Late stage capitalism at work

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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    5 days ago

    This is why they want your healthcare tied to your work. So they can hold absolute leverage over you when you are most desperate.

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      4 days ago

      It really is. The fact that the “pro business” GOP doesn’t want the government to cover a cost the private business is currently paying tells you something is off. They are afraid people will retire early since they won’t have medical bills to cover in retirement.

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      4 days ago

      I always found that system insane. I don’t understand that Americans have accepted it for a century, where more civilized countries had healthcare for all. But apparently Americans enjoy their individual right to die of poverty and lack of healthcare? Because FREEDOM BABY!

      USA is morally a century behind more civilized countries, and many are even proud of it.

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        4 days ago

        The USA is and always has been a terrorist state. They have been and always will be the way they are. They are not in anyway a century behind anything. They are morally corrupt society who pretend to be a force for good all while dismantling democratically elected governments and killing their leadership for resources. They are like the neighborhood bully but worse. Trump is just their way of life expressing itself.

        • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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          I just want to point out that every nation with settler colonial roots has the capacity for this. Do NOT let your military get this big, your police be this funded, your corporations to become this entrenched, or your politicians to be in bed with all of them. This is a warning to capitalist nations every where. The seeds are already planted, do not let them sprout.