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[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 249 points 2 years ago

So did they just download the US Census and start from there?

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 57 points 2 years ago

When pretty much everybody is on the list, it's more conspicuous to not be on it.

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[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 140 points 2 years ago

fuck insurance companies. i hope more CEOs get gunned down in the streets.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 49 points 2 years ago
[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 134 points 2 years ago

You can't put us all on the little list

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[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 117 points 2 years ago

So, they're finally admitting that they're monitoring all of us.

[-] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What the fuck... Really? Holy shit and what the actual fuck. As example ever heard about Snowden? Chelsea Manning? Assange? Unbelievable wtf

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 41 points 2 years ago
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[-] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 106 points 2 years ago

Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so... everyone?

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago

Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 83 points 2 years ago

so, like most people who have ever had to attempt to use it combined with those who could only hope to afford it? thats prolly a long list.

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 77 points 2 years ago

Hi, FBI agent! How are you doing today?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago

"Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?"

[-] WeUnite@lemm.ee 65 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago

I hope more die.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 years ago

I don't know if I would trust an American who doesn't have a negative view of the health insurance industry

[-] mdurell@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

So they are monitoring basically everyone.

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Openly since the Patriot Act

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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago
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[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years ago

UHC just sent me a survey. I was honest. I'm on a list now!!!

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[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

You can monitor this dick.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 26 points 2 years ago

"We already have. And there is literally 'Nothing to see here.' "

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[-] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 years ago

Monitoring all nurses, got it.

[-] Zeon@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago
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[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

The health insurance industry needs to be changed significantly as it neither makes care cheaper, more accessible or more available.

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[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Monitor me all you want. Monitor me while you suck my balls.

What are you going to do about it? Nothing.

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago

I have a negative view of health insurance companies. In fact, I have a negative view of corporations, from the local mom-&-pops that underpay their employees and expect long hours, to Amazon. They all suck.

But people who create policies that cause immense loss of life (and cost and destruction) are really asking for ten-plus times the vengeance that actually comes their way.

I'm not interested in that vengeance since it won't solve the problem, but I don't begrudge those who suffer at their hands from wanting to kill them back.

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 32 points 2 years ago

Add me to the list plz. Thx.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 31 points 2 years ago

But anyway don't download RedNote the Chinese censorship is just so terrible...

(Oh he's super popular on that app btw lmao)

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[-] WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

An evil company was evil. A very understandable thing happened when evil people are killing Americans. Now I'm going to get put on a list for liking a post.

It's like you don't have to do anything besides exist and you get put on a list. I'm sure this won't be used by the new administration to silence dissent.

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

We're gonna need a bigger surveillance apparatus

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[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

The US healthcare system is a massive fucking dumpster fire. There, I typed it.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Hi, I guess?

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

No shit, the NSA was already monitoring everybody to begin with.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

That's not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.

[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

They can't monitor everyone. With AI they think they can, that's our biggest advantage

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