• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      The long and tortured history of bad American medicine and crooked elections is a reminder of the crimes of privatization, eugenics, and white nationalism.

      The irony is how often these crimes are invokes as an excuse to deny health care provision via public institutions, to encourage further eugenics policies, and to facilitate white nationalist control of the country.

      How many times am I going to see a MAGA Republican denounce Medicaid on the grounds that its too nice to black people or obstruct ballot access to college voters, on the grounds that these systems are corrupt?

      How many times am I going to see liberals insist “This is just what people want” as they tear up another health care public option and let the GOP further stack the SCOTUS?

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        Yeah, it’s kinda like we didn’t fall out of a coconut tree, and everything exists in context. It’s kinda like these past incidents inspired modern day people to abuse these loopholes. And btw, Gore losing the election killed 8 billion people due to climate change, so it was significantly worse that what Trump did in terms of impact.

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          Who said I was angry? You are projecting your own emotions into a perfectly reasonable assessment. Russian bots have been proven to interfere in the past elections just as you are now. Asking if you are puts it front and center.

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            It’s not reasonable, it’s just an easy talking point you go to when you get upset. Like it’s pretty thought terminating, right? And do you ask every commenter if they are a Russian spy, or are you not asking because you disagree with what I said? You claim I’m “interfering in elections,” - how? How am I, as a voter who is exercising her right to free speech to criticize the government, doing anything that would interfere in an election? Please elaborate how that’s not a baseless accusation.

            Also, don’t you see how it’s a stretch to say that “Russian spies interfered in elections,” and then jump to claiming I’m somehow interfering in an election and ALSO then a Russian spy? Many other countries interfere in elections. What’s your evidence I’m Russian specifically and not, say, Chinese? Yet again showing this is based on reactionary rhetoric and not anything in reality or with evidence.

            Also PS - I voted for Kamala. Criticizing Clinton is not the same as saying we shouldn’t vote for Kamala. Stop sucking Dem boots

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              You don’t know any sort of research I have done or anything about my background. There is actual proof that Russians used social media, paid for by Cambridge Analytica funded by Trump’s inner circle.

              Creating such discourse was their tactic to manipulate fringe undecideds to lean towards Trump. But don’t let facts get in your way when you know so much about so little.