It’s notable that President Truman tried to give us single payer healthcare all the way back in the 1940s, but he was stopped by lobbying from the private health insurance industry.
@@thomasffrench3639 Definitely not. Nixon, Eisenhower, and Ford opposed the endeavor to "socialize" healthcare, (though they did consider alternate soluitions to making healthcare more affordable.) Kennedy's proposals weren't more than the current medicare and medicaid and were actually more limited than the versions LBJ passed and it's those versions that we have today. FDR was quite vague when it came to healthcare and the New Deal didn't address healthcare much. Truman and Teddy both promised a notional health care system, though under Truman's plan private insurance still exists and I don't know about the specifics of Teddy's plan because it was only a part of his platform for the Progressive Party.
@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 yeah, I always forget Ford exists. But I what I meant was that Nixon wanted to increase healthcare coverage. I was too specific
I heard the quote, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." The fact that it took a CEO murder for people to take the healthcare problem seriously shows just how broken the American system is.
Did it really make ‘people’ take healthcare more seriously? Sure maybe some, however are you sure the majority of US citizens didn’t already take it seriously? Instead are distracted from other correlated but not causation issues?
@comradeofthebalance3147 Exactly, most people are just fetishizing him and/or talking bout how this is some "first shot heard around the world" type shit. Nah, this ain't. Change starts on the streets, in the home, in soup kitchens, in schools, in churches, and any place of community.
@@comradeofthebalance3147it's america, we're young, we'll die of our own consequences before we ever stop thinking everything is a joke. i'm just glad everyone i've talked to about this issue was like, "hell yeah," this is the only way to get people who don't give a shit about being political to choose the left when it's so much easier to laugh at right wing sigma edits
One of the most interesting aspects of this whole thing is that Luigi came from money. Old money at that. And even he was radicalized by healthcare in this country. Even someone so insulated against the consequences of injury could tell that something was devastatingly wrong. And he decided to do something about it. He really is built different from his socioeconomic peers, no matter what his personal politics are. I think we should highlight that going forward, and show that even the rich aren't necessarily our enemies
Been the case for thousands of years. Even historically in Europe there were Aristocrats that would side with liberal movements that would end up stripping their own power. Not that it's common.
That is actually common. Revolts are almost never started and/or led by the poor, surviving takes to much work to do that. Che Guerva was a doctor, Washington and the were plantation owners and businessmen, etc. Even the of the Slave Revolt in Haiti wasn't a farm slave... he slave in high skilled job. Revolutions are typically led by the Middle to Upper Middle Class that felt like Merit has disppeared and the rungs of the ladder have been removed.
@@thesoypill1583I doubt that this will really help you, Opinions are quite diverse in reality and social reform enjoys broad support in theory. However, this does absolutely nothing as long as both parties categorically reject the reform.
The UK also has a mostly 2 party system due to having FPTP voting, but we were one of, maybe the first countries to have universal healthcare. It was largely brought in by 1 guy. It's so popular among the public that no party who was planning to get rid of it could get elected. If you vote hard enough you can outweigh donations. Of course keeping it when you have it on much easier than getting it when you don't have it. Both your parties know they can get elected without it so they don't have much reason to give up those bribes.
I used to think the channel mascot was just a joke making fun of all those red pill “get ripped” motivational work out videos but nope it turns out bro is just really jacked irl lol.
I’m not positive, but I think he’s also aiming for “oh I’m progressive that makes me a weak soybean beta male….oh wait I’m jacked, sorry Righties” I know if I were buff I’d probably get “soybean beta male” tattooed on my back so I could do pull ups and thus I’d quietly be making fun of everybody who says “progressive men are cucks” 😂😂😂
If they're going to play the aesthetics game, I'm not about to be on the losing side. Plus people take my soy opinions more seriously when I'm wider than them
@BodaciousCarmichael That's already proven to be wrong. Plenty of vegan athletes and bodybuilders. Some specifically because they found it the bese diet.
i do laugh when people say "we should remember someone died! this man had a family!" yeah so did the thousands of people who died at the hands of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@LorenzoCassaro because you're demanding sympathy for someone who doesn't deserve any, that's the point, he hurt people and got what was coming for him. Demanding sympathy for a monster is an actual insane expectation
For the same reason we can still sleep at night, while knowing our smartphones are made with slave labour, they too can. Because the people getting blown up by their products are far, far away.
On that note, I realized in 2001 that I could make a large profit were I to simply buy stock in offense contractors, but then I'd be a war profiteer like they are
I mean, he did address this in the vegetarian analogy: people who eat meat aren't oblivious to the conditions those animals live under, they're just desensitized to it, due to being several steps removed from the suffering.
The most frustrating thing to me is that the government has the power to regulate businesses and stop them from getting greedy/committing banal evil, but they just don't. This healthcare fiasco demonstrates to me that this is an issue with bipartisan unity, the people of any party want change. The government and big businesses refuse to give it to us.
PACs and lobbyists are out of control. The FTC/Lina Kahn were doing some good work the last 4 years. Trump has already said "bye bye" to her. The 99% is against being fleeced, of course. Most of them would never go against capitalism though, it's the greatest system in the world right? Or so they have been told everyday of their lives.
To be blunt this won't change much. If Americans genuinely cared about having better healthcare they wouldn't have voted enmass for a guy who had "concepts of a plan for healthcare" who previously tried to undermine Obama's modest reforms to the office of POTUS. For that matter Democrat primary voters aren't so keen on the matter.
Americans are largely deceived by other issues and FUD that diverts the attention from topics like healthcare. I've never met an American who thinks their healthcare system is good, which proves that there is at least a serious desire to change the situation; just there are lots of heavy obstacles to making that change, e.g. all the political offices are bought out by healthcare companies (among many other things). America is one of the most corrupt countries on Earth after all.
To be fair, Kamala didn’t have that much of a plan either. We have been trying to get universal healthcare for a century, so I’m not really holding my breath
People voted for Trump because he said he would make groceries cheaper. He won't, but he said he would. Most Dem politicians don't support universal healthcare because they're bribed. What I don't understand is why primary voters didn't vote for Bernie. The voters aren't bribed. So why wouldn't they support him? Do they like the healthcare system as it is? Or did they think he wouldn't win the general and they were voting tactically for who they thought could win rather then who they wanted the most?
Maybe if the Democrats didn't throw Bernie under the bus twice, we could've had an actual choice besides a right wing party and a center right wing party. 😅 Obviously I don't want Bernie now because he's too old, but it says a lot that Donald can change the Republican party but Democrats are so out of touch they'd literally rather try to get on the fence voters as opposed to the much larger, apathetic populace of voters who might actually be swayed to vote...for someone pushing policies they ACTUALLY WANT.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191from what I understand, Bernie had no superdelegate support when he was in the lead. The machinations of the system made its own narrative to push: that Bernie was unelectable because they wanted him to be. They wanted to make it look like Bernie was going to be a spoiler, and Sanders put Dems winning over his own personal success. Personally I'd rather he have sunk that ship intentionally because the Dems are gonna keep shooting themselves in the foot anyway.
The year is 2025. They pass a bill called the Fair Healthcare Act or something where you get a tax write off if you pay 10,000 dollars out of pocket for healthcare. And then Trump declares to glorious applause: "I solved it folks! It was a long time coming but we did it."
"A lot of people were saying, 'it couldn't be done.' But now they are saying, 'sir, we love you so much, how are you so great?' and I say, 'wooow,.what a beautiful country with a lot of great people.'"
