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The person who commented is a fucking idiot who clearly didn’t read the article

Let’s assume that everything you just said about the article is true, without any flaws. Why would that make her response idiotic?

If we mentioned the impact that cutting defense spending would have on Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing… “Oh no, not my military industrial complex…”

If we mentioned the impact that a new public housing program would have on the housing market… “Oh no, not the sector of the financial market profiting from the endlessly increasing price of a basic human need…”

I understand that these things would have makor financial impacts. I also understand the value of NYT writing an article about the nuances of where it would have upsides and downsides. But also, the original commenter isn’t criticizing that. She’s criticizing the business model of private insurance. Your response just leads me to ask,

Wtf is wrong with you guys where you just assume every statement is some kind of personal dig?

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VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It makes her response idiotic because it has nothing to do with the article

The article isn’t pro, or anti, anything. It’s 8 years old, probably around the time of the presidential election, and so, in context, it was a question of, “what if Biden wins and actually does get rid of privatized health care, what would that look like to everyday people and the economy?”

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- 5318008@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  It makes her response idiotic because it has nothing to do with the article
  
  It’s not a rebuttal of the article, no… but it IS definitely in the same topic as the article.
  
  Twitter is a microblogging platform… not a debate platform. If you assume that she is trying to provide a counterargument in 140 characters or less, then yes, it would seem idiotic.
  
  Are we making that assumption?
  
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  - VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s not on the same topic of the article as all
    
    The article is about the potential impact on the economy, not if private health care is good or bad
    
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