Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.

• 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.

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  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Medicare for all legislation that was being discussed was going to do literally that

    Discussed by lying politicians and the nyt yes

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    • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, that was literally one of the options the Democrats were proposing. It was a bill drafted by Bernie Sanders. There were other options, but one such bill that could be backed was one that literally abolished private insurance entirely

      Holy shit, how do you have such strong opinions if you don’t even know what was going on?

      Oh I know, because you never actually read the fucking articles

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