Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

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I don't know what should be done, but I'm pretty sure whatever it is will involve a Guy Fawkes mask and a green newsboy hat.

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As a US-ian, I really wish you guys would keep reminding us that if you did join the US, you'd be a 51st state slightly larger and left of California.

The GOP wants nothing to do with Canada. They cringe every time they think about ya'll voting in our elections.

FPTP allows it, but FPTP is not the cause. We have had progressive politics in this country before, even with FPTP.

The cause is party leadership that is completely out of touch with reality.

Republicans are lot harder to pressure

Republicans caved to the Tea Party and a catch phrase. They are ridiculously easy to pressure.

The Democrats have been fighting against their own constituency for decades, pushing Hillary over Obama in 2008, Hillary over Bernie in 2016, and whatever you want to call that clusterfuck last year.

Hopefully, we can finally get a Guillotine Party to do to the Democrats what the Tea Party did to the GOP.

DO NOT EAT

You're not my supervisor!

Perhaps shielded vessels are more easily detected on long range sensors. If you're constantly using shields, you're continuously broadcasting your location to everyone in the sector.

"I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology."

You can wake up from a nightmare.

That is not a fantastic deal. When insurers are denying 1/3 of claims, and providers are charging insured rates 10 times higher than uninsured rates, that is not a good deal at all.

It is a travesty that government props up this horseshit system. They should be arresting everyone involved with the health insurance industry for perpetrating a massive fraud on the American people.

What I especially love is that providers charge a much higher price if you use insurance. A $100 procedure becomes a $1000 procedure if you try to use insurance to pay for it. Then your insurance says "sorry, you haven't reached your deductible", and the provider bills you the full amount.

All the stupid fuck had to do was lock the clocks, ending the time change.

I discovered a simple upgrade for the infotainment systems in most cars. The screens work perfectly well with either suction or adhesive-mount phone holders.

Even the shittiest phone is a major upgrade compared to any built-in infotainment system.

The children yearn for the mines.

$300 before or after the subsidy?

Fossil fuel prices in Canada can be decoupled from the global market if we really wanted to. We'd have to move to full domestic supply from extraction through refining to the pump.

That would mitigate some of the effects, but it wouldn't be enough to completely decouple. So long as pipelines, shipping terminals, and import/export policies expose Canadian fossil fuels to the global market, Canadians are going to be affected at the pump.

It is not universal. There is a coverage gap just below the poverty line, between losing eligibility for Medicaid, and becoming eligible for ACA premium subsidies. Just a complete lack of coverage for the people with the greatest need.

(Edit: to be fair, that gap was supposed to be filled by Medicaid expansion, but that largely fell through)

The fundamental reliance on private insurers is the biggest gap in universality. Public healthcare is subject to the private sector's willingness to permit treatment. With some companies boasting >30% denial rates, that "gap" is a gaping chasm.

The ACA was the best that could be done at the time, but it is a steaming turd and needs to be replaced with Universal Healthcare.

Venezuela. He's already invoked the Enemy Aliens act against Venezuela. He's going to have us in a shooting war in Central America by summer, against the "cartels".

This is First Past The Post in action. 2/3 of respondents selected someone other than her, yet she "wins" this poll.

Drop the bottom 1/3rd of the candidates, and revote. Repeat a couple times. This soon after the election, Harris's support is as high as it's going to get. Reduce the number of spoilers, and her numbers have nowhere to go but down.