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[–] 20 points 2 hours ago (10 children)

I have a friend whom I have this argument with frequently, not about health care specifically but other socialized benefits (e.g. SNAP). He's even a leftist, but still thinks he shouldn't have to pay for people who "take advantage of the system" (e.g. spend their SNAP benefits on things he doesn't believe should qualify, or receive SNAP benefits while spending their 'real' money on things he considers non-essential).

The fact that there are corporations getting orders of magnitude more in handouts, or that we're spending an unreal amount of money on the military, or that there's unfathomable amounts of corruption in the government, and that those benefits are in actuality a tiny fraction of what his taxes go to, makes no difference. He doesn't want people at the bottom to get an ounce more than he believes they strictly need or deserve, and I cannot for the life of me understand that line of thought.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    A while back, I was listening to a podcast that apparently had a fairly sizable conservative Christian audience, because there were a good number of ads for Christian "Health Care Sharing Ministries," into which subscribers pay a voluntary "share," and from which they draw when they need it.

    I don't remember the specific language the ad used, but I do remember it saying something that sounded almost dangerously close to "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need." I started laughing at that one.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 minutes ago

    There's a Fundamental Christian influencer named Aria Lewis who has that "insurance". She's been dealing with dental problems and basically made a post one day asking her followers if that insurance was a scam because she wasn't able to get the care she really needed

    It's crazy what people problems fall into when they choose something has "Christian" in the name over what everyone else is using

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  • [–] 7 points 1 hour ago

    so every time he says he doesn’t want to pay for people taking advantage of the system, ask if he means the wealthy people denying healthcare to people so they can afford more yachts, their 8th mansion, their 30th sport car, their second helicopter. Because he’s overpaying for his private healthcare so they can take advantage of him.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

    When you say "leftist" I assume you mean liberal Democrat.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Let's maybe save the purity tests for when we're not staring down the barrel of a fascist coup already in progress, eh?

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  • [–] -5 points 1 hour ago

    The Democrats are just as fascist:

    1. Biden/Harris had the entire Epstein file suite and did absolutely nothing with it
    2. Obama/Biden built the policy power to do the mass deportations and city-deployments of ICE that Trump is now using
    3. Biden knew this and changed literally nothing about it when he was president
    4. Obama/Biden deported more people than Trump has
    5. Obama/Biden appointed Tom Homan as deportation czar - same guy Trump appointed in both terms
    6. Biden/Harris deported/repatriated over 4M in only 4 years
    7. Biden/Harris participated in the Israeli-led genocide of Gaza
    8. Obama refused to provide arms to Ukraine. Trump was the first president ever to approve arms transfers to Ukraine.
    9. Obama/Biden + HRClinton continued the Bush2 strategic plan for destroying 7 countries by completely destroying Libya, laughing at the public torture and execution of a 70-year-old man sodomized with a blade by people the HRC State Dept coordinated
    10. 800k people, on average, have died every year for the last 50 years due to US sanctions, and both parties are totally OK with it.

    We could keep going, back to Clinton and the Biden-authored Crime Bill, back to every war and military action, to the School of the Americas and the training of death squads and terrorists. We can go through and show how these programs were continuous across party switches in every part of the government. We can show how every mass movement of people for self-liberation and self-governance was met with mass murder at the hands of the USA regardless of which party was in charge. We can show how the USA was the model used for EuroFascism and how the USA absorbed and protected the failed EuroFascists and then spread them around the world for decades with their protection, bi-partisanly.

    The USA is the global reservoir of fascism, which, of course it is, because the USA is the torchbearer, inheritor, executor, and protector of EuroImperialism, which is what EuroFascism fundamentally is.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Well, you know what they say about assumptions. Of course, when I see a post from .ml, I assume the poster is a tankie, so I guess we're both guilty.

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