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I want to talk about something very
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important seemingly trivial very
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important you know the news
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right United Healthcare CEO got merked
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assassinated outside of a hotel in uh
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Midtown Manhattan the police are closing
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in on the shooter they're probably going
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to find the guy you know it's it's just
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it's a very high-profile case it would
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be very it'd be very embarrassing for
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the NYPD if they didn't the guy most of
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the time the NYPD or in fact police in
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general do not give a [ __ ] about solving
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crimes uh you know it doesn't reflect
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poorly on them but if they're pressured
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you know by the media which they
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certainly are in this case they they
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have resources you know what's the
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budget of the NYPD $50 trillion I don't
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know anyway people are losing their
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minds online turns out uh the shooter is
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quite handsome According to some CCTV
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footage giving you the stun a smile it's
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what happen happens to your physiy when
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you're uh we don't support what this man
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did to be clear okay that would be
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untoward and a violation of YouTube's
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terms of service we don't support what
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he did clearly it's done wonders for his
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demeanor and jawline funny this Yahoo
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news article actually chose to use the
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picture of him smiling for this one I I
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wanted to talk I didn't mention this
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much yesterday on account of me not like
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having a an what is it tic memory of
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everything that's ever happened to
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anyone ever you know the CEO that got
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killed I'm not justifying his murder you
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know he was like really really really
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evil like really e listen to this
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murdered uh Insurance CEO had deployed
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an AI to automatically deny benefits for
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sick people do you know that the CEO of
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a health insurance company in America is
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evil no matter what but in this case
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just over a year before Brian Thompson
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was murdered this week and mid Manhattan
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a lawsuit filed against the insurance
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giant he helmed revealed how Draconian
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its claims denying process had become
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last November the Estates of two former
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UHC patients I wonder why former former
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filed suit in Minnesota alleging the
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insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and
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override claims to elderly patients that
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had been approved by their doctors the
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algorithm in question known as NH
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predict allegedly had a 90% error rate
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that's crazy you hear there were a
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series of words written on the casings y
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reports claim he wrote the words deny
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defend and depose on the Shel casing of
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the bullets which once again does throw
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this firmly in the realm of like this is
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a movie you know what I mean like clear
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CCTV footage of a guy in a hoodie with a
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backpack with a silencer with subsonic
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ammunition murking a guy outside a hotel
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then disappearing and then afterwards
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you get all like this is it's just it's
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Cinema is what I'm saying it's and and
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and and this being written on the
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casings h so he wasn't a paid assassin I
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don't
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know look I'm sure they'll catch the guy
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and we'll find out more maybe he'll kill
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himself before the cops catch him I
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don't know look I'm telling you the CCTV
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and the released image are not the same
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guy I'm just going off with the media is
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saying okay I'm just going off with the
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media saying all right I wasn't there I
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was not in Midtown Manhattan that
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morning I do not have any opinions
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because I wasn't there I wasn't there no
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one has any evidence that I was there I
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wanted to talk about this and go back
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and if we could slide the conversation
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back into my preferred territory which
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is blaming the Democrats for everything
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if I may if you've been online you've
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probably
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noticed
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that literally everybody is supporting
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the shooter like that's barely even an
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exaggeration like across the board on
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social media top to bottom everyone
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every age group not even that
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politically it's not just the left it's
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literally like across the board
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nobody cares like the only people who
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are defending him are the weas leest
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most limp wristed of lipshits and like
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politicians and you know that kind of
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deal like I think Tim Walls said
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something like you know this is terrible
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whatever I don't know for the most part
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people aren't defending him it's not
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like yeah I saw Aaron rupar Aaron rupar
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was like how dare all of you you know
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it's not just the online left you see
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the Facebook post on this I think that
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since then the number of uh laughing
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emojis has like tripled or quadrupled or
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something like that but United Health
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Group look at this at time
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of focus on the ratio not the absolute
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value at time of screenshot 23k reacts
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19k of which are laughing I
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mean come on people really didn't like
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the guy and also it's worth noting that
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while Brian Thompson was an evil man who
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presided over and profited from the
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deaths of hundreds perhaps thousands of
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people in the short time that he was CEO
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of United Healthcare I mean genuinely
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like a social mass murderer and the only
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defenses you can really Mount of his
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behavior his use of that AI algorithm to
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automatically deny claims in a way that
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is legitimized by the you know AI
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algorithm the only defense you can
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really mount on him is the nurburg
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defense can't you like oh well he was
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the CEO of a health care company or
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health insurance company of course he
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had to kill people for profit which is
