this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
243 points (98.4% liked)
Ohio
903 readers
99 users here now
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I like this guy. But also,
Step 1) - Protest
Step 2) - ???
Step 3) - ???
Step 4) - Luigi.
Ok, but whats step 2 and 3?
And is there a step 5? Because Luigi seems like a good start, but we've already seem that 1 Luigi doesn't fix things.
However the next day, United Healthcare said that they had reconsiddered their proposal to stop covering the cost of anestesia. Not because of a shortage, or any reasonable cause. It's just they thought they could make more money by charging thousands of dollars for it.
You're going to get surgury. Are you going to pay for the thing to not hurt? Or are you going to feel them slice you open?
And what if your healthcare doesn't cover it, and you can't afford $4,000 right now? Guess you'll have to feel the knife.
Then Luigi happens and suddenly United Healthcare is like "Were WE saying we weren't going to cover that? No! Not us! We would never! That's crazy talk is what that is, mister!"
Then behind closed doors saying "These fuckers aren't playing around no more! Maybe call off the suffering for profit."
"The whole thing?"
"Oh god no! We can't afford to stop profiting from others suffering! That's our whole business model! No, I just meant the anestesia thing. Lets cool off on that for now, circle back around to it in a few years after things cool down a bit."
Did you read the comment at all? They're not steps they're boxes. We're doing all of them. We need to be doing a little more 4, but we have to do all of them in order to overwhelm the opposition.
They need to be busy fighting lawsuits and losing money to strikes while also looking out for guerilla combatants. The war already started.
You have to understand an aspect of human psychology for protests to make sense: We have this misconception that we get inspired, and then inspiration causes us to act. That's rare. Just ask anybody who's ever procrastinated. Much more reliably, we act, and action generates inspiration. Marketers, scammers, and other abusers know this—if you can get a person to do some small action, you've got an 'in', and you can get them to escalate.
So, if you can get people to get off of the couch to go to a protest, that's the first step. Now they're much more likely to take more actions in the future, and increase their commitment to the cause. Plus, people who might be in a position to act are much more likely to do so, if they feel that they have a lot of support from throngs of protesters.
At the very least, protests are just a way for the marchers to avoid sitting at home and sinking into despair, which is not nothing.