Repo man is going to come take your organs
Have you seen the film REPO:the Genetic Opera. Its about that. You skip payments, they come take the parts back.
Despite it basically being plot exposition because Shiloh needs to get hit by the plot exposition fairy to get things moving, Zydrate Anatomy is one of the better songs in it. Likewise Terrance Zdunich as the Graverobber is easily the best role in it, though attention needs to be called to Paris Hilton as Amber Sweet, not least because it never would have been released at all without her involvement (she was apparently so about this movie that she helped cover budget shortfalls to make it happen).
Along with adding a +1 to the recommendation, I can’t help but note on the subject of Paris that she’s rather good in the role. I didn’t think much of her at the time due to her reality tv persona, and her performance surprised me. She’s not in here as just a name, she’s legitimately into the performance, so it doesn’t surprise me she helped finance the movie.
That’s what I was referencing, yes.
Good movie, I used to think the concept was really far fetched.
This movie had absolutely no right to be as good as it is
Seriously?
That’s the spin off version after the original idea was pitched by another filmmaker and got shot down. Some shady producers out there. Hmm bad film idea get out, picks up phone get me the writers on the phone I have an idea for a movie.
Original story proposal is REPO: the Genetic Opera. Its a dark disturbed musical so maybe not everyone’s cup of tea
Building a nation of indentured servants.
I wonder what would happen if people did a “debt strike”. If everybody stopped paying their debts at the same time, the credit card company’s wouldn’t be able to afford to punish everybody. They going to repossess 100k cars and houses etc?
This is more or less my vision of the only possible successful revolution we can have in the face of the ongoing destruction of our civilization by a relative handful of destructively wealthy and/or power-hungry assholes.
A revolution that simply seeks to replace the power structure is doomed, because the best case scenario is that we’ll just end up with a somewhat different set of assholes. And any revolution built on violence will only lead to yet another violent society, with the most willing and able to commit the most violence against the most people yet again at the top.
The successful revolution will be enough people simply refusing to submit.
As you say, there’s an upper limit to the number of people the assholes can punish, imprison or kill. And if we exceed that limit by far enough, the entire illusion of their power will collapse.
And that’s the crucial point - their power is ultimately an illusion. It only really exists to the degree that people believe it exists and submit to it in the belief that it exists. If enough people deny its existence, the assholes will reach a point at which nothing theyvdo will work, and that’ll be the end of their illusory power.
Unfortunately, that’s going to require a humanity notably different from the current one - a humanity that’s broadly ready and willing to take a stand, even if that means they’ll suffer individually, in order to free human society from the rule of the egotists and narcissists and megalomaniacs and psychopaths.
Maybe someday…
The government would cover the credit card company’s debts while going after one consumer at a time. Then moderates would celebrate a great victory when the credit card company paid the government back, see, everything worked out!
“first they came for the brown dudes and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a slave. Yet.”
Winning bigly
i’m beginning to think france did the colonies no favors by providing crucial aid and support in their war for ‘freedom’ two and a half centuries ago.
I just looked up “UK news” and copied the first link
They’re not doing any better than us right now.
the u.s. (well, most of, anyway) would likely be 🇨🇦 canadian 🇨🇦
I will just simply not pay
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Black mirror did an episode about this sort of thing. It was very dark
Common People
Fuck that episode hasn’t made me feel anything since like Season 2
I need a source, please. I’m struggling to find it.
How about we evaluate why these things cost so much? Maybe if we idk, actually allow people the medical care they need instead of criminalizing them and gouging them maybe people would actually consider this country becoming a favorable place to live.
Whatever though people are choosing to have less and less children so ** when we die in debt an we have millions of dollars in debt due to probably a 8% apr, the government can go fuck itself looking for that debt collection because we’re not gonna have any family to pay those people back. Given that most people’s next of kin is responsible for their debt if they die.**
So yeah, I mean push people to thier limits and force us all into debt and then wonder why no one wants to procreate and yeah like anyone wants that 8%apr payment plan for crapping out an offspring that they so desperatly want you to keep and not abort but can’t afford to take care of and NOW they cut MORE Programs that help families and then go: no, no, no, there’s payment plans. Which agian shows they care about, what could be and not really is. It shows they don’t want to know what is going on and only use a heavily biased generalization.
