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Unpopular opinion here, but GOOD. I want cuts to medicaid, medicare, and social security. I want the people who voted for this to get what they wanted.
I don't use any of those systems, and as far as I am concerned, we are at the point of ever person for themselves. Cut it all, I can fend for myself and I'm done paying for moochers who voted against my rights.
As someone who didn't vote for this and is currently struggling to get basic needs met, fuck you. Sincerely.
This country is going to be destroyed by apathy. Use that anger. Riot. Disobey. If a bunch of people are getting their needs met then things go on as they were while each group is picked off in turn. My family is already collateral damage, and most people, many of whom collect social security and are on Medicare and Medicaid are fine with that until it affects them.
do you prefer living surrounded by destitute desperate misery? when its every person for themselves you wont fend for nada.
It depends on if that is the thing that wakes people out of apathy. I don't wish misery on anyone, but considering the voter turnout in the last election, we deserve to suffer together.
We already do. Ya don't see it because it's been a slow turn. We are the richest country in the world in history, but yet, we have issues paving roads because of the rich don't want to pay their fair share. We could take a few points of the GDP and we could have the greatest country this world has ever seen, a pure utopia.
So that means that people who cannot afford medical care should suffer for a while because...?
Everyone is suffering. The vast majority of people voting don't want anything better. Sure, we can have ideals, but ya gotta face facts that people just don't want anything better and will not avocate for it.
Yet another unnecessary accelerationist in a world where the brakelines were cut years ago and the bus has been speeding up all on its own.
"I can fend for myself" is the extremely naive thought that cut those brakes. No human is an island, and everyone is connected to everyone, past and present.
And "good, they should suffer because they deserve it" is the extremely evil thought that placed the brick on the accelerator. It's the same thought that drives decisions like defunding healthcare.
So, congrats on being a part of the problem. Enjoy cheering for the suffering of humanity.
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