I watched that clip on Kimmel. I don't normally watch but I like Bill Burr. Kimmel got really uncomfortable after he said Free Luigi. Not just like the network telling him, but in a way that seemed like Kimmel doesn't understand why people like Luigi.
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Kimmel gets it...his advertising people won't be happy about it though.
It's against the rules of lemmy.world to call for violence against insurance companies, and the people who work for them, so I won't. But I don't think it's against the rules to imply I would if that wasn't in the rules.
It's not against the rules to imply that the rules should be different.
Unfortunately it's the jurisdiction that they operate under that enforce some of those rules.
Because of the implication?
This is slightly off-topic, but I really hope someone films this new Broadway version of Glengarry Glen Ross, because Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk doing Mamet? Holy fuck do I want to see that.
Wait, WHAT?! Seems I have some furious Googling to do
Technically, that was why he was on Kimmel in the first place. To promote it. But it's Bill Burr and he gives zero fucks, so he talked politics instead (although he did also bring up the play).
Fucking just make this guy the face of the dnc and we can be done with all this shit already. Just fucking do it already. Pull the strings, pad his pockets, and get going with reconstruction.
I swear to God if someone passes control of the dnc to bill burr we will skip 50 years of regression.
There's very few people that could run the DNC worse than the current DNC.
If the DNC is still a thing in 4 years, we have utterly failed as a nation and we can drop the pretense of not being a 3rd world country. (Yes, I know we are in the definition...time to change that definition).
The DNC isn't going anywhere. GOP needs them to give the illusion of democracy. Only they will cede more and more power as they "lose" more and more elections.
You can hand the keys of the DNC to a baked potato and it would do a better job than current leadership.
I wasn't always sold on the guy. He got a little too cozy with the "anti-woke" bullshit. But he always remained better than the best of that set, and somewhat distinct from them as well.
After seeing his Kimmel appearance, I'm convinced. Hand him the keys.
Was in the same boat for a while, still haven’t seen this appearance but he’s already turned that corner for me. Dudes one of the good ones it seems.
Insurance companies are taking the risk of offering insurance. That is why they normally make money year after year after year.
When bad things happen, they take the hits. They take on some debt. They stop making profits... because they decided to purchase the risk from people. That's the gig.
There is a middle ground here that doesn't bone homeowners and doesn't completely bone the insurance companies affected. They should be taking on debt and making zero profits until they pay it off. That's not how things work here though, i'm sure they will be bailed out on taxpayer money or something.... but what should probably happen is that they should be given a federal loan on pretty favorable terms, something like 1-2% interest, until it's paid off.
At the same time standards for homes in areas at risk should be such that fire mitigation is mandated whenever a house changes hands. This will inevitably drive up costs, but again maybe this is another case for low/no interest rate loans to cover the changes. A billion or two today could save 25-100-500++ billion over a few years.
what you dont see is the bailouts when disasters happen. Insurance companies only take the hits for small fires. Not for big ones. The have always made money hand over fist.
There is a middle ground here
There doesn't need to be a middle ground. Most developed countries do fine with universal healthcare.
Help, my house is sick and needs a doctor!
As I already said, the exact same thing can apply to housing insurance.
You're not incorrect, though his comment seems specifically targeted at home owners insurance.
Again, that could be government-sponsored.
I am pretty close to the opinion that all private companies need to be abolished and absorbed by collective ownership. There are almost no instances where I can see greed being the secret ingredient that makes things run MORE smoothly.
Louder for the people on the back, please!
That’s not how things work here though, i’m sure they will be bailed out on taxpayer money or something…
Insurance companies are typically reinsured themselves, so it's entities like Lloyd's of London that will ultimately be paying for this.
That interview on Jimmy Kimmel has an obvious edit shortly after Bill says "free luigi!". I'm not sure if the producers of the show cut the crowd reaction or something else Bill said, but something was definitely cut out.
I hope it was loud cheering.
No, they kept the cheering.
I'm not sure if they cut anything that he actually said, but it cut to what happened after they came back from commercial. I'm guessing it wasn't a sloppy editing job though.
Seeing stuff like this in the uplifting news community instead of shit like ‘local kid spends 60 hours a week selling lemonade to pay for sister’s cancer treatments’ is why I appreciate Lemmy vs Reddit.
He’s definitely a bit of an asshole, but at the end of the day, from what I’ve seen from him over the years he does have his head on straight on a LOT of issues.
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