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The judge set her bail at $100,000, citing "the status of our country at this point".
So the judge is holding this lady personally responsible for the nation's sentiment towards healthcare companies?
Activist fucking judge
Almost always Conservatives being snowflakes
they will try to make an example of her hoping they will subdue people into obedience by fear
A Health Insurance company denies your medical claims threatening your health and your life = good business
A frustrated house wife who can't afford health care threatens a billion dollar corporation = jail
Pretty obvious indicator of where our collective priorities are, isn't it?
Who did she threaten? A spefic person? A group? What makes the judge think this was a credible threat?
Just another way to squash any kind of continuance of an idea, whoch is very dystopian.
I've been threatened multiple times in my life. They never explicitly tell me they'll injure me, they use language like "or else".
That's a threat. We all know that's a threat. Let's not pretend otherwise. People making threats these days think they're being clever by being indirect.
Trust me, you don't want to be in a country where stuff like this is normalised, especially by right wingers
My first call center job, my first year, someone threatened to kill me. 23 years ago, I still remember it. I answered the call, didn't even get the first word of my greeting out, and this woman was screaming, "don't hang up on me, you better not hang up on me, the last three people hung up on me, if you hang up on me I will come through the phone and KILL YOU!"
I hung up on her.
In my case it was my ex housemates boyfriend, and then a rich customers kid onsite who threatened me (we were fixing another installers f up and we somehow got blamed)
Did she kill you?
It's funny, because I didn't consciously intend to hang up on her, it was very much a reflexive action. But moments later I realized I had missed the perfect opportunity to say "I'd like to see you try"
You're missing my point I think. Not saying she didn't make a threat. But WHO specifically did she threaten? Was it a specific person? Was it a group?
Group / company..
It doesn't need to be a specific person.
They get to make up rules whenever rich people are worried.
The very example of corporate power the shooter killed someone over. You are powerless, stay in your place “Coppertop.”
Every other outlet I've seen hasn't mentioned "you people are next", the lede couldn't get more buried.
The best take I've seen on this:
That's literally hearsay. In this case, they had her recorded. You know, as when you call an automated line and they say they'll record you?
I googled the latest news on her (my mistake, right?).
There isn’t anything newer than 24 hours old. I guess they are making her sit in jail over the weekend?
Does anyone have any better info sources? I don’t think we should let this disappear.
Without knowing more, it is the “you people are next” that makes this a threat in particular. You should easily be able to say deny defend or depose or whatever, just don’t use threats
Hence why we have an actual standard for this...
A random housewife giving a vague threat at the end of an already heated call by referencing a recent event involving the company, really doesn't come close to the definition.
and then when the cops came, she admitted to it, and continued on saying stuff like "they're evil" and "They deserve karma"
like. Okay. The insurance peeps are fucking evil. she's not wrong.
but maybe don't tell the cops that? maybe shut the fuck up and get a lawyer.
Hit lawyer, gym up
Suspected killer. Even the BBC is towing the line.
Toeing the line? They're going well beyond that. Have you read the BBC's finger-wagging admonishment of the poors / puff piece for United Health?
Disgusting, I can't stand humanizing serial killers. UK doesn't even HAVE a for-profit healthcare system (yet), but they still stand in solidarity with the haves against the have-nots
They have monarch, tho.
Not by choice, we don't.
If it was by choice, then they wouldn't be a monarch. :D
Even the BBC is ~~towing~~ toeing the line.
eggcorn
?
'Eggcorn' is a linguistics term for a new word or phrase that is slightly different to an older one- substituting words that sound smilar- yet still makes sense and has a similar meaning to the older term, for example:
- eggcorn, (acorn)
- mute point (moot),
- free rein (reign - I think reign is older version?),
- towing the line (toe)
Sometimes the eggcorns make more sense to modern speakers than the older term and it may eventually usurp them entirely. I don't think many peple know what a 'moot' is anymore. If 'mute' makes more sense to more people it's likely to grow in popularity.
I don't know why linguists chose 'eggcorn' as the eponym; I'm sure I've never actually heard anyone say "eggcorn" to mean "acorn" - apart from me since I learnt about this phenomenon.
Rules for thee but not for me rule.
Once again, don't fuck with rich people! They don't like it when you point out their scam.
don't [leave evidence when you] fuck with rich people
I'm still not convinced he actually did, that any of those things they found on him weren't planted, or that he was even the shooter at all
So much of this just does not add up...I don't know that it's anything other than what they've presented but it's got enough oddities to throw it all into question, and it has since the first face reveal of someone wearing completely different clothes and backpack from the shooter, and all the very convenient evidence that he supposedly was still carrying around with him and the handwritten "manifesto" that read like someone trying to sound smart rather than someone who's actually well read and educated
Yeah it definitely doesn't smell right. Actual assassin or not though, he's become a symbol.
Absolutely
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