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    7 days ago

    Its a dog whistle for racists. What he means is “brown people will get free healthcare”. He’s a disgusting racist.piece of shit, so you have to read every word through that lens.

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      Its kept general so everyone hating any group can go ‘fuck yeah’, whether that be brown people, homeless people, immigrants, gypsies, punk rockers, gingers, kpop-lovers, people-who-wear-dino-suits, etc

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    As a Canadian who hears this on the regular, the threat is that the seniors will have to pay for the healthcare of the irresponsible youths. With their skateboards and lack of helmets.

    And seniors are terrified of… Everything.

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    People are afraid their taxes will go up to pay for universal healthcare. They’re not as worried about the fortune they already spend to kill brown kids on behalf of an expansionist regime, or the other fortune they now spend on fuel (and by virtue, everything else that needs to be transported to them) because their government attacked one of the regime’s critics.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      Or indeed the other fortune they spend on the current healthcare system.

      Universal healthcare would save 114,000 American lives a year, and would cost 1 trillion dollars less per year than what we have right now.

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    In Mexico, our president promised that in her presidential campaign. And she is working hard to get there, even though, my impression is she won’t make it, because it’s not an easy endeavor. Can’t imagine why a whole society would not want this. I know they are not idiots.

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    Yes he did say that BUT those that fervently support him will see it differently “they will take your money and your children’s money and give free healthcare to the immigrants, give it to me i have a better plan with it” and unfortunately you can’t cure stupid no matter how much we progress in medicine.

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    You know you’re shit when the leader of the opposition sells your party better than you can.

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    Republicans would rather deny healthcare to their own family and the boogyman “illegal immigrant that’s somehow also taking all the jobs” than provide it for those that need it.

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    Goddammit. That sucks.

    You mean the government funded by OUR tax dollars actually spending OUR tax dollars ON US instead of their rich buddies, their dictator buddies, or themselves?

    (rather than our tax dollars blowing up A CHILDREN’S FUCKING SCHOOL in Iran, or shooting sailors in the water from fishing boats we sunk in Venezuela, or giving the money to genocidal mideastern shitbags wanting to own everything?)

    Yeah, I’d hate to see our money spent on keeping us alive and healthy rather than using it to fuck up the entire planet.