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[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 38 points 10 months ago

But when we ask for help as citizens, "how are you gonna pay for it, huh?"

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[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

geordi-no Healthcare, debt relief, child povery mitigation.

geordi-yes unlimited genocide on US designated subhumans

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 35 points 10 months ago
[-] toxicbubble420@beehaw.org 22 points 10 months ago

or living wage, or affordable housing

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

or infrastructure or child care or

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[-] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

The US government only disagrees on matters which support the average citizen. Other than that, both sides are in lockstep when it comes to voting on bills...

[-] ijeff 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They already spend a ton of public dollars on health. The problem is that it goes to insurance companies, administrative staff, and the downstream health costs of inadequate early access to care.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

You're kinda contradicting yourself.

They don't spend public dollars on health. They give it to insurance companies and administrative staff and pharmaceutical companies and other private moneyed interests, and then there's none left for us.

[-] ijeff 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They actually do spend a lot of public dollars on health, it's just spent into a system that isn't efficient. Universal access to care drives down costs significantly across the board - instead they have piecemeal coverage and a system with overall costs inflated by administrative staff hired solely to manage insurance billing and delayed treatments.

It's an interesting area of policy where expanding coverage means lower costs overall.

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

how do you think it has the biggest army in the world

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This shit is going to pass with full bipartisan support and libs are still going to be confused the next time someone tells them both ~~sides~~ parties are the same.

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[-] blazera@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago

famously poorly armed state of Israel

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

Desperate empire practices policy of War Startups, sends funding to whomever

nukenuke kelly Silica Valley

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Saigon Valley

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[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

Please attach some basic conditions like... don't do war crimes.

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[-] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago
[-] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Truly demonstrates how wildly preposterous it is at its core. Space exploration makes countries focus together on a bigger picture, which everyone's also interested in, and even makes us realize what our taxes are capable of financing. Regardless, its worth it alone just for showing youngsters how fascinating and worthwhile science is as a career choice...

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[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

The burger regime rn:

[-] faltryka@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

One of these is not like the others.

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