• osaerisxero
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    1603 months ago

    We all knew this was going to pass.

    If you thought otherwise I’ve got a bag for you to hold.

  • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    1023 months ago

    So people are just going to die right?

    We’re going to have old people cut off from their health care, rural areas will have their hospitals closed, and people are going to die.

    Why is the world such a sick place?

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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        383 months ago

        Unfortunately, the gutting of USAID and foreign aid programs is projected to kill millions in the developing world.

        • @Tryenjer@lemmy.world
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          And don’t forget that RFK Jr. wants to let the new strain of bird flu spread. The world could experience a new pandemic in a few years.

          • LillyPip
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            113 months ago

            A few years feels optimistic. I’d wager on by the end of this year, at the rate everything is getting defunded.

            I think people vastly underestimate the effectiveness of annual mitigation efforts by multiple agencies that have either already been cut or on the chopping block.

            Many of these agencies go unnoticed because they work well, but will be immediately obvious once they’re gone.

      • Dr. Moose
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        103 months ago

        It’ll absolutely influence the rest of the world though :(

          • Dr. Moose
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            63 months ago

            Hopefully this means theres more space for European Union to take leadership!

            • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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              43 months ago

              Agreed but they’ll need out of this wave of fascism first.

              I sincerely hope the whole world turns against the US-Russian axis of fascism. But y’all will have to do some doing to get there.

              I sincerely hope this is the world’s last go around with fascism but I’m not so delusional as to think it the case. But I am delusional enough to think maybe someday it will be. Maybe someday we’ll win.

            • @Gsus4@mander.xyz
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              33 months ago

              Eh, not while it is led by the likes of neoliberal former banksters Macron and Merz… :/

              • Dr. Moose
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                43 months ago

                Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. As long as European institutions remain strong it can correct for bad temporaryleadership, as soon as you weaken these institutions the correction becomes harder and more expensive.

        • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          63 months ago

          Or we’re aware or our country’s effect on tge world, especially negative. Some of the US aid and our previous acceptance of asylum seekers in my opinion was required because the US either caused or was complicit in tge reason such aid was needed. Especially in South America, with all the coups and school of the Americas etc.

    • @pezhore@infosec.pub
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      153 months ago

      Listen to that one rep who said we’re all gonna die!

      We just need to accept the lord jesus into our hearts so that the hereafter will be assured! Fuck the present earth, it should go through trials like extreme weather, rampant sickness, wars etc - that’s just a sign that the second coming is near!

      /s

    • @moody@lemmings.world
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      113 months ago

      Because they can’t get off unless people are suffering. And the current suffering is getting boring, so they have to raise the stakes.

      • pachrist
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        103 months ago

        Nah, it’s dumber than that. They don’t want suffering to lose money, they want all the suffering and misery in the world to be incredibly profitable.

          • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            What I don’t understand is a blood thirsty vampire like Miller…he’s never going to be a billionaire, he’s just pushing his Nazi wet dream to simp, he’ll never be in their club.

            Have you ever seen photos/video of the Nazi high command? Not exactly the picture of “Aryan supremacy.” Some part of it has to come from a place of deep self-loathing I think.

      • @deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        23 months ago

        aren’t they also going to let ACA subsidies lapse, too? So, the total unnecessary deaths will certainly be higher…

    • chingadera
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      43 months ago

      I’m trying to be optimistic, but I’m pretty sure a very large chunk of this the maga voters, this could be a lesson in hubris

      • @Wilco@lemmy.zip
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        73 months ago

        They won’t learn any lesson from it. Regardless of what happens MAGAt leaders will blame gays, trans, and immigrants … and their brain dead followers will believe them.

        All this bill did was shuffle money around so the billionaires get a tax break. The Republicans also apparently fucked Musk over as he did not get his promised government handout contracts.

        • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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          63 months ago

          Yeah, they self inflicted a ton of COVID deaths to avoid breaking their kayfabe. Clearly they learned nothing.

    • @AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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      163 months ago

      I don’t know if this one is considered insider trading. The bill was public record and we all knew how he was going to vote. I guess he could have known the result before the official vote, But at the same time anyone can look up party affiliations and vote history.

  • @AreaKode@lemmy.world
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    633 months ago

    But he has an R next to his name. I thought the Rs were above the law. They can’t do “crimes”. Crimes are for poors.

    • @j0ester@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      No no. Crime is if you vote blue. If you vote Red, and kill a cop or rape a kid… you get a pardon

    • chingadera
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      53 months ago

      Never forget, these pieces of shit carved themselves out of insider trading law, and it hasn’t come up once.

  • PastafARRian
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    373 months ago

    Guys chill, he’s not a Democrat so this is legal and no need to assassinate him.

  • MochiGoesMeow
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    343 months ago

    The whole system is broken. I wish I didn’t have to wake up everyday in it.

  • @Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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    203 months ago

    This dudes girl friend is a blonde B$&@& for a news station. She makes sure he gets the best coverage possible from the local news organization. It’s a joke how terrible northeast Pennsylvania has turned. A dude I used to work with started a hate group against gay teenagers. All financed by the gun cult church that’s there.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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      23 months ago

      I hate that “gun cult church” makes perfect sense as something Americans would end up with

      • @Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        It’s just mentally ill poor people. Who have no future to work forwards. Being lied to by cult members from Japan and Korea. These people have the little money they have stolen from them.

    • chingadera
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      13 months ago

      What is this and where is the context, and why are you censoring yourself.

      • @Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        I’m off of Facebook. So I can’t link to her profile but at WNEP-16. They have a local news anchor. Who is dating that dude. And she gives him the best coverage possible. Kind of fucked politically.

        • chingadera
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          33 months ago

          This does make a little more sense, but I’m just trying to reconcile someone going against the grain in a very public position because they’re fucking someone.

          If you get more details please share

    • Avicenna
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      53 months ago

      it is more delicious to gamble on people’s livelihoods and lick their tears

    • @WorkshopBubby@lemmy.ca
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      23 months ago

      Healthcare isn’t a stock. Healthcare is a large industry, comprised of many companies, and government entities. Individual companies in the healthcare industry may have publicly traded stock. Hope that helps.

    • That Weird Vegan she/her
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      23 months ago

      remember when the democrats did this first, and the republicans called them shitty and called for their heads? oh wait…

  • Jesus
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    153 months ago

    Fuck this dude and his vote and all, but I didn’t need to be in congress to know that’s the GOP had the votes and motivation to fuck over Medicaid.