octopus_ink

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 17 points 8 hours ago
  • Make it harder to get assistance for paying medical bills

  • Make it easier to be denied credit and services for not paying medical bills

  • ??? (and really those are bigger ? than in the history of this meme)

  • Profit!!!

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago

So the remaining lawyers, and whoever replaces the ones who quit, are the most evil, untrustworthy motherfuckers available. That's what I take from this.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

I've heard this.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

It's good that we cleared this up then.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If you are referring to the title, my point was that this guy was already willing to accept being a step or three closer to evil than I would be, and probably than most of us would be. And still they went too far for him.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

Unless we win the lottery or my long lost cousin from somewhereelseistan calls to let me know they've got a spot for us, we're sheltering in place unfortunately.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe. Right period of my life, if I were in those circumstances, I could have seen myself leaving a few in bathrooms on the way out and not giving a shit who knew it was me as I walked out with my cardboard box. Not today probably, but at any time during the years when no one else had to rely on me for the necessities of life I might have.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Every single value they claim to support is a hollow lie that exists for their own enrichment and power, and it's so starkly plain from every single policy they push when they have power I can't fathom how people don't see it. I especially cannot believe that even now we have people who cannot see it.

I feel like I'm in a world where 90% of people can't read and have never watched the news sometimes, because it's that blatantly obvious to me.

 
[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

They made healthcare a commodity, education a dept trap and housing a speculation market - then told you that poverty is a personal failing. They privatized survival and called it freedom.

I'm bad about remembering Alt Text apologies. I will edit to add now if it will let me.

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Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)

Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.

Here are some visual aids to accompany my clarification:

 

~~The damn image is AI I now see.~~

But here's the article.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-employee-quits-had-make-moral-decision-2097370

Edit: OP image, ahem ethically modified with an image from the article linked above.

 
 

Sorry for being an idiot with the image. Fixed now! :)

 

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41706127

The police officer who killed Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker in 2019 was "racist" and had an "attraction" to adrenaline-style policing, a coroner's inquest has found.

Walker, 19, died shortly after he was shot three times at close range by Constable Zachary Rolfe during a home arrest in Yuendumu, a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory (NT).

Rolfe - no longer a policeman - was charged with Walker's murder and acquitted in 2022, sparking protests about Indigenous deaths in custody.

In delivering her findings, Judge Elisabeth Armitage said Walker's death was "avoidable" and there was "clear evidence of entrenched, systemic and structural racism" within NT's police force.

 
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