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like okay sure like you know all right
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the the you know you could do that for
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anything it's you know like oh it's
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member of the of the SCH staf like what
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what are you going to do that's his job
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yeah okay so nurburg defense is aside
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really nobody has anything positive to
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say about this guy classic like clean
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vermo
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[ __ ] so with all of this being said
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do you understand why uh kamla Harris
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lost now I hope some Democrats are
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looking at this people didn't even know
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who Brian Thompson was nobody remembers
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the name of any like given CEO there are
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a million evil companies people are
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furious with the system right now and I
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am saying the system in the most like
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anti-intellectual broad like meaningless
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sense possible because that is how
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people are
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thinking people do despise the Health
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Care System yeah but no one likes CEOs
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the right doesn't like them for a
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variety of reasons usually because they
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use them Escape goats for conspiracy
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theories the left doesn't like them but
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you know what the median person also
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doesn't like them again I people have
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this idea that like you're either on the
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left the right or the center there's no
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such thing as a moderate Centrist there
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like five guys that are like that okay
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there the average
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American is a psychopath who would send
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the other half of the country to a wall
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if they could I know I I really mean it
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I I really genuinely mean it if you have
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a conversation with like an average and
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it can be anyone go have a a
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conversation at a bar with like a West
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Virginia like some some like Appalachian
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like 45y old something something go have
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a conversation with a a a tech guy in in
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you know San Francisco like he's he's
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going to like one of those uh um sleeper
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tube like capsule hotels to cram himself
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in there before his next 18-hour day of
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work go to any of these people just any
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like people who wouldn't consider
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themselves a leftist or a Maga head or
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whatever and you know what they're all
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sick of it nobody's happy with the
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direction things are
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going nobody is that's just a fact it's
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one of the reasons why the messaging
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that Democrats are so fond of which is
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like well America's already great if you
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take a look for this like you know this
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this chart it actually shows the number
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is higher than it used to be here we
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have a means tested policy that will
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affect 2.3% of the population and
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improve their well-being on average by
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like 0 48% that's better than the other
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guy who's going to make your life worse
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doesn't work um I I'm not saying that
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democrats should like step out and say
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this shooting was based I'm not saying
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that and they're not going to do that
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and if you think they're going to do
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that you have the brain of a child and
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you are spending too much time online
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that is not going to happen obviously
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not just because you know the healthcare
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companies Lobby and so on and so forth
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but also because like don't be stupid
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come on they're not going to do that
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however they should really look at this
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environment an environment where it's
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not just nihilistic internet leftists
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but
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everyone reacting this way to the
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assassination of a health insurance CEO
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and use
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that to help further their understanding
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of why they lost because again if you
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are only talking about
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like in a in a mathematical flat
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utilitarian sense which party is better
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Democrats Democrats obviously the
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Democrats if you are operating sensibly
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if you are reasonable if you know how
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politics works it's obviously the
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Democrats by like a wide margin too not
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because the Democrats are going to make
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your life so much better but because the
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Republicans are going to make it that
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much worse but that's still a big
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difference but that's obvious viously
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not how people vote at least not all of
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them look I just want some affirmation
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on this can we agree that
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even outside of the left and the right
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even for like the hundreds of millions
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of Americans who are more towards the
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center whatever that means a lot of
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these people are not only fed up with
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the status quo but like if you put one
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beer in them I mean like if they're even
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a little bit relaxed they would start
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grumbling about how their boss needs to
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you know like their boss or like the
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pharmaceutical industry insurance
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companies they'll go after their car
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companies anywh like this is not this is
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like salt of the earth talk you can
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bring this back hundreds of years this
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is the number one conversational topic
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of the working class since day one of
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the working class which is we hate this
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and we hate them that's like the main
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thing they Grumble
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about even back when labor conditions
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were a lot better proportionately like
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in in a relative sense our country was a
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lot more economically equal back in the
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1950s obviously not equal like in a in a
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broad sense but in terms of the
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difference in wealth between uh the
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capital class and the working class like
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right now it's stratified to an insane
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degree but at the time it was
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comparatively a lot closer and even at
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that time when the when Americans who
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had like union benefits you know they
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would work in like a domestic
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manufacturing plant and they would have
