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is Conservative/Right Wing opinions completely unwelcome on Lemmy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have much of a problem either way as I don't think I'll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That's fine. There's clearly a more liberal audience here and that's okay. I just don't want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.

Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I'm new here.

Edit: Thanks for the rational replies. I was expecting to get lit up for even mentioning this topic lol.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've always loved the irony of the argument that if the government pays for healthcare, there will be "death panels" that decide who gets treatment and who doesn't. Because those already exist under and directly because of a system of private healthcare funding where if you don't have enough money, you're refused treatment. Meanwhile under a system of public healthcare funding, people get treatment based on who's most in need of the resources available, and that's only if the system is already over capacity.