A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW

Since Luigi’s ‘manifest’ suggested that someone like Moore would be much better positioned to make the argument that needs to be made and the news media have been hounding Moore to disavow the assassination, he decided to go ahead and write the damn thing.

  • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah big time same energy. I love that the public is generally with Luigi on this.

    This might actually be an effective propaganda of the deed in that the obligatory mainstream media response and the vast distance between how the news anchors are talking and how the people feel really might be a momentous opportunity for class consciousness raising, even if it’s in some distinctly uniquely stupid American way.

    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.socialEnglish
      21·
      21 hours ago

      I keep thinking about the class consciousness aspect of it.

      The thing is, if you talk to anyone around here, in my neck of the woods anyway, semi-rural middle America, the guy behind the counter at the farm store or the livestock feed mill will wholeheartedly agree with any “fuck them rich assholes” sentiment.

      The problem really feels like solidarity. And I’m not sure what the right answer to that is, other than continually demonstrating how if you get a paycheck you are “one of us” not “one of them.”

      • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        Yeah, it’s a tough one. The whole system is set up to avoid the formation of class consciousness, or even just basic self interested action like unionising. Dealing with decades and generations worth of multi-vector propaganda.

        I think those commies who do free tail light replacement (etc) type events are on the right track as far as praxis goes. Just doing helpful stuff without expecting reward but making your political allegiance clear. “I’m a socialist and I have your back because we are on the same team” type beat. I think that sorta shit is the most effective and accessible way to start chipping away at the problem.

        I should get a small dingy with a communist flag (or similar) before the next big flood here. Same for my truck. Just any time you can volunteer your time to help people, do a little bit of optics on the side without preaching any theory. Wear your ideology shirt when you’re spontaneously dropping a few cases of water off at a picket line during a local strike. Just start helping people recognise that “we’re the good guys” by doing and not telling.