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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • Kevin Gade, COO at investment firm Bahl & Gaynor, which owns about 2.6% of UnitedHealth shares, said companies like UnitedHealth play an important role in providing critical and needed care for all patients within an inefficient U.S. healthcare system that needs to evolve. “Unfortunately, when you’re dealing with people’s lives, there is a reality that there will be hiccups along the way,” he said.

    They haven’t learned their lesson yet. They need more Adjustment.





  • It’s so confusing to me how you can be pro corporate- and police-reform, yet against vigilantism. Were you paying attention the last 4 years?

    We had a broad based popular movement for police reform resulting in a mass popular uprising. People went so far as large scale property destruction in the name of reforming the police. A large majority of the population supported the movement at one point. And what did all that nonviolent effort get us? Not a speck of police reform to be found anywhere in this country.

    Saying you want police reform through nonviolent means is a utopian vision, just like star trek. Come back to reality, read some history, the only way to reform these entrenched systems of power is through violence.





  • Certainly the assassination of Ferdinand is a proximate cause of WWI, but there were much greater forces in play. The great powers had giant mechanized armies for the first time, they had plans for the deployment of millions on very strict deadlines, and they had the belief that failure to meet those deadlines would mean national destruction.

    I think it is more plausible to argue that propaganda of the deed helped to end the gilded age and usher in the New Deal era, which was America’s golden era.

    I also act under political desperation. Only under the most optimistic assumptions will electoralism be able to save us from climate change; currently the most likely outcome is human extinction. If the propaganda of the deed has only a 5% chance of saving us from our modern gilded age and the resultant climate-induced end of civilization, then I say it is a chance we must take for we are running out of serious options.






  • Your post ignores all of the flaws pointed out in the Princeton study that I mentioned. If you take more flaws into account I think the score will be far lower than 5/10.

    But I am more curious about how your “path to fix the issues” will actually get implemented. I agree with your solutions, but they have no chance of being passed by Democrats or Republicans.

    I think you are doing the meme of “How to draw an owl. Step 1: Draw the owl.”


  • Ignoring politics is such a selfish position.

    Shunning politics is simply siding with the status quo. When you ignore politics, you are tacitly agreeing to 60k dying a year from lack of healthcare, millions being starved and killed in Gaza, and an ever-increasing wealth disparity where billionaires get richer while the rest of us get poorer.

    Shunning politics is saying “my time on this earth is so precious, I can waste no time on thoughts of those less fortunate than I”