r/Conservative • u/Ask4MD Conservative • 16d ago
Assassin Luigi Mangione Takes Lead In 2028 Democratic Primary Polls Satire - Flaired Users Only
https://babylonbee.com/news/assassin-luigi-mangione-takes-lead-in-2028-democratic-primary-polls469
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u/day25 Conservative 16d ago
Or people who actually understand economics and that the perverse incentives in the healthcare system are responsible, not the left wing bogeyman "greedy CEOs" who quite frankly are just playing constrained by the rules that we created for them and we the people voted for decade after decade.
Did you expect the CEO to run the company like a charity or something? Why don't you think doctors should be the targets couldn't they perform their services for free instead of charging vulnerable people millions by the same logic?
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u/Clint_East_Of_Eden Fiscal Conservative 16d ago
and that the perverse incentives in the healthcare system are responsible,
Sure, but the government is squarely in the pocket of these health care behemoths.
They not only spend obscene amounts of money lobbying, but many representatives straight up just vote the way the biggest insurer/pharma company in their state tells them to in order to appease them.
These companies are pulling way more strings than is acceptable in a free market. They shouldn't get to decide the rules that relate their industry. Many of the perverse incentives are their own doing.
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u/day25 Conservative 16d ago
Sure, but the government is squarely in the pocket of these health care behemoths.
Because that's what we vote for. Do you think reddit (who loves this guy) supports taking power away from government? No they vote to give government more wealth and power at the same time they claim the government "is in the pocket of these healthcare behemoths". They support bigger top-down government and are the entire reason why these problems exist in the first place. The guy who did this is literally from one of the most blue states in the country.
but many representatives straight up just vote the way the biggest insurer/pharma company in their state tells them to in order to appease them
And then get reelected because that's what the people vote for.
Many of the perverse incentives are their own doing.
No they aren't. We have had a century to stop it and did nothing but vote for even bigger and more perverse government regulation. It is the American people's doing. We voted for it. Now we want to virtue signal about it and blame "greedy CEOs" to absolve ourselves of our personal responsibility and make us feel better while doing nothing to fix the real problems.
You also did not address my point about "greedy" doctors and the actual providers of the healthcare services. Wouldn't they be even more responsible than insurance companies? Insurance companies seem like the very last people who would be responsible. They aren't the ones charging the core inflated prices. If you want to be mad at a rich CEO for not paying for your healthcare like a charity and making all these price gouging doctors and healthcare providers even more wealthy, then shouldn't you also be mad at everyone who goes to a Taylor Swift concern or buys the latest iphone instead of donating to people in need of healthcare services? How many donate to twitch streamers or pay for OF how much did you donate to pay for other people's healthcare? What gives you the right to live but not this CEO, you seem just as evil by the same standard in fact I'm sure the CEO donated way more and saved more people's lives than you ever did.
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u/StrictlyHobbies Milton Friedman 🐐 16d ago
If the market is not free, that’s on government for not doing its job. Donald Trump famously said that he could fix the system because he used it to his benefit for years.
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u/Single-Stop6768 Americanism 16d ago
And people who think murder is wrong. The CEO was nothing more than a cog in the machine. The machine itself is what needs to get fixed, anyone who thinks murder will solve that is just emotionally unhinged.
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u/Clint_East_Of_Eden Fiscal Conservative 16d ago
If the CEO was just "a cog in the machine", then maybe we need to also acknowledge that the machine is going to spit out people who are so broken down and brushed aside that they'll do something unhinged.
This shooter didn't have any more or any less agency than the CEO. He's just as much the result of this machine.
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u/Professor_DC Drain the Swamp 16d ago
violence is always wrong!
Broke
executing the decadent elite
Woke
using the execution of the decadent elite as a springboard towards being a populist political leader
Bespoke
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u/ChristopherRoberto Conservative 16d ago
discovering you were put up to it by competing elites, and are now next in line
Rope
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u/DeplorableCaterpill Paleoconservative 16d ago
Based on his known political views, he would be much more likely to run as a Republican.
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u/superduperm1 Anti-Mainstream Narrative 16d ago
This.
The fact that the left jumps straight to “oh he thinks the healthcare system is bad so he must be one of us!” is such a joke. Literally nobody thinks our healthcare system is good. Trump actually tried to help fix it in 2017 and all the left did was applaud Senate Democrats and McCain for not letting him.
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u/DeplorableCaterpill Paleoconservative 15d ago
To be fair, establishment Republicans also want you to think this. Case in point, this article from the Babylon Bee.
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u/hey_ringworm Garbage Supporter 16d ago
The big leftist propaganda subs think he’s gonna get off via jury nullification and are unironically calling for him to run in 2036, lmao
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u/JediJones77 Conservative Cruzer 16d ago
So Trump will be a convicted felon but someone who shot a man in the street won't be? I thought Trump was the only one who was supposed to be able to get away with that.
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Liberals are going to say the system is rigged if he gets convicted
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u/Professor_DC Drain the Swamp 16d ago
I mean, it is rigged, and I'm not gonna be upset about the hypocrisy.
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u/Res_Novae17 America First 16d ago
This is hardly even satire. They aren't even apologizing. They're so mad about the election they're straight up leaning into the terrorism thing.
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u/Provia100F Conservative Engineer 16d ago
I'm very uncomfortable with how many people are supporting vigilante murder
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u/Jakester627 Klavanon Conservative 16d ago
You don't get to murder a man just because you don't like how he runs his company.
Pretending that this is moral or righteous is gross. If you want change, we need laws to change and more competition in the industry, not acts of terrorism targeting people you don't like.
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u/pbnjandmilk Catholic Conservative 15d ago
His soon to be cell mate / life partner will run for VP. But in a "weird" turn of events, it will be Killary.
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u/Trondkjo Conservative 16d ago
If George Floyd was still alive, he would be the VP.
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u/dale1320 Christian Conservative 16d ago
Are you certain this did not come from the Babylon Bee?
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u/Lifeisagreatteacher Moderate Conservative 16d ago
He will campaign from a cell because it worked so well for Biden in his basement