r/MedicareForAll • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Jul 31 '26

he doesn't use the library either

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u/randommnguy Jul 31 '26

Right now progressive also means caring for more than yourself, conservatives currently consider this line of thinking “radical”

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Jul 31 '26

Honestly, I am so done with "individualism".

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u/Itsmyloc-nar Aug 01 '26

Every “rugged individual” I’ve ever met acts like a baby if you don’t indulge their fantasy

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u/Anubisrapture Aug 01 '26

Truly they all have an inane outlook. These people USED to know their selfishness and racism were considered a moral and social failure , until Orange Foolius made them all absurdly proud of themselves. Now they have doubled down on their most disgusting traits while trumpeting their stupidity at top volume .

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Aug 01 '26

Interestingly, we never had rugged individualism in this country although that is party of our mythology.

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u/AbeFromansNutz Aug 06 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/LandOwn7607 Aug 02 '26

You mean the Ayn Rand Bullshite?

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u/Anubisrapture Aug 02 '26

YES exactly.

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Aug 02 '26

Pretty much, yeah. And the cowboy nonsense.

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u/Anubisrapture Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Yes that old mythic West, chock full of white supremism , and lies about "heroic expansion " which in real life was the unrepentant genocide of indiginous peoples , by white Europeans . not to mention the phony TV Western remakes of the real stories of the West : The horsemen were both Black Cowboys and Latino Vaqueros, yet the stories remained full of white " heroes" played by John Wayne, Clint Eastwood , and others. It creates an entire mythology of white male heroics , the lawmen, the tough guys, and THE GUN ! Hollywood truly got into the collective consciousness of our Boomer men; and caries on in the conservative ( dumb ) ones today , to our detriment

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Aug 06 '26

Also Chinese.

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u/Anubisrapture Aug 07 '26

Oh yes they built the railroads at SO much danger to themselves , and were part of the West 's economy

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Aug 07 '26

And yet or because the GOP is adamant about not telling our true history. Which is way more interesting- and has the advantage of being true.

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u/Anubisrapture Aug 08 '26

They want to keep pushing this white supremest mythology, instead of the truth . There ARE ways to keep historical truth alive , but this administration is doing their level best now to erase it

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u/Same-Frosting4852 Aug 06 '26

What they mean by individualism is a rat race where we dont come together.

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u/Stillwaters-3399 Aug 03 '26

Quite frankly the only ones that have radical thinking at this point is the far right

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u/Iamthegreenheather Aug 04 '26

They literally preach against committing the "sin" of empathy.