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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

striking wrote: post #272
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #263

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Source?

From https://www.newsweek.com/brian-thompson-muder-health-insuran... > The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has prompted healthcare executives to say they will address growing frustrations among Americans struggling with access to and costs of medical care. From https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/health/health-insurers-preapp... > Months after the killing of a top health insurance executive unleashed…

> hard to say for sure

I don’t think it is. Healthcare prices are widely tracked. They’ve been rising faster than inflation for years. I have seen zero evidence that trend even temporarily abated after Luigi.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by joxdosba »

Larrikin wrote: post #320
walletdrainer wrote: post #158

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Both sides always assume that people must fall on one side or the other instead of disliking both and wishing they would stop trying to make their hundreds of years religious regional conflict the world's problem

> wishing they would stop trying to make their hundreds of years religious regional conflict the world's problem

This is an entirely backwards way of portraying the situation. American evangelical Christians are by definition not based in the region.

They believe that they must supply Israel with the weapons it needs in order to bring upon apocalypse.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by s1artibartfast »

ngruhn wrote: post #228
joe_mamba wrote: post #186

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>A successful case might be Luigi Mangione. Sorry, but how was that murder successful? Did it achieve the effect that everyone is getting cheaper healthcare now? OR, on the contrary, it only achieved that CEOs are now getting more anonymity and private security, while the plebs are getting more invasive law enforcement tracking like Palantir and Flock shoved up their ass to prevent them from doing something like that…

> Sorry, but how was that murder successful? Successful in winning over the public.

From what to what? Be specific.

Were there people that liked high Healthcare bills that changed their mind?

Was there a way of politicians elected to implement socialized Healthcare that I missed?

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by basilikum »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #266
calgoo wrote: post #250

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The difference between terrorists and freedom fighters is a matter of which side of the fence you stand on. They are basically the same thing, especially these days when you get marked as terrorist for talking bad about the people in power.

> difference between terrorists and freedom fighters is a matter of which side of the fence Oft repeated but untrue. Terrorism, empirically, doesn’t work. Non-violent protest, and armed insurrection (aimed at the state, not its population) do. Sometimes freedom fighters can benefit from terrorism. But they are distinct strategies with separate targets.

The Taliban's terrorism very much did work.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by s1artibartfast »

justinclift wrote: post #204
joe_mamba wrote: post #197

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>One less psychopath in charge of a US health care provider being around? What kind of broken logic is this? What good did this do for you if the end result for you is the same or worse now? Other than feel good for vigilante vengeance than then backfires on you in the end. It's not like there's a shortage of CEOs to take his place and keep doing the same thing. You're not in a comic book movie where if you kill the…

> What kind of broken logic is this? It's not even slightly broken. It's about the people responsible for destroying the lives of those they're supposed to be helping, instead abusing those people for personal gain. Is that really something you think should keep heading in the same abusive direction it's been going for many years? :(

It seems like people are happy to dish out this rhetoric applied to others but less happy to be on the receiving end.

How do you feel volunteer groups rounding up Luigi supporters and gunning them down in the street like dogs?

There are a million reasons why we don't want to live in a society where each person tries to solve their political grievances with a gun

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by dataflow »

bondarchuk wrote: post #278
dataflow wrote: post #265

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> It's not that complicated. Minister wants to remove citizens privacy. Protester invades privacy of minister in response. "It's not that complicated"... indeed? Privacy was a thing long before encryption even existed. So were stalking, wiretapping, etc. That whole time, judicial warrants had always been legally and practically adequate for obtaining and reviewing evidence that was physically accessible. (And for arr…

> That whole time, judicial warrants had always been legally and practically adequate for obtaining and reviewing evidence that was physically accessible. Certainly not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

You're telling me that in Denmark they can't open your letters even with a judicial order?

The Danish constitution also mentions privacy, in the form of paragraph 72 that stipulates that the confiscation and examination of letters and other papers; as well the interception of postal-, telegraph- and telephone communication cannot be done without a judicial order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law_in_Denmark

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Post by b40d-48b2-979e »

Mainan_Tagonist wrote: post #283
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #266

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> difference between terrorists and freedom fighters is a matter of which side of the fence Oft repeated but untrue. Terrorism, empirically, doesn’t work. Non-violent protest, and armed insurrection (aimed at the state, not its population) do. Sometimes freedom fighters can benefit from terrorism. But they are distinct strategies with separate targets.

And freedom fighters are supposed to actually care about "freedom" while terrorists generally do not. I fail to see what great advancements in freedom for anyone involved have come out of the terror attacks performed over the past 25 years.

25 years? Why stop there? How about the US terror attacks on other countries civilians since at least the 1960s?

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Post by bawolff »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #350
catlifeonmars wrote: post #315

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Terrorist is often a term used to describe freedom fighters, in order to delegitimize them. Basically this is such a common tactic that it is unsurprising that the two are sometimes conflated.

> Terrorist is often a term used to describe freedom fighters Do you have an historical example?

Basically all of history. Terrorist is a term people use for people who use violence and intimidation to attempt to cause political change. Freedom fighter is a term used for people who use violence and intimidation to attempt to cause political change that you are sympathetic to.

Both words have identical meanings, the only difference is if you happen to agree with the people commiting the violent acts or not.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by b40d-48b2-979e »

egorfine wrote: post #303
righthand wrote: post #270

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Does he have any power to change anything? Or does he have only power to expose the abusers and corrupted? Only taking action because you can change corrupt ways doesn’t actually change anything because the average person has no power to do so. And the proper channels are gummed up to not change anything. What Lars does is possibly inform or change perspective of those unfamiliar with their nation/world-state.

> possibly inform I'm not sure about that. People on HN are generally well in the know, while laymen don't event understand the substance of the matter in question.

    People on HN are generally well in the know
You think so? It's a public, anonymous forum. I consider the people here to be as informed as someone from 4chan, except the moderators keep out the explicitly toxic people.
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