buddascrayon

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[–] buddascrayon 1 points 10 hours ago

You are assigning far too much thought to how people voted this go around. I think it's more basic than that. I think it's just straight up apathy. Along with a good bit of confusion that was juiced by one of the richest men on the planet. Who just so happens to own one of the largest social media platforms that has ever existed.

Conspiracy theorists fall into the hole of trying to boil down complicated problems to just one singular factor. But it's not. It's very very complicated and there's a lot of things that need to be done to fix it. My personal hope is that one of those will be that this absolute win by the Republican party and Trump in particular will be the the ax that takes down the Democratic party and allows us to build a new one in its place. But that's kind of a pipe dream I think. Old dogs die hard. Plus there's nobody out there who wants to step up and push the Democratic party out of the way. Bernie would be the obvious choice but he doesn't seem interested in taking leadership role in a brand new party to oust the old one.

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 3 days ago

This won't work if Trump warps our government in order to install himself as president for life.

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 3 days ago

It's only saving graces were the payment assistance and blocking the insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Though the insurance companies found other ways to deny coverage.

[–] buddascrayon 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, nothing like trying to reign in the oligarchs who are over pricing everything by installing a bunch of oligarchs as your defacto government. That'll surely fix the problem.

[–] buddascrayon 1 points 4 days ago

That would just encourage people to shoot more CEOs.

Executive thoughts... By Dick Richass

[–] buddascrayon 75 points 5 days ago (23 children)

And yet this country chose to elect a president who has in no uncertain terms said he will dissolve Obamacare which will only give more money and power to the CEOs of shitty healthcare companies.

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks! I will definitely do that. I'm not new to Linux but it's been around 20 years since I last did anything with distros and I remember Wine being finicky as hell. Hopefully it has been somewhat tamed in the last 20 years. I'm starting basic AF with Ubuntu, though I did grab a copy of Mint to play with.

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 5 days ago

Lou Gehrig has entered the chat.

[–] buddascrayon 12 points 6 days ago

I take issue with the second panel. The rich don't want poor people to die. They want poor people to shut up and just quietly live in servitude to the wants and desires of the rich.

[–] buddascrayon 5 points 6 days ago

You need to remember that ALL media outlets are tools of the rich to keep the poor in check. They will ALWAYS spin these things to make the rich person look a good as possible.

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 6 days ago

No, it's called revolution. And it doesn't usually end well. It all depends on who ends up standing stop the heap that's left over with the fighting is over.

[–] buddascrayon 9 points 6 days ago

They are also words you find all over letters from insurance companies when they are denying you coverage. Which lead to the title of the book.

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