Yes, divided. I have an idea, states should allow abortion and republicans or weird Christians who don’t like it can not get one.
Also zeppo@sh.itjust.works. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.
Yes, divided. I have an idea, states should allow abortion and republicans or weird Christians who don’t like it can not get one.
To the point at least. The impression I always got was that it was meant to imply you’d have money by then and not want to pay taxes.
The people who told me that were 100% boomers. There’s that idiotic saying “if you’re not liberal* when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not conservative when you’re 40 you have no brains” ok boomer.
Note this is using the US meaning of liberal, not to mean “capitalist”.
I assumed this was V8. Well… nothing to report here.
Ikea does have those semi-private feeling little nooks… I’ve thought about taking a nap in one before. I can only imagine the temptation Vince feels seeing that fresh upholstery.
What’s unclear about “I will fucking murder them.”?
Republicans also have a major habit of voting against things that would help their constituents, then taking credit after it passes anyway. It’s really puzzling what the fuck is wrong with these people.
Visiting Japan and he eats McDonald’s…. what a fucking heathen. He is known for liking well done steaks with ketchup too, though.
That’s understood, and what is your practical solution for that? Sweeping political and economic revolution is unlikely to come to the US anytime soon. In the meantime, we have one party that denies that climate change exists at all and one party that acknowledges it is real. Also, this is the usual “I’m so leftist” thing where you spent several paragraphs criticizing the Democratic party without saying a single thing about the horror of Republicans.
Oh. I thought it was supposed to be about how hard it would be to do stuff while carrying around spoons in your hands all day.
Before the musk acquisition I had something like 8,000 people blocked… mostly the inane shit like “Patriot Christian Dog Mom” or incredible douchebags like “dc_draino”.
I just can’t really parse this considering that Republicans want to do things like eliminate the entire EPA and tried 60 times just in the past several years to cancel health care for people like me. Dems would get a hell of a lot more done if Republicans didn’t reflexively block anything at all they try to do.
The only person who can stop WW3 and also “save the country”, which according to him is a smoking husk.
He really is a remarkably stupid person.
still love how someone referred to him as “that Skeletor looking motherfucker”
I mean, we’ve been saying this to people of this viewpoint on Lemmy all year and so far, not one I’ve seen has ever said “oh, you have a point”.
Seems like an overly generous interpretation. They want to change this because insurance companies never wanted it, since they don’t want to have to actually pay money out for people who are sick.
It’s worth noting too that while the article says one idea is of course “todays healthy could be tomorrow’s sick”, a more persuasive point may be that todays sick could be tomorrow’s healthy. Or, even imagine, preventative care. Personally I was self employed in my 20s and 30s and thought it was okay to have no health insurance because I was young and healthy. Self employment is about the worst situation for US health insurance. Turns out I wasn’t healthy. The progression of what was going on with me ended up destroying my productivity. From a societal, financial view, being shut out of medical care was a net loss for everyone - if I’d had access to a relatively small and cheap amount of preventative care, I would have ended up contributing far more in economic activity and taxes over my lifetime, versus now where I consume more in healthcare than I would have otherwise as well.
The official position of lemmy leftists tends to be that Democrats are the same as Republicans because they’re both ‘liberal’, as in the European sense meaning capitalist, which overlooks a whole lot and is an ignorant “both sides are the same” or single issue fixation. I’m not sure how that translates into never criticizing Republicans, though? There are 3-4 people who post stuff like that regularly, especially talk about the ‘genocide’ issue, encourage 3rd party voting etc and never acknowledge comments regarding how voting works in the US, meaning that talking endless shit about Democrats works to get Trump elected, and that getting Trump elected will in no way whatsoever help Palestinians.
Just anti-Democrat. Very consistently. Hits the same targets as Republicans, always, never criticizes Republicans.
It’s also the same crap conservatives do with the government in general in the US. Cut budgets and make institutions dysfunctional, then say that the dysfunction indicates it should be privatized.