The Victorian era had a whole coded obituary system for this kind of thing, e.g. “he was generous with his affections and had a convivial spirit” aka a drunk who cheated on his wife constantly.

A little direct action can be surprisingly effective

Gotcha, thanks for the info!

From AP News:

In a news release, police say officers made contact with the man who was then arrested on unrelated charges

Same old shit, just come up with something like “he took 31 minutes in the dining area so we got out the batons”

“That's some good work Lou, you'll make sergeant for this."

The communication ideological state apparatus, in Althusserian terms, a form of violence and repression in a kinder, gentler package.

I think there might be a caveat here: when doing peer-to-peer, the insurance side often doesn’t give their names. This was a tactic used when I worked the phones at a company that would occasionally get subpoenaed— never give our name, document what was said, then hand it off to our supervisors who would go in our place as “operator 17” and read off our notes as the totality of the statement. I have zero faith in the insurance companies to have any sort of integrity here, and suspect they’d use a similar tactic to justify any decision making.

Greenville, NC in a Walgreens, around 2013. A man who looked like, or could well have been Gary Busey, in a leather jacket, in a pile of talcum powder on the floor, was picking up handfuls of powder and snorting them.

Steal his look at a reasonable price!

Don’t forget that the ACA also stipulated they had to send overage checks out to members if they spent more on marketing, bonuses, etc than on services. Getting refund checks from Blue Cross/Blue Shield at the end of the year because they spent too much money on everything but healthcare wasn’t exactly reassuring.

Thoughts and prayers are considered “out of network” on this one my dude