At this stage of our history i dont mind insurance executives and Wall Street executives in general and also our politicians afraid to walk down city streets.
I don't like it and i think its sad but for change to happen the rich and powerful must feel the pain of what they are doing to the rest of us.
The Z has used what happened with the anarchists bombing of Wall Street in 1920, after that we magically got the immigration act of 1924.
I agree, when bad things happen to enough rich people, things can change.
This Ivy League killer was allegedly caught with all sorts of incriminating evidence which should have been disposed of days ago and also a "manifesto"...Fishy as hell...The authorities had no idea who the killer was, so he eats in a McDonalds and the cashier somehow suspects he's the guy and calls the cops...ditto....and his eyebrows don't match the photo either...
No mystery to me. In my engineering career I have run into lots of high IQ assholes. I remember one guy who was a C++ guru but had to get the mail delivery guy to help him clear a paper jam.
It's been obvious to those that care to see that America and its culture is poised for significant change through multiple political cycles, and the discontent that the left thought had been conquered/squashed by Biden's election is still there. Although like many I had a sense of relief that Trump won last month, it's worth remembering that a realignment is still underway and there are more battles to be fought in the years ahead. I wouldn't underestimate what the left will try to wrest back control, although it is significant how many tech bros seem to have placed their bets against them as an indicator of what the smarter economic elites think things are ultimately going.
What realignment? Trump may do something about “illegal” immigration and may slow down the rainbow flag reordering of society but that is it. I can’t believe people pin their hope on a real estate developer/beauty contest promoter/ reality show star from Queens.
Who and what people trust are changing, and that change in perception will play out over the coming decades in a very different society and politics and obviously who has power and who does not. Trump is more a signifier of that than the real change agent.
Trump won cuz many of the elites weren’t comfortable with some elements of the left. Musk is upset cuz he let some quacks bamboozle him into chemically castrating his son.
As far as what this high IQ asshole has done nothing will change for the better. Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. These days it is the MSM and Entertainment industry. People are caught up in the drama and will still demand high cost medical care without having to pay for it.
He apparently had grandparents screwed over by this company, and they died - and he got screwed over by them, too. And his name is Luigi Mangione... It's a cultural thing, certain ethnic groups do not trust justice to the law, which grinds exceedingly slow and exceedingly fine, they go out and whack the person who wronged them. This was nothing more than a revenge killing - perhaps an attempt to redress personal honor, which is still a big deal in those ethnic groups, even if it is not the case in the broader society or the corporate world. If this became commonplace - extrajudicial remedies being more common than legal process - there might be changes - but vicious predatory governments and corporations will change in ways that people do not like. Perhaps there will be massive and brutal prison regimes, like in Syria - but at some point, the population turns against such regimes, and they fall, utterly, in ten days. Like going bankrupt, first slowly, then suddenly. The Assad crime family oppressed, robbed, and killed people for 50 years - and then they fell in a week. The police and army got rid of their uniforms - or even joined the rebel forces. The people in charge fled the country to where they hid their assets - the Assad family have over $40 million of real estate holdings in and around Moscow, and I'll bet that's where their gold is, too. But that's just the common plan, a brutal regime victimizes a population, a country, moves the loot abroad, fights, loots, tortures, imprisons, and kills the people it preys upon, then the whole thing collapses and they run away. Sometimes if they delay, they wind up like Ceaucescu and his wife in Romania, if they don't, they end up like Jaruszelski or Yanukovicz, flying off to Moscow...
Seemingly lost in all of the finger pointing is the fact that this assassination won't change the way health insurers do business. Executives at insurers will get armed private security, another cost passed on to premium payers, but the next guy in line at UHC will be put into the now vacant slot with the same mandate: maximize profitability and hit those quarterly numbers. Perhaps he will give a talk or something but nothing really will change.
For my mother. BOTH were for services never delivered. The insurance companies caught them. The hospitals then tried to bill us and in the case of my 92 yr old mother turned over to a collection agency.
At this stage of our history i dont mind insurance executives and Wall Street executives in general and also our politicians afraid to walk down city streets.
