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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

isn't mike flood getting paid despite congress going on vacation for the entire month of august (because they didn't want to release the epstein files)?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 1 week ago

He also gets very nice health insurance!

Not that ACA shit they sell to peasants!

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Lol even the work-shy young adult strawman isn't landing

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

This is red herring. I'm not saying the subject of health care for the unemployed is not important, but framing the question like this distract from the practice of tying health insurance to the employer, which is the real problem.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Hell, even if I didn't, the means testing and their errors wouldn't be worth it.

Part of the problem with neoliberalism is that humans are somewhat wired to a gift economy. Part of the right to rule comes from the giving of services and benefits. A Friedman government leaves those less fortunate acutely aware that the government doesn't benefit us at all.

The government's right to enforce property laws in part stems from the fact that part of taxation is earmarked for redistribution. Even kings understood that a decent portion of their job was to attempt to balance the needs of the peasantry and the nobility, because either could cause serious problems when sufficiently pissed off.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

screaming that society is immoral and that family values are going extinct, and laying down for a bunch of oligarchs, corpos and gangsters like the tech bro megalomaniacs , MAGA, and the Russian Mob State, all because you're mildly annoyed about an internet video of a green haired bisexual girl or something, but you can't voice your opinions on facebook anymore because no one will listen to you / you got banned, so you gotta make it your RL personality now

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[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

  • Pearl Buck, The Good Earth
[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Shouldn't matter what you or don't do, we all deserve health care... you fucking creep

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

would you trust a guy named after an alien race that conquers world.

Master Chief: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a cartoon plumber.

Luigi: What about side-a by side-a with a friend?

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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Surely poor health will help them become a productive little worker drone.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Link to video?~~ https://youtube.com/shorts/OddkfsZcXYk

Also we just went through 2 mass unemployment events in recent history. This is the pants on fire moment and everyone's talking like it didn't happen

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I saw that. It was best described as ritual humiliation. Fucking delicious.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I grew up, everyone got cholera and dysentery! If people don't get it now, that's UNFAIR! Getting these diseases builds character.

If we want our kids to be SERIOUS we need to let them get cholera and dysentery. After all, both are totally natural.

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[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't stay home during elections! Go and vote out every single Republican. Simple as that. But when you have factions within the left that can't agree with eachother, then we'll just keep losing to the right. Get your shit together people!!!

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Refuse to get work. *

* they're unqualified for it, or just disabled enough to not be able to properly do it.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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