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Yes...honestly, fuck USAID. Gotta choose what we save now, and afaic it's fine to let the blob eat this one
Dems are up in arms about USAID because it’s how we keep other countries dependent on us and part of our “soft power” (whatever that means) loan apparatus. For example, USAID was instrumental in the destruction of Haiti’s agricultural industry.
February 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes...honestly, fuck USAID. Gotta choose what we save now, and afaic it's fine to let the blob eat this one
I was very sad to learn of Anita Bryant's having still having been alive.
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I was very sad to learn of Anita Bryant's having still having been alive.
Never been able to wrap my head around the USA having a president named Jimmy.
January 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Never been able to wrap my head around the USA having a president named Jimmy.
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It's almost like the predatious American health system dehumanizes us all.
“A lot of people are judging him, not knowing him at all,” he said. “And it’s not right. That’s not him. It’s just a sad thing of what has happened and even more sad of what people have tried to turn him into.”
@nytimes.com $UNH
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/n...
@nytimes.com $UNH
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/n...
UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Laid to Rest as Family Mourns Privately
Brian Thompson was remembered in his Minnesota hometown as a devoted father to his two sons.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM
It's almost like the predatious American health system dehumanizes us all.
I got incredibly sick in Peru. After suffering for days, my partner had enough and walked to the pharmacy. They sold him a full course of antibiotics for $10 and I was better in 12 hours. Just had a kidney stone in the US; insurance will cover roughly half of the $17K cost, I have to pay the rest.
A while back I asked Americans to talk about getting sick or hurt in other countries and how surprised they were at how little it cost to see a doctor almost everywhere else but here.
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-american...
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-american...
The American healthcare system damages your *thinking* not just the public health
This whole country is a scam
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I got incredibly sick in Peru. After suffering for days, my partner had enough and walked to the pharmacy. They sold him a full course of antibiotics for $10 and I was better in 12 hours. Just had a kidney stone in the US; insurance will cover roughly half of the $17K cost, I have to pay the rest.
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So many people have got a little Matthew Yglesias living inside of them like Kuato from Total Recall that makes them think like a centrist pundit and feel like they're "playing the game" by being sober and removed about the realm of the possible. www.welcometohellworld.com/wanting-the-...
December 11, 2024 at 3:40 PM
So many people have got a little Matthew Yglesias living inside of them like Kuato from Total Recall that makes them think like a centrist pundit and feel like they're "playing the game" by being sober and removed about the realm of the possible. www.welcometohellworld.com/wanting-the-...
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🚨NEW REPORT: Health insurers raked in $371 BILLION in profits since passage of the ACA, while raising family premiums to $26K a year.
More than 40% of the profit went to UnitedHealth, whose profits rose 400% as the company denies nearly 1 in 3 claims.
Pass it on: www.levernews.com/health-insur...
More than 40% of the profit went to UnitedHealth, whose profits rose 400% as the company denies nearly 1 in 3 claims.
Pass it on: www.levernews.com/health-insur...
December 11, 2024 at 5:42 PM
🚨NEW REPORT: Health insurers raked in $371 BILLION in profits since passage of the ACA, while raising family premiums to $26K a year.
More than 40% of the profit went to UnitedHealth, whose profits rose 400% as the company denies nearly 1 in 3 claims.
Pass it on: www.levernews.com/health-insur...
More than 40% of the profit went to UnitedHealth, whose profits rose 400% as the company denies nearly 1 in 3 claims.
Pass it on: www.levernews.com/health-insur...
I would like if these same old libs wringing hands over public sentiment could be tarred as "pro insurance ceo" with as much vitriol as they tarred us old lefts for being "pro Saddam" once upon a time.
December 11, 2024 at 3:27 AM
I would like if these same old libs wringing hands over public sentiment could be tarred as "pro insurance ceo" with as much vitriol as they tarred us old lefts for being "pro Saddam" once upon a time.
Hi, I'd like a large frosty, and also for people to start posting health insurance CEOs' reading lists and comments histories, thanks.
December 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Hi, I'd like a large frosty, and also for people to start posting health insurance CEOs' reading lists and comments histories, thanks.
