Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.
And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.
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'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
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As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.
All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.
This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.
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This is what I call "what America literally voted for".
*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.
That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.
I said this a million times last year on the leftist threads to people crying about the lesser evil. I don't wish any pain on their lives but I also don't know how to get through their thick skulls how real life can get unless they experience it from time to time.
I hope they have the day they voted for.
Simple as that. My empathy for those people is gone.
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The fptp voting system and gerrymandering did a lot of heavy lifting.
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Because voting is not compulsory in your country so there's no incentive to provide accessibility for people to vote.
Face it, you need a different system. Not going to happen without violence though... It's a very sad state of affairs.
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30% of America voted for sitting on their ass and going "meh, whatevs" in November.
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That's the reality of America's FPTP system.
If you did not vote for Harris, then you helped (directly or indirectly) Trump get elected.
Eh those who stayed home also voted for this.
That's the usual reality of voting though. It doesn't mean every American wanted it, but it still means America voted for this.
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Cutting benefits for the poorest.
Recipe for civil unrest, riots.
Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.
Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.
Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.
Yes, of course. What they always wanted was cheaper labor; they cultivated hatred of immigrants among conservative voters as a way to enslave all Americans, including their own electorate. They will make everyone poorer so they are desperate enough to accept putting their children in the mines and factories.
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I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?
Whatever they're told to think.
"Thanks, Biden!"
WTF? "Thanks, Obama" is just over now? I reject this updated reality! We must get Obama a third term to rectify this madness!
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Make America Great Again, they never said for whom.
While this administration justified its urgency for punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to a fentanyl crisis taking life of thousands of good Americans, the same administration is about to take life of hundreds of thousands of good Americans itself to make billionaires wealthier.
They didn't need to if you remember who it was great for before...
It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history
Gonna be honest with you.
Americans don't have the balls.
Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.
You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.
Brian Klass is a political scientist who recently put out his own philosophy of chaos theory. I think it's a pretty useful tool to look at contemporary movements and really refutes the "it couldn't possibly happen here" message.
Pre-2011 there was a paper published on why middle eastern dictatorships were so stable. The next year almost all of them fell. Klass argues that the author wasn't wrong, they just were working with the rules and tools we knew at the time, but didn't know the rules had changed with the invention of social media.
In his perspective, the idea of a "fluke" is not a fluke at all, it's a data point showing that things are changing and changing fast. Things just feel like flukes when our assumptions of the way things work become outdated.
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"I didn't vote for this!" - Every dumbass that voted for this.
As others have pointed out, this is social murder.
So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution
Food and health. Wow
They need all that Medicaid funding to help the legion of soon-to-be obese leopards.
This evil Keebler elf and all the GOP are murderers and they should be treated as such.
I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.
And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...
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