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trump stole 500 million dollars from the state of ny… rapists spend less than a decade

this is a warning to poor people

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Reminds me of the case way back in the day with someone who pirated music getting insane fines and how it was juxtaposed with the relatively small settlement an airline had to pay when its negligence actually killed people.

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It seems I remember Kim Dotcom listing losing his extradition case, as well.

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She hasn’t been sentenced and the maximum for rape is

  • For Aggravated sexual abuse with children: Life imprisonment without parole or any term not less than 30 years

  • For all other Federal Sexual Abuse cases: Life without parole or any other term

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Unpopular opinion: When the minimum prison sentence for child abuse is higher than that for murder, every child abuser has a strong incentive to kill their victim, getting rid of the most dangerous witness with no further risk to themselves.

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Crimes aren’t mutually exclusive, you would be charged for both.

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I hope this case gets some attention too. This is some ginned up bullshit. We can’t let them stomp us into silence.

I’m not celebrating a murder, this is some fucked up shit in many dimensions and I would prefer a different timeline.

But remember we are not children who need to bow our heads and take our scolding.

For-profit insurance companies are liable for the deaths they cause. Full stop.

How’s that for moral clarity?

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She should not be charged in my opinion. It wasn’t a credible threat.

What the shootings has done is shown how many Americans are fed up with the current system.

You’re seeing stories from democrat and republicans.

I don’t condone the violence at all but he may have sparked a medical revolution in our country.

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Saying (paraphrased) “you’re next” is not a threat. It’s an observation.

She made no threat.

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See you at the barricades.

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I’m not a person who does protest but I would march for changes to our medical system. While I’ve had a positive experience, the stories I’m hearing are mind blowing. It’s beyond absurd. Even if 90% of them were false. It’s still too many horrible stories but I suspect they are mostly true.

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Do you have any links to conservative takes on this? I know full well I am in a bubble and that’s the way I god damn like it. But in this case, knowing the universality of the sentiment would be really, umm, empowering?

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Well I am a conservative and mostly associate with conservatives. Talking to my liberal friends, their take is almost identical to my Republican friends.

I don’t think people realized how aligned everyone is on this issue.

It’s the stories that are coming out that is making people talk about this topic. Those stories were ignored until the CEO was murdered.

People denied cancer treatment. wtf.

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This is some ginned up bullshit.

The “you’re next” after referencing a high profile murder is what actually did it.

Like, that’s a credible threat. 15 years is fucking insane, and context is going to matter a lot. Did she just get denied cancer treatment for her 2 year old? Or told it’s not insurance’s fault doctors won’t prescribe opioids? Or any of a million things in between.

That’s why we have trials, to find out all that stuff. And if it’s a jury trial I feel juries would be sympathetic.

The 100k is the real bullshit, but not owning guns doesn’t mean much. It’s insanely easy to buy a gun without a background check thru private seller loopholes.

But our bond system is insane, because the it causes judges to inflate the amount 10x. If you can afford to put it up, you get it all back later. A bondsman you pay 10%, they put up 90%, and they get the whole 100% back. Your 10% is their profit. If a bondsman thinks that’s a good risk, why does the court consistently over estimate the risk?

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Bonds only exist so poor people are punished more than rich people.

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credible

able to be believed; convincing

Did anyone really think she was coming after them after that? No. She got heated on the phone and said something she shouldn’t have.

It’s not nothing. What she did was wrong, and it’s reasonable for it to be a crime. We don’t want to always have to investigate or deal with constant threats. However, she was neither credible nor specific, which are two major criteria. (Keep that in mind when you’re posting here, by the way.) She committed a crime, but not one that should be very serious.

The way they’ve framed her is obscene.

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No. It was not a threat. It was not wrong. It was not a crime.

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The way they’ve framed her is obscene.

You’re factoring in what you already know about this woman and letting that influence if it was credible.

The people she was on the phone likely know nothing about her besides what was discussed on the call and the threat. That should be reported, and should be investigated.

The bigger issue about framing is the media running headlines that it was just the “deny, defend, despise” that resulted in charges.

A cynic would say that was by order of the owners hoping to discourage a movement, even tho any idiot could have told them it would have the opposite and inflame people.

Which it obviously has.

I like to think at some point people realized this would backfire, and just held their tongue. But I’m an optimist when I can be.

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Thanks for the insight on the typical terms of bonds. Good info.

So eyes peeled on this one too I guess. They are making an example of her, I mean the judge plainly said so. We can’t let them get away with these excessive charges.

I didn’t kill anyone and I never will. But I will be damned if I let this moment fade into the next news cycle.

As a society, we are having the conversation about for-profit healthcare NOW!

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They are making an example of her,

Yep, which is opening them up to civil suits, but is an open secret about our justice system.

As a society, we are having the conversation about for-profit healthcare NOW!

Think of it like the fediverse. Last year a big event made a lot of us ditch reddit, but some had already been here, and for the majority it wasn’t enough for them to change behavior.

