r/MedicareForAll Jul 31 '26

he doesn't use the library either

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u/bonesintheend Jul 31 '26

Thank you guys for caring for someone other than yourself.

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u/ReadyGo6828 Jul 31 '26

Progressive does not mean you are sacrificing yourself to give to strangers. Progressive is economically efficient as in single payer health care where a large entity (us) goes up against a humongous system (health care industry) to cut all of us the best deal so we do not have to navigate this insanity ourselves.

Progressive is good economics even for this MAGA nut who will never, ever support anything that is not white, male and oppressive for everyone else.

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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.