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Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Breht gently and lovingly gives his unique and nuanced perspective on the murder of the CEO of Healthcare United. 

Outro Song: To Cause Your Own Death by Mon Rovia

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0:00.0

Victims of the for-profit healthcare system have a right to defend themselves.

0:05.7

I wanted to jump on the mic real quick and just talk a little bit about the recent murder of the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian, something or other.

0:14.7

It really doesn't matter. That's been happening. That's been getting covered by the media.

0:20.4

And I think the ruling class is kind of shocked and based on a lot of the media that's been getting covered by the media and i think the ruling class is is kind of shocked

0:23.5

and based on a lot of the media that i've been looking at a lot of the mainstream media that i've

0:27.0

been looking at um the comment sections are full of people i mean i'm looking at fox news right

0:32.6

i'm looking at right wing sources um as well as left wing sources and And no matter what source I look at, conservative,

0:38.7

liberal, more radical, whatever, all the comments, all the comments, literally on the Fox News

0:44.5

of video covering the story, all the comments were in one way or another justifying this guy's

0:52.6

murder talking about the way that they've had pain and suffering

0:56.9

and fear and precarity imposed on them by this parasitic class of corporate profiteeer-seeking

1:04.6

middlemen who stand between human beings and the help that they need in their most desperate

1:09.8

times and attempt to extract

1:11.8

billions and billions of dollars out of them over the years. I mean, over one year, right?

1:18.0

This is a cruel, disgusting criminal enterprise that robs people of a human right and uses it as

1:26.8

another vehicle for which to accumulate

1:31.1

profit, exploit and extort regular working people, and fill their own motherfucking pockets.

1:37.0

So while the ruling class itself is shocked and all this is so terrible, send the police on a

1:42.3

manhunt for whoever did this. Regular working

1:45.0

Americans know goddamn well. This guy's a hero. This guy is a stand in for all of our

1:50.9

frustrations. And I'm talking as somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who's never been

1:55.0

able to afford it, whose family has just been kicked off of Medicaid. I, you know, I have a long family line of people who have been fucked over in their most desperate, fearful times by insurance companies.

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