Hey everybody. I'm sorry to let you know that I'm an antisemite. I don't hate or bemoan Jewish people. But I also don't want innocent Palestinian people / children to die. I know; I'm sorry. I didn't realize my views were so harmful. I'm gonna take a break from the internet and think about all the pain that I've caused.
Sorry everyone. I'm so ashamed of my antisemitism. I didn't realize what a bigot I've been. Sigh…
Also, much of the lobbying money comes not from Israel but from our own gentile Zionists, particularly our Christian Zionists. The great majority of Zionists are not Jewish.
Being against a government of a nation methodically killing civilians in its own borders is not the same as hating a group of people because of their genetics or culture. This isn’t something that should need to be pointed out.
Are people anti-Sino for staging protests against the support of the CCP for the Uyghur genocide?
Waxman worked under Bush as a senior national security advisor. So the administration that believes in torture is advising us that government surveillance is fine and keeps you safe? Not sure I trust the source.
This is a guest opinion essay that many disagree with but find interesting. I don't think it represents NYT's views.
I remember "pre-existing condition" exclusions. Insurance companies hired teams of investigators who would comb through the medical histories of patients who made expensive claims (like chemotherapy). They would find something, anything, in that person's medical history that they could claim was "pre-existing", from some time prior to being covered, and deny the claim. Often this was done in full knowledge that the denial could be appealed. But they also had statistics that if that patient died from their disease the family was unlikely to pursue an appeal.
Having a gap of any length of time in your insurance history could be devastating. I had to buy personal insurance once during this time (circa 2001). I was young with no medical conditions and in good health, and it was $160 a month with a deductible so high it was basically worthless except for catastrophic emergencies. I was making $8.50 an hour at the time. But it prevented me from having a gap in coverage that could be used later, perhaps many years later, to deny claims.
Of course the only solution that's politically viable is apparently a giant subsidy to capital. Same with Section 8. Same with education loans. We're incapable of anything else it seems.
Insurance companies still do many versions of this with a byzantine coding system, complex "out of network" exclusions, etc. Anything to deny a claim. It's a capitalist version of a "work-to-rule" slowdown, where they can make new rules. Since it's your health they can afford to wait forever. The asymmetry favors them. It's about as close as you can get to directly chucking human bodies into a furnace to power a money machine and still maintain a veil of propriety. True evil. If there was any justice in the world, the food that these executives bought would turn to ash in the mouths of their children.
Insurance companies still do many versions of this with a byzantine coding system, complex “out of network” exclusions, etc. Anything to deny a claim.
Yep. My criminal insurance company (CIC) marketing docs trumpeted how my ER costs were "fully covered" (which they're required to be by law, I think). That's obviously bad for profits, so the solution? Well just interpret any ER line-item (pick some expensive ones) as non-ER, even when they pertain to an ER visit, then charge the whole slew of separate copays/deductibles that go with the new interpretation. Profit! The hospital, which has a contract with the insurer, will cooperate and code all these line-item services with ambiguous language and codes, making them ripe for the picking by the screw-you insurance dweebs.
Oh, I can appeal the insurance decisions? Great. Appeal #1 is decided by the insurance company itself! 100% internal. Appeal #2 is done by a third party company, selected by the insurance company and paid by the insurance company. Think your state insurance commissioner is going to step in when foul play occurs? Think again. If they pay attention to you at all, they'll claim to have no "authority" to make "medical decisions" about the abuse the insurance companies subject you to, and if they do anything at all, it might be to write a mildly-stern email to the insurance company reminding it of your complaint and their supposed obligations. That's it, the commissioner's office is not on "your side" and even if it were to some extent, they'll claim to be "too overloaded" to do anything, anything like actually regulate the insurance companies, on your behalf or on behalf of the other millions of insurance customers.
Despite claiming to stay away from politics, they had really questionable, fascism-like views on what they claim is "degenerate modern art" and harboured some of the worst type of human beings on the planet, and these human beings were open white nationalists and conservative Christians.
The amusing thing about these types, is that they just like traditional values "on principle". Most of the art they promote has been created by open minded, queer, anti-traditionalist artists who, at the time, were the exact type they are now hating. They know nothing of our history (they have none, so it is our history), and they only rally over "tradition" because the abolition of slavery and women's rights were a relatively recent development, whose reversion is their core and only value.
It's not over yet until the sheriff actually seizes assets and has the door locks changed.
Every hour between now and the 25th ratchets up the defendant's willingness to do something desperate. Foreign money, selling any national secrets he managed to hide from the feds, promises of cabinet picks, it's all on the table and our safety is what's for sale.
We had a similar ramp up of anticipation for the Carroll case's 93 million judgement too. His lawyers were in court bald faced lying to the judge about not having a bond and needing time/reduced bond amounts right up until the last moment. Then they filed the bond in the last hour.
Can he do it again? I don't know. None of us truly do. He's a lying con man, so nothing he says matters. Four days is a long time in politics and finance.
My biggest concern on the political/media side of things is that he does have the bond already. All of this thrashing is performative to get the media whipped into a frenzy of anticipation and then he drops the bond at the last moment. This makes him look stronger and the media who frothed over his imminent demise look blundering. Don't walk into that trap.
The moment the sheriff locks up his properties I'll celebrate like crazy. Until it's really done, anything can happen and I wish the the DA, the courts, the political leadership, and media agencies stay sharp while the clock ticks down. Don't get hit at the finish line.
Not that similar. Not similar in circumstances and, certainly, not similar in the amount which is nearly 5x as much. Getting a $93m bond is much easier than getting a $467m bond.
And all his whining and crying in the media makes him look anything but strong.
Look, I don’t blame you for being cautious in your optimism, but, even if comes up with the bond somehow, he’s losing the appeal for sure and the people of the state of New York will get their payout. And that’s all the more reason for nobody to put up the money unless they get all his assets in return.
Shouldn't he be mad at Trump for destroying this once great country?
When did things go down hill? For me it was 2016.
The enemies these people have they make up, they are windmills they are fighting against.
Antifa, removed who want to have rights, woke whatever, radical left these things don't really exist. I wonder who they want to have a civil war against.
Any time someone goes on about how Biden all but destroyed the country in under 4 years, I ask them if Biden could do that in 3 years with a republican controlled congress, why couldn't Trump "make America great again" when they basically had control of every branch?
That either shuts them up while they try to process everything, or they get mad. It's usually getting mad.
There are so many examples of small businesses being screwed by policies that large companies can so easily absorb, and so many of the small business owners blame the policy instead of realizing this system will always favor whoever has the most capital. Without exception.
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