I read an article about Thompsons funeral by the New York Times. They went into detail on how much of a supposedly great guy he was. Came from small town roots, valedictorian in high school, excelled at high school basketball and golf, was a great father to his family. They got all sorts of people who knew him (including Tim Walz) to offer their condolences and reaffirm the narrative. Meanwhile his healthcare controversies were briefly covered and glossed over. They didn’t even mention the possibility of him potentially killing and running the lives of thousands with his polices or the AI scandal. It was only briefly touched upon. The media is very clearly biased/ right wing or not. Stay strong people.
They’ve always been biased. Look at how many right wing pundits have justified the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians for the last 13+ months. Now those same people are outraged at the killing of one CEO. They won’t walk about the motive for the killing which was blatantly obvious to anyone with a pulse. They just gaslight us and try to keep the status quo. I am being radicalised very quickly.
@@elegantoddity8609true, but if someone more “conventionally bad” had died, (like someone who kills people directly instead of through health insurance) the article wouldn’t even exist. The fact that the article exists at all with all the shit we know about him, all the deaths we know he let happen, it’s king of boggling.
To be fair, he probably was all those things said. I hold the opinion that health insurance being more beholden to share holders than the people who pay into the service as unconscionable, but I wouldn’t make a comparison of him to the Nazis. We all have the ability to change the system. Someone could try to create their own insurance company, but I am positive that eventually it would find answers similar to answers insurance companies have share holders or not. While, I am sure there is a better way to do things for all of us, it would require a lot of us actually doing something, or being able to because we’re all locked into caring about the same banal day to day things
The thing is, they play with different rules than us normal people. There is no possibility for us to punish them with prison or something because the law supports them and not us.
How many people have died from not being able to afford healthcare? The study estimates that 35,327 to 44,789 people between the ages of 18 and 64 die in the U.S. each year because they lack heath insurance.
@@thesoypill1583 The methodology and data collection of the paper, as well as the conclusion, is excellent. However, the data was collected prior to the Affordable Care Act. I would be interested to see how many people (like me) were able to get free or affordable healthcare, and how that affected mortality.
A german political satirist, Georg Schramm, once said: If the rich don't respect us they should at least fear us. He would prefer respect but if that is not an option, he settles for fear. It was in the 90s and maybe it is finally comming true.
Luigi already changed my life for the better. I was denied preventative care by United Healthcare and thought it was somehow MY FAULT before this event. Then later I find out Luigi also has Spondylolisthesis (I've had it for over 10 years). It truely is debilitating. Before my wife and I keep trying for a child, we'll be switching our insurance or traveling abroad.
I hope you can get treatment- I’ve also been bounced around the healthcare system as somebody also with a chronic illness. Insurance people truly are the worst
To me, there are so many annoying parts to this conversation. It's not even healthcare business guy's fault that the system is screwed up. He's playing the game just like everyone else. If anything, it's congress who needs to be punished for paying lip service to the idea then trying to weasel out of it. It's also sooooo rich to me that Republicans are suddenly sympathetic to Luigi, because the ACA was originally supposed to include a public option but they had to re-write the bill when it didn't get enough votes the first time. Like..we can't get healthcare reform, so we vote the party in that killed the healthcare reform we already tried? Then we act like we actually wanted healthcare reform all along? Nice job, guys.
“Maybe these conversations can…” Let me cut you off right there. Conversations have been attempted for many a decade… They didn’t work. Insert quote about violent revolution being inevitable if peaceful revolution is made impossible
@@thesoypill1583 ngl chief, with the amount of propaganda and how higher education is a privilege and not a right we will never get anywhere, violent revolution is inevitable when peace is made impossible
Totally right about the banality of evil. Was working at a solar company doing proposals for a few years. Paid well, and I was insulated from most of the consequences of sales. But I tried not to think about it. Soon as I got out, talked to my friend who runs a sandwich stand about it about how happy I was to not be working there anymore. Will never forget what he said: “Oh, because it’s predatory!” Fuck.
Once again, we must remember to be good political thinkers, and remember to critique systems first and foremost. As someone once said sometime ago, material conditions something.
In an idealistic world that's a fair take. Unfortunately people are bombarded with lies by corporate media and politicians so this already sets an unfair stage. Secondly most people aren't political thinkers, or thinkers at all for that matter (case in point MAGA supporters.)
Im a conservative but I love this youtube account, I think you make great points that both sides can understand and rationalize. Will continue to watch your stuff. God bless
I'm not saying everyone would. I mean for years we killed the animals ourselves. But a fair chunk of people wouldn't be ok with it. And I think the same people who would feel bad watching a dog get tortured might have similar feelings if they knew pigs were even smarter.
@@thesoypill1583 morally i think theres no difference between a pig and a dog. but humans ability to empathise with animals is not equal for every animal. Animals people deem as “cute” are more likely to be empathised with. There are studies that demonstrate this. Our capacity for empathy is even greater when its an actual human.
1:20 Can we stop acting like it's unusual when someone has a mix of left and right wing opinions? This is what the political spectrum has done to society. You have to have all right wing or all left wing opinions
Gonna be entirely honest, these conversations *can't* happen without murder. Let's be real here, wealthy people have the means to sustain those bubbles virtually indefinitely by cutting themselves out from the bulk of society, donating to elections to maintain policy that keeps them going, etc. They're not going to bargain or compromise with people they consider themselves above. Mortality is like, THE equalizing force. Reminding them of that seems to be the only thing that scares them enough to even consider sitting down at the table. Based on the current reactions of, instead, seeking better personal security I genuinely think they need to know that won't save them either before they're ready to have these discussions.
There was a trending meme years ago where Luigi from Mario Bros was rapping to The Money Game Part 2 (The "she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore" rap). It is a song criticising the system that allows the super rich to be unethical no matter what in order to gain the most wealth. There were comments on that music video from 3 years ago saying "I knew this from Luigi" and the like. It's so surreal.
Airdrop him liveleak links. No but seriously this is something I think about a lot. I felt like we were so close with Bernie to having something better, but if people do feel like they can't choose change at the voting booth they're going to do it in other ways. If it's local politics, I really support the idea of community organizing. I've seen grass roots movements change a lot of minds, and for some reason conservatives I talk to are actually really responsive to anecdotes instead of data, so unironically showing your direct suffering may work.
@@thesoypill1583 I mean... Bernie would have implemented socialist reforms (as he's claimed he wants to do), some of which are as stupid as Trump's tariff "genius economic plans."
Just to point out, the CEO you stated he was replaced with is not his replacement. That was the CEO of United Healthcare Group, the parent company of United healthcare. Essentially it was his #1 boss.
@thesoypill1583 how many people making 400k a year have their own personal fleet of jets/yachts? There's "rich people" and actual Uber wealth. He wasn't an elite.
The saddest part is that eating animals is so normalised people don't even consider it a choice. Even when people recognise it's bad they often consider something like "meatless Monday" a virtue instead of thinking about what's on their plate all the other days of the week. Like, "It's fine to have living beings killed because I want to eat certain foods" is consider less of a statement than "let's not kill anyone if we can avoid it."
The CEOs are like soldiers for these companies. An individual death during WW2 didn’t effect anything, but enough made the higher ups rethink their approach. The killing usually wasn’t particularly personal, either, just a way to sway people’s decisions.
Democrats really need to run on this next election. Because I am worried that JD Vance runs on universal healthcare because he is talking like a populist when it comes to the economy. If they don’t, they will probably lose to freaking JD Vance. Or at least run on stopping lobbying.
