• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    What’s ironic is that the big opposition from the GOP to ObamaCare was this ludicrous idea of “Death Panels” weighing human life against budgets.

    And yet, when the panels are a dictatorial insurance algorithm, where is that classic 2009-2010 outrage?

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      You probably already know but, those arguments aren’t why the GOP were outraged. It’s what they thought would be most likely to get the public outraged.

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              6 hours ago

              That’s not true

              We shall see, only time will tell (though it’s interesting that any sitting President is allowed to legally assassinate anyone they want with virtually no oversight that we are told of).

              a dangerous cop out

              Fair.

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          22 hours ago

          Yes, you can blame the GOP for defunding education as well.

          (I have exactly zero love for the Zionazi-owned Dems either but I’m not aware of them ever defunding education)

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            18 hours ago

            Or discriminating against gays, or cutting food stamps, or invading Greenland, or storing nuclear secrets in bathrooms, or…

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          23 hours ago

          The public is way less intelligent than “dumb as fuck” hopefully we can get there on the way to marginally dumb. But I doubt it

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      The panels are often just an automated script that always replies with Denied the first time too, since people sometimes dont fight it.