Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoit’s not even true, it’s a false premise – single payer medicare for all wouldn’t ban anything private, in fact medicare itself works alongside private coverage for wealthy individuals and has done so for many decades. it’s nonsense at every level.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aw man, if only you had actually read the article…
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If only they didn’t publish a clickbait bullshit tweet
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They didn’t. The tweet says that Medicare for all would abolish Private insurance. At the time, this was correct. The Medicare for all legislation that was being discussed was going to do literally that. Abolish private insurance
Then there’s a quote that says, “There’s no precedent in American History”. This is also true. Private Health Care, for better or worse, is a trillion dollar industry that employs over half a million people nation wide and makes up a decently sized portion of peoples retirement portfolios, never in this history of America has such a thing existed one day and been destroyed the next
The tweet didn’t say anything about private insurance being good or bad. The tweet didn’t say anything about the abolishing of private insurance being good or bad. It just stated two facts.
They’re talking about doing something that has never been done before
Somebody who didn’t read the article decided, for no real reason at all, that it was a hit piece and replied. Then somebody else who didn’t read the article thought the reply was this epic sick burn (even though it’s stupid as fuck because it has literally nothing to do with the article) and then shared it on sites like reddit to a bunch of other people who didn’t read the article and left a bunch of other stupid as fuck comments.
Here we are almost 7 fucking years later, and you’re all still idiots still not reading the article, still sharing the image because you think it’s relevant, and still commenting like you know something
Worse, is that when I point out that it’s stupid as fuck to comment on something you haven’t read, you guys think I’m the idiot. That’s how fucked we are. You’re own comment proves you know clickbait exists and you still don’t think you should read the article before forming an opinion about it. That’s beyond fucking stupid. You’re stupid. You are all stupid.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Discussed by lying politicians and the nyt yes