Next election they will run on being even more right wing in the hopes that the 5 right wingers who aren't wearing red hats will come over to their side. Those five will not.
I found your channel about one or two weeks ago and I've been binge-watching every one of your videos. Legit you have turned into one of my favourite content creators on this site. Keep it up!
"We have to pop the bubbles of delusion instead". Ok, how do we pop the bubbles CEOs are in? Because they are more damaging than the bubbles of everyone watching this video combined.
Ima be real with you chief. I dont think voting hard enough couldve stopped that ceo from arbitrarily deciding hes stopping paying for anaesthesia after an alotted time he decided for
See this is why tony stark is such a great character. A smug arms-dealer who is captured by people who use his weapons, sees the destruction they cause, and subsequently changes his ways and puts a halt to any weapons production in order to focus on philanthropy.
I don't ignore that my consumption is unethical, I just accept it. As most people do, the sad truth is that as long as there's capital to be gained; there will always be unethical things happening. You would have to live in an island, and off the land in order to consume ethically, and well that's not viable. The answer would be to change the system; it's easier said that done.
There's a character like that in The Good Place, and he wasn't pure enough to go to heaven. But yes the system needs to change, but if enough people change their personal behavior it CAN. (probably won't tho)
@thesoypill1583 The issue is that, we are in the minority and historically we always have. We are swimming against the current, however I am hopeful. Change needs to happen.
But even living without the option to make completely ethical choices, is it not desirable to pick the *more* ethical option? Of course systemic change is 100% required but as long as there isn't, I think it's always preferable to stop personally funding the worse alternative.
@@thesoypill1583 To be fair, nobody had been pure enough to go to heaven in the good place for centuries for largely the reason that existing in a capitalist society by default means you directly benefit from the suffering of other beings.
Yeah that's all good and well, but you literally can't hold these people accountable any other way. If they rig the system so that they're untouchable by the law, they can't act surprised by this.
I'm not surprised this happened and won't be surprised if it does again, but I don't think it's impossible to hold these people accountable. This specific case is hard because the guy was just working as part of the system. Punish him for what? Following the captilistic for profit Healthcare model? When we got the ACA it moved us in the right direction and tried getting rid of the pre-existing condition BS. And i hope we can do the same for universal Healthcare. But like I said if we can't, you won't catch me crying about it when people try other stuff
@@thesoypill1583Europe is far ahead in terms of general health of its citizens compared to America as well, following a european system might be too overburdening from sheer disease obesity and overweightness causes in america
@@thesoypill1583"this specific case is hard because the guy was just working as part of the system" ah yes, a famously effective argument during the nuremburg trials. But you're right that he wasn't criminal, which is exactly why he would Never have faced legal consequences. The only thing he was going to be punished for is stealing from other rich people.
@@thesoypill1583 If it had been some filings guy on the phone following company policies it would have been problematic. CEOs are hardly just following orders. He was probably proud of how much profit he generated by denying people healthcare. That should be punished. Ideally with prison sentences, but, well... if you are willing to literally kill multiple people for your increased profit, I can only say: this is in no way an ethical dilemma. Quite neat poetic justice, actually.
@@thesoypill1583ruling classes tend to make compromises when threatened which is why Europe is the way it is as they had to take the steam out of communists. Take a page out of Bismarck’s book. If even a handful more of these situations happen I guarantee some sort of reform will occur to satiate the people although likely not full Public Healthcare option
The better justice system you're referencing also doesn't send corporate vampires to prison for killing people. We don't actually have to choose between a pursuing a better justice system and sending the message with force, unless the system makes reform impossible...then we can only remember that terrorism is just a label at this point.
What I'm hearing is we should send 10 billion dollars to israel. Also terrorism is just a label sounds like it belongs on a 40 year old southern moms kitchen wall
@@thesoypill1583What??? There's a world of difference between the people taking a violent stand against a system that reasonably won't be changed before these monsters die, and a country commiting genocide against a people they've kept in apartheid for 80 years. He's not saying force should be used by anyone under any circumstances. I don't know how you got that this logic implies a support of Israel.
I was 100% on board with Luigi until you brought up the disconnection point, including the fact that we eat meat while knowing the pain of factory farming. I appreciate the new perspective, but I don't know if i can see voting out the issue anytime soon.
Hey, Soypill. I'm a conservative that watches your videos to see good-faith arguments from the opposite side of the spectrum and I've learned a lot about the things my side echoes and things your side echoes, and how they relate to one another. Thanks for being genuine, even if I disagree with you on a lot.
i don't think luigi is gonna be the guy who radicalizes anyone new who doesn't already think american healthcare is horrible, but it's definitely nice to have people laughing at a political statement we agree with instead of ragebait
5:38 I agree the military complex is disconnected from death, but I think this points fingers in the wrong direction. People working in the Northrop Grumman aren't working to bomb children, they want to work to oppose Russia and China. To make china second guess trying to invade Taiwan. When Iron Man realised his folly he didn’t stop making weapons he just took those weapons and used them directly, not letting them get in the wrong hands. Pointing being that I would point to politicians who support giving missiles to places like Israel rather than just the people making those missiles.
Like I said, this guy could be the biggest asshole in the world, and had 0 remorse, but I know that by compartmentalizing these horrible acts, otherwise moral people can do immoral things.
From what I saw from the new CEO, it sounded like he was telling the public that even murder threats won't cause them to change their ways, so no matter what is tried, it is useless.
Mainstream media is trying to be like “CEOs are just following orders! They can’t change the system!” And it’s like. If anyone can change things, IT’S BILLIONAIRES
you see batman, I am smart and you are not smart because i am r/iamverysmart because you rhinkt hat something will happen but i am smart because i know that r/nothingeverhappens because i am an intellectual and you are not
@@thesoypill1583 real intellectual smart men realize that Luigi did not shoot Thompson, because then something would have to have happened. nothing ever happens.
I do think we can have better discussions about this and get things done without violence. However, regular people are tapped out. They've been screaming to talk for at least 35yrs now. It's up to the elite to start, otherwise it's just going to get worse
Hey, for anyone reading this who might be interested I sorta stopped eating lots of meat since a while. I’d say I eat meat every 3-5 days. So I’m by no means vegan. But, I don’t really have the money and time to form a balanced diet without meat, but I can at least do that.
Nobody in my country has voted in favor of public insurance. Bismarck introduced it because he was afraid that the horrible conditions of the working class could lead to a revolution and the overthrow of the monarchy in the German Reich. Every measure of the welfare state in my country was written in blood and fought for on the streets. I wish it were different, I wish liberal democracies were not inevitably corrupted by the will of the rich and the industrial elite. Unfortunately, class warfare is real and the general population will lose out until they start to jeopardize the security of those in power.
United Health's war on "unnecessary treatment" speaks volumes about the company's values; they'd rather risk lives than risk money, even though they already have billions.
Agreeable yes, as hard as it is to have sympathy for the man as far removed from the common man as he, and for the lives he's indirectly ruined, I still don't recommend spilling the milk. It's a systems problem, they are just conducive to enforce that status quo. And the damn status quo got a carrot and a stick.
