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This is a pretty decent copy pasta, I hope this is original.

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reported last year that roughly 20% of Americans have medical debt

I'm honestly shocked it's only 20%.

I’ve actually found Bing to be way better than Google for a while now. It’s not even close, idk what Google did to their search engine but it’s pretty frustrating. It’s all ads and irrelevant links.

I literally do not care enough to read the articles

Which is another reason your opinion can be thrown promptly in the trash. Can’t even be bothered to read the sources and yet want to appear as some authority on the subject. Laughable, disingenuous behavior.

I guess I am wondering why not just remove the insult comments as they broke the rules instead of nuking the whole thing?

My guess is that it’s just an equation of energy input and time spent. Is it worth removing the problem comments if they keep coming back? How much time as a mod are you willing to spend removing and banning people like that? I can understand taking the approach they did. Personally, I think maybe just locking the thread would’ve been a better compromise. But I’m not a mod here nor would I want to be lol

W raised the banner saying “Mission Accomplished” what more do you want? Jeez.

We could dominate the political landscape if we did, but we don’t.

Go look at the midterms we just had, it was historic. The GOP was supposed to gain way more seats based on previous trends but Gen Z came out in droves and denied them that. There hasn’t been a midterm like that in half a century. That’s why the GOP are saying things like this, they’re scared because in 2024 even more Gen Z will be eligible to vote.

Everyone make sure you do what you can to vote, it’s crucial.

Colorado?

Oregon! That’s cool to learn that Colorado is set up the same way. I wish it was implemented on a national scale though.

I have that option too, I just like to not wear pants when I vote now. They frowned on that when I tried to do that in person.

As a former Texan, it’s quite difficult to vote. The work culture there makes it even harder but the state also purposely makes it as inconvenient as possible. If you’re low income and don’t have vacation time or anything like that it’s really hard to get out and vote in-person. Now I’m in a state with mail-in voting by default and Texas makes me even more sick when I saw how easy it’s supposed to be.

More people could definitely make more of an effort there, but the barriers to vote shouldn’t be overlooked imo

I miss when W was our worst president.

Sure glad they tackled this “issue” instead of housing, jobs, pollution, infrastructure, trade, etc.

Filing that info for later, thanks!

It probably would be if not for qualified immunity for police officers. I’m not a lawyer but I’m not holding my breath on the officers or judge facings consequences for this heinous act.

Sync is the only app I know if that does that right now but I could be wrong.

Edit: and now I know Connect can too, there you go OP

It’s my turn to ask the question tomorrow morning, I call it.

Now I just need Merry to put a hand on my shoulder and tell me “I don’t think they know about fourth once-in-a-lifetime financial crises.”

As a millennial I think this is number three… Maybe four?

I’m so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We’re not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn’t try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.

The rare quadruple down on the dumb. Calling a lemmy community a subreddit is not a metaphor, it’s objectively wrong. No matter how many non-applicable examples you provide. How are you this dense? (That’s rhetorical btw)

Because people like me have an interest in having people like you be a little less self-righteous.

lmfao the projection of writing this at the end of the most self righteous comment I’ve read on lemmy yet is delicious.