Cancer, injuries and other illnesses are just your own fault. Every man, woman and fetus for themselves.
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noo it’s not your fault…god wants it this way (:
“Why aren’t people having kids anymore?”
It’s incredible how Democrat sentiment is so bad in the face of this. Millions poured into consultants, and they can’t figure it out?
Their vocabulary should be two words:
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Epstein.
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Trumpcare.
That’s it.
That’s all they need to say to win.
If they’re feeling frisky, sprinkle in a “huh, you know, maybe a few near-trillionaire buddies of the president shouldn’t rob you with AI?”
They were literally handed a actual pedo cabal and a direct existential crisis even hardcore Republicans are feeling anxiety over, on a silver platter. And somehow they’re messing that up?
I’m dysfunctional as hell, and even I couldn’t mess that up.
Centrist Democrats are paid to lose.
Centrist is being extremely generous.
The issue is that democrats would rather lose elections than make healthcare affordable. It’s not bad strategy, it’s the logical consequence of their interests
You don’t understand that the majority of americans aren’t willing to pay for any tax increase to pay for public healthcare. As soon as you mention it the media and opposition go off on socialism and taxes and the voters go “Omg! Evil socialism!!”
USians don’t need to pay for tax increases to pay for public healthcare, USians already pay exceedingly expensive healthcare. Government expenditure doesn’t come from taxes, the federal reserve can literally create money at will at a keystroke. Expropriation of the existing hospitals and clinics by the state would already make healthcare much cheaper than it is, because right now the wealth is siphoned off to rich people and corporations.
Lemmy users are not representative of the average voter.
the oldguard DNC arnt risking biting the hands that feed them.
it’s too on-the-nose. They’re in on “it”. What is it, you ask?
The BEST Route is to NOT get Political and ALSO not use ANY Leverage we may have as THAT will be Seen as Political! Run on PARDONING the Pedophiles and TRYING to Bring down Healthcare Costs we Caused to skyrocket!
-Highly Paid Democratic Strategists who KEEP losing but somehow STILL get Paid MILLIONS!
I have a feeling, that those consultant might be “double agents”.
consultants, probably think tanks/ donors of both parties.
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So glad we ended the shutdown and got nothing out of it because democrats were promised a vote on this that they knew they wouldn’t win on.
A promise we all knew was a lie the moment it was said.
Oh, and the bill they voted on also made hemp-derived THC products illegal.
I wonder which democrat was holding out for that.
One that had stock in Phillip Moris.
More likely Anheuser-Busch.
I’m sure they’ll pay for the propaganda how this was the lesser evil.
It really sucks that democrats are useless. I hate having to vote for them but even being useless I think/feel the worst democrat is miles ahead of the best republican. Man those two words shouldn’t ever be used together.
It really sucks that democrats are useless.
They’re complicit. Merely useless would be an improvement.
No, you aren’t allowed to criticize useless Democrats! That makes you MAGA on Lemmy!
How dare you use the speech we said you could use in any time that’s not
the electioni meanthe primaryi mean any time you call out we support bad things!!
This is why I hate the holidays. Because depressing shit like this happens on the holidays. They always did.
The 2nd Amendment is more important than health care. The dumbfucks who voted for this would buy ammunition over insulin shots.
Shoot a 2nd amendment chud in the leg and see how much they care about healthcare. ;)
LOL! Indeed.
If only we could somehow use the 2nd amendment to ensure access to healthcare.
Yeah, a well regulated militia has well regulated blood sugars, right?
Ah the sweet smell of freedom.
Are they sick of winning yet?
Remember when the government was shut down specifically because the Democrats refused to go along with a bill that ended the health insurance subsidies, and they had the Republicans up against the ropes because no matter how much they tried to dodge the responsibility, the majority of people blamed Republican intransigence for the shutdown?
Then remember how the Schumer-led Democrats just completely folded, passed the bill, then stood idly by as the chance to extend the subsidies vanished?
Every single one of those stinking traitorous shitbags needs to be primaried.
schumer and his DINO acolytes are pretty much gop lite from the start. they had no interest in trying to upset the status quo of the donors. he specifically chose the 8 dems that are retiring or not up for re-election in '26, in order to protect the DEMS that are up for re-election next year. if 8 of them wernt chosen, then 13 wouldve voted to open the govt. look at those 13 DEMS, if they are in your state they need to be primaried.
the airlines are getting nervous so they reminded SCHUMER and thier pets to open the govt back up.
Everyone who voted to end it isn’t up for a primary, or so I heard back when this happened.
schumer was protecting the dems that are up for re-election next year, i think there is at least 13 dem seats up(its likely these that are also supporters.