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like a job security that would allow
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them to retire or whatever back in those
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days they still grumbled about their
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damn bosses just the nature of the
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dynamic you know we forget that liberals
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forget that the rightwing doesn't forget
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it because they're always calling for
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people to Die the
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the the practice of the rightwing the
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the narrative the direction they walk
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down I mean the the the the path they're
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building is one of mass
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death they know where they're going when
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Matt Walsh is in front of the the
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Supreme Court he's talking about how
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like he wants the total eradication of
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gender ideology they know what they're
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talking
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about they they know they know they're a
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death cult at least a lot of them do but
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liberals forget they forget because they
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believe in the institution they believe
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in the numbers I'm not saying the
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numbers are incorrect I'm saying they
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believe in them like they believe they
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matter more than they do for
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politics and they forget that deep in
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the heart of regular people is a
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sincere
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hate for anything everything and
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anyone that is worsening their life and
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the liberal in their arrogance their
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their their you know technocratic
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arrogance they think well okay sure but
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let's set emotion aside and focus on the
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numbers and we'll administrate the
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numbers and we'll manage the numbers and
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do they administrate them sure they do a
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fine job
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sometimes and then they lost the
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election they lost the election to a
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[ __ ] they lost the election to the
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weakest
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candidate maybe ever like like every day
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a scandal every day a weakness like a
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78-year-old rapist
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pedophile loser with a million points to
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attack but the Democrats don't attack
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them because they think again they think
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well it's not about the emotion the only
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emotion Democrats think voters have is
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this Earnest like glassy eye or like
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Star eyed uh faith in the American
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experiment hence the stars are most
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visible when the sky is dark that's the
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emotion they speak to
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but people feel a lot of hate this don't
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happen without a lot of hate people
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feeling a lot of hate like and they and
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you
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know often times the hate is more of an
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emotional Outlet like people will often
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hate their local 7-Eleven cashiers cuz
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they like I don't know they take too
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long or so I'm not saying all hate is
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valid or should be appealed to some
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hates are a little more materially
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supported than other
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this guy was evil Brian
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Thompson the American Health insurance
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industry is insanely evil it's a
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parasitic middleman that siphons
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billions from working class Americans
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and provides something that they
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shouldn't even need provided to them it
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robs them of a right that every
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civilized country should provide to its
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citizens and hands it back to them uh
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you know uh for fistfuls of cash and
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then and it doesn't even provide them
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what they are paying for as is the case
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with United Healthcare and the AI and
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the so on and so forth It's a pretty
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legitimate hate and in a sane
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World Democrats would campaign on that
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hate Bernie Sanders did a good job with
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this and he reached a lot of people by
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speaking about the need for Universal
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Health Care but this is a weakness in
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Bernie Sanders too it's not enough to
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focus on good policy you need an
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enemy and often times that logic is
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twisted and misdirected you know uh you
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need an enemy well the Republicans found
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one Haitians in Springfield trans people
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so on and so forth okay sure but
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sometimes there's an actual enemy you
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know like sometimes there actually is
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like a very clear-cut morally
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unambiguous example of a monstrous
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individual institution collection of
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individuals whatever and you can at
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least point at that look what I'm
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advocating for would would protect every
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existing health insurance CEO because
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through the abolition of health
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insurance there would no longer be any
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CEOs of health insurance and then they
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would be safe because they would no
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longer be doing the
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things they would no longer
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be attracting the negative attention oh
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speaking of the negative attention I
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don't know if you recall from last
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stream but Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
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was pushing to cap their coverage of
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anesthesia for surgery patients that is
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to say if you are going under the knife
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and you are expected to require 6 hours
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of anesthesia but the surgery takes
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eight the last two hours of anesthesia
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that's coming out of your pocket and
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that can be tens of thousands of dollars
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anesthesia is very expensive they backed
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off that decision
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they backed off of it 24 hours after uh
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now I can't say that there's a a
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causitive relationship between these
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forces here I I can't say that I don't
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know maybe it was just unviable maybe
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they decided it wouldn't save them that
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much money maybe the legal opposition to
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it was too
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substantial do I want to believe there
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was a relationship I
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mean Brian Thompson murdered a lot of
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people he just did it in a way that
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legal and socially
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accepted I would like to believe that
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the world would be a better place if the