Switzerland has a private insurance system but unlike America it's more regulated and held accountable, and you're required to have it. Plus, the salaries are high enough for people to pay for it. Also our life expectancy isn't just because of bad healthcare, it's mostly do to people eating like shit and putting chemicals into their bodies
Watching the American online leftists hailing Luigi as their hero and savior is fucking funny to me. He didn't fix anything, and in the long term his actions most likely won't change anything for the better. He's just a very convenient anger outlet for them. But I guess that now that Trump is gonna be the president this is all they can do to cope
@thesoypill1583 I know, but out of all sides of the political spectrum over there, the left seems to be the loudest. All of the social media I use reflect this. For the past few days I can't scroll through r/popular on reddit without seeing at least 1 post from a leftist sub celebrating the assassination, or scroll through bluesky's discover feed without seeing at least 1 leftist defending Luigi, or scroll through tumblr's "for you" feed without seeing at least 5 different posts of tankies turning Luigi into a matyr and calling for a communist revolution. You get the idea The right is kinda doing the same but much quieter, which I think is half because they're still busy getting high on Trump's victory, and half because some of them know deep down how much of hypocrites they're being. Cheering for the death of an ultimately unimportant CEO of a healthcare company while voting for an idiot who only has "a concept of a plan" as the president of the whole country just to own the left
So I had a cousin who did the factory farm thing while I ate a burger. My siblings and I just ate the burgers and found it fascinating but also wanted better conditions for animals. We wouldn't press the button though. We've felt we've been the victim of that button pushing thing for too long and only one of us 6 would consider it.
I've actually given this topic a lot of thought over the past few years. My idea was to enact legislation that requires CEOs to attend the funerals of their workers that die on the job. My biggest problem with our world is that we've actually put a price on a human life. Yet, when someone steals money equivalent to tens of human lives... they are a "white-collar criminal" that goes to prison for a few years (if at all).
7:10 this quote reminds me of all the quotes coming from Israeli politicians and media figures celebrating the mass death and suffering they are inflicting on their Palestinian neighbors. Like Naftali Bennet bragging about how he’s “killed lots of Arabs in his life” and thinks Arab prisoners should just be executed rather than await trial. :( sick stuff in this world.
What do rich people think will happend, if they keep hoarding all the wealth and the rest of us are fucked? Do they think they'll be able to go to a restaurant safely, take a walk, go hiking?
I don't think it was the insider trading because that is only a theoretical crime, only punished when they want to get rid of the people doing it. So in this case, they'd just be paying to get rid of him twice, and they could've just fired him at the jump.
@ I considered it, but I don’t think I’d be able to change their minds. I’ve tried to show them Donald’s connections to Epstein and Diddy and they just handwaved them away or tried to change the subject. Party loyalty is rotting their brains
“There was a tradition, once, far back in the past, called the King of the Bean. A special dish was severed to all the men of the clan on certain day of the year. It contained one small hard-baked bean, and whoever got the bean was, possibly after some dental attention, hailed as king. It was quite an inexpensive system, and it worked well, probably because the clever little bald men who actually ran things and paid some attention to possible candidates were experts at palming a bean into a right bowl. And while crop ripened and the tribe thrived and the land was fertile, the king thrived, too. But when, in the fullness of time, crops failed and the ice came back and animals were inexplicably barren, the clever little bald men sharpened their long knives, which were mostly used to cutting mistletoe. And on the due night, one of them went his cave and carefully baked one small bean. Of course, that was before people were civilized. These days, no one had to eat beans.” - Night Watch (2002), by Terry Pratchett
a meat eater going by "the soy pill" is stolen valor
“Meat eater” used as a derogatory here made me giggle… it shouldn’t, but it does.
@@stutzy64 Blood mouth is funnier imo
You are not wrong
Animals eat soy
Carnist is a common term.
It’s notable that President Truman tried to give us single payer healthcare all the way back in the 1940s, but he was stopped by lobbying from the private health insurance industry.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 yeah pretty much every president up to Carter ran on socializing healthcare.
@@thomasffrench3639 Definitely not. Nixon, Eisenhower, and Ford opposed the endeavor to "socialize" healthcare, (though they did consider alternate soluitions to making healthcare more affordable.) Kennedy's proposals weren't more than the current medicare and medicaid and were actually more limited than the versions LBJ passed and it's those versions that we have today. FDR was quite vague when it came to healthcare and the New Deal didn't address healthcare much. Truman and Teddy both promised a notional health care system, though under Truman's plan private insurance still exists and I don't know about the specifics of Teddy's plan because it was only a part of his platform for the Progressive Party.
@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 yeah, I always forget Ford exists. But I what I meant was that Nixon wanted to increase healthcare coverage. I was too specific
@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 okay, I just used used socialize with a more board idea of wider range than just socialize. Thanks for clarifying
one more reason to get big money out of politics and outlaw corporate lobbying
I heard the quote, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." The fact that it took a CEO murder for people to take the healthcare problem seriously shows just how broken the American system is.
JFK
Did it really make ‘people’ take healthcare more seriously? Sure maybe some, however are you sure the majority of US citizens didn’t already take it seriously? Instead are distracted from other correlated but not causation issues?
@comradeofthebalance3147 Exactly, most people are just fetishizing him and/or talking bout how this is some "first shot heard around the world" type shit. Nah, this ain't. Change starts on the streets, in the home, in soup kitchens, in schools, in churches, and any place of community.
@@comradeofthebalance3147it's america, we're young, we'll die of our own consequences before we ever stop thinking everything is a joke. i'm just glad everyone i've talked to about this issue was like, "hell yeah," this is the only way to get people who don't give a shit about being political to choose the left when it's so much easier to laugh at right wing sigma edits
"Broken" its not broken its supposed to be this way
One of the most interesting aspects of this whole thing is that Luigi came from money. Old money at that. And even he was radicalized by healthcare in this country. Even someone so insulated against the consequences of injury could tell that something was devastatingly wrong. And he decided to do something about it.
He really is built different from his socioeconomic peers, no matter what his personal politics are. I think we should highlight that going forward, and show that even the rich aren't necessarily our enemies
Been the case for thousands of years. Even historically in Europe there were Aristocrats that would side with liberal movements that would end up stripping their own power.
Not that it's common.
@@EpicMiniMeatwadMarx and Engels is probably one of the most famous examples
@@EpicMiniMeatwadJ.B Priestly comes to mind
That is actually common. Revolts are almost never started and/or led by the poor, surviving takes to much work to do that. Che Guerva was a doctor, Washington and the were plantation owners and businessmen, etc. Even the of the Slave Revolt in Haiti wasn't a farm slave... he slave in high skilled job. Revolutions are typically led by the Middle to Upper Middle Class that felt like Merit has disppeared and the rungs of the ladder have been removed.
@@PJDAltamirus0425 Fascinating stuff.
The problem, of course, is that unlike most european countries, america has a firm 2-party system, and voting harder just doesn't change that.
I think Bernie may have set us on the right path but I may just be optimistic
@@thesoypill1583 What did Bernie do?
Completely shift the overton window imo
@@thesoypill1583I doubt that this will really help you, Opinions are quite diverse in reality and social reform enjoys broad support in theory.
However, this does absolutely nothing as long as both parties categorically reject the reform.
The UK also has a mostly 2 party system due to having FPTP voting, but we were one of, maybe the first countries to have universal healthcare. It was largely brought in by 1 guy. It's so popular among the public that no party who was planning to get rid of it could get elected. If you vote hard enough you can outweigh donations. Of course keeping it when you have it on much easier than getting it when you don't have it. Both your parties know they can get elected without it so they don't have much reason to give up those bribes.
New York just became the Oldest Anarchy Server in Minecraft
is luigi popbob?
