• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I know it’s exited the news cycle, but I still remember this was a big thing for the left and right to both agree on supporting. I’d very much like to prompt Trump for his opinion on the man to force him to take a side.

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      1 hour ago

      Best to not remind Trump that Luigi exsist. Don’t need him falling out a window with the cameras off and the guards napping.

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      3 hours ago

      prompt Trump for his opinion on the man anything to force him to take a side.

      That’s how you get banned from the press pool.

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        That was not the sentiment I saw when it happened.

        I saw incredibly low turnout for people against the action taken but I saw people on the left and right agreeing and with glee. Like everywhere.

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          11 minutes ago

          Here is an Emerson Poll that found TOTAL 17% of people agree the killing was justified, and the highest demographic was young people with 41% (still not a majority). https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll

          The poll was about a week after the killing.

          Another small poll of college students found this:

          according to a poll conducted by College Pulse and shared with Newsweek—32 percent of survey participants said he should be sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole; 14 percent chose life imprisonment without the chance of parole; 26 percent preferred a fixed-term prison sentence; and 2 percent believed he should get the death penalty. The remaining respondents chose “other” or “no opinion.”

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            Never heard of Emerson but I would be asking who paid for that poll? Did they have a vested interest in playing down support? Has the poll been manipulated to get the best charts etc.

            PragerU puts out lots of polls, but it doesn’t mean they’re valid.

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          I bet more cops and bootlickers agree with you than not. My stance doesn’t promote any authority at all, it’s as simple as “pointless murder is wrong, doesn’t help us”.

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              18 minutes ago

              Luigi’s Trolly Problem:

              2 separate tracks

              Track 1 has Brian Thompson, pulling the lever kills him but he is immediately replaced by another guy

              Track 2 has some unknown number of people who will die regardless of any action you take

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                Yes, one Luigi will not solve the problem. Once you get past 4 or 5, you’ll find less people willing to take on the risk of the job. You get to a dozen, and you’ll be shocked just how much progress we get.

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                  If nobody does the job then nobody gets health insurance and everything is out of pocket for everyone, you realize? Even worse now that the USA Federal Government is freezing funds for Medicaid.

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                    You’re forgetting the rest of the developed world has a different system. I wonder what that system looks like.

                    I’m British and never had to worry about healthcare because although we are USA Lite, we are not that bad.

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            Luigi’s assassination absolutely had a point, and had immediate results in BCBS rescinding/delaying their plan to cut anesthesia allowance for people during surgery. Luigi directly saved thousands of people from unnecessary suffering with just one targeted attack. Imagine what a more widespread action could accomplish.

            I’m betting you’re a cop. You’ve got the same blind loyalty to the law, paired with a lack of moral compass.

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              BCBS announced those changed before the assassination, they also stopped suing over medical debts the year prior, got any others?

              Also, even if Luigi did somehow change that and not the countless other people including the governor going after them in court and on social media for the year prior, it would have saved people from potential debt, not death and not certain debt.

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                  Ah wait hang on wrong link, 1 moment

                  Theres like a million articles talking about this story after UHC happened so it’s taking a minute

                  GOT IT! https://www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-state/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-to-cap-anesthesia-coverage-after-certain-time-frame/

                  It was published Dec 4th talking about “last thursday” which would be Nov 28th!

                  Ah but the article was updated on the 6th…

                  You know what, I might have been misinformed about this, it’s possible that the changes took place on Dec 5th, all the paperwork being written up, board meetings held, and filed less than 24 hours after the assassination, although I still doubt Luigi had as much to do with it as the Governor saying “Outrageous. I’m going to make sure New Yorkers are protected" just before that. And also those bad policy changes were announced in late 2023 or January 2024 but also never implemented due to criticism they received then as well.

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                    BCBS’s own website dates that statement release as December 5th. So yeah, you’re making it up.