• @MutilationWave
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    9911 months ago

    It seems like nothing they say matters anymore. Some Republicans want to get rid of Medicare. You would think this would lose them massive votes among the elderly, their biggest constituency. But it just doesn’t seem to matter.

    • @0110010001100010
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      6911 months ago

      These people will consistently vote against their own best interest to “own the libs” which I’m not even sure what that means at this point.

      • @Ludo
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        • justhach
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          2311 months ago

          To expand on that

          “No one gets any toys… but I should still get some anyways because I am a good and deserve it”

          Whenever someone who is vehemently against any kind of “progressive” idea like abortion, socialized healthcare, etc. quickly change their tune when it comes to something directly affects them. Hell, even the pateon saint of libertarianism, Ayn Rand, took advantage of Social Security and Medicare in her old age.

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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            711 months ago

            Yeah but Ayn Rand said, that is in tune with Libertarianism, because its all about being a selfish asshole or something. (She said it differently, but that is ehat it boils doen to)

            • Flying Squid
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              311 months ago

              She said altruism was evil. And people on the right eat that shit up.

      • CileTheSane
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        1111 months ago

        “owning the libs” means eating shit incase a liberal has to smell your breath.

      • Raltoid
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        511 months ago

        Not to mention that they’re often convinced the things they vote for will never impact themselves.

        That’s how the classic “He’s not hurting the right ones” quote came about.

    • @Techmaster
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      711 months ago

      Because they aren’t taking Medicare away from the elderly. They’ve been proposing to take it away from gen x and future generations. The boomers still get theirs under all the proposals I’ve seen.

      • @HWK_290
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        111 months ago

        It’d be stupid, but it’s love for someone to run on the platform of immediately defunding Medicare just to see the heads spin, and expose the hypocrisy