• piyuv@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You’ll get arrested for wearing this in public but not denying health insurance claim to 900.000 people

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      This is too victim complex-y. You can wear tee shirts supporting violence, nobody is going to arrest you.

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      In the US? I don’t think this shirt would violate any law or get you arrested. There was that guy with the “I eat ass” bumper sticker that got arrested for profanity but the state attorney dropped it because it probably is protected free speech.

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          guys no cop is going to fuck with you for a t-shirt like this. Ive hung out in the punk scene for decades and people wear clothing with very, very explicit anarchist and anti cop etc language and no cops are stopping people for fuckin t-shirts.

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        If you can prove in a court of law that you eat ass, you should be protected under the first amendment.

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          Lol you can lie on a fucking bumper sticker, lying is generally not illegal, itself (it would have to be a component of fraud or other real crimes).

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I mean… not to deny how based this is.

    But you could potentially lose your job and by extension, your health insurance (and any dependents that are on your insurance plan also lose coverage).

    Also cops are just gonna use that as an excuse to do police brutality.

    It’s ultimately your decision, but please consider the potential consequences.

    Stay safe!

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        And this is such a bullshit misnomer. Encouraging violence is covered by the first amendment. Direct threats are not. The government has overstepped and that’s why I want legislators to suffer the same fate as CEOs

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      I’m British, there’s a decent chance some bootlicker might slap me, but I could wear this all day.

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      I may not have the guts to wear this, but I would absolutely buy it and have it framed in the entrance to my house or somewhere visible.

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          Not American, so I’m assuming this would be an expensive product for me. Especially considering I might have to import it as well.

          Thus, I likely can’t afford to prove it.

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            Coming out of left field, if you can’t put your money where your mouth is then maybe don’t say anything at all. Or say as much as you can, I don’t mean that at all. I just can’t think about anything else to say today but I still have to do my personal daily protest comment against Reddit. See that Reddit, I won’t stop making shit posts, I’m just making sure you don’t get them.

            You don’t have to do anything to ‘prove it’

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    Despite initial reporting that the words were “deny,” “defend,” and “depose,” police clarified the following day that it was “delay” and not “defend” written on one of the casings.

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      I think it just means that there is a missing bullet (maybe never fired).

      Obviously a reference to Delay, Deny, Defend, a common practice of insurance companies to maximize profit. The excerise is left to the reader to decide what “Depose” means.

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        Could be a major clue, perhaps this is someone who sued the company and they deposed him, which can be stressful/intimidating for the inexperienced.
        Or this was someone trying to make it seem like it was motivated by claim denial, but botched the phrase.
        Or the police might be misreporting this to catch false confessors.
        Or pretty much anything else.

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          I get the feeling that it was very intentional that depose was written in the casing of the cartridge that was fired.

          Depose can mean to “remove from office suddenly and forcefully” like when a government is over thrown, the leader is deposed.

          In this context, the CEO was deposed by no longer being able to fulfill his role as CEO due to a severe and acute case of death.

          The fact that “delay, deny, depose” is the general policy for insurance companies is the motivation for using that specific term over others. “Delay, deny and depose me? I’ll depose you.” Kind of thing.

          I think it makes a very loud and very clear message.