American exceptionalism at its absolute worst.
Hatamoto
hatamoto
It’s crazy how it works in Canada, I walk in sick, get treated, then go home. No bills in the mail to worry about coming to bankrupt me, no avoiding phone calls from a collector, no being turned away if they think I can’t afford the appointment, everyone is treated based on need, not on who can afford the most care…
Considering the vast majority of people will have the new insurance and very few people would pay for separate, private insurance, most hospitals/doctors would fall into line with the new system. Do you know how we can tell? It happened in Canada! And elsewhere!
Saw that $32 T headline and my first thought was “Ok, and what’s the cost without medicare for all?”
It’s unsettling to me how few people seem to remember the bruhaha over GOP ties to voting machine manufacturers back in 2002 or whenever, when we were all told, “nah, it’ll be fine”.
PAPER BALLOTS! PAPER BACKUPS! DAMMIT!
The vulnerability of electronic voting is the quietest scandal going. I believe that vulnerability was purposely “back doored” in to those machines at the behest of the republican party in order to preserve their tyranny of the minority. Making that back door means those machines are vulnerable to any determined…
As someone who is a citizen of a country where socialism has been overwhelmingly successful, I’ve never understood why it’s been considered the boogieman in the States.
God forbid her grandchildren become (gasp) poor, or get a disease or medical diagnosis that sends them into egregious debt, or another financial crisis happens and they bail out the top tier (white) people. She doesn’t want them to live in a society where someone else (of color) can get the same breaks as they might…
Empathy is a foreign word to them with no translation available.
Republicans dont give a shit about anyone outside of their immediate family (and even family is questionable). Empathy is a foreign word to them with no translation available.
And I don’t want my grandkids growing up in a theocratic totalitarian corporate fascist dystopian industrial wasteland police state. So... where do we go from here?
She comes from a privileged upbringing, has never had to worry about her financial future, healthcare costs, what kind of schools her kids would go to, and on and on and on. To talk about how horrible it would be for others to get the smallest taste of that kind of security is is disgusting. Meghan is the worst, whites…
“Post World War II, the people around the world vowed to “never forget, never again”. But people have forgotten and it is happening again throughout the world including the United States...”
It’s deeper than that, intellectually and historically. Many countries spend a lot of time and effort refecting on the causes of…
Trump, the U.S. government, and police departments across our country are using the same tactics used by Hitler, the Nazi government and the police to exterminate millions of Jews, ethnic groups, religious groups, and homosexuals.
According to police (take this with a grain of salt)
They have (multiple) literal billions, they have a playbook, and they’ve been at this for awhile. Both things have to be done. IDK if you have children in school or have turned on your television this morning, but schoolkids are doing a walkout that could be conceived of as phase II of what the Parkland kids started —…
Fantasies can offer us visions and goals, but they can’t function as blueprints.
The whole of our current world is based on the colonialism of Western European countries and the economic systems they set up. Before being invaded, native cultures had, surprise!, their own values systems, economics, and political structures. Calling Wakanda’s society “unrealistic” shows how thoroughly entrenched…