I don’t think Luigi is the big event that causes permanent change, there’s been a lot of people who have been pushing for healthcare reform, 20 years isn’t rare, some for decades longer.

The first presidential candidate who had universal healthcare as a part of the party platform was Teddy Roosevelt in 1920…

It’s a century long fight against the healthcare industry, and it’s not going to be as easy as what just happened to change shit as long as all of our options in general elections have already been bought off.

We reference dogs who catch a car everytime Republicans win majorities and the presidency, but on 1/7/2020 Joe Biden didn’t leap into action, he “looked into” things for so long we lost the House and had an excuse not to do anything. “Winning” by electing a moderate only depresses turnout in midterms and the next presidential cycle.

We have to grow up and admit that or absolutely nothing will really change. The first step is understanding the root cause or we’ll never stop fighting symptoms.

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8 points

“The car on the other side of the zipper merge is going now. You’re next.”

It doesn’t mean I intend to do anything, I’m just observing society.

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I’m not celebrating a murder

You can though, no one will stop you.

This specific murder It isn’t morally wrong. It isn’t hypocritical. It isn’t compromising some foundational pillar of being a human.

Those who stand at the top of a capitistic, private healthcare industry made a choice to create, perpetuate, secure, and promote a system which resulted in deaths of millions for the benefit of shareholders and themselves.

You don’t have to qualify your indifference or quiet your support. There is no moral quandary here.

This has literally helped people already. Anthem undid an anesthesia policy reform which would have not covered it in procedures after a certain amount of minutes

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She would have never been able to be charged before the patriot act. No weapons, no capacity to act on them, vague and unspecific. Its crazy how our freedoms have been eroded and how many folks seem to think thats just fine and dandy.

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I’ll never understand how people are ok with limiting other people’s freedom based on “what if”.

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Indeed, when George unleashed that shit, Patriot Act, I told everyone we are one step closer to forming the SS or NKVD. Once again, we have Mango Mussolini with his merry band of racist thugs.

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I have not liked it since the get go and fought it. Ugh I have these emails to a dem senator with have who came out of the military who is pretty good but to entrenched in the mindset. Still I never really felt it till this arrest. Chilling as fuck.

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I saw someone else say this, but I hope they start rounding up the incels on Twitter saying “your body, my choice” as credible rape threats if what this woman said is going to be litigated with such fervor.

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Rape doesn’t take money from the rich and is therefore not a crime.

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So we should start raping the rich?

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38 points

Eww I was gonna eat that.

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Rape is too good for them.

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That’s a pretty ignorant thing to say.

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Clearly you don’t understand it then.

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Two wrongs don’t make a right. She could have said DDD without “you people are next.”

Having said that, if we’re really judging people, and corporations are people, why isn’t the denial of health care seen as manslaughter? 70 people pass every day due to the lack of medical care in America. We have worse outcomes, shorter average life than other civilized countries.

When is a corporation sued for murder & sent to jail? I know it sounds crazy, but that’s the point. These systems aren’t making sense. They lack humanity. This is a bad, morally bankrupt system. Older Americans loves their Medicare: that’s socialism.

I’m so sick of this shit.

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why isn’t the denial of health care seen as manslaughter?

Because they make money when they deny something.

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Thank you for answering the rhetorical question, homie. ✌️Money is the root of all evil.

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Money can do wonderful things. The love of (gildlust) money is the root of all evil.

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Tru dat

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Give me yours then so you’ll be a better person?

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Two wrongs don’t make a right.

They lack humanity.

If they lack humanity, why doesn’t it make a right?

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Nonhumans deserve rights too

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True.

Demons don’t.

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Hurt people hurt people. I don’t know how to fix things. But if we go around destroying one another, what will be left?

I think the system is immoral. It should be abolished. An absurd takeaway from that would be “health insurance workers should be jailed.”

I find it challenging to say our humanity is through being inhuman to one another. Wouldn’t our humanity need to come from humane action?

I’m as upset as everyone else about these machinations. Everyone is a child of someone. If we don’t remember that, all is lost.

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Front line worker: “I have no moral culpability, I’m just doing what my manager tells me to.”

Manager: “I have no moral culpability, I just do what the executives tell me to.”

Executives: “I have no moral culpability, I just maximize shareholder value.”

Shareholders: “All I did was buy an index fund in my 401k. Why you trying to pin this on me?”

186 people murdered by the health insurance companies every day, yet somehow not a single human being involved has any moral culpability.

This is why Luigi did nothing wrong. If there is one person who has moral culpability, it’s the CEO. They justify their obscene salaries by taking credit for a company’s performance. They can accept the moral culpability as well.

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We are limited by our material conditions.

It sure would be nice if all hurt people could be safely rehabilitated and reeducated so they stop hurting people. That’s not feasible at the moment, though.

The next best thing is just making sure they can never hurt anyone ever again, until we can build that society where no one ever gets hurt ever again.

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