• mestari@lemmy.world
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    On top of that Americans pay more healthcare related income taxes than anyone else! Those could well be used to cover the expenses of a socialized system. It’s absolutely amazing that people think they don’t need it.

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      the US actually pays about double at $9K per capita.Most of the rest of the cdeveloped countries pay about $3-4K per capita for healthcare.

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        This sounds way more important than people wearing different clothing than you’d expect reading to children in a library, but you guys know best.

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          The drag story hour thing (and pretty much all other culture wars) are designed to keep people outraged at the people trying to fix the country so that the few at the top can continue to other the one’s trying to fix the problems. Cause enough outrage to your political rivals trying to end your honey pot. Keeps the ones who fall for it from seeing past the curtain and the ones you target from being trusted/gaining momentum.

          It’s funny… I could’ve sworn I remember a guy from Austria doing something really similar sometime around 1937…

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      Just so it’s very clear how ridiculous the situation truly is.

      The US government pays per capita about double what other developed countries do for healthcare AND Americans still need to pay for private insurance over that, which on average is also more than what other countries spend per capita for the same services…

      Even with all that money spent, life expectancy in the USA is closer to some Latin American countries than it is to Canada’s and infant mortality is the highest of all Occidental rich countries and is pretty much equal to China’s.

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        UnitedHealth Group - $88 billion in profit last year.

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          And yet I’ve seen lower class Americans argue that they don’t want to see USA’s healthcare become public because there needs to be at least one country that provides the option to live in such system… The fact that it went directly against their own interest completely escaped them…

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      The amount of propaganda US citizens are exposed to would make any totalitarian regime in history proud. And then people will go on about how CNN is somehow “left wing”.

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            To explain why you are downvoted:

            There are Americans who actually claim hitler/the nazis were socialist. They read the party like this nSdAP (nationalSOCIALISTgermanWORKERS Party).

            Which of course makes no sense because politcal names rarely have to do anything with he policies.

            They then happily ignore the NsDaP reading which is clearly politically on the right.

            Also they ignore that the nazis were literally fascists.

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              Yeah, calling the Nazis socialist is like calling north Korea democratic just because it’s in their name.

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              Whoa! I never thought anyone would seriously call left someone so far-right to the point of being real nazi and Hitler himself.

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        Sad to be honest. People are actively demanding the dismantle of welfare state here in the Nordics too. Arbeit macht frei and so on.

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          In my country, the most popular candidate is a right-winger who announced publically that we wants to eliminate the ministry of Education, the main institute to fund scientific research, public health, the national bank and he wants to make the US dollar the national currency. It’s suicide, but people are celebrating the nonsense.