• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    170·
    6 days ago

    Reagan loved to talk about ‘deregulation’ when what he was really talking about was letting businesses steal from consumers.

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        62·
        6 days ago

        The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich getting richer and more powerful while everyone else becomes peasants.

        That’s why all Trump voters are just dumbfucks. Some of them think they’re the strong men that will get to take advantage of the weak in this system, but they’re really just dumb sheep that tongue a butthole up to middle management at best. They’re the ones who picked on special needs kids at school because punching down is easy and they need a win.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          19·
          6 days ago

          What they don’t understand is how e.g. cutting jobs, or not providing necessary goods and services (e.g. enough bolts to keep something attached to the outside of an airplane? The lack of which causing said thing to fall off mid-flight), etc. is the very self-same “innovation” that they were promised. As in, it delivers stock dividends to the shareholders, thus functions as intended.

          We arguably deserve what is coming for us. Though damn I wish there was some way to avoid the worst of it.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          6 days ago

          The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich

          That happens in a small economy, without thoroughly entrenched trillion dollar companies. But eventually the most ruthless companies will kill all of the other companies, dominate everything, and operate with impunity. That’s where we are now.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        16·
        6 days ago

        Destroying the planet, dumping toxic waste into low-income communities, literally killing their employees and customers with unsafe practices.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          6 days ago

          And then complaining that those customers are to blame that their business is tanking when in reality they just made them too poor to buy the product and/or killed them off but they will get a bailout anyway because they are “too big to fail”.

        • fern@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Ah, I was just lumping that into them stealing the livelihood of their community, but absolutely yes.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        201·
        6 days ago

        it’s fucking gut-wrenching. i’ve been severely depressed since wednesday morning. what everyone needs to do now is stop asking what’s wrong with the country, and start asking how do i get out

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          12·
          6 days ago

          My co-worker damaged a piece of one of my tools on Wednesday. I was trying to fix it and I almost started to cry. Had to take a break. It’s a five dollar thing. It wasn’t about the tool.

        • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
          6·
          6 days ago

          No, they need to ask, “How do I fight back?” Become the resistance. That’s what I’m doing. I’ve been putting my fear and anger into exercising and getting stronger to fight for my country.

    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
      9·
      6 days ago

      The land of opportunity… (Opportunity to exploit the less fortunate). Freedom costs a buck-o-five, have you paid yours?

  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
    59·
    6 days ago

    Meanwhile, my brothers-in-law have hemochromatosis so need to be bled regularly to reduce the iron in their blood, and they have to pay for the privilege. One put off getting the diagnosis as long as he could because as long as it wasn’t official, he could donate blood and achieve the same effect, but once diagnosed, he can’t donate blood anymore- not that there’s anything wrong with it, but to be classified a donation, the donor can’t benefit from it in any way. Such irony. America, fuck yeah.

    • Ehoalid@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      That’s interesting, because I was diagnosed with hemochromatosis last year, and I go to the local blood donation center and bloodlet every 4 weeks. They don’t consider it a standard donation, but a therapeutic phlebotomy. But both my blood doctor and the donation center state that my blood is still used as if it were a donation, and I don’t pay anything.

      I wonder why there’s a difference.

    • Fiona@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      5 days ago

      Can’t he just not tell them that he has it? At least in Germany that was generally the solution for gay people to donate blood: The only person who could potentially be liable would be the physician if they knew for a fact that you were lying. Which was very unlikely, considering that those red cross people rarely included the local GPs. (The legal situation might be different in other countries though, so check!)

  • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    I felt so defeated when I went to pick up some medication last night which was $100 instead of $60 which it had been the previous month. I asked if there were any coupons available and the pharmacist said that was AFTER the coupon price. $100 for 15 pills.

    I’ve been paying out of pocket for this med for years since my insurance company determined I had reached the “lifetime benefit limit” for that drug. I submitted an appeal earlier this year and was shut down. I’ve talked to my doctor about alternative drugs, and he said pretty much all the rest have significant side effects.

    And after this week’s elections, I’m sure it’s only going to get worse over the next four (or more) years.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    5 days ago

    So I looked up the account on the screenshot and fell into a huge rabbit hole.
    The TL;DR is that the poster has a rare syndrome that makes it so his body simply doesn’t have energy to perform most tasks, and it progressed to a point where merely interacting with other people causes his brain to use too much “energy” and makes him crash.

    My TL;DR is a gross oversimplification of his story and doesn’t do it any justice. When you have the time, please read what he has to say, it’s eye opening: My Story by Whitney Dafoe

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      12·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for sharing. I have ME/CFS too.

      It’s not even that rare over 2 million people in the US have it, just quite a marginalised illness, mostly because it majoritarily affects women and was therefore blamed on “hysteria” till the 80s. A lot of the medical system still has prejudicicial views towards it.

      A decent chunk of the more severe Long COVID cases fit ME diagnosis criteria, which makes sense, because most ME cases have historically been caused by viral infections.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    37·
    6 days ago

    Deregulation doesn’t means less rules to benefit the people. It means less of the rules which keep the rich and corporations in check. The less rules, the more free they are to exploit the people.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Just because Trump won doesn’t mean he’s running things yet. Technically, the Biden administration is still in charge until January. This is happening on their watch.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 days ago

    Psychopaths control important things and leverage them for money and power and influence so they can get away with being psychopaths without going to prison.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    37·
    6 days ago

    America needs a bill of human rights added to the Constitution with attention to health care, shelter, voting rights, and privacy. Business greed has been at the helm of the country for too long.