It’s like… It was planned.
So, the problem is the “primaried” thing isn’t enough at this point. People are going to die because of these choices. Eye for an eye.
definitely a comment that would get you banned from reddit
And even though it won’t get you banned here, it surely is being documented by Palantir and putting us all on “lists.”
Fuck Palantir, it’s Google that’s the devil.
Don’t fear the state, fear the profit driven corporations.
They’re the future, and it begins now.
I don’t think you understand the depth and breadth of what Palantir does, and who uses them.
I am fairly confident that’s what all these AI companies and GPUs are for to make their own Palantirs or just to run their software. Palantir is basically creating Skynet or any of those cyberpunk type movies where a cop plugs in a persons name and it gives every detail of who they are and a summary of what they did the last week.
That has basically already been done to Palestinians with Microsoft Azure.
Which is strange since Republicans usually love bible quotes.
Fuck this self-righteous political violence
The political violence has already been perpetrated upon us. What we are talking about now is political defense against a violent aggressor.
You only say that because you’re in favor of, or not directly affected by, the direction we are currently going.
Paid shill or useful idiot. Either way they should join their masters when the time comes.
The guillotines are thirsty.
Yes, primary all of them, but ESPECIALLY primary Schumer and Jeffries. They are absolutely toxic to democracy. If someone is claiming it’s a bad idea to primary them, that person is working against the people on behalf of the rich and corporations. Just like current Dem leadership.
So you are saying this is all the fault of Democrats?
Of course not. Don’t be a simpleton.
The Republicans rather obviously bear the lion’s share of the blame.
However, that was the Republicans’ designated role from the start. Their job was to represent the interests of their plutocratic cronies and patrons by killing a program that spent money to benefit poor people, so they were just doing what they were meant to do and what they were expected to do.
On the other hand, the Democrats’ job was to protect a program that benefitted poor people, and they miserably failed at that job. In fact, they didn’t even simply fail - they forfeited. They gave up even trying.
And they very much deserve condemnation for that.
the schumers and the dinos were most certainly not to protect programs for the poor, they are to play the “paid opposition of the gop” when its convenient. schumer is at least worth 80+million right now, he has vested interest as any gop to end the govt with no benefits for the constiuents. also the shutdown was indirectly hurting the ISRAEli narrative as well.
Don’t be a simpleton.
You didn’t need to add that… This is Lemmy, not Reddit. Come on, now.
Yes - this is not Reddit.
Which is exactly why I’m not going to stand for a poster trying to saddle me with some asinine strawman version of my actual points.
The other poster self-evidently believed that I was either so stupid that I actually believed that “this is all the fault of the Democrats” or that I was so stupid that I’d let that ridiculous strawman slide. And in either case fully deserved a verbal smack upside the head, and that specifically because this isn’t Reddit. Leave that sort of cheap, intellectually dishonest bullshit there.
What? The media was making the democrats out to be the ones shutting down the nations airports.
Go ahead and turn on the democrats and further empower the republicans. You might be a russian troll…
The media was making the democrats out to be the ones shutting down the nations airports.
So?
Exactly as I already said:
no matter how much they tried to dodge the responsibility, the majority of people blamed Republican intransigence for the shutdown
That’s what the polls consistently showed, and notably that was in spite of the fact that so much of the media tried to pin the blame on the Democrats.
So your claim here isn’t just irrelevant - it’s actually part of the support for my position. Yes - the captive media tried to blame the Democrats. But the people weren’t buying it.
But Schumer and the Democrats folded anyway.
and further empower the republicans
Nobody is empowering the Republicans more than Schumer and Jeffries and the rest of the establishment Democrats, who can’t even be arsed to do their jobs
You might be a russian troll…
lol
I have a clinical colleague who worked in the US for a few years. I think their description of US healthcare is best summarized as follows. Has the potential to be the greatest on Earth. In reality, the quality of care provided is far below European standards. She was mortified to discover that diabetics routinely had below knee amputations whereas in the rest of the world, with the exact same clinical picture, care would be provided to prevent worsening of diabetic foot.
for type 2 is lack of nutrional education, proper managment as well. because it so expensive, plus you have things like insurance making you pay into your preniums before they fully cover any medical care. mortality for women in pregnancies seems to be worst, and AA people have the worst rates.
Not American here. AA?
Likely “African American” in this context.
Horrifyingly, this seems far worse than as described at a point at only 8-years ago.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose
The question is: how broken will their spirit be by the time that happens?
Will they just lay down in fear and exhaustion rather than rising up against the people and system that abused them for so long?
