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AI researcher from back before it was cool.
Just kidding, it was always cool.
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The ACA kept people from dying or being economically destroyed because they couldn't get insurance with pre-existing conditions.
It needs to be compared to what was before, not an imagined perfect world.
Everything bad about the system now, was worse before.
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Guess what dude, before the ACA, if you had a pre-existing condition, you were pretty much uninsurable. That was going to be the end of you having money, for the rest of your life.
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Absolutely, there are tons of things we can do to improve pretty much every facet of society.
But it's dumb to sit back and castigate the Democrats for not doing enough, when they're the only ones doing anything.
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And that is totally cool.
It's ok to think we should do more, without denigrating everything that was already achieved, as though it were nothing.
I feel like a lot of people today don't understand what it was like before the ACA, especially for people with pre-existing conditions.
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Rich white people might not care about it, but I know folks who are alive because of the ACA.
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The suggestion is that people shouldn't be stupid babies.
Either you vote to stop the GOP, or you get the GOP.
And maybe that's not so bad for a privileged white dude, but for vulnerable people, it's real bad. Like, get sent to concentration camps bad.
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Yeah, because those people helped elect Trump.
Those people made poor use of their vote.
And now we get to live with the repercussions.
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Wishing the options were better isn't actually making them better.
In a general election, you have two choices. Adults take the best option, children throw tantrums and cry about how things aren't as they wish they were.
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Yes. That's what it means to be an adult, because as an adult, you need to pick the best of available options.
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Children act like politics is supposed to be some exciting party where candidates wine and dine us.
That's nice and all, but our democratic power comes from actually exercising our vote effectively, and in our system, that means picking the best of the two major parties in every general election.
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I'm not going to argue that anyone ran a perfect campaign.
But the fact remains, it is OUR responsibility to vote for the best option in elections. And that means in EVERY election. Not just the sexy ones every 4 years.
That's what the GOP did. They won State houses, in boring elections.
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Did you vote for her? If so, then you did your part. Many didn't.
I don't vote for candidates on the basis that they are perfect. I vote for whatever candidate will result in the best outcome. Generally, that's going to be literally anyone in the Democratic party in the general election.
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Yeah dude, not voting for Clinton and letting Trump get elected has real terrible consequences, that we all have to deal with now for the rest of our lives.
We fucked up. Now we have live with it.
That's why listening to people who say they won't vote for Democrats is bad.
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Actual governance requires actual work. It's not something you achieve through angry tweets on social media.
Real progress takes long periods of boring work.
You can tell yourself you are going to achieve something faster, but you aren't going to achieve anything.
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Packing the courts is a childish, "one weird trick" idea that's thrown out there by people who have never achieved anything of value. It's not a real plan. It's essentially just a plan to negate any sort of stability or credibility in the court, ever.
And without that, you are screwed.
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Roe v. Wade was overturned because Trump appointed 3 supreme Court Justices.
You really need to be able to track these kinds of things.
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Turns out, if you don't vote for the Democrats, the GOP does really terrible things.
That's why it's important to vote for the Democrats.
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The ACA made healthcare in America objectively better. Even the GOP can't repeal it now because it's so popular.
If you are going to blame the IRA somehow causing the reelection of Trump, I'm not sure what you are suggesting then. It was too progressive?
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They are the most progressive pieces of legislation since the new deal.
Nothing is ever "sufficient". You need to keep working to make stuff better, forever.
But that means actually doing stuff to make steady progress, not just throwing up your hands because everything isn't perfect already.
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This is why they've passed some of the most progressive laws since the new deal, in the past two Democratic administrations?
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We all win.
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BREAKING: South Africans who were allowed into US by Trump as refugees to now be deported to the Congo.
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They're both pedophile rapists though.
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Big if true
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HHS clearly did use AI in preparing these reports. Hallucinating sources is a pretty common failure in this sort of use case.
And then they failed to review them, and likely lacked the expertise to even understand their contents.
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Fun Fact:
The CBO has historically been accurate with their projections within 1.2%. They have tended to slightly overestimate revenue.
The GOP's plan is going to inflate the national debt by literally TRILLIONS of dollars.
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"I have faith in President Trump," said literally no one with two functional neurons, ever.
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Trump: "I attack the darkness."
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James Comer's IQ is sub 80.
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I'm amazed at how Trump doesn't even follow the rules of basic golf etiquette.
If you drive your golf cart up onto the tee box, you are a classless tool.
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You seen what America's done to itself?
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We are the fuel!
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So are people ALLOWED to get boosters? Because I thought that they were making it such that we couldn't even get them unless we were over 65.
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Trump: "How can people who can't add get into Harvard?"
It's called "having rich parents" dude. That's how you got into U. of Penn.