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[–] 171 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.

And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.

    All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.

    This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.

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  • [–] 97 points 1 year ago (39 children)

    This is what I call "what America literally voted for".

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (38 children)

    *Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (177 children)

    This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

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    [–] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.

    "Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.

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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Cutting benefits for the poorest.

    Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

    Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

    Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

    Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Gonna be honest with you.

    Americans don't have the balls.

    Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Brian Klass is a political scientist who recently put out his own philosophy of chaos theory. I think it's a pretty useful tool to look at contemporary movements and really refutes the "it couldn't possibly happen here" message.

    Pre-2011 there was a paper published on why middle eastern dictatorships were so stable. The next year almost all of them fell. Klass argues that the author wasn't wrong, they just were working with the rules and tools we knew at the time, but didn't know the rules had changed with the invention of social media.

    In his perspective, the idea of a "fluke" is not a fluke at all, it's a data point showing that things are changing and changing fast. Things just feel like flukes when our assumptions of the way things work become outdated.

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    [–] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Make America Great Again, they never said for whom.

    While this administration justified its urgency for punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to a fentanyl crisis taking life of thousands of good Americans, the same administration is about to take life of hundreds of thousands of good Americans itself to make billionaires wealthier.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    As others have pointed out, this is social murder.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.

    And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Food and health. Wow

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    They need all that Medicaid funding to help the legion of soon-to-be obese leopards.

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