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   Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 14:06:13 JST Adam Conover

   Unfortunately seems likely that rather than change their ways, America’s CEOs will just hire private armies to protect them from the public they exploit. Every day we’re one step closer to living in a Neal Stephenson novel

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 14:08:53 JST Viss

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     @adamconover its aaaaaaalmost syndicate, if you played it in the 90s

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     Liam (liammcbride@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 14:29:52 JST Liam

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     Healthcare shouldn't be rationed by private corporations looking to make a buck

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     Adam Kull (adamkull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 14:48:16 JST Adam Kull

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     @adamconover Not upset about widespread adoption of people calling minivans “bimbo boxes” though. Tried to get that going for years

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     Thomas Barrio (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 15:22:23 JST Thomas Barrio

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     @adamconover The disconnect between corporate power and public welfare is evident as corporations increasingly influence political and economic systems, prioritizing profit over societal needs. This excessive power contributes to public health challenges, including climate change and socio-economic inequalities, undermining efforts to improve health equity. Such an imbalance allows corporations to shape policies favoring their interests at the expense of the public good.

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     Derrik (derrik_d@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 15:25:08 JST Derrik

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     @adamconover Or Night City.

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     HTPC NZ (htpcnz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 16:12:39 JST HTPC NZ

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     @adamconover i doubt they will hire one, with Billionaires pulling the strings at the top of governments, tax payer funded entities like the Police, military will become their private army, exclusively defending them, their interests & properties (both police and military are used often to protect their properties and interests already) at the expense of the actual tax payers funding all of it.

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     Idlewyld (idlewyld@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 16:41:01 JST Idlewyld

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     @adamconover When you have easy access to the resources to protect yourself, there’s no way anyone would choose changing their behavior instead, that would be too hard.

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     Sean Woods (etoyoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 18:58:37 JST Sean Woods

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     @adamconover To quote the IRA: "we only have to get lucky once. They have to get lucky every time."
     Also: are those mercenaries getting a decent healthcare plan? And what is the probability of finding a team of people where at least one of them has not been screwed by insurance, or knows someone who has?

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     kralcttam ☕️ (kralcttam@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:53:43 JST kralcttam ☕️

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     @adamconover I hope it’s the first half of a Neal Stephenson novel where a beautifully elaborate stage is being meticulously set and not the second half where he just wraps everything up Game of Thrones style with a brief sidebar on regular expressions.

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     Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 20:15:55 JST Corb_The_Lesser

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     @adamconover Media will exploit the UHC shooting for hours and hours of profitable sponsored handwringing punditry asserting society is collapsing because it took reaction to a murder to give them the clue that most Americans loathe most American corporate leaders.

     One reason so many Americans do not vote and tune out of the political process is they have reason to believe their lives are shaped by corporate oligarchs whose power to manipulate politicians negates the influence of the ballot.

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     N0tSure (n0tsure@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 20:16:23 JST N0tSure

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     @adamconover Just like in Russia. I call it the neo-feudal drift.