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It's dumb that they're not pushing to get rid of those empty desks and save that money. But I guess the market demands miserable workers or something.

Jesus Christ, so many people don't know the real history of what happened while this is the real answer.

To add on to Ronald "Fucking" Reagan defunding universities, he did it because as governor of California he absolutely hated the anti-Vietnam War protests happening on University of California campuses and thought a good way to limit attendance of 'rabble rousing' (re: poor) students was to take away their funding. Conservatives nationwide saw this and thought 'that's great, we should do that, too.' and they did.

Thanks Ronnie. You're the unwanted microwaved dog shit that ruined America 40 years and your stink is still smelled in full force to this day. I didn't believe in hell, but I hope they made a special one just for you.

Well, that put a damper on my day. Holy shit...

Here's hoping they can recover without having to continue to have this as an asterisk-

But these measures have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.

“She is ending this race in a very different place than other nominees that have lost,” one Harris adviser told the outlet. “Her approval is higher. People were very happy with the race that she ran.”

Jesus fucking Christ. They've huffed their own farts too hard and gave themselves some kind of brain damage. Or they're just greedy fucks that want to raise a billion dollars for exorbitant campaign expenses paid to their friends and acquaintances.

Huh, well that's new. I don't think I've ever heard of a girl or woman go on a school or mass shooting.

“Kerwin H. continued his strenuous resistance and appeared to gain strength with each successive cycle of strikes and commands,” Pinkerton [the officer] wrote.

However, several witnesses who lived at a nearby apartment building told detectives they didn’t see Harris resisting. One witness told a detective she heard Pinkerton cursing at Harris and calling him the N-word.

I wonder which account of events is more accurate? Hmmmmm...

And he's a defender of Derek Chauvin and feels like an entitled victim? Yup, all that tracks.

“For all you mother f—— at the St. Louis Police Department,” one post began last November, “especially the Internal Affairs Division, you can all kiss my a— for condemning me and pushing me out of my decorated career and losing my ability to retire with the benefits I wanted, all because I exposed the corruption behind the prosecution of Derek Chauvin.”

How the hell is it not a huge red flag that he paid a settlement and made her sign an NDA. This is typical rich/powerful abuser behavior to dodge accountability and we've seen it time after time after time.

Having not played any in the series but having them on my to-play list, this was my first thought. No matter how great it is, there will always be people who see a protagonist who doesn't look like them and call it woke.

It does? Hahahaha, that's great, I'm trying to swear less in general, but good to know I didn't have to redact myself on here. I'm curious to see what happens.

Shit fuck.

Edit: did the instance filter it? It's still showing up for me.

Bret Stephens, the author, is not telling the whole story and using the omissions to spin a story of 'most Americans are happy with the system.' This [expletive] says the below to defend against the united anger at the health insurance industry

As for the suggestion that Thompson’s murder should be an occasion to discuss America’s supposed rage at private health insurers, it’s worth pointing out that a 2023 survey from the nonpartisan health policy research institute KFF found that 81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.” Even a majority of those who say their health is “fair” or “poor” still broadly like their health insurance. No industry is perfect — nor is any health care model — and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.

This [expletive] looked at the report's top and only positive point and ignored the rest. The next very next point is

• Despite rating their insurance positively, most insured adults report experiencing problems using their health coverage; people in poorer health are more likely to report problems. A majority of insured adults (58%) say they have experienced a problem using their health insurance in the past 12 months – such as denied claims, provider network problems, and pre-authorization problems.

Here are the other points on the report:

• Nearly half of insured adults who had insurance problems were unable to satisfactorily resolve them, with some reporting serious consequences. Half of consumers with insurance problems say their problem was resolved to their satisfaction.

• Affordability of premiums and out-of-pocket costs are a concern, particularly for those with private health coverage, and for some, contributed to not getting care. About half of adults with Marketplace plans (55%) or ESI (46%) rate their insurance negatively when it comes to premiums, compared to 27% of people with Medicare and 10% of Medicaid enrollees. Four-in-ten insured adults say they skipped or delayed some type of care in the past year due to cost. One in six insured adults (16%), including larger shares of those at lower income levels, say they had problems paying medical bills in the past year.

• Insured adults overwhelmingly support public policies to make insurance simpler to understand and to help them avoid or resolve insurance problems. About nine in ten say they support requirements on insurers to maintain accurate and up-to-date provider directories, provide simpler, easier-to read EOBs, disclose their claims denial rates to regulators and the public, and provide in advance, upon request, information about whether care is covered and their out-of-pocket cost liability.

[Expletive] this disingenuously written story, [expletive] Bret Stephen for not telling the whole story, and [expletive] the New York Times for time after time publishing BS and propaganda that sets us all back.

I nearly drowned crowd surfing, thank goodness for the dude who made space for me to get up. I miss going to metal concerts.