Is the US a dystopia?

In the growing body of evidence against the industry, one of my best friends scheduled an evaluation with a counselor so she could finally get formally diagnosed with autism. She had to give up a work shift to do it, did all of the pre-work yesterday.

Gets a reminder one hour before appointment, which is virtual. Dude doesn't show to the Zoom call, doesn't give any head's up that he's running late, then shows up. She expresses frustration that he was late when she had to take off of work and he was demanding they reschedule and she said "no, i can't!" and he basically didn't like getting the feedback and hung up on her and refunded the money without comment

(He was like 15-20 minutes late)

Good Max post about the Type of Guy that Mangione is:
https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-of-guy-is-the-alleged-uhc

I’ve seen some people suggest that Mangione’s politics must be “insane” or “incoherent” or “irrational,” and that may be true in some abstract sense, but I think the cultural and ideological portrait painted by his Twitter account is actually a fairly common and intelligible one, and would be pretty familiar not just to anyone who spends a lot of time on Twitter but to anyone who works in tech or frequents a gym weight room. It’s a loudly non-partisan, self-consciously “rational” mish-mash of declinist conservativism, bro-science and bro-history, simultaneous techno-optimism and techno-pessimism, and self-improvement stoicism--not left-wing, but not (yet) reactionary, either. The basic line is something like: The world is getting worse and phones are killing us; politics won’t save us but technology might; in the meantime, lift weights, take supplements, listen to podcasts

Life in These United States xpost

So the end result was that her mild expression of frustration was warranted to terminate the call even though they're aware her autism contributed to the directness of her response.

What a country.

if I'm Luigi I'm wanting this to go to a jury trial obv.

I think part of the anger at the insurance industry now w/sharing of stories, and the support of Luigi or at least the ambivalence many feel about this story is also tangentially related to the events of the last couple of months, w/a small select group of megawealthy tech giants/publishers/moguls tipping the scales of the country in their favor, and this feels like a reaction to someone finally striking back against someone who was yes a minor league player in the lower rungs of the upper-upper class, but it was nonetheless someone striking back brutally against a behemoth that constantly grinds most of us down.

Luigi Mangione on his way to his extradition hearing shouts: "This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people" pic.twitter.com/GXSEGBuGpn

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

Possibly a review of Gladiator 2?

I can't remember if this was posted here, but hfs
https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology

that manifesto may be real, but it definitely feels a bit like something someone would write if they were faking a manifesto for this guy.

a little too even-keeled, y'know?

Klippenstein just posted the real one: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

just got a wave of gamecube nostalgia

From the manifesto: "But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain"

Rosenthal = Elisabeth Rosenthal's book American Sickness?

Moore = Michael Moore's doc Sicko?

ronnie, demi

Sicko was my immediate thought also

The real manifesto seems even more level headed than the fake one.

ilxor cad even got a shout

Aw, he's not "basic"

his commissary is gonna be bussin’

I'd kick down

also, every single person i know, and every single one of my students, thinks of this guy as an American hero, and frankly, I agree. we need more like him, and we need them sooner rather than later.

it’s either that or the conditions change, and i don’t see that happening.

we need more like him, we need them sooner rather than later

waiting for 'more like him' to take up the work of individually assassinating C-Suite executives until something changes for the better seems like a forlorn hope. but it's nice to have some kind of hope, even if it's the forlorn kind. having watched the Weathermen and Baader–Meinhof Group do a more organized job of it in the 70s the main knock-on effect I can see was a reactionary backlash among the wealthy, who got more organized and determined to prevent any future concessions of power. They created Reagan and its been a cascade of horrors ever since.

while it might not represent a complete plan for victory movements can have a little assassination of their enemies as a treat

'we need more like him' is some real keyboard-warrior shit (unless you're putting in time at the gun range, in which case fair play)

my lips are sealed on that subject.

not even allowed to support the troops anymore smh society is in the gutter

My friend sent me a link claiming that the Aetna executive had been killed in an apparent second insurance assassination. But when I clicked it was just a guy with a big dick laying on a bed

lol owned

dickroll

my lips are sealed on that subject.

lol

What was worse was that I told everyone in the room that a second exec had died. There was a short conversation about it. Then I had to tell them about the dick

hmm how did they get a picture of table though

FPd

sorry for saying the obvious and that is that CEOs should be killed more often.

It was perfectly obvious to the mice that the cat should have a bell on its collar so they could hear it coming.

Is it an insult to refer to a guy as having a big dick now?! I thought it was a compliment

were back to ancient greek male beauty standards now

truly reactionary times

RETVRN to tiny VVEINERS

Take it to the gay thread, sailors.

This is also relevant to straight women

Not sure any group is as concerned with peens as straight men, really.

Not sure any group is as concerned with peens as 15 to 30 year old men of any sexual identity.

dongs are very important to society as a whole

Peen concerns don’t stop at 30, they just shift.

dongs are very important to society as a whole

thats right

The arc of history is schlong, but it bends toward.. something

this guy is gonna love the quality of health care he gets in rikers

Eh, I saw that third Dark Knight movie, you can fix your bad back in prison with ropes and pulleys and just by wanting it bad enough.