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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (37 children)

It's hard as one having free (state paid) healthcare in EU, to imagine anything but just going to the doctor, and the doctor seeing to it, that you get the correct treatment.
No paperwork, no hassle, no bill.
I can't imagine why USA hasn't introduced something similar yet, but prefer all that bureaucracy that only makes the whole process way more expensive. Just to make sure some unemployed poor guy doesn't get free treatment!!
USA is a psychopathic society.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (11 children)

The US isn't a country.

It's a business dressed up as a country.

(More like 50 countries dressed up as a business dressed up as a country, but then even that gets more complicated)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

wtf do we call our society, anyhow? Just "capitalist"? Is that still the term?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know, I probably agree. We've, at the least, been headed in that direction. And, are likely about to plunge all the way in, a month from now

I looked up oligarchy on Wikipedia out of curiosity. Although it's debated, the U.S. is listed as an example of one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I would have agreed on the "probably" until Musk basically bought his way into max corruption with a seat right next to the president.
Those 40 billion he has practically lost on Xitter, will most likely be gained already within the first year.
There is no doubt IMO that USA is now de-facto an oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

We were an oligarchy.

With the new administration, it would be more apt to call the US a plutocracy.

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