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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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Reagan loved to talk about 'deregulation' when what he was really talking about was letting businesses steal from consumers.
What do you think deregulating is outside of that?
The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they'd be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich getting richer and more powerful while everyone else becomes peasants.
That's why all Trump voters are just dumbfucks. Some of them think they're the strong men that will get to take advantage of the weak in this system, but they're really just dumb sheep that tongue a butthole up to middle management at best. They're the ones who picked on special needs kids at school because punching down is easy and they need a win.
What they don't understand is how e.g. cutting jobs, or not providing necessary goods and services (e.g. enough bolts to keep something attached to the outside of an airplane? The lack of which causing said thing to fall off mid-flight), etc. is the very self-same "innovation" that they were promised. As in, it delivers stock dividends to the shareholders, thus functions as intended.
We arguably deserve what is coming for us. Though damn I wish there was some way to avoid the worst of it.
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Destroying the planet, dumping toxic waste into low-income communities, literally killing their employees and customers with unsafe practices.
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"wtf is wrong with this country"
LOL buckle up
Unfortunately, people like this likely won't make it. So I have a hard time laughing about it.
it's fucking gut-wrenching. i've been severely depressed since wednesday morning. what everyone needs to do now is stop asking what's wrong with the country, and start asking how do i get out
My co-worker damaged a piece of one of my tools on Wednesday. I was trying to fix it and I almost started to cry. Had to take a break. It's a five dollar thing. It wasn't about the tool.
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Strap ~~on~~ in.
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In America, your entire existence is a money making opportunity for someone else.
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I felt so defeated when I went to pick up some medication last night which was $100 instead of $60 which it had been the previous month. I asked if there were any coupons available and the pharmacist said that was AFTER the coupon price. $100 for 15 pills.
I've been paying out of pocket for this med for years since my insurance company determined I had reached the "lifetime benefit limit" for that drug. I submitted an appeal earlier this year and was shut down. I've talked to my doctor about alternative drugs, and he said pretty much all the rest have significant side effects.
And after this week's elections, I'm sure it's only going to get worse over the next four (or more) years.
"Life time benefit limit for that drug" is some of the most dystopian shit I've ever heard.
"You pay us for this service, but it's time to die now."
What a shitshow. I'm sorry.
lifetime benefit limit
This is such bullshit.
Meanwhile, my brothers-in-law have hemochromatosis so need to be bled regularly to reduce the iron in their blood, and they have to pay for the privilege. One put off getting the diagnosis as long as he could because as long as it wasn't official, he could donate blood and achieve the same effect, but once diagnosed, he can't donate blood anymore- not that there's anything wrong with it, but to be classified a donation, the donor can't benefit from it in any way. Such irony. America, fuck yeah.
That's interesting, because I was diagnosed with hemochromatosis last year, and I go to the local blood donation center and bloodlet every 4 weeks. They don't consider it a standard donation, but a therapeutic phlebotomy. But both my blood doctor and the donation center state that my blood is still used as if it were a donation, and I don't pay anything.
I wonder why there's a difference.
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Oh it's efficient alright. At filling billionaires' pockets, that is
There's nothing wrong, it's working as intended. It's just not intended to work for YOU.
America needs a bill of human rights added to the Constitution with attention to health care, shelter, voting rights, and privacy. Business greed has been at the helm of the country for too long.
You’ve seen who they elected president, right? America couldn’t be further from doing what you proposed.
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Deregulation doesn't means less rules to benefit the people. It means less of the rules which keep the rich and corporations in check. The less rules, the more free they are to exploit the people.
This post doesn't mention the country they're in. But then, it doesn't really need to.
Wild guess: Is it that country where they just voted to make these issues worse?
You mean fatal?
The previous trump presidency caused well over million to needlessly die, I'm just wondering how many will die this time...
A president comes to make the issue better, then they choose one that destroys all progress
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Ah yes, the default country
So I looked up the account on the screenshot and fell into a huge rabbit hole.
The TL;DR is that the poster has a rare syndrome that makes it so his body simply doesn't have energy to perform most tasks, and it progressed to a point where merely interacting with other people causes his brain to use too much "energy" and makes him crash.
My TL;DR is a gross oversimplification of his story and doesn't do it any justice. When you have the time, please read what he has to say, it's eye opening: My Story by Whitney Dafoe
Thanks for sharing. I have ME/CFS too.
It’s not even that rare over 2 million people in the US have it, just quite a marginalised illness, mostly because it majoritarily affects women and was therefore blamed on “hysteria” till the 80s. A lot of the medical system still has prejudicicial views towards it.
A decent chunk of the more severe Long COVID cases fit ME diagnosis criteria, which makes sense, because most ME cases have historically been caused by viral infections.
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inb4 Mexican cartels start selling Mexican insulin and other medicine to broke Americans at lower prices.
Like watching stages of denial play out.
Like half of the nation didn't believe the joker and thought he was a good guy?
The point is your money goes into billionaire’s pocket.
The US, by withholding any medical treatments and assistentance is actually on big eugenic experiment
America: where they sell you a dream and make you repay it or else it's a crime
If the prices of meds were that low, then our taxes wouldn't go towards manufacturing missiles to supply to other countries to kill people.
People are so selfish. /s
Psychopaths control important things and leverage them for money and power and influence so they can get away with being psychopaths without going to prison.
Bro just lick a block of iron
Better yet, take my blood. I don't process iron like others and it accumulates in my body. The only treatment is bloodletting (therapeutic phlebotomy).
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