Fuck outta here. I hope they all see a psychiatrist.
In the US, relatives aren’t responsible for a deceased relative’s debt unless they co-signed or live in Pennsylvania with certain circumstances.
Just wanted to let people know to NEVER pay debt from a deceased person unless you absolutely know you are legally responsible. They will try to hassle you and lie into getting you to pay, and just one payment can make things so much harder for you.
Thank you for letting me know that.
“The debt will serve both to enrich us, and to keep them compliant”
If they have their way children will be born into debt and forced to “earn” their way up to $0.00.
It’s parasite games.
Technically American newborns are charged for their own birth under their parent’s insurance. Their account for billing insurance is created before their birth certificate.
That’s fucking disgusting, what the fuck. How are Americans not rioting every day of the year?
Americans are a proud people of freedom and togetherness. How dare you tell us what to do, fucking commie! I’m gonna go fuck a billionaire right now just to spite you!
We are raised in this to believe it is normal. There’s also the whole machine of our culture that’s largely insulated and hidden from the public eye that rationalizes away all critiques and criticisms.
But in a nutshell: staunch individualism. Not caring until personally effected is our culture.
Sounds like an anti culture. I know I’m just ranting at this point, but you can be autonomous while still admitting you’re interdependent.
Not that I have horse high enough to cast shade from. I just benefit from the inertia of the hard work of those before me. I don’t know what I’m really doing to stop this kind of erosion in my own communities. The most I do is quote our contract whenever the boss contradicts it in a meeting.
My co-pay per psych visit is $200. They originally wanted me to have a visit every month.
When I told their office that I can’t afford to pay that much each month, they told me, “We have installment plans.”
I responded, “So I can’t afford paying this amount, but you want me to still come here once a month, and your solution is monthly installment plans? … You see how that doesn’t help at all, right?”
No response.
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Anyway, if I seem cranky in the near-future, it’s because I stopped going to that doctor and thus my stock of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds is running out. I’ll need to carefully taper myself down to avoid catastrophic consequences. It took an absurd amount of searching to even find a doctor accepting new patients in the first place, and I don’t want to have to go through all that just to wind up with more unaffordable bills. I don’t know what else to fucking do.
Are you able to find a pcp willing to continue your prescriptions? I had to have a psych visit to get initial prescriptions, but for many years now every pcp I’ve been to has renewed my welbutrin and Lexapro no problem. Idk if other meds are different.
I’ve only had to have a diagnosis to get my PCP to prescribe me my meds. My current provider started me on my prescriptions and I didn’t even have to show proof of them, I just had a conversation with him, talked about getting an adhd diagnosis in college, and he wrote the script same day.
@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world, it’s definitely worth a discussion with your primary care doctor to see if they can help you out.
I will try that, thank you guys for the recommendation!
Is a telehealth appointment an option? In my experience those are less expensive and easier, especially if you just need refills. Some meds need to be prescribed in-person however.
Before I hit the first tier of my plan’s deductible, I was paying $150/session, and I only do telehealth.
Health insurance in this country is fucking awful.
God forbid Americans do anything about it though. You guys really are just bending over and taking it up the ass.
You see the comments here about protesting doing nothing right? That mindset has infected everyone capable of affecting change unfortunately.
“Whoah whoah whoah fighting back against the government? That’s exactly the same as January 6th!”
— Liberals
Calling out a trillionaire on his own platform is stupid as fuck. Downvote twitter/x posts.
I’ve talked to so many people about this and they really think they’re going into the lion’s den and changing minds, not using the master’s tools in the master’s house.
Now all we need to do is legally transfer debt to offspring. Then my great-great-great-great grandson has to pay off that stupid muscle car I bought.
That’s coming. They aren’t going to allow the Death Loophole to continue for real people. That sort of stuff is only for the Epstein Class.