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consequences for doing that were a Swift
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and harsh trial I would like I I like
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it's as much um catharsis as people are
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finding in this in a good Society we
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would not defer to like the whims of
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armed lunatics and
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vigilantism as a way of addressing
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gigantic obvious systemic failures like
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it like in a good world this shouldn't
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even be possible we we're we're grasping
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at the edges of of of catharus here but
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we are nowhere
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near not even remotely close to being at
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where we need to be and there are edgy
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way you can go online and be edgy but
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like sure I'm not saying you shouldn't
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or can't or whatever I'm just saying
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like we know
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what we need to do the
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Democrats if they want to win and if
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they want to make life better need to
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push Medicare for all and they need to
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push it with the militant
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passion that the Republicans have
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mustered for Trans people if Republicans
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can muster that much hate towards trans
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people who ain't done a goddamn thing
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except be really annoying on
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Twitter how can Democrats not Muster
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that much for people who are directly
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responsible for the death of so many
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people it's cuz Democrats are stupid
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well yeah and also because they're in
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the pocket of capital just like the
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Republicans they're just you
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know the less effectual half of that uh
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of that Dynamic at the moment I just I
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just think like if you're a Democrat an
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official a pundit a politician whatever
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and you're looking at all this and your
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thought is like the American people are
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looking forward to an end to this period
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of chaos and just want stability no they
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do not cuz they know what stability
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looks like and it's 90% of their
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insurance claims getting denied by AI
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stability in this context means the
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status quo and they don't want that they
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want change they want change and they
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are so desperate for it that they will
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basically like like
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uniformly Champion a in a random
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assassin like like the you you can see
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people's responses here it should
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indicate to you where they're at you
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know like it's not good it's I've seen
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posts online from Europeans or like
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Canadians or whatever and they're like
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this is wild how can you do this and the
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Americans will respond with like shut
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the up you have free healthcare shut
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[ __ ] up you don't know you you don't
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know people are pretty upset anyway look
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if you're if you want an end to the
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death you object like there is a literal
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like mathematical path forward that
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ensures the smallest possible number of
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people die like the prevent as many
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deaths as possible and that's Medicare
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for all the numbers line up the math the
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budget it all lines up all you have to
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do
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is Axe the uh uh uh health insurance
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companies that's it you have to cut that
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off will that make some you know big
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wallet [ __ ] mad sure but like
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that is literally the the most Humane
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for everyone you have no idea how
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quickly we're moving towards the US
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healthare system here in the UK it's
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terrifying no I know cuz I've covered it
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the only reason our system is like the
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way it is here is so it can siphon off
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as much wealth as possible for a very
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small number of ad administrators and
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capital holders there is no benefit to
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this system from the perspective of like
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helping people like it is literally just
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it like there are two dials here and
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it's more people suffer and die but we
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make more money and that's it there's no
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there is no like uh technocratic
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deliberation to be had there's no like
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hm well actually it's more complicated
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than you think because you know there's
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like those types online with like the
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Liberals you know where they're like
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well actually even though American
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healthc care is objectively inferior in
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like every way to every comparable
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nation that has more socialized
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Healthcare like there's actually a
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trade-off here there's like a
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complicated I've seen people say it's
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because of like homogeneous population
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like the fact that Norway
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has fewer races of people that means
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that all the like no it's definitely not
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the privatization and the Private health
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insurance it's it's like some other
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thing you know people love doing that
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they do that [ __ ] with like rail as well
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they're like well yeah we can't build
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Northeast American rail America's so big
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it wouldn't work and then you overlay a
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map of like European rail Over America
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and it's like oh wait they did that you
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overlay like China highspeed rail Over
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America it's like oh wait you can do
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that actually it's actually like totally
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possible people just want to find
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excuses for keeping the shitty status
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quo and the crazy thing is a lot of them
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aren't even like propagandist a lot of
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the people who are just looking for
00:22:24
excuses to find the [ __ ] to to preserve
00:22:26
this shitty status quo are just engaging
00:22:29
in the just World fallacy very common
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with liberals the belief that the world
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could not possibly be so cruel as to
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have a deliberately inefficient costly
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system that hurts a lot a lot a lot of
00:22:40
people that bankrupts millions of
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Americans every year that laads them to
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suffer and die they can't just be doing
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that for profit there has to be a
00:22:49
reason so they invent one it's the just
00:22:53
World fallacy it's really common it's uh
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it's like structural functionalism gone
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wrong you know love to do it
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