• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    Of course they are. Those rich money-hoarders want more money and it has to come from somewhere.

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    Can’t wait for everyone who voted for them to feed the leopards. If shit has to hit the fan, I guess watching the magas suffer will provide some solace. After all, they like watching the left suffer.

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      Hahahahahaha, you think they’re going to realize they got scammed for even one second? Nah, Fox&Friends will tell them that Medicaid got drained by brown illegal alien babies and that these cuts are actually Saving America™

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          So as long as it “hurts the right people” you’re happy?

          Even though it hurts the “wrong people” too?

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            Yeah, OP’s take has always sounded pretty psychopathic to me. I feel the same about, “We deserve to be wiped out by climate change,” even though a small minority of the world population created a large majority of the greenhouse gases. If climate change only wiped out fossil fuel execs, maybe that would be deserved.

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            What am I supposed to do?

            Yeah it sucks for everyone affected, but I voted against the idiot that wanted to do it. However, quite a few others voted for him - against their own interests - and won’t listen to reason. Medicaid is usually considered part of that “third rail” of politics - touch it and you get electrocuted politically, but here we are.

            I would like to hear what you think we should do.

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              What am I supposed to do?

              I don’t know. But I do know that the correct answer usually isn’t to find pleasure in the suffering of others, especially in cases where many of those who will suffer did nothing to deserve it. That type of thinking is no better than the people on the “other side” who want to see the “right people” suffer even though it doesn’t improve their own suffering at all.

              I hear and understand your position. But please consider the position of all those people who didn’t vote for this and will still suffer because of it before you smile about the people who did.

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                I won’t take glee in it, but I will take a stance of, “This is what this country voted for.”

                I say, bring on the tariffs, too. Yep, it’s going to suck for a lot of people. But that’s apparently the only way anyone is going to learn. Not Trump fans; I don’t expect them to learn a damn thing, as a group. But the rest of the country will hopefully learn why voting for Trump was a bad idea and maaaaaybe give a bit more thought to the next election, assuming there is one.

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            Medicaid helps the poor. As far as centrists are concerned, cuts are hurting the right people in all cases.

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        If they get rid of medicade the only thing they need to fall for is the floor. Leopards will eat up right up :P

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      as long as he ‘hurts the right people’, the magacult don’t care at all how much it also hurts themselves or their families. not one bit. hate is a powerful tool.

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      Ahh yes, dumb people are too stupid to make the right choices so they deserve whatever is coming to them. The important thing is that we don’t blame the systems that misinform people because it’s the fault of the individual for being misinformed. /s

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        In my religion (work in progress, soon to be revealed to humankind, these things take time, stone tablets are back-ordered), one of the commandments is “don’t be a rube.” Another is “don’t be a soft target.” Clearly, exceptions apply for mental defectives and those who are unable to learn to defend themselves. But most people can and should take steps. These commandments are based on the historical observation that societies with high barriers to exploitation are more just.

        Instead of viewing it as victim-blaming, consider it a useful form of self-help. And, like vaccination, the wider the adoption, the greater the “herd immunity” against lying fascists.

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        Go fight NBC or Twitter and lmk how that goes for you.

        You’re the same ppl who have been using liberal as a pejorative for decades…

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          Go fight NBC or Twitter and lmk how that goes for you

          Working on it. In the mean time, how is calling voters dumb working out?