r/interestingasfuck • u/ExactlySorta • 21d ago

A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park r/all

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u/AndYetItTrolls 21d ago

https://preview.redd.it/yttequp4jh5e1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2411fa19251f6607ea8c2027dfbaa6fcb6185683

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u/Twenty_twenty4 21d ago edited 21d ago

If you have never watched the movie John Q, watch it. It’s very relevant to this situation.

In that movie, Denzel Washington’s character takes a hospital hostage after his insurance company denies his son a heart transplant. The public sympathizes with him in that movie too. That movie talks about the policies and techniques insurance companies use to …. Deny, defend and depose to come out on top while telling people who paid and trusted them to fuck off.

A must see if you’re enthralled by this whole UHC saga. That and V for Vendetta. Anyone else have any other good ones?

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u/huskyoncaffeine 21d ago edited 21d ago

Star Wars Andor.

It's not a movie but a series about the start of a rebellion in the Star Wars Universe. It elaborates on how the cruel and indifferent treatment of an unjust system just may turn the right person from an apathetic bystander to a motivated rebel who is willing to commit everything.

As I have been reading through social media these past few days, I recognize much of the ideas and rhetoric used by the rebels in that series.

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Here is a small taste of what that show is like. SPOILER WARNING though. I can highly recommend it.

https://youtu.be/mSVsJHfKYPU?si=qBoj23T5xTabzZkv

"I imagine that no matter what you tell me or tell yourself, you'll ultimately die fighting these bastards. So what I am asking is this. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once for something real, than carve off useless pieces until theres nothing left?"

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u/HazzaBui 20d ago

Also Andor is just some of the best television from the last handful of years (ever? I'd make the pitch for that, but I'm sure I'd get tons of pushback 😅)