I’m not directing this at you personally when I say this, but what the fuck is so hard for most people to believe about the idea? Is it a foreign concept to treat franchized fast food places run by different franchisees as not equal? I’m not the only one who uses reviews to decide if I should skip a crappy location.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/15308270

https://lemmy.world/comment/13889867

probably some bullshit about needing to move seniors on medicare over to for profit ‘advantage’ plans.

Not until after he buys CVS and rebrands it as PharMaX, with all-new “dealership-free” insurance plans that use AI to streamline the claims denial process.

And you do not speak for anybody other than yourself.

JD… JD… doesn’t ring a bell, sorry. I think Trump had an alleged couch-lover as a running mate, though. Vince, I believe his name was.

His ego wouldn’t be able to handle it, and he’d turn on Musk in a plaque-filled heartbeat. Even if it doesn’t solve anything, I would be delighted to know that Elon’s investment went to waste.

And yeah, insurance companies spend billions lobbying government, and that’s why running for office yourself is valuable, you can refuse to accept these donations. You need to find your own powerful group to get you elected (maybe labor unions?), because that’s how the game is played, but there are options if you’re laser focused on one type of policy.

I agree with the sentiment, but all the labor unions in the country couldn’t hold a candle to the potential damage a billionaire could do to an independent campaign, let alone a cabal of them. They don’t play fairly in politics, and they’re not above using advertising and media to direct a narrative that benefits their interests.

That’s not to say I’m endorsing violence. After seeing Bezos and Musk manipulate news media and social media, respectively, I just don’t have much hope in the system anymore.

The food and ingredients are the same, but the quality can vary a lot depending on how bad of job they do cooking it. When you’ve been disappointed enough by buying dry and borderline-burned breakfast, you stop trusting that all locations are equal.

If I’m stopping by somewhere out of town, yes. Food quality varies by location, and I’m not going to waste my money on an undercooked meal at McDonald’s when the competitor down the street is better.

We can all do our part by talking about President Musk on social media.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

The corporation? Definitely not. But review bombing and boycotting will hurt the profits of that franchised location, and its owner certainly will.

B- b- but, make America great again /s

To be charitable, other people can have different views on ethics.

For example, if harming a CEO who helped raise claim denial rates from less than 10% to 30% results in revised policies and less overall suffering, that could be morally justifable to some.

With the review bombing and public hatred of that McDonald’s location? Fired is more like it.

Yummy corporate boot with delusions of grandeur as a side dish.

A crazy twist would be Biden (shit even Trump) pardoning this guy not out of wrongful persecution but rather to deplatform him

If they’re going to deplatform him, it’ll likely be by smear campaign or “suicide” in jail at this point. There’s a zero percent chance they would release someone who attacked the upper class. Politicians wouldn’t want to upset the people they actually represent.

-1) think you’ll get a nice $50k reward for selling out a guy, then find out you didn’t do enough to actually qualify for it.

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Fixed that for you.

When rural voters overwhelmingly voted for you, making it harder for them to vote seems like a great way to shoot yourself in the foot.

They united the people against them. That’s living up to half the name, I guess.