• EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    “Eat the rich!” people exclaim, but as soon as they see the first step of how that particular sausage is made, they’re suddenly all vegans.

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      22 days ago

      No we feast on their money while they get to serve it up voluntarily to stay clear of the guillotine.

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      22 days ago

      I love meat. We need more meat. Much, much more meat.

      This is an amazing opportunity to have more meat.

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        22 days ago

        I mean from an ecological perspective we don’t, but I appreciate all proposals, no matter how modest.

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          Oh, I think the ecosystem would be far better off without the people who fly private jets and have private yachts.

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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      Let me assure you, eating the rich is ABSOLUTELY vegan. All creatures deserve good health and in practice veganism involves seperating from and dismantling all of the power structures that subjugate others for personal gain, human and animal alike.

      I feel no pity for those that taunt a bull and get gored nor do I for insurance executives that systematically deny treatment who get shot.

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        “The Bourgeois are not human animal”. Though calling them vegetables is still too demeaning to the celery and carrot, who never did anything wrong. Maybe they are mineral? Lead and mercury caused a lot of suffering, and I don’t feel bad about insulting them.

        This is the only reason I accept to refusing to call cops “pigs”. The humble swine does not deserve such a comparison.

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    21 days ago

    I guess I should have sympathy, but I’m afraid they I don’t cover that. Best I can do is a chortle.

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    21 days ago

    Well, maybe let Paulette know that the clothes she is wearing, the car she is driving, the house she is living in, and anything else she owns was all bought with the deaths and suffering of thousands of people.

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    21 days ago

    Fortunately he looked at his line going up and reassured himself he was doing the right thing.

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    22 days ago

    So she knew he was receiving threats because of lack of coverage and still had the audacity to refer to the shooting as “senseless.”

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    22 days ago

    With hundreds of thousands he made suffer and killed, the police will have more work to find a culprit than in “Who shot Mr. Burns?”.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Can’t say what the specific motivations are without knowing who did it, but it certainly would be plausible that this was someone denied coverage for a terminal or otherwise life ruining condition. How many people out there did this guy’s company put into a hopeless situation? Once they have nothing to lose, it’s not hard to imagine someone deciding to get revenge.

    Congress and the incoming Trump administration should also take note of that before they do anything to strip coverage from tens of millions of people.

  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    He made a life promising one thing and doing another. His wife can’t fathom that the person who threatened to kill him was a man of their word.

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    22 days ago

    The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.

    Maybe it is it not a good idea to deny coverage…