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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 6 months ago

the top three DOJ officials under Attorney General Merrick Garland have all represented massive healthcare companies during their respective stints in private practice before joining the DOJ.

Because of COURSE they did! 🤦🤬

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

He never hasn't been.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 months ago

Always was but yeah, seems moreso now than ever before. Because it's gotten worse AND because we've gotten more aware of it.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago

The awareness is lovely to see.

Interestingly enough I don’t think we’d have arrived here without COVID. It broke the routine, slowed the inertia, pushed self reflection.

And it made the house of cards that is the healthcare system visible to all.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I agree completely.

It also disproved the "once the crisis is big enough, everyone will hold hands and work together for the common good" myth that pro-establishment people used to trot out to mollify critics of the status quo.

The people radicalized by a combination of the inequities of the status quo and the gaslighting of opportunistic far right politicians (who are of course themselves very much part of the establishment) didn't suddenly set their collective delusions of self-sufficiency and their scapegoating of vulnerable people aside to help themselves and other people get through the pandemic as safely as possible. They only got WORSE.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

The club you are in it's bigger though, they don't want you to find out about it.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 6 months ago

"Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 54 points 6 months ago

Oh, look, they did a corruption

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

For the rich, that's an "oopsie 🤭"

For the poor, that's a paddlin'.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago

You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn't the normal way of things??

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He's only made his plea. Yes, that part happens quickly.

EDIT: Look at the upvotes on the parent comment. Y'all are really dumb enough to think this man is going to trial right now.

It's misinformation, it's ignorance, it may even be a lie. Downvote this crap.

[-] xor@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

thank you for having some sanity….
i’m pro luigi, anti health industrialization… but yes obviously the doj will charge you for shooting someone.
the terrorism charge is probably where the pressure went

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, it's not obvious. The DOJ rarely charges anybody with murder. It's almost always charged under state law, in state courts. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil hasn't been charged with a federal crime, and probably won't be.

[-] xor@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

the interstate aspect of it makes it kinda federal…

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 months ago
[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Privatization of the government working well

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Drain the swamp so the water feature can be filled with leopards.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 21 points 6 months ago

I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya!

[-] HootinNHollerin@quokk.au 16 points 6 months ago

Bought and sold

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago
[-] anachronist@midwest.social 15 points 6 months ago

Nah he's not a white collar criminal who destroyed the lives of millions.

Biden might be willing to posthumously pardon Brian Thompson for his insider trading crimes though.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

And my cats could be appointed alternating empresses of Romania.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

There was a school shooting on the same day Thompson was killed. Without looking it up, can anyone name a single victim?

I'm not saying I support murder, but I don't understand why I should care more about his life than those who are objectively more innocent.

[-] Roopappy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I've heard people suggest that school shooters stop butchering our kids, and instead throw their lives away doing something useful that will have them remembered as heroes.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

The state is just the armed wing of capitalism.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago

When are we going to pressure the DOJ to prosecute health insurance leaders for the deaths (just one example) caused by their actions?

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

The Department of what, now?

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago

Corporate Justice. The C is silent.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Oh right, the Dept of Orporate Justie! Lmao

[-] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

That's fine, I'm pressuring the neighborhood schizophrenics to directly pressure healthcare CEOs.

Pressure is fun, right health insurance leaders? It can make all sorts of fun things happen. Brian ~~knows~~ knew this, if only for a few seconds.

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I agree with you about CEO's but please stop using schizophrenic people as a joke or prop.

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Right? They probably mean Dissociative Identity Disorder too.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Idk usually that's the case, but when I think "mentally ill in a way that's susceptible to being pressured to kill rich people" I'm more inclined to think paranoid schizophrenics than did folks. Still shouldn't use them as a joke like that.

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