SLAVE LABOR
No, that would be either Latin America or Middle East. Both are still competing for the 1st place title
@sandrohernandez4401 Brazil is literally just a GTA lobby
reddit is down the hall and to the left
I used to think the channel mascot was just a joke making fun of all those red pill “get ripped” motivational work out videos but nope it turns out bro is just really jacked irl lol.
I’m not positive, but I think he’s also aiming for “oh I’m progressive that makes me a weak soybean beta male….oh wait I’m jacked, sorry Righties”
I know if I were buff I’d probably get “soybean beta male” tattooed on my back so I could do pull ups and thus I’d quietly be making fun of everybody who says “progressive men are cucks” 😂😂😂
If they're going to play the aesthetics game, I'm not about to be on the losing side. Plus people take my soy opinions more seriously when I'm wider than them
@@thesoypill1583 Dude that type of physique is only possible with meat. Stop trying to pass off an enhanced build, as a regular soy build.
@BodaciousCarmichaelyou clearly haven't seen the pumped vegan bodybuilding community!
@BodaciousCarmichael
That's already proven to be wrong. Plenty of vegan athletes and bodybuilders. Some specifically because they found it the bese diet.
i do laugh when people say "we should remember someone died! this man had a family!"
yeah so did the thousands of people who died at the hands of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why is it so hard for you to condemn both things at once?
None of the people crying about Brian cared about thousands of kids in Gaza.
@LorenzoCassaro because you're demanding sympathy for someone who doesn't deserve any, that's the point, he hurt people and got what was coming for him. Demanding sympathy for a monster is an actual insane expectation
@@LorenzoCassaroBecause he hurt people. you're Demanding sympathy for a monster which is actually insane!
@@aluisious wrong , many had have talked about the genocide in Gaza, this is just am issue that hits closer to home for many of us
I’m sorry but I can’t believe that people who work for a company which makes weapons are oblivious to what those weapons are used for
Not oblivious! Just delusional and disconnected
For the same reason we can still sleep at night, while knowing our smartphones are made with slave labour, they too can.
Because the people getting blown up by their products are far, far away.
On that note, I realized in 2001 that I could make a large profit were I to simply buy stock in offense contractors, but then I'd be a war profiteer like they are
I mean, he did address this in the vegetarian analogy: people who eat meat aren't oblivious to the conditions those animals live under, they're just desensitized to it, due to being several steps removed from the suffering.
Also one could argue that the end user is more responsible for the suffering caused than the manufacturer.
The most frustrating thing to me is that the government has the power to regulate businesses and stop them from getting greedy/committing banal evil, but they just don't. This healthcare fiasco demonstrates to me that this is an issue with bipartisan unity, the people of any party want change. The government and big businesses refuse to give it to us.
It's not that there's bipartisan unity, it's that a lot of right wing people actually hold some progressive values by accident.
@@PlatinumAltaria Well yes, but that is also probably true with a lot of politicians.
PACs and lobbyists are out of control. The FTC/Lina Kahn were doing some good work the last 4 years. Trump has already said "bye bye" to her. The 99% is against being fleeced, of course. Most of them would never go against capitalism though, it's the greatest system in the world right? Or so they have been told everyday of their lives.
Just imagine if this happened before the election, I don’t know if it would’ve been enough for trump to not win
To be blunt this won't change much. If Americans genuinely cared about having better healthcare they wouldn't have voted enmass for a guy who had "concepts of a plan for healthcare" who previously tried to undermine Obama's modest reforms to the office of POTUS.
For that matter Democrat primary voters aren't so keen on the matter.
Americans are largely deceived by other issues and FUD that diverts the attention from topics like healthcare. I've never met an American who thinks their healthcare system is good, which proves that there is at least a serious desire to change the situation; just there are lots of heavy obstacles to making that change, e.g. all the political offices are bought out by healthcare companies (among many other things). America is one of the most corrupt countries on Earth after all.
To be fair, Kamala didn’t have that much of a plan either. We have been trying to get universal healthcare for a century, so I’m not really holding my breath
People voted for Trump because he said he would make groceries cheaper. He won't, but he said he would. Most Dem politicians don't support universal healthcare because they're bribed. What I don't understand is why primary voters didn't vote for Bernie. The voters aren't bribed. So why wouldn't they support him? Do they like the healthcare system as it is? Or did they think he wouldn't win the general and they were voting tactically for who they thought could win rather then who they wanted the most?
Maybe if the Democrats didn't throw Bernie under the bus twice, we could've had an actual choice besides a right wing party and a center right wing party. 😅
Obviously I don't want Bernie now because he's too old, but it says a lot that Donald can change the Republican party but Democrats are so out of touch they'd literally rather try to get on the fence voters as opposed to the much larger, apathetic populace of voters who might actually be swayed to vote...for someone pushing policies they ACTUALLY WANT.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191from what I understand, Bernie had no superdelegate support when he was in the lead. The machinations of the system made its own narrative to push: that Bernie was unelectable because they wanted him to be. They wanted to make it look like Bernie was going to be a spoiler, and Sanders put Dems winning over his own personal success.
Personally I'd rather he have sunk that ship intentionally because the Dems are gonna keep shooting themselves in the foot anyway.
The year is 2025. They pass a bill called the Fair Healthcare Act or something where you get a tax write off if you pay 10,000 dollars out of pocket for healthcare. And then Trump declares to glorious applause: "I solved it folks! It was a long time coming but we did it."
"A lot of people were saying, 'it couldn't be done.' But now they are saying, 'sir, we love you so much, how are you so great?' and I say, 'wooow,.what a beautiful country with a lot of great people.'"
I read an article about Thompsons funeral by the New York Times. They went into detail on how much of a supposedly great guy he was. Came from small town roots, valedictorian in high school, excelled at high school basketball and golf, was a great father to his family. They got all sorts of people who knew him (including Tim Walz) to offer their condolences and reaffirm the narrative. Meanwhile his healthcare controversies were briefly covered and glossed over. They didn’t even mention the possibility of him potentially killing and running the lives of thousands with his polices or the AI scandal. It was only briefly touched upon. The media is very clearly biased/ right wing or not. Stay strong people.
In fairness, it was about his funeral, so maybe don't slag the guy off *there*. Need a different article for that.
They’ve always been biased.
Look at how many right wing pundits have justified the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians for the last 13+ months. Now those same people are outraged at the killing of one CEO.
They won’t walk about the motive for the killing which was blatantly obvious to anyone with a pulse. They just gaslight us and try to keep the status quo.
I am being radicalised very quickly.
Did they reveal where this new gender neutral bathroom was opened in Thompson's memory?
@@elegantoddity8609true, but if someone more “conventionally bad” had died, (like someone who kills people directly instead of through health insurance) the article wouldn’t even exist. The fact that the article exists at all with all the shit we know about him, all the deaths we know he let happen, it’s king of boggling.
To be fair, he probably was all those things said. I hold the opinion that health insurance being more beholden to share holders than the people who pay into the service as unconscionable, but I wouldn’t make a comparison of him to the Nazis. We all have the ability to change the system. Someone could try to create their own insurance company, but I am positive that eventually it would find answers similar to answers insurance companies have share holders or not. While, I am sure there is a better way to do things for all of us, it would require a lot of us actually doing something, or being able to because we’re all locked into caring about the same banal day to day things
The thing is, they play with different rules than us normal people.
There is no possibility for us to punish them with prison or something because the law supports them and not us.
How many people have died from not being able to afford healthcare?
The study estimates that 35,327 to 44,789 people between the ages of 18 and 64 die in the U.S. each year because they lack heath insurance.
Which study is this?
