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Parent Post: Healthcare is a human right, doctor you owe me your time and energy because you provide healthcare.
seraphima
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11/12/2026, 3:47:30 PM
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Yes, the mark of a civilized society that I want to contribute to is one that definitely allows old people to choose between life-saving heart medication or food. Elderly people spent their lives dedicated to the grind, probably earning a pension, and they still get thrown away by their kids and grandkids. Old people are the absolute worst, aren't they? The Greatest Generation didn't work 14 hours a day, 6 days a week at least so that they could perhaps, maybe, kinda, make society easier for their own kids. They were the ones who made the 8-hour day and 40-hour work week. They built our society and others have tried to dismantle it ever since. By "others" I mean reckless, heartless neo-cons who truly believe people still can and should pick themselves up by their bootstraps. Work hard. Meritocracy, my ass. You'll just end up dying alone in a pile of your own piss, shit, and vomit. The country I want to give my taxes to definitely supports one's ability to wake up in the morning without chronic pain, to eat food without poison, drink free water without poison, and get the medicine they need to literally stay alive in this beautiful cesspool, fighting for every scrap of dignity. I'm not a communist but access to food, water, shelter, and I would add, the ability to be as healthy as one can possibly be, should be protected. Not the MIC.
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babyvaso
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11/13/2026, 1:38:47 AM
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The problem is Americans had 2 Generations of a booming economy and it only takes a generation to rewire the populous psyche and that was the Silent generation into the boomers with X being the mark where the golden era was over but not enough to be noticeable. The most simplistic way I could picture the Silent - Boomer era was, men don't realize they're balding until their hairline recedes, what people don't know is that your hair starts thinning immediately upon reaching puberty. By the time you notice hair loss you've already been losing hair for 7 years and that's Gen X into Millennials, but we didn't notice until 2007.
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seraphima
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11/13/2026, 1:40:49 AM
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I dig the metaphor. But then do you think that maybe Gen X and Millennials at least tried to tell them that they needed a combover? I mean, they didn't know, I guess, but everyone else knew something was wrong.
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babyvaso
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11/13/2026, 2:00:57 AM
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The cultural rot didn't start until 2007 specifically, this was around the time of Facebook, Twitter, X---deos entered the picture just before the housing crisis. 2008 was the beginning of a new era.
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