Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
AOC nailed it calling this bill a deal with the devil.
Death panels are back on the menu
Did they ever leave?
They were privatised.
If ya like learning cool lefty shit and care about the political economy of health, the Death Panel podcast is a nicely chilled refresher in a world thats’s served well done with ketchup.
As is "keep your government hands off my Medicare"
Good luck everyone there. You are going to need it...
Are we at the point where Americans actually defend their democracy and vulnerable citizens yet? No? Just gonna write up a new protest sign while we wait for more people to die?
They are stealing your country and murdering your neighbours. Wake the fuck up. Organize. Protest. Strike. Resist.
what do you think organizing protesting and striking is if not writing signs
You're asking on .world, where the instance admins take a "both sides are the same" approach in addition to a "no advocating violence" against the established order.
If you're a republican and you're ever in a position of need and I have to ability to help, I'll show you the sum total of compassion your political party has and piss on you instead of helping. Don't be upset I learned it from watching y'all.
100% with you on that one. I'm told that I need to be considerate to them when they start learning the errors of their ways because then they might be allies.
Fuck that. I've lived in red states all my life, they hurt and they "turn over a new leaf" for a second, then the second a Democrat has the gall to help them out of the hole they scream communist then go running to the person worse than the last.
I'm done, I'll help those around me that I can to try to cut down the suffering... but if they voted for this or stayed home, they can rot for all I care.
When you opt out of the social contract, you don't get the benefits anymore. Piss is too generous.
Be more considerate, allow them to at least cup their hands first . Then they at least have something to sip on
Don't piss on them if they are on fire though.
Naw. It’s unlikely to put the flames out, but that odor is awful.
50501 needs to start getting people organized. I went to No King's Day; it was great, really, genuinely great, except that there was absolutely zero organizing to try and get people to push towards achievable goals. It was literally just "hey, let's all stand around with signs, that'll show Donald". If we want to make a difference, we need to get organized so we can start directing people and their resources and energy towards attainable goals and start demonstrating that we can get shit done.
I agree with all of this.
Not only protests but strikes.
Nationwide. Every industry.
No idea how to make that happen, though.
Yes, generally these one day protests don't really accomplish anything. You need protests that don't end at dinner time, but go on until there is change. In other words: a revolution. But I understand this is not easy to organize in a gigantic country like the US.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. They're building habits, getting the numbers up. Practicing.
I've looked online but I guess I failed my search checks, because I didn't find anything big in NYC.
But also like others have said, we need to do more than just march. We need to be disruptive. No more labor until every Republican resigns. That kind of thing.
Yeah, that last protest -- the biggest ever in the US wasn't it? -- did so much.
Protesting is what got you here. And they want you to keep protesting uselessly while they continue to take apart America.
Depends on where you think this is all going: Reaganomics or Genocide.
If it is Genocide you shouldn't be discussing this, and should be forming resistance cells.
If you think it's Reagonomics, visible protests can help form mutual aid networks and a collective action front that increases solidarity and save lives.
Two different approaches depending on where you think things are heading.
"Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
I am not looking forward to seeing elderly people living on the streets after a medical issue causes them to lose their house. I don't think many will last long living outdoors.
From Obama-care to Republi-kill.
The rich get richer while the poor get fucked over and out.
Where else is the 1 trillion dollars tax cut for the rich comes from.
30% of those affected probably don't even believe in modern healthcare e.g. their patron saint RFKjr
Boomers in about six months:
"But why would Obama do this?"
I was told today that this is “all the dems fault because they haven’t tried to stop him yet”. I can’t imagine how far your head has to be up your own ass to see that viewpoint.
I think that's the "only Democrats have agency" thing that comes up. When Republicans are horrible shits people are just like yeah they're horrible but like you don't blame the bear for doing bear stuff. But everyone else is held to normal human standards
It's not all their fault, but by God it'd be nice to see them fight the republicans at least as hard as they fight the leftists in their own party.
Authoritarians are masters of compartmentalization. They cannot and will not connect any dots that conflict with their predetermined world view. Their brains do not function rationally and they are incapable of drawing rational conclusions.
There is a great free book on this topic with years of research behind it.
https://theauthoritarians.org/
Biden is the new scapegoat.
I mean, a lot of this stuff only kicks in after the midterms, so you will see democrats take the house and suddenly hospitals all over the country will start closing.
but of course.