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.
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.
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.
You mean more minorities. The prison industrial complex has been about slavery in all but name since the Reconstruction era.
Not only did the Soviets win the cold war, but the South won the civil war. Should we check to see if the Spanish somehow ended up winning thr Spanish-American war too?
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Damn, really sounds like some sort of political party should have tried to capture voters interest instead of pushing the status quo that has been suffocating folks for their whole life.
This shit is so fucking lazy.
Biden enacted plenty of progressive asks during his term. Harris outlined plenty of progressive asks in her campaign as well.
Just because it wasn't 100% of what YOU personally wanted doesn't mean it wasn't good legislation.
Hope none of your family dies because of this, because if they do it's on you, mr protest voter.
Harris outlined plenty of progressive asks in her campaign as well.
She also outlined a move to the right and lied about working super hard for a ceasefire
So tired of people pretending the Dems weren't a horrific choice in 24, likely on purpose to give repubs their turn
Biden butchered children by the tens of thousands. I want to fucking die because I voted for that monster.
"Queermunist", implying you are both queer and communist.
Mate you... you know you are the first group of people the turd wants to get rid of?
You deserve what's coming for you, because you are the one asking for it, so when they come for you (because, unless there's a very significant change, it's not an if but a when), remember that you voted for it.
Imagine telling a minority "you deserve to be killed by fascists because you didn't vote for my preferred candidate."
It's like they say! Scratch a liberal...
Imagine telling someone you're fine with queer people being killed at home, because you're so entitled that you sat out to defend those people.
Willingly. We collectively deserve it.
You're disgusting, you're okay with genocide as long as you get your comforts. We protested evil then, and we protest evil now. You only protest inconvenience.
You are not the fucking moral high ground. If this were a trolley problem, you've elected to kill five people instead of one. Even if the American left wasn't going to move on the issue, the situation would not have been nearly as genocidal. For Ukraine, for Trans and GNC, for the homeless.
Absolutely, unequivocally, and without remorse: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
If this were a trolley problem, you've elected to kill five people instead of one
Correct. The problem is that you're not hearing the setup, or you don't care, which solidifies my decision.
The trolley was coming to kill a million of our children. There were two other tracks, one was empty, and one just took an extra loop to hit you first.
And you monsters simply pulled the brakes off and ripped the third completely empty track off so the trolley had no chance of missing anyone. So I made sure it takes you too.
There's no moral high ground, I said we collectively deserve it, I accept my punishment for living in and supporting the genocidal empire. You deserve it for your apathy.
Either way, at least when the US empire collapses when Trump is done with it, it'll stop genociding nations and getting stupid responses like yours.
If you are between 100% & 125% of poverty and in a state that didn't expand Medicaid, you still get nearly free healthcare through Obamacare.
Nearly free? I'd tell you to tell that to my dad, but he passed away after getting thoroughly drained of most of his savings thanks to his "nearly free" health care while dying of cancer.
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...
Them "wondering" implies they are capable of thought. They are not.
If i have to hear one more of them try to not explain what Donald is doing with “Biden“
Just no. That doesn’t explain anything. Explain Donald. Make that make sense. Explaining Biden just to describe how much they like Donald is just them chanting their brainwashing tape at this point.
They’ve largely disappeared, as the foreign disinformation campaign has successfully concluded. Only the most pretentiously loud and gullible are left.
Revolution.
You guys literally wouldn't vote for someone who stood against this, and had many progressive policy goals.
You think you guys who sat at home are gonna pick up guns and fight? Lol.
Harris and Biden hemorrhaged votes from almost every single demographic. They lost everyone. But its everyones fault but theirs? Not any sort of systemic problem?
Come on now.
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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