I don't like it and i think its sad but for change to happen the rich and powerful must feel the pain of what they are doing to the rest of us.
The Z has used what happened with the anarchists bombing of Wall Street in 1920, after that we magically got the immigration act of 1924.
I agree, when bad things happen to enough rich people, things can change.
This Ivy League killer was allegedly caught with all sorts of incriminating evidence which should have been disposed of days ago and also a "manifesto"...Fishy as hell...The authorities had no idea who the killer was, so he eats in a McDonalds and the cashier somehow suspects he's the guy and calls the cops...ditto....and his eyebrows don't match the photo either...
No mystery to me. In my engineering career I have run into lots of high IQ assholes. I remember one guy who was a C++ guru but had to get the mail delivery guy to help him clear a paper jam.
Wasn't Obamacare supposed to fix everything? If you people think government is going to save you I have a bridge to sell.
It's been obvious to those that care to see that America and its culture is poised for significant change through multiple political cycles, and the discontent that the left thought had been conquered/squashed by Biden's election is still there. Although like many I had a sense of relief that Trump won last month, it's worth remembering that a realignment is still underway and there are more battles to be fought in the years ahead. I wouldn't underestimate what the left will try to wrest back control, although it is significant how many tech bros seem to have placed their bets against them as an indicator of what the smarter economic elites think things are ultimately going.
What realignment? Trump may do something about “illegal” immigration and may slow down the rainbow flag reordering of society but that is it. I can’t believe people pin their hope on a real estate developer/beauty contest promoter/ reality show star from Queens.
Who and what people trust are changing, and that change in perception will play out over the coming decades in a very different society and politics and obviously who has power and who does not. Trump is more a signifier of that than the real change agent.
Trump won cuz many of the elites weren’t comfortable with some elements of the left. Musk is upset cuz he let some quacks bamboozle him into chemically castrating his son.
As far as what this high IQ asshole has done nothing will change for the better. Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. These days it is the MSM and Entertainment industry. People are caught up in the drama and will still demand high cost medical care without having to pay for it.
"People" get all kinds of high cost medical care, and everything else without having to pay.
Somebody does pay though
Working stiffs.
He apparently had grandparents screwed over by this company, and they died - and he got screwed over by them, too. And his name is Luigi Mangione... It's a cultural thing, certain ethnic groups do not trust justice to the law, which grinds exceedingly slow and exceedingly fine, they go out and whack the person who wronged them. This was nothing more than a revenge killing - perhaps an attempt to redress personal honor, which is still a big deal in those ethnic groups, even if it is not the case in the broader society or the corporate world. If this became commonplace - extrajudicial remedies being more common than legal process - there might be changes - but vicious predatory governments and corporations will change in ways that people do not like. Perhaps there will be massive and brutal prison regimes, like in Syria - but at some point, the population turns against such regimes, and they fall, utterly, in ten days. Like going bankrupt, first slowly, then suddenly. The Assad crime family oppressed, robbed, and killed people for 50 years - and then they fell in a week. The police and army got rid of their uniforms - or even joined the rebel forces. The people in charge fled the country to where they hid their assets - the Assad family have over $40 million of real estate holdings in and around Moscow, and I'll bet that's where their gold is, too. But that's just the common plan, a brutal regime victimizes a population, a country, moves the loot abroad, fights, loots, tortures, imprisons, and kills the people it preys upon, then the whole thing collapses and they run away. Sometimes if they delay, they wind up like Ceaucescu and his wife in Romania, if they don't, they end up like Jaruszelski or Yanukovicz, flying off to Moscow...
Seemingly lost in all of the finger pointing is the fact that this assassination won't change the way health insurers do business. Executives at insurers will get armed private security, another cost passed on to premium payers, but the next guy in line at UHC will be put into the now vacant slot with the same mandate: maximize profitability and hit those quarterly numbers. Perhaps he will give a talk or something but nothing really will change.
I am old
And have been involved in two denial of coverage (one w
For my mother. BOTH were for services never delivered. The insurance companies caught them. The hospitals then tried to bill us and in the case of my 92 yr old mother turned over to a collection agency.