• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Let’s not bash progress in pursuit of perfection. These policies are directly impacting me in the positive, which is more than we could say for the previous president.

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      Let’s not celebrate inaction on matters that mean life or death to people. None of the above have helped me, or anyone less fortunate than me.

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        None of the above have helped me, or anyone less fortunate than me.

        What? This is completely stupid. Of course lowered drug and removing medical debt will help people poorer than you. Those are exactly the people most harmed by medical debt and high drug prices.

        Starting to think accounts online that prominently advertise themselves as communists might not actually be commenting in good faith.

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          removing medical debt

          He didn’t do that. This isn’t what it says. You are the one arguing in bad faith. Why lie? He would not do this, because it would harm his corporate backers in the medical industry. He did not remove any medical debt. Hell, he won’t even do the much less impressive thing and remove student debt.

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            It was shorthand for the thing we were already talking about “removing medical debt from credit reporting”. So yeah, you’re a bad faith troll.

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              The gEnOSiDe DemoCRATz part, if not the username, gave it away immediately.

              Application for block is approved. ka-chunk

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        What an incredibly self-centered and damaging thing to say.

        These policies may not be helping you right now. But they are helping millions. And they aren’t making future change harder to enact than before. On the contrary, it sets the status quo a little bit more positive, making future improvements look like less of a drastic change.

        Don’t EVER bash progress. Bash inaction and bash negative side effects.

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          I’m sure that’s very easy to say when you are comfortable, have health coverage, and are likely white.

          Much less easy if you are poor, homeless, an asylum-seeker, immigrant, Palestinian, live in a climate-affected area…

          Also, I care much more about those less fortunate than me than I do myself. The person I responded to was the one to make it about themselves. I’m the one talking about those who are being ignored, while you are the one ignoring them. Don’t talk to me about “damaging”.

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            Something good happened to someone. You said “Bad, not me!!” instead of “Great, now this!”.

            That is bad.

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              I’m just going to repost this because you are continuing to ignore the people that actually matter here.

              Much less easy if you are poor, homeless, an asylum-seeker, immigrant, Palestinian, live in a climate-affected area…

              Because there is nothing “great” about any of this. None of this fixes any of the problems, which is great for comfortable people like you.

              That is bad.

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            More Americans have Healthcare than ever before thanks to The American Rescue Plan.

            Biden’s initiatives have housed 1.2 million homeless people, and climbing.

            I was formerly homeless and didn’t have Healthcare. If Biden was president then, I would have been in a much better spot.

            How about you? You sound like you have never been homeless and have no idea what it’s like.

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        Thus the false internet-leftist is revealed. “Me first!”

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          The person I replied to made it about themselves. If they are allowed to say “I think this is good because it helped me”, why am I not allowed to say it’s not good because it didn’t help me? Are you admitting that Democrats are “me first”?

          Also, conveniently leaving off the more important part of the sentence, aren’t you?

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            No goalposts my friend, you wrote what you think, and that’s yours.

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                I’m not answering any query. I’m replying that your words stand as they are, and that’s conclusive.

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                    Nice deflect.

                    Whatever you think I am, you’re still… You. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.

                    Own your brand dude!

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            Huh? no evidence of that, or opinion on that is described in my comment. Why are you making things up?

            I’m focused on the words they used. This isn’t about their opinion on a political candidate, it’s their (in my opinion) flawed, antithetical position on the benefits of the self, not the group.

            Candidly, I strongly do not want trump to be president, as I have at risk folks in my family and community.

            I want the best available outcome for them, in an otherwise polluted system.