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008.157685
@@thesoypill1583 The methodology and data collection of the paper, as well as the conclusion, is excellent. However, the data was collected prior to the Affordable Care Act. I would be interested to see how many people (like me) were able to get free or affordable healthcare, and how that affected mortality.
Calling yourself "Soy Pill" while not being vegan is diabolical lmao
I will admit he’s quite easy on the eyes
Luigi’s mansion 4 boss better be the CEO or I will be cranky.
Nothing that mods cannot solve.
A german political satirist, Georg Schramm, once said: If the rich don't respect us they should at least fear us. He would prefer respect but if that is not an option, he settles for fear.
It was in the 90s and maybe it is finally comming true.
Yeah that's way more German than just trying to vote really hard.
Luigi already changed my life for the better. I was denied preventative care by United Healthcare and thought it was somehow MY FAULT before this event. Then later I find out Luigi also has Spondylolisthesis (I've had it for over 10 years). It truely is debilitating. Before my wife and I keep trying for a child, we'll be switching our insurance or traveling abroad.
I hope you can get treatment- I’ve also been bounced around the healthcare system as somebody also with a chronic illness. Insurance people truly are the worst
Man that summer of pokemon go was great....up until I was robbed at gunpoint.
For me it was up until Niantic nerfed remote raids. I think it genuinely killed hype for the game in my community.
I remember they basically EMP'ed the cell data in my middle school to get kids to stop playing it in class
To me, there are so many annoying parts to this conversation. It's not even healthcare business guy's fault that the system is screwed up. He's playing the game just like everyone else. If anything, it's congress who needs to be punished for paying lip service to the idea then trying to weasel out of it. It's also sooooo rich to me that Republicans are suddenly sympathetic to Luigi, because the ACA was originally supposed to include a public option but they had to re-write the bill when it didn't get enough votes the first time.
Like..we can't get healthcare reform, so we vote the party in that killed the healthcare reform we already tried? Then we act like we actually wanted healthcare reform all along? Nice job, guys.
“Maybe these conversations can…”
Let me cut you off right there. Conversations have been attempted for many a decade…
They didn’t work.
Insert quote about violent revolution being inevitable if peaceful revolution is made impossible
You haven't even tried peaceful revolution though... no one's actually done anything. You're jumping straight to violence from sitting on the couch.
I think there's still plenty of things we haven't tried in-between revolution and voting half-assed every 4 years
@@thesoypill1583 ngl chief, with the amount of propaganda and how higher education is a privilege and not a right we will never get anywhere, violent revolution is inevitable when peace is made impossible
Totally right about the banality of evil. Was working at a solar company doing proposals for a few years. Paid well, and I was insulated from most of the consequences of sales. But I tried not to think about it. Soon as I got out, talked to my friend who runs a sandwich stand about it about how happy I was to not be working there anymore. Will never forget what he said: “Oh, because it’s predatory!” Fuck.
Once again, we must remember to be good political thinkers, and remember to critique systems first and foremost. As someone once said sometime ago, material conditions something.
In an idealistic world that's a fair take. Unfortunately people are bombarded with lies by corporate media and politicians so this already sets an unfair stage. Secondly most people aren't political thinkers, or thinkers at all for that matter (case in point MAGA supporters.)
@SamWilkinsonn then material conditions dictate we need to outshitpost the media apparatus
Im a conservative but I love this youtube account, I think you make great points that both sides can understand and rationalize. Will continue to watch your stuff. God bless
Thanks so much for hearing me out!
5:50 if this logic were true 100% of people that work in these farms would be vegan. I can guarantee you they arent.
I'm not saying everyone would.
I mean for years we killed the animals ourselves. But a fair chunk of people wouldn't be ok with it. And I think the same people who would feel bad watching a dog get tortured might have similar feelings if they knew pigs were even smarter.
@@thesoypill1583 morally i think theres no difference between a pig and a dog. but humans ability to empathise with animals is not equal for every animal. Animals people deem as “cute” are more likely to be empathised with. There are studies that demonstrate this. Our capacity for empathy is even greater when its an actual human.
@@thomastimbershed9665while humans always ate animals, we didn't keep them in the horrible conditions they are in now when we had to see them
@@thomastimbershed9665
Sure, but if people saw firsthand the torture, the discussion would change.
I don't think a Vegan could work there
Bro Waluigi and Wario are probably pissed they didn't think of that lmao.
If we’re being honest, Wario probably IS a healthcare CEO
@Bird_in_a_Trenchcoat yeah sounds about right
1:20 Can we stop acting like it's unusual when someone has a mix of left and right wing opinions? This is what the political spectrum has done to society. You have to have all right wing or all left wing opinions
Nah he has to pick a team or else I can't put him in a quadrant
Gonna be entirely honest, these conversations *can't* happen without murder. Let's be real here, wealthy people have the means to sustain those bubbles virtually indefinitely by cutting themselves out from the bulk of society, donating to elections to maintain policy that keeps them going, etc. They're not going to bargain or compromise with people they consider themselves above.
Mortality is like, THE equalizing force. Reminding them of that seems to be the only thing that scares them enough to even consider sitting down at the table. Based on the current reactions of, instead, seeking better personal security I genuinely think they need to know that won't save them either before they're ready to have these discussions.
Maybe! Although I think Bernie made this a big deal just with rhetoric. And I'm still not sure this changes anything.
There was a trending meme years ago where Luigi from Mario Bros was rapping to The Money Game Part 2 (The "she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore" rap).
It is a song criticising the system that allows the super rich to be unethical no matter what in order to gain the most wealth. There were comments on that music video from 3 years ago saying "I knew this from Luigi" and the like.
It's so surreal.
Ahh that one was fire, I saw that recently again a couple months ago. 🔥
Nice talking. So how do you suggest I get my lokal conservative Politician to look at the suffering they might not cause, but definitely enable.
Airdrop him liveleak links.
No but seriously this is something I think about a lot. I felt like we were so close with Bernie to having something better, but if people do feel like they can't choose change at the voting booth they're going to do it in other ways.
If it's local politics, I really support the idea of community organizing. I've seen grass roots movements change a lot of minds, and for some reason conservatives I talk to are actually really responsive to anecdotes instead of data, so unironically showing your direct suffering may work.
@@thesoypill1583 I mean... Bernie would have implemented socialist reforms (as he's claimed he wants to do), some of which are as stupid as Trump's tariff "genius economic plans."
2:15 - That's Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the owners of "UnitedHealthcare" insurance. - Andrew has been CEO of the Group since Nov 2019
Boss's boss
7:58 maybe these conversations cant happen without murder. No one was talking bout healthcare a few weeks ago.
"no one was talking about healthcare" bro it's literally one of the biggest problems people have with america
I was, but i bet a bunch of people won't be in like 6 months thanks to internet time.
Just to point out, the CEO you stated he was replaced with is not his replacement. That was the CEO of United Healthcare Group, the parent company of United healthcare. Essentially it was his #1 boss.
I appreciate all the people calling out when I got something wrong! Ty!
Nah, im vegan and your rage is justified.
He was not a rich elite.
People making 400k a year have more in common with someone making 40k than 40m.
I mean monetarily they're closer, but in terms of lifestyle? Probably not that different. It think the ceo had a house worth 1.2million
@thesoypill1583 how many people making 400k a year have their own personal fleet of jets/yachts? There's "rich people" and actual Uber wealth. He wasn't an elite.
Fair, if that's the limit then he was nowhere close.
Man, that animal farming analogy opened my eyes up. I never considered what goes on my plate before.
