I love the bit about more people than ever having health insurance. Every time I deal with my health insurance, trying to find a medical provider that will take my insurance, waiting for my insurance to approve something, it just makes me mad. I get angry at the insurance company for being fucking awful to deal with an basically useless, and I get even more angry at the fuckers in power who refuse to solve this extremely solvable problem because they don't want to upset donors.
Fuck, I just got mad thinking about it. Fuck Joe Biden and everybody else in federal elected office.
There are TV commercials all the time for "Yes you may be on Medicaid, but you're only on Medacaid part A, what you really need to not die in agony is Medicaid part C. Why is everyone not just automatically on that plan? Shut the fuck up and go fill out several days worth of forms."
Part C is a privatised program in which the government hands over your Medicare money to UnitedHealthcare or whomever so that they can instead put you on basically just a dogshit marketplace plan. You then have to deal with all of the worst problems of insurance in exchange for... Uhhh... Maybe a couple added benefits like super limited dental coverage?
It fucking sucks and should be illegal.
so you have health insurance but we still need to do 3 rounds of stuff we know is unnecessary/won't work before they allow what you actually need
i will never get over how insane it is that private medical insurance companies have any say whatsoever in the care you are allowed to have. its the death panel shit they made up to smear universal healthcare, but real, legal, and in the hands of organizations that have a monetary interest in not paying for anything because if you die, you can't file more claims.
It's the same energy as "low unemployment" (ignoring the fact that people who have given up looking for work are not counted, also people working only part-time)
Anyone who wonders why more people than ever being on private health insurance might result in anger towards the status quo has never had to see a doctor before.
"I don't understand, my stocks are doing great and the Economist just wrote several articles about it. Yes there are homeless encampments in every major city and college graduates will likely be living with their parents or a share house until they're 50, but everything else is awesome from where I'm sitting."
"I don't understand, inflation is low again and the Economist just wrote several articles about it. Yes, wages never matched inflation and prices never came back down, and prices are still high in 'core' areas like housing, but my houses are paid off, so everything is awesome from where I'm sitting."
reëlection
I can't believe they are still doing that shit.
When I was a teenager many decades ago I asked my mom who was my google - "Why do they use the two dots?" And my mom said "Because it's pretentious. And The New Yorker is pretentious."
It doesn't even make sense. English doesn't have umlauts, and even if they're pulling on its Germanic roots German doesn't have an 'e' with an umlaut.
I'm sorry comrade, but we need to shove you into the communal locker for possessing this nerd knowledge.
ё exists in Russian alphabet, ergo this poster is a Kremlin agent.
Aren't the umlauts even on the wrong letter? If it was accented, that would mean it was a long "eee" sound, so this would be pronounced reh-eeee-lehck-shun, wouldn't it?
I'm stealing somebody else's comment...
it's a diaeresis for indicating the two es are seperate syllables.
In other words it's confirming it's pronounced re-election and not ree-lection.
but we already have that, it's called "re-election"
these MFs really trying to fuck with the language and think we won't notice.
Sorry, but my immediate question is why is there an umlaut in reëlection?
It's a dieresis and it marks that you should pronounce a vowel separately. Like how naïve is pronounced like nigh-eve instead of knave. Very, very douchey to use it on normal words though
It's technically a valid spelling of reelection and the New Yorker does this with other words as well. I think it's pretentious.
I just think it's hilarious that their readership needs to be reminded how to pronounce reelection.
They used to do that with repeat vowels for a bit like 100 years ago (like coöperation), and for some reason these people are still at it
To give a certain kind of liberal arts major a feeling of legitimacy that is otherwise sorely lacking.
The title of OOP is so fucking funny lol. It must be so fun living in lala land.
I know I sound like a Bernie bro but the media has absolutly fucked us. Trump attempted to install himself as president after the people voted him out, there’s a phone call of him pressuring a Michigan election official to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes and the NYT put it on page 17
fellas, is it bernie bro tankieism to say the media and Trump are corrupt????The worst part of this is that the next time the economy is close to recession, leaders aren't going to institute policies to get a soft landing.
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2h ago Why? You think people would be happier with a recession?
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1h ago Yes, absolutely. I think it's clear that the public would have preferred high unemployment versus high inflation
but we're just ironically using the name neoliberals
These people have either never held a normal job, or they keep their mouths shut because they know they’d get their asses best if they said this shit lol
They do realize that their entire business stands to be shut down if they don't print exactly what Drumpf wants them to print, right? No one's going to buy any traditional media or even watch it if Drumpf gets reelected. He'll put the board behind bars for one charge or another, then his patsy's he puts in place are going to fire all the existing writers and replace them with grovelling sycophants. How anyone in media sees a Drumpf reelection as 'good for business' has no fucking clue what they're talking about. They'll be the first to get culled outside of opposition party members and 'undesirable' minorities.
LMAOOOOO
It’s so sad that capitalists will be arrested by the Drumpf Gestapo instead of realigning their allegiances. They’re just that loyal to democracy and freedom and would give up their money for it.
People are absolutely furious that their grocery bills went up.
No fucking shit, "people upset that they can barely afford to put food on the table". These fuckwits have their heads so far up their own arses. "Look, these cherry picked data points to show the economy is booming!"
The in touch DNC everyone.
They're looking out for your best interests. Trust me bro.
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The very first comment under the mod message is ableism (the image of the bearded guy comes from a video where he says democracy is for the people by the people, but people are [ableist slur])
Fucking liberals
It’s funny seeing liberals seethe at da tankiez for thinking liberal democracy is an illusion but then they declare everyone is stupid and democracy is stupid because they vote against their loser candidates
While those in the media are dooming, I am not. I have my good friends here at r/neoliberal to unskew the polls for me and tell me everything’s gonna be okay.
Well my cost of living went up ~15% and my salary went up ~2%. Apparently I'm just too stupid to understand why this is a 9000IQ 6d chess move.
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