I both welcome and dread the day.
Yeah, I think a lot of people want to speedrun this happening without realizing that in reality it’s just gonna lead to a lot more crime and a lot lower quality of life.
The glorious revolution that results in a brand new glorious era for America is not that likely to happen in this scenario. Most revolutions don’t really turn out that great, if you ever even get to the revolution phase as everyone is just robbing and killing each other out of desperation.
We already got the 1% robbing us blind into the grave. It would be nice to make this into an mutual arrangement.
You’re probably going to need to track down some thermite to breach bunkers.
Cement for the vents and doors would do fine.
But there’s stuff in there…
Jackhammers also exist. The cement would only need to be there for like few days.
Fer sure. There are plenty of people that need to suffer consequences, but suffering is an equal opportunity employer.
everyone is just robbing and killing each other out of desperation.
So like any day of the week ending in “day”.
Unfortunately a non-zero percentage will just say we need to keep doing the same shit except more and harder.
And keep voting Republican
Without question or hesitation
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It’s going to be another tough year funneling taxpayer money to billionaires and corporations. Midterm elections are the best most peaceful route to making 2027 a better year. In the meantime tighten your belt and hunker down.
And help your community in any way you can.
I’d rather people get to work on fixing things now than wait until November.
Me too, big time. But our officials elected and otherwise seem to be mostly riding it out. Except quite a few non-supreme court judges.
I don’t mean elected officials. I mean us. You can’t beat fascism by hoping someone else will fix things. Ordinary members of the populace need to start flexing their political muscles all the time, not just during elections. We always have power but representative democracy tries to convince us otherwise.
The trouble is we as individuals can’t do it alone. If hundreds of people start marching towards DC to physically remove rogue officials from office I’ll join them.
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Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
If I were you, I’d take a hard look at rising right wing extremism across the EU, and spread the word. Before it happens to you, too.
its all funded by putin, why do you think the sudden rise is all at the same time around election years. marine lapenne, PP in canada,etc
“rising” not winning. So far the right wings havent had a lot of success in Europe, even though now both russia and USA are trying yo manipulate our People to vote for their crazy agenda. What usa has become, is a scary example of how the right wing will fuck up your country once it goes there way. We can only Hope we are better than this. I see a stronger, more unified EU now, than before trump got voted in for the second time. I only see the right has most of their success with the boomer generation and in eastern european countries, which apparently has a more laissez faire relationship with russia in the first place. But we will see. We are undoubtly not allies with usa Anymore, so we have to create our own future with what we got now.
We have already been through that just fyi
That’s what I’m saying!
It may be fun to make fun of the US, and justified. But I think it’s a distraction from what’s happening in your own back yard.
Don’t be us. Please.
If the US learned anything of Europe they wouldn’t be in this mess… Europeans are already very aware of it. edit: you are warning us about what we’ve already been through and we warned YOU about. the ignorance and arrogance of you people are staggering.
US has always been pretty right wing for a western country, its just hopium to think it can move left in any form.
“people who did not vote for this must suffer because i am not one of them and i want to watch the dumpster fire from afar with glee”
Well, that is how democracy works, the majority of boomer voters, gets to choose which direction your country chooses to go for. I really don’t care about “fake news” a corrupt voting system, manipulative social media etc. We are all trying to get fucked by russian and american interests when we go to vote, in all western society, so this is no excuse. You decided to turn your back on the western world, now deal with it.
Over half voted for this and the others did nothing and still wont do anything.
so you can’t do math and you only get news from the television? am i understanding you right?
womp womp
What makes you say that?
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You sound like a child.
I’m watching this dumpster fire from afar in horror.
Surely those Americans who claim not to want this will band together and put a stop to it soon?
the grass roots culture across the us is “stay off my property or I will shoot you”. so what’ya expect? the largest cultural influences we have are pioneer culture and capitalism. it isn’t a mature society by any measure, it is the pinnacle of what you get from colonialism.
Whenever I see those crazy, deranged Israeli settlers in the West Bank, I can’t help but think about how the people who colonized North America were just as horrible. Cut from the exact same cloth.
israel is just a western colonial proxy power.
Africa, NA, Central America, SA, the Carribean, Asia, the Pacific, Australia and everything else. Alcohol, disease, war, food, drugs, minerals, sex, amd labor. Everywhere you go, it happened, and is still happening, even in the culture that replaced what was destroyed. There’s always something to steal or take advantage of, for the greedy.
It’s hard to care about the outside when I have to constantly be vigilant to how my closest neighbors are trying to fuck us.
And how Are we “fucking you” exactly?
The Republican eugenics plan is working.
