It’s useful to precise about exactly why it’s bad. The idea that capitalism breeds efficiency is baked into the American psyche at this point. But in this case it’s literally the opposite of the truth.

This isn’t like a highly trained transplant surgeon demanding a salary of 800k instead of 600k. No health care is delivered by an insurance company.

Every dollar earned in profit by a health insurance company is a dollar that was spent on health care for which no health care was delivered. They are literally just inefficiency in the system.

I doubt they’ll take him alive.

You just know that calls have been placed to the NYPD commissioner to pressure them into making sure they don’t take him alive, just so billionaire-owned media can keep saying “motive remains unknown”.

This meme would be better if they managed to get Larry Bird to be the guy in it.

If you do nothing but click the link and then close the resulting website without clicking anything else, all that will happen is that they’ll know you’re someone who clicks such links and you’re likely to get more of them.

Yugoslavia is an exception, but Rwanda only happened because the world didn’t care.

The money and resources Putin spent on Trump have yielded a far far better return than it could have had he spent it on his own military.

Cringe af

His cabinet is very much going to be operating on a vibes basis, and his base will judge him in a similar basis as well. There’s no rational thought going on.

The bailouts ensured they didn’t have to learn. The only thing better than selling a product for money is selling less product for the same amount of money because the government subsidized you to offset their shitty policies.

Good guys have to win at some point to actually get to that step.

NGL if HBO made this into a 6 part miniseries I would watch. I would hate myself as I watched but I would watch.