You have in turn disproved my statement that no one was hearing this for the first time.
The saddest part is that eating animals is so normalised people don't even consider it a choice.
Even when people recognise it's bad they often consider something like "meatless Monday" a virtue instead of thinking about what's on their plate all the other days of the week.
Like, "It's fine to have living beings killed because I want to eat certain foods" is consider less of a statement than "let's not kill anyone if we can avoid it."
The CEOs are like soldiers for these companies. An individual death during WW2 didn’t effect anything, but enough made the higher ups rethink their approach. The killing usually wasn’t particularly personal, either, just a way to sway people’s decisions.
Democrats really need to run on this next election. Because I am worried that JD Vance runs on universal healthcare because he is talking like a populist when it comes to the economy. If they don’t, they will probably lose to freaking JD Vance. Or at least run on stopping lobbying.
Next election they will run on being even more right wing in the hopes that the 5 right wingers who aren't wearing red hats will come over to their side. Those five will not.
I found your channel about one or two weeks ago and I've been binge-watching every one of your videos. Legit you have turned into one of my favourite content creators on this site. Keep it up!
Thanks so much for the support! It really means a lot.
Lol that was me like a month ago- he’s incredibly underrated
"We have to pop the bubbles of delusion instead". Ok, how do we pop the bubbles CEOs are in? Because they are more damaging than the bubbles of everyone watching this video combined.
Ima be real with you chief. I dont think voting hard enough couldve stopped that ceo from arbitrarily deciding hes stopping paying for anaesthesia after an alotted time he decided for
We were close-ish to voting in a public option. I still have some hope.
See this is why tony stark is such a great character. A smug arms-dealer who is captured by people who use his weapons, sees the destruction they cause, and subsequently changes his ways and puts a halt to any weapons production in order to focus on philanthropy.
I don't ignore that my consumption is unethical, I just accept it. As most people do, the sad truth is that as long as there's capital to be gained; there will always be unethical things happening. You would have to live in an island, and off the land in order to consume ethically, and well that's not viable. The answer would be to change the system; it's easier said that done.
There's a character like that in The Good Place, and he wasn't pure enough to go to heaven.
But yes the system needs to change, but if enough people change their personal behavior it CAN. (probably won't tho)
@@thesoypill1583 i too base my moral philosophy on network television
@thesoypill1583 The issue is that, we are in the minority and historically we always have. We are swimming against the current, however I am hopeful. Change needs to happen.
But even living without the option to make completely ethical choices, is it not desirable to pick the *more* ethical option? Of course systemic change is 100% required but as long as there isn't, I think it's always preferable to stop personally funding the worse alternative.
@@thesoypill1583 To be fair, nobody had been pure enough to go to heaven in the good place for centuries for largely the reason that existing in a capitalist society by default means you directly benefit from the suffering of other beings.
Yeah that's all good and well, but you literally can't hold these people accountable any other way. If they rig the system so that they're untouchable by the law, they can't act surprised by this.
I'm not surprised this happened and won't be surprised if it does again, but I don't think it's impossible to hold these people accountable. This specific case is hard because the guy was just working as part of the system. Punish him for what? Following the captilistic for profit Healthcare model?
When we got the ACA it moved us in the right direction and tried getting rid of the pre-existing condition BS. And i hope we can do the same for universal Healthcare.
But like I said if we can't, you won't catch me crying about it when people try other stuff
@@thesoypill1583Europe is far ahead in terms of general health of its citizens compared to America as well, following a european system might be too overburdening from sheer disease obesity and overweightness causes in america
@@thesoypill1583"this specific case is hard because the guy was just working as part of the system" ah yes, a famously effective argument during the nuremburg trials. But you're right that he wasn't criminal, which is exactly why he would Never have faced legal consequences. The only thing he was going to be punished for is stealing from other rich people.
@@thesoypill1583 If it had been some filings guy on the phone following company policies it would have been problematic. CEOs are hardly just following orders. He was probably proud of how much profit he generated by denying people healthcare. That should be punished. Ideally with prison sentences, but, well... if you are willing to literally kill multiple people for your increased profit, I can only say: this is in no way an ethical dilemma. Quite neat poetic justice, actually.
@@thesoypill1583ruling classes tend to make compromises when threatened which is why Europe is the way it is as they had to take the steam out of communists. Take a page out of Bismarck’s book. If even a handful more of these situations happen I guarantee some sort of reform will occur to satiate the people although likely not full Public Healthcare option
The better justice system you're referencing also doesn't send corporate vampires to prison for killing people. We don't actually have to choose between a pursuing a better justice system and sending the message with force, unless the system makes reform impossible...then we can only remember that terrorism is just a label at this point.
What I'm hearing is we should send 10 billion dollars to israel. Also
terrorism is just a label sounds like it belongs on a 40 year old southern moms kitchen wall
@@thesoypill1583What??? There's a world of difference between the people taking a violent stand against a system that reasonably won't be changed before these monsters die, and a country commiting genocide against a people they've kept in apartheid for 80 years. He's not saying force should be used by anyone under any circumstances. I don't know how you got that this logic implies a support of Israel.
It doesn't at all relate to Israel. US government joke.
Sorry for making myself look stupider than I am
@@thesoypill1583 Ah, my mistake. I get you now lmao
I was 100% on board with Luigi until you brought up the disconnection point, including the fact that we eat meat while knowing the pain of factory farming. I appreciate the new perspective, but I don't know if i can see voting out the issue anytime soon.
Hey, Soypill. I'm a conservative that watches your videos to see good-faith arguments from the opposite side of the spectrum and I've learned a lot about the things my side echoes and things your side echoes, and how they relate to one another. Thanks for being genuine, even if I disagree with you on a lot.
Thanks so much for trying to hear the other side! That means a lot I appreciate it.
That's said you're not subscribed and I'll never ever forget that.
1:44 with the Trump majority in the government I highly doubt it. Only if dems do extremely well in 2026 and 2028 do I see this coming to fruition
And if they go more populist left
i don't think luigi is gonna be the guy who radicalizes anyone new who doesn't already think american healthcare is horrible, but it's definitely nice to have people laughing at a political statement we agree with instead of ragebait
Oh, it's him. The Soy Pill.
I'm sorry. It's me. The soy pill
5:38 I agree the military complex is disconnected from death, but I think this points fingers in the wrong direction. People working in the Northrop Grumman aren't working to bomb children, they want to work to oppose Russia and China. To make china second guess trying to invade Taiwan. When Iron Man realised his folly he didn’t stop making weapons he just took those weapons and used them directly, not letting them get in the wrong hands. Pointing being that I would point to politicians who support giving missiles to places like Israel rather than just the people making those missiles.
You're right it's not all one party and the manufacturers are just 1 element
Yeah this CEO was caught using an AI to deny 90% of claims. He knew what he was doing.
Like I said, this guy could be the biggest asshole in the world, and had 0 remorse, but I know that by compartmentalizing these horrible acts, otherwise moral people can do immoral things.
Love love this video so much! Very cool take
From what I saw from the new CEO, it sounded like he was telling the public that even murder threats won't cause them to change their ways, so no matter what is tried, it is useless.
Another great video as always, great to see how much your channel’s growing!
Mainstream media is trying to be like “CEOs are just following orders! They can’t change the system!”
And it’s like. If anyone can change things, IT’S BILLIONAIRES
Yeah they are the ones lobbying to keep the system how it is
I am vegan so therefore I can support privatized healthcare. I have excellent listening comprehension. o7
YOOOO, I’ve been waiting like a week at least for this.
