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I seriously cant believe people are celebrating the deletion of 3
Healthcare CEOs
that number is way too low to celebrate anything.

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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Three??

Who are the other two

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  • [–] [S] 75 points 1 year ago (17 children)
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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "dedicated and mission-driven leader who loved connecting people to our shared purpose"

    That's doublespeak for...?

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s nothing speak. It’s a lot of words that give no information.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    "Dedicated and mission driver leader" could mean asshole. "Loved connecting people to our shared purpose" could mean getting fellow greeds making sure the bean counters are happy.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Blackstone is a private equity firm though, not healthcare.

    Still a CEO, so high partial credit.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Private Equity is super evil, and uses business law loopholes in order to make sinkholes out of large companies, leaving the debt for the state to manage when the insolvent company goes bankrupt.

    Right now all the AAA game development companies are getting the private equity treatment.

    Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP candidate for President, was president of Bain Capital, a private equity company.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blackstone's REIT group owns 63,000 single family homes, and the way they collude with other REITs makes them largely responsible for the current housing crisis.

    Americans average about 30% of their income on housing, compared to about 7% on healthcare. I would argue that Blackstone's abuse has over four times the economic effect that health insurers extorters have on consumers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Exactly.

    In a thread when the news came out, someone got Blackstone and BlackRock confused and someone else said there's no difference.

    There is a difference. BlackRock wants to make money off your and everyone else's work without doing anything themselves so they run a bunch of funds that you can invest in, and they take a cut. Bog standard capitalist leeches. Blackstone wants you to never own a home, so they buy up homes, but they ALSO make sure to concentrate their efforts in one area at a time so if you live in that area you'd have no choice but to rent from them. To accomplish this, they'll literally offer over market value in those areas.

    The CEO that got killed (by accident, funnily enough - the shooter was after someone else entirely) was the CEO of said real estate group within Blackstone. She in particular had a large part in how fucked the American real estate market is.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I am a bad person.

    I kinda hope the hits are connected, and not just a series of coincidences.

    But then after the November 24 general election, I kinda hoped there was overwhelming evidence of election fraud, as I want to believe 77 million Americans are not that unprincipled / credulous / bigoted.

    I want the ownership class worried.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Celebrating small victories helps with morale. Just ask Ukraine.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's unfortunate that, instead of a few deletions, we aren't getting a DDoS attack on the whole corporate health care system.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A lot of platforms have algorithms that won't let you say words like kill, murder or sex. If you want post about that stuff on one those platforms you have to use euphemism or baby talk like un-alive, delete or seggs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is not that platform.

    Free your mind. en-FUCK your mind.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    As long as the concept of CEO's exist, these healthcare CEO's will keep getting replaced like heads of a hydra. After Luigi's murder, that CEO was replaced in a week with an identical cog in the machine. In other words, this is literally pointless or even counter productive if governments decide that this has become an issue and give them special privileges/protections or create some anti-terror squad that would suppress actual future movements for change.

    However, if actual change is not a goal then fuck yeah let's kill more capitalists for sport

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Good, defending one side exposes another...

    So when the front is prepared, the rear is lacking, and when the rear is prepared the front is lacking. Preparedness on the left means lacks on the right, preparedness on the right means lack on the left. Preparedness everywhere means lack everywhere.

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  • If I were on the board of a healthcare corporation, I would just create a fake AI persona and let that shit be the CEO. It's not like it would make any difference as far as the operation of the company was concerned, and Muigi Langione would have a tough time shooting that guy in the back.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why make memes in your car

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