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    Everyone is going to get a good view of the "prison industrial complex ". Wait until you hear how much commissary coffee is.

    Source: I know someone navigating it now. I don’t have a price list, but it is bad.

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    You could have donated to a children’s Hospital, which the Republicans are about to cut off all funding to with the government shutdown and again in a few months when DOGE cuts 2.5 Trillion in funding for hospitals, healthcare, research, infrastructure, etc.

    Instead you’re making sure some random killer gets peanut butter and crackers for the next 30 years. SMH

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      I would think that the majority of that donation revenue stream is captured by the crooked health insurers.

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        Alright then, obviously the solution is to just pay for each other’s care without the insurance so let’s start an office that facilitates the pooling and allocation of funds for healthcare costs to be covered based on specific terms to prevent misuse that…

        wait a minute…

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        His father is the head of Mangione Enterprises which owns tons of real estate including resorts and country clubs. TBH I assume he’d have his peanut butter even if less than a million people paid the prison industry on his behalf.

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      You know what might save more children than donating to a children’s hospital? The destruction of our current healthcare insurance system. Of course you know that. You’re just intentionally making a bad faith argument to distract people because you’re a bootlicker and an enemy of the working class. Get the fuck out of here troglodyte.

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        So instead of tens of millions of children having necessary medical care covered, none of them will.

        Great plan, hope it works out like it does in your head.

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            Catsbad wants:

            “The destruction of our current healthcare insurance system.”

            The insurance companies won’t cover any care. The Government certainly isn’t offering to pick up the bill, we just elected a Republican Majority. So the patients are responsible for the full cost of treatment.

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      It would cost you exactly nothing to stop this moral grandstanding. Here is your “I am better than you” award, now go away: 🏆

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        I will continue to be a good moral person and anybody who advocates otherwise can suck my balls.

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          Maybe we could source the blue-shelling of CEOs and when good people inevitably end up in the clink they could be welcomed as oppressed comrades and freedom fighters.

          An argument could be made that his actions are drawing attention to the Healthcare crisis and are worth millions in donations to any single facility.

          We all have opinions.

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            His actions made no impact, so far. Are you expecting the more than half of Americans who voted for Trump and other Republicans to suddenly change their political identity?

            And you’re not supporting his cause if you send money to his commissary, you’re supporting the private prison system.

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      Lmao. Donating to organizations and charity is a waste of money. They are just grifts that take a majority of those donations to enrich their executives and maybe 5-15% actually goes to the cause you support.

      Im too poor to give either money but i would rather see it go to someone who brought awareness to the issue and inspired more class consciousness and solidarity than the wall street military industry profiteer owned democrat party ever has.

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        Really telling that you pretend to care about “awareness” of a problem and at the same time don’t care about saving lives like this one:

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          Charaty is disingenuous. it attempts to burden the working class by paying some of what little they have to alleviate the societal problems caused by wealth inequity and a system that putts profits for a few over the lives and well beings of those actually doing the work and their loved ones. If we had medicare for all then this poor beautiful child would well be taken care of. And All the money thats otherwise used to pad the pockets of people who spend more on a weekend vacation than you or i could earn in a dozen consecutive lifetimes could be spent on research and medical care thats often denied to bolster profits. Go guilt trip the insurance companies who are responsible for the deaths of 180 human beings on aberage every day due to claim denials. How many of them are children?

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            I’m just saying if you’re going to throw your money around on a cause, there are better options than Mangione. Insurance companies denied claims yesterday and they’ll deny claims tomorrow, you haven’t done shit about it.

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              Im not giving any money. Its winter and propane is $20 a refill lasting 3 days. Maybe ill send a christmas card I have some stamps lying around.

              But the outpouring of support including people wanting to put money on mangione’s commissary is most likely due to the fact that many people have been thinking this for a while and if mangione is indeed responsible what he did was he said the quiet part out loud. And now the billionaires and their executive corporate pets are scrambling on pr and damage control to scold the rest of us for our irreverent response welcoming revolution and class war.