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[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I love the bit about more people than ever having health insurance. Every time I deal with my health insurance, trying to find a medical provider that will take my insurance, waiting for my insurance to approve something, it just makes me mad. I get angry at the insurance company for being fucking awful to deal with an basically useless, and I get even more angry at the fuckers in power who refuse to solve this extremely solvable problem because they don't want to upset donors.

Fuck, I just got mad thinking about it. Fuck Joe Biden and everybody else in federal elected office.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are TV commercials all the time for "Yes you may be on Medicaid, but you're only on Medacaid part A, what you really need to not die in agony is Medicaid part C. Why is everyone not just automatically on that plan? Shut the fuck up and go fill out several days worth of forms."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Part C is a privatised program in which the government hands over your Medicare money to UnitedHealthcare or whomever so that they can instead put you on basically just a dogshit marketplace plan. You then have to deal with all of the worst problems of insurance in exchange for... Uhhh... Maybe a couple added benefits like super limited dental coverage?

It fucking sucks and should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so you have health insurance but we still need to do 3 rounds of stuff we know is unnecessary/won't work before they allow what you actually need

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i will never get over how insane it is that private medical insurance companies have any say whatsoever in the care you are allowed to have. its the death panel shit they made up to smear universal healthcare, but real, legal, and in the hands of organizations that have a monetary interest in not paying for anything because if you die, you can't file more claims.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

It's the same energy as "low unemployment" (ignoring the fact that people who have given up looking for work are not counted, also people working only part-time)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Anyone who wonders why more people than ever being on private health insurance might result in anger towards the status quo has never had to see a doctor before.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"I don't understand, my stocks are doing great and the Economist just wrote several articles about it. Yes there are homeless encampments in every major city and college graduates will likely be living with their parents or a share house until they're 50, but everything else is awesome from where I'm sitting."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

"I don't understand, inflation is low again and the Economist just wrote several articles about it. Yes, wages never matched inflation and prices never came back down, and prices are still high in 'core' areas like housing, but my houses are paid off, so everything is awesome from where I'm sitting."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

reëlection

I can't believe they are still doing that shit.

When I was a teenager many decades ago I asked my mom who was my google - "Why do they use the two dots?" And my mom said "Because it's pretentious. And The New Yorker is pretentious."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't even make sense. English doesn't have umlauts, and even if they're pulling on its Germanic roots German doesn't have an 'e' with an umlaut.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's a diaeresis for indicating the two es are seperate syllables.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry comrade, but we need to shove you into the communal locker for possessing this nerd knowledge. snipes-hesitation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

ё exists in Russian alphabet, ergo this poster is a Kremlin agent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I like the two dots.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Sorry, but my immediate question is why is there an umlaut in reëlection?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's technically a valid spelling of reelection and the New Yorker does this with other words as well. I think it's pretentious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I just think it's hilarious that their readership needs to be reminded how to pronounce reelection.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

They used to do that with repeat vowels for a bit like 100 years ago (like coöperation), and for some reason these people are still at it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

To give a certain kind of liberal arts major a feeling of legitimacy that is otherwise sorely lacking.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

live by the grill pillers, die by the grill pillers

Okay that’s funny

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The worst part of this is that the next time the economy is close to recession, leaders aren't going to institute policies to get a soft landing.

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2h ago Why? You think people would be happier with a recession?

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1h ago Yes, absolutely. I think it's clear that the public would have preferred high unemployment versus high inflation

but we're just ironically using the name neoliberals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

These people have either never held a normal job, or they keep their mouths shut because they know they’d get their asses best if they said this shit lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

The in touch DNC everyone.

They're looking out for your best interests. Trust me bro.

/s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The title of OOP is so fucking funny lol. It must be so fun living in lala land.

I know I sound like a Bernie bro but the media has absolutly fucked us. Trump attempted to install himself as president after the people voted him out, there’s a phone call of him pressuring a Michigan election official to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes and the NYT put it on page 17

jesse-wtf fellas, is it bernie bro tankieism to say the media and Trump are corrupt????

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They do realize that their entire business stands to be shut down if they don't print exactly what Drumpf wants them to print, right? No one's going to buy any traditional media or even watch it if Drumpf gets reelected. He'll put the board behind bars for one charge or another, then his patsy's he puts in place are going to fire all the existing writers and replace them with grovelling sycophants. How anyone in media sees a Drumpf reelection as 'good for business' has no fucking clue what they're talking about. They'll be the first to get culled outside of opposition party members and 'undesirable' minorities.

LMAOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

It’s so sad that capitalists will be arrested by the Drumpf Gestapo instead of realigning their allegiances. They’re just that loyal to democracy and freedom and would give up their money for it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

People are absolutely furious that their grocery bills went up.

No fucking shit, "people upset that they can barely afford to put food on the table". These fuckwits have their heads so far up their own arses. "Look, these cherry picked data points to show the economy is booming!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The very first comment under the mod message is ableism (the image of the bearded guy comes from a video where he says democracy is for the people by the people, but people are [ableist slur])

Fucking liberals

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

It’s funny seeing liberals seethe at da tankiez for thinking liberal democracy is an illusion but then they declare everyone is stupid and democracy is stupid because they vote against their loser candidates

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

While those in the media are dooming, I am not. I have my good friends here at r/neoliberal to unskew the polls for me and tell me everything’s gonna be okay.

data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Well my cost of living went up ~15% and my salary went up ~2%. Apparently I'm just too stupid to understand why this is a 9000IQ 6d chess move.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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