using camps pretty openly for a while. Stephen Miller discussed it as an eventual necessity even earlier.

This is how we finally achieve single payer healthcare in the US in the stupidest possible way and I wouldn’t bet against it this point: The Aetnited CigShield Corp!

In my pocket I carry a library of Alexandria, an infinite Walk-man, a camera and a camcorder with effectively infinite film, a personal navigator… You get the idea, the list goes on. 80s me would have thought this was impossible, even if I am a bit disappointed about the flying car and hoverboard situation.

Oh sure, we pay a LOT compared to other places, but at least our telecom security is top notch… (Big ole /s, in case someone may not have heard about the SALT Typhoon stuff yet)

Good on your representatives. For those whose missed the vote, I’d think the ask would be more along the lines of “Explain why you let us down,” rather than “Was it because (insert excuse the politician didn’t even have to think of here) that you missed this vote?” When someone you are depending on lets you down, that’s how you start a meaningful conversation about fixing things.

Edit: and this is extra important when the vote is about ferreting out corruption

I didn’t say you condoned his words. I took issue with your mischaracterization of my using his words in kind, as a rhetorical device. Have a good night.

Great, so we don’t need to do the whole paradox of tolerance thing then, yeah? Saying that it would be a shame if this guy’s own words came back to haunt him seems pretty fine to me.

Gimme a break. It’s literally his own words…

Why assume they had your best interests at heart but just oops’d or double-booked or whatever else, instead of demanding they answer for letting you down? This is what the people are supposed to expect of their representatives. 7 votes would have made the difference and 16 dems failed America when people obviously thought at least some of them would have fallen on the right side of this vote.

Demand better from these people, and let you disappointment be heard when they fail you. It’s ok to do that, and important if we want to make progress. Making preemptive excuses for people who failed to do their job on our behalf is self-defeating.

Doubt. They can step forward and say otherwise, but it’s incumbent on the people they represent to hold them accountable unless and until they do so.

Edit: go read about it. Seriously. I am not sure why anyone would give a Congresscritter the benefit of the doubt. We don’t owe them that. They owe us representation and we need to demand accountability. That’s how democracy works. People understand the whole power of government backwards, I swear.

Reference, nothing to hint of nefarious “other shenanigans” or whatever, so it’s a choice to leap to that justification: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-gaetz-ethics-investigation-report-released/story?id=116495144

It seems more than reasonable to me to assume those on the list are either corrupt in some way, or sympathetic to corruption. What else are we to make of such a dereliction of duty to the people they represent?

This should have been easy to vote to release for anyone that isn’t afraid of a little sunshine being shone on things.

Eta: fuck fascists, and fuck their enablers.