• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Which is why when Dems had their supermajority they passed a raise to minimum wage.

    Do you remember what they did with that ~70 days they had to pass legislation? Affordable Care Act? Let’s not act like they don’t pass shit when we give them the legislative ability to do so. 51-49 that includes people like Sinema and Manchin is not a majority.

    The vast majority of elected Democrats support and vote for raises to the minimum wage and codifying Roe. 100% of elected Republicans oppose those things, and it’s the Democrats that are failing us?

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      6 months ago

      Oh, they passed the Affordable Care Act?

      Healthcare is SO available and affordable now, huh?

      Then you come in and say “but it wasn’t even a real supermajority!”… that supermajority. Not even realizing you are saying even with a supermajority, there isn’t one, because it’s all the same muddle.

      It must be exhausting for you to still shill that hard.

      Register independent. Vote third party. It’s our only hope to end Party Fascism.

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        Bro do you remember what it was like before the ACA? I’m not saying it’s good now but I think you are showing a pretty stark lack of awareness for what it used to be like.

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          Yes.

          I could afford food and shelter.

          And when I had employment based health insurance, I could afford the co-pay.

          None of the 3 are true today.

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            You could afford shelter…during the 2008 housing driven financial crisis? Everyone could afford shelter…until the system collapsed. That was kind of the whole problem. I fail to see how the ACA being passed caused your housing and food prices to go up.

            Glad that you had employment based insurance. Before the ACA if you didn’t have insurance through your employer and you had conditions you were just fucked. They could deny your coverage. I guess you forgot about that?

            Insurance is fucked because we’re finally paying the cost of care, rates and prices are fucked and broken across the board, and the insurance companies are savage vultures. None of that is BECAUSE of the ACA. It was all true before the ACA and is true now. The difference is millions more people have healthcare coverage.

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              So the ACA was a half measured failure of a waste of time.

              Yes.

              That was part of the point I was making.

              Dems decided to do that instead of passing actual universal Healthcare, or minimum wage, or modifying Roe v Wade. Or addressing the rising cost of rent/mortgage. Or do ANYTHING of value.

              That is the point I am making.

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                6 months ago

                So the ACA was a half measured failure of a waste of time.

                God forbid anything help anyone if it’s not perfect. What a privileged fucking outlook on life. Some of us have to live here, yeah?