I saw someone pointing a gun at someone else in Hollywood in the late 90s. Didn’t stick around to find out what was going on, but there was no gunshot, so I assume it didn’t end too badly.

A few years back, I was carrying groceries back to my car when a guy approached me pointing at me with something obscured by his jacket pocket and said he had a gun and wanted me to take him somewhere. I paused and decided that even though he probably didn’t have one I wasn’t willing to risk it, and besides, I had time to give him a lift. Once he was in the car he said he didn’t have a gun and thought I was just going to tell him to fuck off. I said I wasn’t a risk taker. He talked about being on the run from the police and started talking about how he was in his 30s and needed to stop doing things like this. I never saw any police, so he might have just been paranoid, but who knows. He had me drop him off behind a building not too far away. A strange experience - he should have tried asking nicely instead.

if Mr. Mangione had spent more time pulling on his bootstraps and less time feeling sorry for himself and obsessing over his debilitating chronic back pain that UnitedHealthcare refused to cover treatment of – for I’m sure for very good reasons – he might have one day helmed a parasitic corporation of his own. Sadly, he chose another path.”

Love the satire, but one important point: Luigi didn’t have UHC insurance. So if he did do this, it wasn’t even because of a personal grudge - it was to strike back at a system in general that fucked him over.

“In the nearly two weeks since Mr Thompson’s killing, we have seen a shocking and appalling celebration of cold-blooded murder”

I know, it’s disgusting how the media have been celebrating the CEO, who let thousands of people suffer and die for profit, as a sympathetic figure.

I am so tired of seeing that CEOs ugly mug everywhere. Regular people who are killed don’t get their faces plastered everywhere every time there’s news about their killing. It feels like the media are trying to encourage sympathy from the masses, but all I see is a monster who let hundreds of thousands die and/or suffer from crippling ailments for profit.

Now, now, you don’t want to be uncivil to the feds who have their boot on your neck!

If a fruitless lawsuit is “chilling” to them, wait until he sends in the military to attack anyone who criticizes him.

The rise of the middle class in the 50s has definitely been proven to be an anomaly in our history.

The comic says health insurance CEOs specifically, which have recently been proven to be universally hated by the working class.

Ending climate protections

And so are you. This will eventually affect everyone on a global scale.

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I used plenty of rotary phones in the 80s. I don’t miss them, either.

“Oi, luv, I’ve brought you some flowers.”

Wow, that link apparently went down in 1982!

At least it’s not pretending to be something it’s not, I guess.

Whatever hypothetical god created the universe.

That’s covered by possibility number 1.

There will continue to be elections. They just won’t be free and fair, particularly in states with Republican control.