UHC just sent me a survey. I was honest. I’m on a list now!!!
If you got the survey you were already on the list.
“Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?”
Sooooo, most people.
You can monitor this dick.
"We already have. And there is literally ‘Nothing to see here.’ "
Believe me, if you’ve got a dick worth monitoring they are already monitoring it
Ouch
Reminds me of this classic Crudbump song
Cool to see another Drew fan in the wild.
Obligatory Garbage Brain University link.
Thanks. That was fantastic.
Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so… everyone?
fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.
Inshallah
In his manifesto, Mangione suggested the health insurance industry had “gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.” He could just as easily have been describing the national security state.
The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It’s your first amendment right, use it. Don’t comply in advance.
Monitor me all you want. Monitor me while you suck my balls.
What are you going to do about it? Nothing.
You think the trump regime is going to do nothing with a list of people who are opposed to the crimes of the rich?
Violent autocrats love lists of people to persecute and kill. That’s been a hallmark of trump style regimes since at least sulla in the roman republic.
The threshold is creeping anyway, may as well dip into accelerationism.
I think trump has some pretty dark plans but infighting and a focus on drama will derail a lot of them like it did last time. True authoritarianism is too complex for his cabinet to pull off.
Far more scary than Trump would be a president with the same ideas he espouses but who actually is a true believer (rather than somebody who just says what he thinks people want to hear), competent and persistent in taking his promises all the way (instead of a flip-flopper like Trump).
It’s the reason why the Democrat Party going even more to the Right is dangerous: it’s keeps the Republicans in Fascist territory and sooner or later they’ll produce America’s very own Hitler rather than “just” Trump.
Yup. Mike Johnson and guys like him scare the fuck out of me. With JD ‘Couchfucker’ Vance as their catspaw, they are capable of organized evil.
Everyone had a good laugh about the porn surveillance with his son using Covenant Eyes. Few caught that the program is used by true believing evangelical fundamentalists and what it actually means. At this point, I’m more worried about what comes after Chump.
I’m not an American or live in the US but I did live in the UK (which is even more into civil society surveillance than the US) and as I come from a country which was once a dictatorship complete with a secret police and political prisioners, I’ve always been wary of surveillance because it’s a lot easier for Democracy to be subverted (as became clear with the Snowden revelations) and even crumble (as we see right now all over the West) than people think, and even the most innocuous activities might put you in a list of enemies of the State (I’m pretty sure my membership of a Ecologist organisation and a small Leftwing party would more than suffice) so best avoid getting your activities tracked and recorded for all eternity in some database.
There is no such thing as a good bulk surveillance system, even if done with the best of intentions (itself something that is doubtful, given that what is actually done with those things is invariably hidden behind a cover of State Secret, so the watchers just watch themselves, a recipe for abuse which most politicians are educated enough to be aware of) would still run the risk of later being abused when people with not so good intentions got their hands on all that data of what people had done before recorded by the “good intentions” people.
To some level I agree but at the same time we shouldn’t dismiss the threat potential
Certainly not. We need to throw up roadblocks wherever we can.
That’s a very optimistic position.
I think it overestimates the competence of fascists past and underestimates people like Leonard Leo who orchestrated the fascist take over of the courts and has publicly committed to doing the same to every major industry and institution.
Either way we’ll find out I guess.
That’s fun. It does nothing to stop the near-daily in-person conversations with coworkers, friends, and family about this one topic that unites us all. So long as we’re beholden to this health insurance system that screws us over at our most vulnerable of times, those conversations aren’t going to stop.
You know, anyone making negative comments… The bees go get 'em.
Government is monitoring everyone? Color me shocked
And have been since 2002 at the latest
Room 641A is a known fact.
So, like 85% of the adult population?
I think it’s probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn’t a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.
30% is minimal support, I don’t think you can expect more than 70%.
That’s not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.
Monitoring all nurses, got it.
