What? Your solution screws people too. There’s no solution that doesn’t “hurt” some people. I just think my solution (government provided single payer health care which mostly ends health care as a market based commodity) hurts fewer people and the people that are hurt aren’t hurt in very serious ways.
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it would probably be different people getting screwed
What do you mean? Why wouldn’t you just tell your landlord that you aren’t going to pay, dare the landlord to sue you, and if you lose declare bankruptcy sticking the landlord with the loss while you get away free and clear because you reorganized your assets to make sure they weren’t part of the bankruptcy? That’s…
Lots of different ways. Lottery. Queues. Fist fights between competing buyers. Jeopardy competitions. “Money” just happens to be the best for people who have lots of money. Who also happen to have the most political power in our system. Weird coincidence.
“Efficiency” isn’t a thing in the real world. The concept does not consider morality, social equality, or anything really outside of a hypothetical problem in a textbook. Especially in the “market” for a good with no substitutes and incredible inequality of resources between the buyers. That Jeff Bezos can pay…
This whole thing about “transparency” and shit is so fucking dumb. The long and the short of it is the gop and their supporters don’t believe government should be providing assistance to people for health care if it’s going to take “their” money. That’s a philosophical belief completely disconnected from any…
No, that was never the “narrative” of Splinter’s objection to the gop’s tax cuts. You’re either mis-remembering or just making things up. The objection was always:
Considering the reason the package the white house designed for the stimulus was cut down in size on the orders of unelected white house personnel like Rahm Emmanuel and Larry Summers, not by congress (controlled by the Democratic party with a filibuster proof majority in the senate), I think you’re trying to…
No, you can. The tax cuts balloon the deficit in order to give money to rich people AND it was done by people who just spent 8 years wailing about Obama’s deficits. The complaint isn’t about the deficit. It’s about the hypocrisy of the people involved and the reason for why they were willing to be revealed as complete…
Was Claire McCaskill not in the senate the past 8 years? I could have sworn I used to read her rube bait in the Post Dispatch when I was at back at my childhood home in Clayton for holidays and stuff. If the past is “1970 something until about now” then yes, we should burn a whole heap of the DNC’s past. But I…
need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs,
Haha. Newbs. So clever. We need some of that practical, hard working, respected, pragmatic “lose 13 governorships, 816 state legislature seats, 12 senate seats, and 164 seats in congress” kind of politics. Not that college boy shit. Thank god for Claire “Sometimes Missou-ri, sometimes Missou-rah depending on the rube”…
The most beautiful example of Brutalism is actually the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Center, a/k/a The Pool Named After the Prime Minister That Drowned (or maybe picked up by a Chinese submarine? No one knows).
Really? There’s no difference between believing Jews are actively conspiring to oppress “goyim” with a plan revealed in the Talmud, and believing some guy talked to some being thousands of years ago before sharing what they talked about with the rest of the people?
Did you not see the "poem" Alice Walker published on her own website? She doesn't get a pass for blatant anti-Semitism because Black people are oppressed in the US. And by publicly commenting on a public message board you're implicitly asking other people to respond. Fuck off with that "nobody asked you" bullshit.
I fucking hate “shopping” for insurance sooooo much. I got married a couple of months ago so this is the first time “shopping” with my wife for a family plan. It is so god damn stupid to have to guess how much you think you’ll use the doctor, what kinds of hospitals you want in your network, and all this stupid shit.…
Noooooo! I live in Atlanta and I went to see Ossoff speak at a town hall when he was trying to get support from all GA Democratic party people to run against Handel when there were still a number of possible Democratic candidates. It was an Our Revolution sponsored meeting specifically about health care (it was when…
No, he’s entirely wrong in that only one part of the country engaged in treasonous, illegal secession in order to continue slavery. So no, when you’re discussing the civil war (the actual subject of his speech. It wasn’t just about the history of slavery in north america) there isn’t “enough guilt to be spread from Key…
Last year I bought an all original, 160,000 odd mile, Atlanta GA 1993 245 (so not a speck of rust) for $1600. No way that abomination is worth $7500. They killed it! One of the best things about the 1993 245 is the wheels!. Mine has the original Scorpius mesh rims with all the badges.
Hey now. Don’t you realize those guys are over there killing illiterate teenage goat herders and farmers so you have the freedom to post on the internet? If it wasn’t for our brave soldiers you’d be posting in Pashto!