ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]

Do you have a rebuttal to the argument or are you just trolling?

american healthcare will continue to suck as long as politicians are friends instead of enemies of private health insurance. as long as both parties are on the payroll of big insurance we’re all getting screwed

Would medicare for all be a good next step to push for? Are any progressive politicians putting forth a viable plan for getting us closer to universal healthcare?

I don’t understand how that addresses campaign finance.

Even under socialism it will still be essential for the people to keep a close eye on their chosen representatives (and also other leaders such as those in the leading revolutionary party), but it will no longer be virtually impossible for those representatives to truly represent the interests of the people

How will these representatives be chosen? Well they be able to campaign and will there be a limit to how much they can spend on a campaign?

If direct democracy is what you’re advocating, how can that work? Does every citizen have to spend an hour reading legislation every day then vote through an app on their phone?

What is the ideal way to deal with campaign finance?

What was meant to be step 2?

I think the only disconnect we have is that I think different people will take this story in different ways. Some of the people in this thread I think are in the minority that is very worried about covid and the real effects its having on them or their loved ones and to them this article isn’t sensationalist.

Generally I agree with you though, most people will take an article like this as proof that the media is always full of shit and fearmongering for money and that feeling isn’t unfounded.

I think that as long as its still spreading pretty regularly, which it is, I know its not the same as in 2022 but there is still spread happening in lots of places. As long as thats happening theres a chance of mutation and if someone with a bad mutation goes to an airport or a sports event that could trigger a surge at any moment. Its impossible to predict this stuff so I understand being skeptical of headlines especially because media always fucks up science stories. But like I said with the spread and mutations happening we don’t know when but its likely that there will be spikes or surges at some point and that means preventable deaths and thats bad. Its not as bad as we’ve seen before but still bad.

Thanks for the explanation. I responded to you in another comment thread about this stuff so I won’t respond again here.

I like your disdain for journalists and capitalism and the state but sometimes stories stick around for a long time because they’re actually still on-going. Pandemics usually have multiple cycles. There usually isn’t just one big spread and that’s it. The fact that the state f’ed up the response to the initial wave just makes more waves more likely.

Journos are wrong a lot but not 100% of the time just like 95% lol

I think because you seem to be agreeing with the poster who is against masking? But I’m not sure because his post is removed now.

When you said

Because it generates clicks (and thus revenue) for media conglomerates.

What generates clicks?

I’m just asking because the post you were responding to got removed so I’m missing context

so much brigading from these lemmy.ml users.

they really are The_Donald of lemmy

words mean what I say they mean, stop moving the goalposts

stop trolling man, you’ve been brigading this hexbear post for hours, I hope we defederate from your instance

HEY I GOT A LAUGH OUT OF HIM GUYS

YOUR APPLICATION TO JOIN THE FALLACY POLICE HAS BEEN DENIED

we found that you have used too many logical fallacies in the past to properly represent our organization

do you have dementia? should we call your next of kin or something?

I can copy and paste a response to every comment you make as well. It doesn’t make you right, you just copypasta your response and move on. If that isn’t a logical fallacy I don’t know what is

You made the argument, the burden of proof is on you. Stop trying to make other people do your work for you

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 The fallacy police are on their way, you really did it now