• pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
    1644·
    3 days ago

    Bytes, come on, please provide an archived link for RFK Jr. This has been 2 days in a row. Your posts are great, but I’ll just pull right away from now on. I’ll give everyone a half hour if you don’t want me to pull it for this one, but this is a warning.

    If you can’t figure out why this community requires an archived link, ask yourself if you can tell if RFK really said this.

    Edit: u/urpartnerincrime found the link and I archived it. https://archive.is/fk7oe

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    59·
    3 days ago

    I like to remind the republicans I know that the people they vote for would shoot themselves rather than live like we do. For them, even a middle class lifestyle would seem like crippling, destitute poverty.

    E: tbf, it’s also true of many Democrats, but I can’t think of a single working class Republican legislator and cabinet member. I can think of at least a few working class democrats.

  • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
    98·
    3 days ago

    Rich people amass so much money they lose the ability to recognize its value. It’s a hoarding condition plain and simple.

  • dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    641·
    3 days ago

    Idea: Add 10 questions to the tax form that ask for the price of common household items/groceries. For each wrong answer, increase the tax by 10 percent. The question has to be answered by the individual and cannot be modified by accountants. Give it a fun name like “price is right tax” and snuggle it in the spending bill.

    • ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I see milk thrown around as the common thing people are supposed to know about. I’m lactose intolerant and have no idea how much a gallon of milk costs. It’s unlikely you could find 10 things that everyone buys and has similar pricing across brands and variations.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    63·
    3 days ago

    How is this real? He can’t really think that’s a reasonable statement to make in reality, right? He has an inkling of how tone-deaf he is, right?!

  • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
    441·
    3 days ago

    I wish I knew their Venmo handles so I could send requests for whatever they consider to be small chunks of change. I’m sure I wouldn’t get much, but as Michael Scott said, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

    • entwine413@lemm.ee
      21·
      3 days ago

      I’ve done this with meds from my doctor. Like, 3 years ago I stopped taking muscle relaxers for migraine prevention, then I recently pulled my back. I didn’t want to pay a copay just to get more, so I did a refill request with my pharmacy.

      Sure enough, they rubber-stamped the request.

    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      I doubt they even know what Venmo is. They don’t make decisions about or personally handle transactions with small amounts of money.

  • 1337@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    The US census bureau says the median income was $47960. (Doesn’t invalidate your point of course)

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      3 days ago

      During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.

      That.

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caEnglish
      93·
      3 days ago

      Exactly. I suspect he’s comparing that to a quarter-million dollar a month that governments spend on a patient, but archiving the social media post is as bad as a screen shot, so we’ll never know.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
    13·
    3 days ago

    The brain worm has no concept of money, so I kind of get it. I wonder if the brain worm is helping the covid virus stay around so they can together kill off humans.

  • Ji Fu@hostux.social
    4·
    3 days ago

    Let’s make sure we understand what he was comparing:

    “During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.”

    https://archive.ph/NayZN