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Can you imagine hearing the same thing about China ceding the Gulf of Mexico?

That looks good! Was it as crispy and flaky as it looks?

If contributors paid e.g. $2,000/year instead of $10,000, the 'spare' $8,000 doesn't disappear, it gets spent elsewhere, driving employment, potentially in less parasitic industries. This is before we get to the fact that the example $2k/each more than pays for those 3 million jobs because you've taken out the parasite that takes the $8k for themselves. So in fact, you don't lose 3 million jobs but keep those and still have the extra employment or increased wages and allow for some of it to be slurped up as profit from the spare $8k.

Obama:

I don't think ~~in ideological terms~~…

The doctor and pharmacist are shitheads.

You deserve to be here and to use whatever resources are needed to keep you as healthy and pain-free as possible.

If your neurologist has said to use one tablet a day, they will be annoyed to find out that your GP is denying that because the GP is undermining the neurologist's work. They will likely support your case for you if you can email the neurologist and ask them to have a word with the GP.

If the GP or pharmacist don't like it, fuck them, they are an offence to their professions. They could always grow a backbone and stand up to the people who pretend that these things are zero-sum. Your prescription in no way denies anyone else their prescription. If your GP and pharmacist don't understand basic political economics, that's not your fault; they are wearing their ignorance on their sleeve and likely proud of it because it means they don't have to think about their own complicity in such a shit system (and your NHS is supposed to be one of the better health services!!).

I think you're right. The difficulty is finding yanks who don't have a grudge lol.

Is this who's attacked who?

Conspicuous bottom ~~left corner~~ row.

But are they happy?

I need a protective bubble around my speech and it better not extend to people I disagree with or you're being too sensitive to people who need a protective bubble around their speech.

My question is whether a jury would find him not guilty. If it were e.g. a grieving father who didn't have to lose their child if UHC had covered some treatment, I could see a jury throwing the verdict. With this guy?

Have a look at Michael Parenti's Make-Believe Media or his lecture 'Rambo and the Swarthy Hordes'. I'm not sure if this counts as 'Marxist Film Theory' because schools of thought can be weirdly exclusionary and not what they appear to be. But it's Parenti criticising entertainment media and it's production from a Marxist perspective.

Essentially, he finds that most movies are pro-capitalism and anti-communist and it's partly because of the way they are produced and who pays for them.

Take a show with blue collar workers and notice how they're all portrayed as being a bit stupid. Watch any movie with military or police vehicles and weapons and ask how the studio got their hands on all that gear to make it look realistic (answer: the police and military lend the equipment on the condition that they have editorial control over the final product). Consider why anti-capitalist movies and shows are poorly distributed – they can be made but you won't be able to watch them (e.g. 1900). Ask why even 'poor' people in movies and shows love in massive apartments or houses.

Any media, not just overtly political media, can be criticised from a Marxist perspective. Have s quick look at this short article: https://redsails.org/the-swerve/ . Again, I can't confirm whether this is what Marxist Film Theory is about.

Helped along by a class-biased legal system no doubt.

Juries can only answer the questions they're asked. I can see how easy it is for the judge to emphasise the relevance of any 'doubt' and how much a $3 million legal team would be able to cast that doubt.

Especially in the high profile theatre of a case like this. No way did those jurors not go online or pick up a paper for the whole duration of the trial and the run up.

On top of that, you have the prosecution backing down step by step until the jurors would say, well if even the victim's supposed defenders don't think this was murder, what are we supposed to do?

I'm glad I didn't know they existed till now. I'm upset that I now know they exist.