takeda

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[–] takeda 14 points 4 days ago

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Timothy Snyder is a very relevant book that everyone should read. It is actually short.

The most important lesson is to not obey in advance. If people just give up and accept their new changes, that's really all they need.

We can't just wait it out, we also need to resist and support anyone that resist it.

The author also reads the book on his YouTube channel.

[–] takeda 56 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Ironically, he wasn't even the most paid among other healthcare CEOs.

I don't feel sorry for him, as making money on misfortune of others is very low.

Though there are even worse people, and not necessarily in insurance industry.

The serial impregnator of everything that moves now is interested to influence our government to cut "unnecessary" spending, which likely will hurt much more people.

[–] takeda 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Off topic, but where does this picture originates from?

[–] takeda 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

It actually is Delay, Deny, Defend. The media is purposefully changing it so people won't find the book:

https://pdfupload.io/docs/0d380e9b

[–] takeda 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I first didn't know what you meant, but just checked and articles say they were "deny", "defend", "depose".

Though I see people posting this:

https://pdfupload.io/docs/0d380e9b

Perhaps it really were: "delay", "deny", "defend"

Edit: this is clever, the media is reporting that it deny, defend, depose and says it is from those 3 Ds. Of course if your search that you only find articles about the murder. It looks like they purposefully repaint it wrong so people won't find about the book.

[–] takeda 46 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I initially was thinking that people were just aggressive about him, because of the insurance companies and not necessarily what he did, especially since he was CEO for 3 years, but looks like UH had rejections in single digit and after he took over they jumped to over 20%

I understand the outrage though. While some rejections could be people asking for things that are not necessary, for example Ozempic if one doesn't have diabetes, many of those affect quality of life for millions of people and even affect of they can live or die.

It is absolutely horrible and unethical to make money on misfortune of others.

[–] takeda 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It shouldn't matter it is a scumbag or not. Either the report exonerates him, or he wasn't acting ethically which we should know about. Either way there should be no discussion whether or should be released or not.

The fact that this is debated, says that there major ethical issues among people deciding about it.

[–] takeda 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's because people put resistance https://snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-for-a-day

Dictators will only succeed if people comply in advance.

Also a general strike started demanding him to step down.

[–] takeda 17 points 1 week ago
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