406 points

Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

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45 points

outrage*

Also, not an insurance company. He worked for Pfizer.

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43 points

Pfizer is a med company. They negotiate with insurance. They work together to fuck us over.

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34 points

It’s a pharmaceutical company. They’re no saints, but it’s disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.

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253 points

They’re certainly not being subtle with the class warfare

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They haven’t been since they got raked from COVID-19 and shutdowns tanking their stocks in 2020. So they price gouge with inflation and shrinkflation, keep prices high to make up the difference and fuck us over. Then they keep the prices artificially high, raising prices on entertainment, force people back to the office, and use those as talking points to tank democrat campaigns.

They’ve been openly at war for the last 5-years or so. Just like Gaza, you can only trap people in misery for so long before they lose just enough to make it worth fighting back with violence. We’re on the cusp of that backlash and I have a feeling the next 4+ years are gonna see the blowup.

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190 points

I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn’t think they’d be this obvious about it.

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The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It’s just finding a judge without wealth is impossible … which in and of itself is a problem.

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what you expect from a country where judges in the highest court get bribed with “gifts” and “private” trips, while at the same time ignore “international laws” and threaten the most recognized court in the world. What you expect from a government and country that allow a rapist, felon, to be a president while enabling the killing of more than 30 000 kids and women (year old worst estimates).

Such government will have no regards for it is own citizen and this is just the start of worse to come if people don’t step in.

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Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.

I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it’s just coincidence.

The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn’t working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It’s even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.

America is waking up. I feel it.

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I genuinely think that they’ll have a hard time finding an impartial jury… I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn’t live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.

Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you’re biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.

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I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.

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The 65+ crowd view him unfavorably, so I expect the jury to be a bunch of 65+ people

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19 points

An unfavorable view is still bias. The defense would reject any juror that shows significant malice towards the plaintiff.

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14 points

I’ve spoken with friends about this is Denmark, and we all read the news with great pleasure.

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Correct. And I strongly suspect they are wildly pumping out news about him to narrow the juror pool to people who do live under rocks.

The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

His defense, in any case, has a very difficult task - they need to be able to somehow communicate him being innocent against stacked charges OR paint him light that the rest of us see that leans them towards Jury Nullification.

My hope is that potential jurors hide their bias, which isn’t easy, but gives him the best chance.

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The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

That’s almost impossible to prove, and almost never prosecuted.

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If they can find an “unbiased” jury, then the defense does indeed have a difficult challenge ahead. Even if the prosecution fails with their terrorism charge, they can fall back on murder 2, which is much harder to defend against.

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5 points

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A certain fair and unbiased trial he’s getting…/s

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That was the magistrate. Whether the trial will be biased is something we don’t know yet.

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