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It’s radical to think the billionaire deserves a second private jet more than your mom deserves cancer treatment.
or even a first private jet.
Or even to exist in society
You don’t expect them to share a jet with another billionaire do you? Those guys are assholes.
Favorite one so far was El-Sayed rattling off all the Republicans who made up "white names" to hide their ethnic backgrounds when asked about "identity politics".
As much as Republicans are hung up on "legal names" there's a shit ton of them that just made up white sounding names and their voters don't recognize them by their legal names.
Rafael Cruz is the obvious one, but there's a shit ton of others doing it too.
Link to video?
Drumpf.
I know I deserve healthcare, but I just don't think I should have to pay for everybody else because they're a bunch of freeloaders. -Republicans
"Tax payer funded healthcare is socialism"
My friend, it's not even top notch, it's just incredibly overpriced crap
The health care of senators is leagues above that of the common American
Damn those freeloaders! Also, keep your hands off my medicaid and disability - if I can live without gummit assistance, so can everyone else!
(that hurt me to type)
I read "dying of whiteness" a couple months ago and it's literally that sometimes. Some people would rather die than let those people have nice things.
It's TERRORISM to use Tax Dollars on PEOPLE and NOT Billionaires!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
yes, please…healthcare not wealthcare
Huge corporations just keep taking for themselves and don't give back in return what they have received.
So we should mandate... Giving them a blank check through gov spending and low accountability...
Yup - makes sense.
What are you talking about...all those tax breaks they need... otherwise they might not be able to pay the CEO their bonuses... I mean seriously think of those people for once. What are we supposed to do let them fail? No gotta bail them out when they fuck up.
I agree with you... But I think we are talking about different things.
There's like a million and a half or more pieces of evidence that this country is at a minimum bordering on the edge of being cooked, and the Medicare For All / Healthcare For All topic is definitely in there.
In a nearby county, there's a hospital that will almost certainly close once the Medicare cuts take effect. It's a well-known thing. Only hospital in that county. Next closest hospitals for most residents are 20 - 30 miles (30 - 50 km) further away, which translates to at least an additional 20 minutes for emergency transport.
We're out there trying to make people aware of the situation, and decided to have a "protest" which was basically just holding up signs along the main road. Some people had signs like "Medicaid for all" or "healthcare for all", things like that. I know of at least 3 passers by who shouted out their windows some variation of "How are we going to pay for it?"
Honestly, just vile and willfully ignorant people exist in this world. Irredeemably evil. And you know they'll be the first ones whining on TV when their son or wife or daddy died because they didn't make it to the hospital in time.
Really, I hope charismatic progressives can help change enough minds that the evil cowards against the greater good no longer pull the strings because those people are such shits that they won't even stop to have a respectful conversation that might actually answer the question they posed about how to pay.
It might not be a radical idea, but it is, in fact, totally radical, dude.
Uh, actually it is.
Radical change means fundamental change (stemming from the root). Currently the US has for profit healthcare that's only available to the rich.
Changing that to something like single payer where everyone gets free healthcare is a radical change. And that's a good thing.