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The NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for info on the guy who shot the UHC CEO. On the same day he was shot, I received a $45,000 bill from UHC. That reward money wouldn't even cover a quarter of it. I hope my man never gets caught. Fuck Brian, fuck UHC, and fuck the entire U.S. healthcare system.

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Jury Nullification: Your Power To Choose

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Aight, so a suspect has been caught. In the next couple of days we’re going to be bombarded with a cavalcade of information about Luigi Mangione. As we start this period I want everyone to remember:

The killer--whether he is Mangione or another man--is a living, breathing, human being. He has followed people you don’t like, held beliefs you disagree with, and possibly voting for politicians you think suck.

He still shot a man with the blood of millions on his hands. He still caused an outpouring of rage that caused BCBS to roll back its ghoulish anesthesia policy.

Carve that into your fucking minds. Mass media is about to do its damnedest to remind us to hate each other, not the top .001%. Do not let them do this. Y’all understand what I’m saying? Here, lemme spell it out more clearly:

DO NOT FUCKING PURITY TEST THIS GUY, ASSHOLES!!

And if you see people fixating on his purity over the message he sent, call them out on it.

We have lost again and again and again on healthcare because we keep letting the rich divide us. Remember: the people united will never be defeated.

Edit: A couple of people have asked me to not convict Mangione in my post, and they're right. Mangione has been arrested on gun charges, not for the murder, and regardless of the charge he obviously hasn't been convicted yet. It's too soon to lay Brian Thompson on his head. I've modified the post to reflect that.

That said, what I've said here applies to whoever the killer is. As the media circus plays out, a lot of talking heads will be pulling out all stops to remind us to hate each other, not the insurance CEOs. Do not fall for their tricks!

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straight friend groups: the jock, the nerd, the hot girl, the ugly girl

gay friend groups: the mysterious lord who has something everyone wants, the blind witch here for your safety, the friar/doctor/philosopher/theologist, the charismatic and beloved yet greedy and manipulative prince, the visionary artist/architect, the medieval physician/surgeon/plague doctor/pathologist, the astronomer (dead)

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sorry about your boyfriend. yeah we kept putting him in really awful situations and we also gave him Horig’s Virulent Plague. yeah he’s coughing up blood. we also killed the one doctor character so hopefully he recovers

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Maus: Suffering only teaches suffering, even those who have survived the Holocaust need to check themselves for bigoted beliefs.

Zionists:

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This whole week l have been thinking alot about the Holocaust. So last night I re-read maus. One panel really stuck out to me during this reading. For context this is in Maus 2 when Art is talking to his therapist, a Holocaust survivor, about how he feels he could never measure up to his father who survived Auschwitz. At this point in the story his father had already past. May his memory be a blessing.

The dialogue, “but you weren’t in Auschwitz. You were in Rego Park,” hit me like a punch to the chest. I have no better way to explain the paradoxical guilt I felt and continue to feel as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. I did not live during the Holocaust. It had ended before my grandmother reached eighteen years old. And yet, the Shoah seems to loom over me. Forever a reminder, that I am alive by sheer luck. My great grandfather’s parents as well as two of his brothers were murdered in Auschwitz. My great grandmother’s twin sister was also murdered in the Holocaust. Despite hours of research, I still have no idea where exactly she died.

Using the term guilty for what I feel doesn’t seem exactly right but there is no better word in the English language. Maybe if I was smarter or more articulate I could find better words.

A key theme of this chapter is intergenerational trauma. This is the same chapter that has this iconic image.

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I simply want to acknowledge the real and extremely painful intergenerational trauma and inherited survivors guilt felt by descendants of Jewish survivors. I know I struggled in the past with feeling like I even have any right to feel this way considering I am three generations removed from any of my family that were murdered in the Holocaust. If any other Jews struggle with thoughts like this, I want to assure you that your feelings are valid and real. Intergenerational trauma is complicated and the feelings that come with it don’t simply disappear once a certain number of generations from the event pass.

This post is specifically about the Holocaust and jewish intergenerational trauma stemming from our persecution and genocide. If this post resonates with you as a non-Jew who has intergenerational trauma I am glad, but please do not derail this post.

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But Art Spiegelman literally write a book about how comparing people to mice is a horrifying bad idea. He opened Maus with this:

The IDF did not get the memo.

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This is Binx! Binx is made of faux sherpa fabric with polypellets in her paws and poly fill in the rest of her. She is very soft and perfectly shaped to drape over your shoulder

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this is going to reduce me to tears like i cant handle this image

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avoidance has saved me from everything it's also killed me a hundred million times

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Not my meme but figured I'd share for those about to ride out the storm

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This is good advice before any storm! Insurance will probably be a pain anyway, but at least you'll have something documented.