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FuzzyDog

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Eh. Myself and most of my friends are salaried workers that are making okay income for our area, but we can’t even dream of buying even small houses in our city that easily start at 1.5 Million. Meanwhile, most of these houses are owned by rich retirees. It’s just my experience, but there are plenty of groups I’ll feel bad for before them.

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Tim Walz made some gross tweet mourning this guy and calling it a tragic loss. Kinda underlines the whole “Democratic establishment is out of touch” line we’ve been hearing since the election

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And yet, actions taken by the UHC CEO have doubtlessly caused far, far more suffering and death. Why aren’t you criticizing him?

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Brian Thompson, the CEO who was killed and raised the denial rate of UHC to be twice the industry average, was also unelected.

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Some of Tim Walz’s largest donors are health insurance and professionals. They have financial incentives to keep the status quo. With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

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Idk, Dutch micro cars are pretty comfortable. They’re quieter, safer for pedestrians, and environmentally friendly. Had a chance to use one last time I was in the Netherlands. The American mindset of “it has to be a giga-truck or it’s bad” really sucks.

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The original Honda Insight from 2001 got 68 highway, 60 city. And it had all the goodies you’d want in a “modern” car like airbags, aircon, heat, 2 relatively roomy seats, etc. Close to the Doodlebug’s best possible mpg with twice the passengers.

Unfortunately, after 20 years of improvement in auto design, material science, etc, the new Honda Insight in 2022 actually has notably worse city /highway mpg from the original, because it’s so much bigger.

I guess my point is all the innovation in the world won’t fix the fundamental problem that people want bigger and bigger cars?

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Well tbf the reason I’m complaining is that the status quo sucks and isn’t going to get better, even if the Dems sweep next election.

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