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When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

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Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it’s barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

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I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

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Dealing with insurance with a nonfatal chronic illness can also be infuriating. You have to keep fighting the same battle over and over and over again.

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Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

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Except the government will probably make GoFundMe freeze the funds for the campaign.

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if this dude gets found he won’t make it to trial.

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Or perhaps himself dying of a treatable disease they refused to pay for. He’ll be a hero either way, the question is how much.

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