https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1772980651534229876

kicker: most of the comments are angry libertarians screaming yOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE MR PRESIDENT SIR

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Those kids can work at a slaughterhouse or a Burger King to increase the flow of treats. Poverty solved just like COVID was.

  • nightshade [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.
    We calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8572548/

    Every president or presidential candidate who is against universal healthcare is essentially saying that they are willing to allow a quarter of a million people to die (and waste 2 trillion dollars) over the course of their term in order to protect the profits of healthcare companies. Do they really expect us to forget the fact that most prominent Democrats supported that level of social murder only a few years ago?

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I'll never forget that moment in the 2016 dem debates when they were asked if they supported universal healthcare to raise their hands, there were like 10 candidates up there including copmala and only Bernie and Elizabeth Warren raised their hands

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        you must be remembering 2020? Kamala didn't run for president in 2016 and neither did Warren

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          3 months ago

          And in the 2020 primary debates Harris did raise her hand and the next day her campaign staff walked it back. Twice, iirc.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      protect the profits of healthcare companies

      correction: The profits of private health insurance companies.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    So if you believe people should have healthcare, the last thing you'll see is these two ghouls with their shit-eating grins?

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    3 months ago

    They technically did the meme right by accident.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    It's so embarassing even by lib standards:

    the-democrat: "Ok, with the tax base we have....here's some of that to fund police..."

    amerikkka-clap: "Ok."

    the-democrat: "...And fire departments...."

    amerikkka-clap: "Ok"

    the-democrat: "...and a corn subsidy...."

    amerikkka-clap: "Ok"

    the-democrat: "And hospitals. I suppose they're infrastructure too."

    joker-amerikkklap: "STOP RIGHT THERE, STALIN!"

  • CommieCornbread [comrade/them, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I saw somewhere that they finally used the POV thing accurately because "you" (POV) actually believe healthcare is a right and you're looking at two people who don't.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      The only people who would follow the US president's account on twitter would be people who want to yell impotently at them, so I'm guessing that's largely who the people replying are?

      • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        I think yelling impotently is fine. That's what most of us can go. It's just that people are saying very stupid shit in there. I scrolled past 25 or so replies and only one correctly said that Biden has obstructed universal healthcare multiple times. Apart from that there is an obscene number of accounts, both of political organisations and ostensibly normal people, saying that by providing free healthcare you are stealing someone else's labour. Then there is a bunch of people saying Obamacare made healthcare moee expensive.

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Something about that selfie gives me the "heebie-jeebies" what-the-hell it's so unsettling idk how to describe it apart from that weird word lol

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      The angle of his arm is pretty strange for having a phone in his hand that he's controlling enough to take a picture. I think maybe he didn't take it, and it's the weird attempt at feigning a selfie that makes them look even more fake than usual.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Liberals are better off just appropriating the NAFO shit. At least that's in their ballpark for memes.

  • SkibidiToiletFanAcct [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    this will be your POV if you make a medicare4all post, and later you look towards the viewing gallery as your being strapped to the gurney in the execution chamber.