let’s recap what we’ve learned about the United States in the last few days.
things that are terrorism:
- allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it
- a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.
things that are not terrorism:
- mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war
- going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors
- a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman
- targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart
- killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives
- a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade
- killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn
- stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports
- any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities
- tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande
- United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage
- Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care
- Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery
- Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant
- the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.
- the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can’t access health coverage
make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.