This is your best video yet
you see batman, I am smart and you are not smart because i am r/iamverysmart because you rhinkt hat something will happen but i am smart because i know that r/nothingeverhappens because i am an intellectual and you are not
Riddle me this batman!
He stars in great games
That are hours of fun,
This green brother plumber
Is armed with a gun.
@@thesoypill1583 real intellectual smart men realize that Luigi did not shoot Thompson, because then something would have to have happened. nothing ever happens.
I legitimately would not be upset at all if the top 100 CEOs were....
What do you hate shareholder value or something?
@@thesoypill1583 The shareholders will be fine. Peter Thiel disappearing won't hurt anyone
I do think we can have better discussions about this and get things done without violence. However, regular people are tapped out. They've been screaming to talk for at least 35yrs now. It's up to the elite to start, otherwise it's just going to get worse
7:44 you had me there for a second ngl
Hey, for anyone reading this who might be interested
I sorta stopped eating lots of meat since a while. I’d say I eat meat every 3-5 days.
So I’m by no means vegan. But, I don’t really have the money and time to form a balanced diet without meat, but I can at least do that.
Better than me!
@ well, I guess that food costing 10x what I can afford helped to form the habit lmao!
You stole my theory. Glad I'm not the only one thinking rationally.
actual political nuance in MY yt recommendations?? unheard of
Loving your videos. Keep it up soypill!
o7
Lmao at the button joke
Thank you for being the first commenter on that. That was my favorite part of the video to make :)
Nobody in my country has voted in favor of public insurance.
Bismarck introduced it because he was afraid that the horrible conditions of the working class could lead to a revolution and the overthrow of the monarchy in the German Reich.
Every measure of the welfare state in my country was written in blood and fought for on the streets.
I wish it were different, I wish liberal democracies were not inevitably corrupted by the will of the rich and the industrial elite.
Unfortunately, class warfare is real and the general population will lose out until they start to jeopardize the security of those in power.
So you are saying we should make saw traps and mazes
thanks for adding cool guy, soy man,
-your friend
M5a
United Health's war on "unnecessary treatment" speaks volumes about the company's values; they'd rather risk lives than risk money, even though they already have billions.
Hate the game, not the player.
Hate the game and the players
I still think i agree with Mario's brother
So what you're saying is that if I want my meat consumption to be less unethical, I should be eating CEO's?
I see, you played Cruelty Squad.
Actually no but now I have a new game
Never thought that Propaganda of the deed would be brought back in my time
8:05 Based Arrested Development enjoyer.
Yay someone saw it!
Agreeable yes, as hard as it is to have sympathy for the man as far removed from the common man as he, and for the lives he's indirectly ruined, I still don't recommend spilling the milk. It's a systems problem, they are just conducive to enforce that status quo. And the damn status quo got a carrot and a stick.
4:20 Impossible. No, it's definitely about me. They make their decisions based on me.
1:33 how does this topic come up with your LANDLORD
"Luigi I haven't heard you banging this month. Is something wrong?"
Switzerland has a private insurance system but unlike America it's more regulated and held accountable, and you're required to have it. Plus, the salaries are high enough for people to pay for it. Also our life expectancy isn't just because of bad healthcare, it's mostly do to people eating like shit and putting chemicals into their bodies
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Swiss detected. Your cheese is a scam it's full of holes.
Yeah, it’s mostly the obesity. American healthcare quality actually isn’t that terrible compared to other systems at keeping people alive
From a vegan, this is the most based review I have seen in a while.
That creepy bald guy isn't the dead guy's replacement. The creepy bald guy is already the CEO of the parent company of the dead guy.
Watching the American online leftists hailing Luigi as their hero and savior is fucking funny to me. He didn't fix anything, and in the long term his actions most likely won't change anything for the better. He's just a very convenient anger outlet for them. But I guess that now that Trump is gonna be the president this is all they can do to cope
It's not just the left. Lots of disenfranchised people are happy about it
@thesoypill1583 I know, but out of all sides of the political spectrum over there, the left seems to be the loudest. All of the social media I use reflect this. For the past few days I can't scroll through r/popular on reddit without seeing at least 1 post from a leftist sub celebrating the assassination, or scroll through bluesky's discover feed without seeing at least 1 leftist defending Luigi, or scroll through tumblr's "for you" feed without seeing at least 5 different posts of tankies turning Luigi into a matyr and calling for a communist revolution. You get the idea
The right is kinda doing the same but much quieter, which I think is half because they're still busy getting high on Trump's victory, and half because some of them know deep down how much of hypocrites they're being. Cheering for the death of an ultimately unimportant CEO of a healthcare company while voting for an idiot who only has "a concept of a plan" as the president of the whole country just to own the left
So I had a cousin who did the factory farm thing while I ate a burger. My siblings and I just ate the burgers and found it fascinating but also wanted better conditions for animals.
We wouldn't press the button though. We've felt we've been the victim of that button pushing thing for too long and only one of us 6 would consider it.
I've actually given this topic a lot of thought over the past few years. My idea was to enact legislation that requires CEOs to attend the funerals of their workers that die on the job. My biggest problem with our world is that we've actually put a price on a human life. Yet, when someone steals money equivalent to tens of human lives... they are a "white-collar criminal" that goes to prison for a few years (if at all).
Just wanted to comment keep up the good work I really enjoy your content
Thank you! Making a new one right now :)
7:10 this quote reminds me of all the quotes coming from Israeli politicians and media figures celebrating the mass death and suffering they are inflicting on their Palestinian neighbors. Like Naftali Bennet bragging about how he’s “killed lots of Arabs in his life” and thinks Arab prisoners should just be executed rather than await trial. :( sick stuff in this world.
What do rich people think will happend, if they keep hoarding all the wealth and the rest of us are fucked? Do they think they'll be able to go to a restaurant safely, take a walk, go hiking?
Good talks but I think main problem lies in Two-party system
A real question is asking why Europe has universal healthcare
if there is anything that i have learned from Hitman WoA, it is that "noone is untouchable"
MC.Hammer
free luigi, free palestine, free iraq, free america, free the world!
Good video bro 👍
I don't think it was the insider trading because that is only a theoretical crime, only punished when they want to get rid of the people doing it. So in this case, they'd just be paying to get rid of him twice, and they could've just fired him at the jump.
My mom called him a cowardly murderer, and even though I expected her to, I’m still disappointed. My parents so brainwashed by the daily wire
tell them to read the dw comments lol
@ I considered it, but I don’t think I’d be able to change their minds. I’ve tried to show them Donald’s connections to Epstein and Diddy and they just handwaved them away or tried to change the subject. Party loyalty is rotting their brains
“There was a tradition, once, far back in the past, called the King of the Bean. A special dish was severed to all the men of the clan on certain day of the year. It contained one small hard-baked bean, and whoever got the bean was, possibly after some dental attention, hailed as king. It was quite an inexpensive system, and it worked well, probably because the clever little bald men who actually ran things and paid some attention to possible candidates were experts at palming a bean into a right bowl.
And while crop ripened and the tribe thrived and the land was fertile, the king thrived, too. But when, in the fullness of time, crops failed and the ice came back and animals were inexplicably barren, the clever little bald men sharpened their long knives, which were mostly used to cutting mistletoe.
And on the due night, one of them went his cave and carefully baked one small bean.
Of course, that was before people were civilized. These days, no one had to eat beans.”
- Night Watch (2002), by Terry Pratchett