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i didn't really claim an ideology for the shooting when it happened beyond joking about Narodniks, but it seems like he was a disengaged guy who suffered an accident and radicalized himself by grasping in his milieu
and in America, the answer is usually: gun
and in America, the answer is usually: gun
December 9, 2024 at 8:34 PM
i didn't really claim an ideology for the shooting when it happened beyond joking about Narodniks, but it seems like he was a disengaged guy who suffered an accident and radicalized himself by grasping in his milieu
and in America, the answer is usually: gun
and in America, the answer is usually: gun
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Coming to an acclaimed thinkpiece near you: "But the online public had already constructed their own parallel universe version of the shooting suspect. A distorted funhouse mirror image, a twisted tulpa... if you will, a Waluigi."
December 9, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Coming to an acclaimed thinkpiece near you: "But the online public had already constructed their own parallel universe version of the shooting suspect. A distorted funhouse mirror image, a twisted tulpa... if you will, a Waluigi."
I'm telling my kids this was DOGE
Your occasional reminder that the way Claudio Caniggia wore shorts was absolutely top-tier…
December 8, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I'm telling my kids this was DOGE
Average price per SqFt of home in 1955 was approx $100-110 in 2024 adjusted dollars. In 2024 it is approx $200-250 per SqFt. 10 minutes of googling to debunk this bullshit.
There is a lot that we could and should do to increase housing affordability, but the basic reality is that a nice suburban 1950s family house would be *tiny* by contemporary American standards which is why they were affordable on lower incomes.
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Average price per SqFt of home in 1955 was approx $100-110 in 2024 adjusted dollars. In 2024 it is approx $200-250 per SqFt. 10 minutes of googling to debunk this bullshit.
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Actually kind of shocked that so many on the so-called "left" on here would celebrate the death of the CEO of the Shorten People's Lives Factory.
December 4, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Actually kind of shocked that so many on the so-called "left" on here would celebrate the death of the CEO of the Shorten People's Lives Factory.
All units be on the lookout for Mosaic CEO Mike Poore, wanted for the attempted murder of newborn twins Eli and Easton Reed in 2024 www.msn.com/en-us/health...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
All units be on the lookout for Mosaic CEO Mike Poore, wanted for the attempted murder of newborn twins Eli and Easton Reed in 2024 www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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In 2020, Biden declared that “the first thing I would do as president” is create a public option to compete with health insurance giants.
Then he won the election and as president he never once mentioned a public option ever again.
Then he won the election and as president he never once mentioned a public option ever again.
Where Did The Public Option Go?
Democrats have completely forgotten about a public health insurance option, choosing instead to deliver expensive subsidies to their industry donors.
www.levernews.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:43 PM
In 2020, Biden declared that “the first thing I would do as president” is create a public option to compete with health insurance giants.
Then he won the election and as president he never once mentioned a public option ever again.
Then he won the election and as president he never once mentioned a public option ever again.
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deny, defend, deeznuts
December 5, 2024 at 9:35 AM
deny, defend, deeznuts
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Felix, Amber and myself listened to the "What Went Wrong?" episode of Pod Save America, so you don't have to. Plus a Thanksgiving poem from Matt.
www.patreon.com/posts/890-sp...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Felix, Amber and myself listened to the "What Went Wrong?" episode of Pod Save America, so you don't have to. Plus a Thanksgiving poem from Matt.
www.patreon.com/posts/890-sp...
www.patreon.com/posts/890-sp...
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ICE appears poised to expand its flagship surveillance program — a move, I found, preceded by months of lobbying by private prison companies.
Latest for @levernews.com: www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
Latest for @levernews.com: www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants
The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.
www.levernews.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:53 PM
ICE appears poised to expand its flagship surveillance program — a move, I found, preceded by months of lobbying by private prison companies.
Latest for @levernews.com: www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
Latest for @levernews.com: www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
"Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered."
November 25, 2024 at 8:23 PM
"Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered."
"In Wicked, we see the interplay of power and relationality. Elphaba’s alienation reflects a world where technicity dominates, reducing beings to functions of control. Her resistance reveals the fragile beauty of lived time, rupturing the Wizard’s mechanistic order." Byung-Chul Han on Wicked
November 25, 2024 at 7:58 PM
"In Wicked, we see the interplay of power and relationality. Elphaba’s alienation reflects a world where technicity dominates, reducing beings to functions of control. Her resistance reveals the fragile beauty of lived time, rupturing the Wizard’s mechanistic order." Byung-Chul Han on Wicked