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[–] [email protected] 0 points 49 minutes ago

Ah, now this is the good sort of cross posting that got me banned from uplifting news.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

Good news in a dystopia only.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

/c/lostlemmings

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Someone should start a community for exactly these kinds of posts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

How awful that you need to be contracted as a career athlete to receive healthcare in, what country? * Checks * Oh.. Oh, ok, that's lovely and heartwarming good news then I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The cognitive dissonance in media disgusts me. This bright sliding is so stupid it hurts. Do US-americans actually see this as "good news" and be like "oh that's so wholesome!"? They can't be all this simple.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It is good news in the sense that someone is in trouble and they are helping him when they didn't have to.

The circumstances of how he is in trouble are a separate issue and one that I find so strange for a supposedly civilised nation to have.

But you guys keep voting for republicans and choosing undemocratic corporate rule over elected government rule.

Why is it seen as preferable to allow a greedy corporation you can't get rid of to have more power over you than the government you can (supposedly) vote out?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Well when we gave the Democrats a shper majority 16 years ago, they decided to go with the Republican healthcare plan instead of the single layer system they had been pushing for in the 80's and 90's.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

...if only those without an illnesss could freely give...