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You don't know why they're openly bragging that the former US president is a Russian agent?

They're making fun of Trump and and America. Bragging.

Are you joking?

You don't know why the Kremlin felt the need to brag that they own a former president of the United States?

Didn't Google already break up? It's called Alphabet now.

Do you also find it hilarious to use the word techno whenever somebody mentions EDM?

One time this dude who is maybe a little autistic, possibly very autistic, made this super detailed post about all the different genres of electronic dance music. If you know anything about it, you know there's some hyper-specific sub genres out there, and this dude took the time to not only list them all out, but verbally describe what made a piece of music fit into one genre versus all the others.

Obviously I replied with something like "Man, I love techno."

He's a charlatan and all of his supporters are absolute gullible morons.

He was a real pyotr pyuffor.

E: thank you to the four of you who upvoted this even though I had like five typos in my slightly clever wordplay joke.

Dude has just been lying constantly about everything.

Oh well it's already a better app. without them.

You realize I'm not the person you were originally arguing back and forth with right?

By the way, I just replied to your Medicare post a few minutes ago. Thank you for picking one, as my initial post challenged.

Ps. It was between donkey and twat waffle.

Hey you picked one I know a little about since I deal in liability for personal injuries, including medical care. Do some reading. The entire bill is a massive handout to the pharmaceutical industry and the billionaire class.

It created HSAs which is a way for large employers to past the cost of medical insurance on to their employees; basically allows companies to give their employees gift cards to use for medical care while saving money on premiums by providing shittier coverage. This is a subsidy for big corporations and the rich; they depend hand-to-mouth on the good health of lowly employees, and they will place as much of that liability as possible onto their employees, but won't similarly share profits. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. It would certainly benefit our country in every way to have every person in it covered for healthcare 24/7, 365 by a single payer, the SSA. As it is now, health coverage is all broken up and fractured. Try getting seriously hurt the job and see if you don't spend the rest of your natural life in the middle of a fight between two giants over who should be the primary payer, either the workers comp insurer or the SSA or your health insurer, and neither has any concern whether you actually get the care you need, in fact they'd prefer you did not get it.

The same law also put a new focus in the SSA on recoupment in cases of a secondary payer. So like if you're getting healthcare because you got in an accident or if you were at work, the SSA can come after you, the secondary payer, the doctor, or your lawyer, whoever got paid, if SSA finds out that they paid as primary when they should have been a secondary, or a conditional payer. So like if you get $100,000 settlement for a car accident, but oopsie Medicare accidentally paid for most of your medical treatment, you could get a bill from the feds in five years for $150,000, or a denial of $150,000 worth of future Medicare benefits, to make up for it. The 2006 law modernized the systems for making these collections.

As part of that same modernization, they took a bunch of jobs that used to exist in the private sector for claims administration on Medicare Parts A and B, and placed the burden of that administration on the federal government. Usually im all for creating good federal jobs, but only for Literally getting the government to do corporation's work for them, so that corporations could cut the jobs. Privatize the profit, socialize the loss. No big deal, only your tax money being handed directly to people who own insurance companies.

The main handout was to prevent the federal government, Medicare, from negotiating with pharmacaceutical companies over the price of prescription drugs. Think of how ridiculous that is and how hypocritical it is? The Republicans who claim to love the free market so much prevented the largest buyer of medications from negotiating the price. No discounts for buying in bulk. That's your tax money I'm talking about buying meds, and Republicans made sure that pharmaceutical companies could set their own prices. They got massively richer after 2006.

In short, yes, this law was very beneficent, if you own an insurance company.

You know using absolute terms as frequently as you do is a sign of early onset dementia?

People in that thread have already ripped that post apart.

You pick one policy, don't hand me a list of 50 and then tell me to prove a negative, you donkey.

I remember a few years ago the Republicans jammed through some piece of legislation that would allow terminal patients to take experimental medications. Even people on the left got fooled, thinking it was some benevolent thing that Trump and his team did for dying patients.

Really, what they did was create a loophole for drug manufacturers to allow them to skip right ahead to human trials, as long as they could find a patient desperate enough to sign a waiver, which, of course anyone who is terminal is also desperate enough to try anything; in law it's called duress and it voids consent. It's one step below doing forced medical testing on unwilling subjects.

There's a reason we do drug trials and we don't just skip straight into human testing. And I'm sure they gave it some fucking dumbass lie of a name like, the Compassionate Care Act or something. Pharmaceutical companies love it because it slashes the cost of testing, which is the most expensive part of pharmaceuticals after advertising.

I can't honestly think of a single policy that Republicans support that doesn't have an evil purpose at its core.

And I bet that you can't show me one.

You tell me one Republican policy you think is rooted in compassionate and benevolence, and a genuine desire to help people in need of help, and I will take about ten seconds to point out exactly how you got tricked, and what the law actually does, just like with the human testing law I mentioned; The point of it wasn't exclusively to make people suffer, it was to give a handout to the pharmaceutical industry, and Trump's rich supporters.

I think it's the second option.

I also think that everyone should have just one internet account. And every website you sign up for or account you create or whatever has your real name publicly associated with it.

You could still post anonymously, but there would be no username associated with it. Just "Guest" or "Anonymous" or whatever. No linking back to your socials if you say a bunch of crazy shit online without using your actual identity.

Dumb take. Nobody is "pro genocide."

Your understanding of what people who disagree with you think and say proves how brainwashed you are.

This site only shows if your email address is floating around on some illicit data set.

There are plenty of ways to scrape email addresses without stealing them.

You probably signed up for something using your email address, clicked agree to share it with the company's trusted partners, all 3,000 of them, and one of them proved not to be so trustworthy.

"Fuck off with your woke bullshit."

Fuck robots though.