• @frazw
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    244 days ago

    How can Americans simultaneously hate health insurance CEOs while simultaneously shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot?

    • Cruxifux
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      284 days ago

      Neither party was offering single payer. American voters are stupid as fuck but I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.

      • @slickgoat
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        114 days ago

        Well, as poor as the choices might seem, last time Trump was in power he spent every day not on the golf course trying to sabotage the ACA. It wasn’t exactly a zero sum choice at the ballot box.

        • Cruxifux
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          74 days ago

          I understand that the democrats are the better choice. But I’m not going to pretend they’re a good or intelligent choice by any stretch of the imagination.

          • @slickgoat
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            4 days ago

            Of course you are right. But voting for a guy working against your interest, or not voting at all and allowing the steamroller to lay you out make even less sense.

            • @[email protected]
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              93 days ago

              Right? Its something i’ve never understood about the americans not wanting to vote for democrats because of a stick up their ass, so instead they stay home, dont make any effort for actual change, expect it to come to them and then act all hot and bothered when the worst possible outcome occurs.

    • missingno
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      204 days ago

      Because the man on TV said changing the system would be communism.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 days ago

        No, people started to understand a bit about communism so the new term to fear is ‘woke.’ Nobody can define it so it’s the perfect boogeyman. Don’t like something? It’s woke. Bad stuff, I tell ya.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      124 days ago

      Notice the subject of the headline: the people distributing the news and information to those voters are upset that people aren’t feeling “how they should”. Those same news outlets edit stories to make people feel negatively towards things that are in their own best interest. People are cutting through the propaganda and starting to unite over healthcare.

    • sunzu2
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      104 days ago

      shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot

      Did somebody offer single pay?!

      Also, ACA is how we got here dear. Single payer or more dead CEOs likely IMHO

      There should not be such job as CEO of health insurance company.

      • @slickgoat
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        Perhaps there should not be health insurance either. Many other countries fund health care as an obligation to their citizens.

        How did non-medical middle-men get into such a crucial responsibility?

        • sunzu2
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          17 hours ago

          Hiatory and the Culture of corrupt within us corporates.

          They all operated like Uhc, people just don’t care to understand what this behaviour actually is.

          Luigi got people asking questions about health insurance and that’s beautiful but the bigger pictures is that pretty much all corpos act like this. They are making every aspect of life a miserable experience. Endlessly doing weird shit ranging from out right felonies to mild annoyances, got to squeeze every penny.

    • @aaa999
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      44 days ago

      yeah I see a lot of “oh what a wonderfully dialetctically materialful moment of class consciousness this is” and, uh, great, but try doing anything with it. get those people to join your communist book club if it’s so easy. willfully ineffective leftist challenge: figure out that political illiteracy stops bourgeoisie electoralism but also stops every other political activity (impossible)