• Chookitypok@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Said it already, the slow death is accepting that the treatment should go to those who can afford it. That’s the unacceptable compromise for leftists…

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Offer arrives from global council of oligarchs tomorrow:

      Kill all landlords, landback by the end of the month, cops are allowed only two pieces of kit¹, but we keep gig apps cops and for-profit healthcare for at least another decade. No struggle no tear gas no death.

      I’d take that deal.

      ¹pants bullets radio and a car each count for one.

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      3 days ago

      the slow death is accepting that the treatment should go to those who can afford it.

      and how does that relate to politics, especially seeing as you are actively sabotaging the party that wants medicare/medicaid

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        3 days ago

        The party doesn’t want medicare4all, hence why they didnt pass it when they had the power to, or use some of the executive’s powers to get as much non-means tested heathcare to the people as possible.

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          3 days ago

          since you all seem to get your one-liner responses from the same text file, i’m gonna follow your example and repost another comment from this post

          Democrats haven’t had 60 senators since 1979. They had 58 in 2010 for exactly 72 days and tried to pass public option healthcare but only 1 independent voted with them so they settled for the lesser medicaid expansion that the current Republicans are gutting in the budget. For the record, that medicaid expansion passed with supermajority as every singe Republican voted nay.

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            3 days ago

            You only need a simple majority to remove the filibuster. We elected them to use their power, not to let their hands be tied by rules that never seem to stop them or the republicans from doing bad things.

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                3 days ago

                Dems could have simply gotten rid of the filibuster and passed free healthcare with 50 votes, and shown an entire generation of voters that politics is a viable means of achieving positive social change. But they genuinely do not want this because the donor class does not want this, so they let the rules stop them.

                For the dems, a generation of energized, politically active 20-30 year olds is a problem to overcome.