We're fucking doomed!
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2026
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would be nice if the democrats were a 10th as socialist as the GOP says.
Yeah, last time that happened dude changed things around and was so popular with the people the other party had to put a rule into place to not let people elect someone more than twice.
funny how that's coming back to bite them in the ass, eh? 😂
Yeah, and the last time someone ran on that platform, they were elected to the Democratic ticket in the midterms by a blowout, then the Democratic party ignored the will of the voters and nominated their donor-approved candidate, who then went on to lose one of the most important elections in US history to a pedophilic Russian asset, who then dismantled the US government, sold it and every state secret to the highest bidder, ushered in an authoritarian ultra-conservative regime, and then performed a self-coup to seize and consolidate power.
DNC: "Why is everyone looking at me? What?"
look. I voted bernie in the primary but he did not win the popular vote much less blow it out and the dnc did not ignore the will of the voters. There was a lot of bs but an actual ignoring of the vote totals.
Wilding v. DNC is the court case where the DNC admitted that they don't have to abide by the primaries because they are a private entity and can nominate whomever they want.
There used to be transcripts of this everywhere.
I'm all for everyone voting for the "lesser of two evils". I think everyone should go vote in the primaries. I also think everyone should pay very close attention to the DNC bureaucracy and minor rule changes and what everyone around them is saying and voting for.
Because seeing everything up close, in a world full of lies and deception, is what most people need to understand the truth. So they can make the hard decisions they will need to make.
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As a Canadian who hears this on the regular, the threat is that the seniors will have to pay for the healthcare of the irresponsible youths. With their skateboards and lack of helmets.
And seniors are terrified of..... Everything.
Meanwhile they end up in intensive care for a week if thet catch a bad cold.
Its a dog whistle for racists. What he means is "brown people will get free healthcare". He's a disgusting racist.piece of shit, so you have to read every word through that lens.
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The message is for his supporters, who don't want everyone to have things, just a select few that they think they're part of.
"We don't want everyone to pool their resources to pay for everyone's healthcare! We want random groups of people to pool their resources to pay a for profit middleman to pay for some of their healthcare!"
The only explanation for being against single payer is that you want to hurt "them". Not that you actually are, you're hurting a whole bunch of people, probably including yourself, but you want to hurt "them".
If you attribute their actions to bigotry and racism what seemed like bizarre behavior makes total sense. They'll cut their arm off for it.
They are missing the part where everyone pays to give them these things too.
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People are afraid their taxes will go up to pay for universal healthcare. They're not as worried about the fortune they already spend to kill brown kids on behalf of an expansionist regime, or the other fortune they now spend on fuel (and by virtue, everything else that needs to be transported to them) because their government attacked one of the regime's critics.
Or indeed the other fortune they spend on the current healthcare system.
Universal healthcare would save 114,000 American lives a year, and would cost 1 trillion dollars less per year than what we have right now.
wHy Do MiLlEnNiAlS hAtE pRoFiTs
Zero sum game thinking.
"If other people are getting health care then there won't be any left for me!"
That's why people hear that and agree / are afraid
My brother, staunch Republican asshole, didn't want universal healthcare because he might have to wait longer for an appointment.
It didn't matter that it would cost less, have better outcomes, and people die without it. It was only about his convenience.
Has he never waited a long time for an appointment? I had a three month wait to see a cardiologist.
He had plenty of long waits for appointments, but facts and reasoning weren't involved.
Case in point: A 3 month wait in Canada - must be caused by universal healthcare = healthcare rationing = bad. That same 3 month wait in the U.S. = Freedom!
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I think that argument is interesting in the US because when I lived in a very conservative area health insurance was extremely expensive and covered very little. I had to wait months to get seen by my doctors, even for urgent issues, and every time I walked through the door of my doctor's office it cost me $200.
Now I live in a purple area where a large amount of the population is on Medicare or Medicaid. My insurance is worlds better and hundreds of dollars a month cheaper. I've rarely had to wait more than a month to see my doctor and if I am waiting a long time it's usually because the issue isn't urgent and I'm trying to get an appointment that fits in optimally with my schedule, not just take the next available appointment.
Hmmm. Sounds woke.
No no no, you're thinking the wrong (non-racist) way.
"Everybody gets healthcare!'
Means all the non white people also get healthcare. Now we wouldn't want that, wouldn't we?
(This is a joke/shitpost. Universal healthcare should be available to anyone regardless of skin color)
Republicans would rather deny healthcare to their own family and the boogyman "illegal immigrant that's somehow also taking all the jobs" than provide it for those that need it.
NEVER interrupt a terrorist when he’s making a mistake.
Oh no we will be like every functional county on earth.
Ohnoes! The horror!
What will we ever do without our bloodsucking insurance middleman denying the procedures our doctors say we need and that we fucking pay for in hundreds of dollars per month!
And he's definitely wrong about this one.
"everyone" is code for black/brown/poor people.
We'll be thrown into a system where everybody gets two scoops of ice cream!
What??! I don't want Frank getting any ice cream; that guy sucks! Therefore nobody should get any ice cream unless we can guarantee Frank doesn't get any
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You know you’re shit when the leader of the opposition sells your party better than you can.
If Democrats actually fought for free health care they'd sweep the elections
Yes he did say that BUT those that fervently support him will see it differently "they will take your money and your children's money and give free healthcare to the immigrants, give it to me i have a better plan with it" and unfortunately you can't cure stupid no matter how much we progress in medicine.
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Goddammit. That sucks.
You mean the government funded by OUR tax dollars actually spending OUR tax dollars ON US instead of their rich buddies, their dictator buddies, or themselves?
(rather than our tax dollars blowing up A CHILDREN'S FUCKING SCHOOL in Iran, or shooting sailors in the water from fishing boats we sunk in Venezuela, or giving the money to genocidal mideastern shitbags wanting to own everything?)
Yeah, I'd hate to see our money spent on keeping us alive and healthy rather than using it to fuck up the entire planet.
What's next?
Free secondary education?
Is this the kind of world people like you want?
And they're horrified by that. He's saying it to scare them. They're always afraid of the "undeserving" getting things from tax revenue. Only their side is worthy.
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