• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    If somebody donned a green hat each week until this passed, CEOs would move into a compound by week 3, and this would still not pass. I think it will take something much more extreme. There’s way too much for the owners to lose by letting health insurance slip through their fingers. It’s not just money, but control to keep the laborers obedient and loyal. We NEED health insurance, so we stay with our abusers. I don’t know what action it would actually take to get M4A, but I’m pretty sure that saying it would get me banned from a lot of internet platforms and maybe get feds knocking on my door to ask a few questions. It would take good trouble, to say the least.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s not happening without a revolution. And I don’t just say that because I would prefer humanity survive its own stupidity. The way healthcare is organised in the US is so far gone that

      M4A would undermine the entire system.

      Huh…you told us this was impossible, but here it is, and it actually works far better for the absence of profit-seekers.
      Now a terrible burden of socioeconomic pressure has been lifted. Wait…what else have you been lying to us about? What assumptions have I grown up with that were not my own?

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      It’s not just money, but control to keep the laborers obedient and loyal. We NEED health insurance, so we stay with our abusers.

      Yep, it’s part of their “jobs you can’t quit” agenda (courtesy of Doctorow).

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      You’re the right for the most part. However, you can say what you like on the internet. I say we should kill all billionaires and execute Trump on a regular basis and nothing happens. Don’t make them out to be stronger than they are.