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Triasha

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  • Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted | CNN

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  • Because us poors with 10k deductibles were not getting cancer treatment anyway. They won't notice people skipping insurance that couldn't afford to use their insurance in the first place. The insurance companies will notice, but they have no leverage. It's a zero sum game between insurance companies and members.

    They will focus on the top 10% because that's where all the disposable income is. They will be happy they don't have to fight with insurance companies anymore.

    The only leak is emergency care that they can't refuse to treat people.

  • Senate Democrats block DHS funding over immigration tactics

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  • New york

  • Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted | CNN

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  • They don't need us poors to make a profit. Half of all consumption spending in the US comes from the top 10% we are on track for that to narrow to the top 5% in my lifetime.

    If people stop getting health insurance, they can just die. That's the more plausible future.

  • Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted | CNN

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  • Prior to 2025 I could assume the CDC was staffed with well meaning technocrats. They could get something wrong, but they would almost always be correct, far more often than me.

    Now I have to figure out if they are pushing a crackpot political agenda or giving legitimate guidelines.

    Usually it will be the latter, but it's a cognitive load and that corrodes trust.

  • Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart

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  • Holy shit, that's not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that's crawling into it's stomach as hard as you can.

  • Pro-Trump Town Stunned After ICE Raids Leave It “Nearly Destroyed”

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  • Illegal entry is a misemeanour, rather than a felony, which in the minds of many Americans, is only barely a crime.

    Sadly, the great strides we have taken against racism have led many Americans to support the racists, thinking they and their loved ones will not be affected.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • That's true, Taiwan is armed to the teeth and our regional partners would not be partners if we actually went psychotic and tried to invade. Our supply lines are way longer than China and all the logistics in the world won't help if we don't have bases to operate from.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • I meant we could occupy them like we occupied Iraq. We would win the military confrontation. The occupation would break us.

    We could do it once, maybe twice or three times if the countries are small and weak, but it would break us. The rest of the world would adjust. We would all be poorer but the US would be fucked. Trump doesn't understand that we built a military too expensive to actually use. It made sense if we wanted to avoid conflict, and casualties, while still being top dog and getting our way, but actually going in and occupying territory is medieval thinking.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • He backed off Greenland. Taiwan would be an order of magnitude worse. The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes) But it would be the end of us.

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • "Jesus was probably cool, but nobody gives a fuck about him."

    Around here, if I meet someone that talks about God, then maybe they are cool. Maybe not, but they are probably the normal amount of religious. If they talk about Jesus, they are hundred percent batshit. They think trans people and gay people are the same thing, and both are a threat to children, unlike their pastor, who is not allowed to let children sit on his lap anymore because he fell to temptation that one (4!) time(s!).

  • What Stops ICE from Snatching People Off Canadian Streets? Very Little

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  • Forty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

    J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.

    Tolkien thought it was champ.

  • Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

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  • I think the antichrist looks like Peter Theil, and shares a name with him. He's hiding in plain sight.

  • 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise

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  • Exactly. A lot of getting good at something is practicing. No one wants to spend time doing something they suck at, especially in public, but rather than practice in private, we can try to trick ourselves into believing we are actually already talented, faking it to get the practice that is needed to build the skill.

    This might also help with mild imposter syndrome.

  • Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

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  • That's the thing, they might retreat for an election cycle, but the propaganda network will have people voting for trumpists in the one after that.

    People will get tired of guilt and they will band together re elect trump apologists. The next generation raised on stories of how great trump was will likely be even more dangerous. Trump is a fool and a megalomaniac, a slightly more competent trumpist with most of the charisma could show up any day after he is gone.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Perhaps we are operating on different definitions.

    I would not disagree that America is a de facto oligarchy. It remains a de jure democracy.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Because the writers of the first law did not care about whether it made any difference.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Do you think the votes are rigged?

    Do you think laws can't be passed? Did the deep state create Obamacare and pretend it was Obama and the Democrats?

    What about the chips act? The inflation reduction act? Are they pretending to pass laws?

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Your optimism far exceeds mine.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • The law says there needs to be an election so an election was held.