Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

  • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember being VERY pissed about Obamacare requiring an individual having insurance by paying a for-profit company, else pay a penalty, because of the pro-corp “nanny state” implications, much like I despise legally-required auto insurance (without a government-funded baseline).

    Yet here we are with “muh indivdulizm” republicans making the overreach far worse than Democrats ever would have.

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      1 year ago

      Obamacare was invented by a Republican. It was done as a compromise because most Democrat legislators are right wing and don’t want to see public healthcare enacted in the US.

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          Romneycare was what the basic concept of the ACA was called before it was called Obamacare. There are very few American politicians on either side of the aisle who favour single-payer healthcare.

          After Obama campaigned on healthcare as a key issue, he ended up using a Republican healthcare reform as the framework for his federal reform in order to get the corporate crony faction of the Democrat party on side. The Republicans, in a classic example of American politics being literally the dumbest thing ever, decided that they couldn’t be seen as agreeing with a Democrat (particularly a black one), even if it was their own idea, so they moved the Overton Window even further right and began claiming that even ACA was a bridge too far.

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          It’s basically true. The ACA drew a lot of support being compared to Massachusetts’ healthcare when Romney was governor. The individual mandate, which was the necessary compromise to get it passed, was first proposed by The Heritage Foundation.

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            You ever notice how the republicans can’t shut up about how much they hate Obamacare, but whenever they have enough seats to end it, they don’t? It’s because they secretly like it (because it’s their plan) but they just don’t want to give Obama or the other Democrats credit for passing it.

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            “basically true” that “all Dems wanted this instead of SP” because "all Dems are right wing??

            No that is not “basically true” lmao

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              Yes, most Democrats are right wing. They take money from medical, insurance, and banks who would very much like to prevent single payer. So instead we got ACA modeled on a Republican plan with a cop out mandate from a Republican think tank. (And the Republicans still lost their frickin minds). Yes, I vote Democratic but I have no illusions that they’re left of center 'cept maybe Bernie.

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              Why you put “all Dems are right wing” in quotes when what I said is that most are. Which is true. American politics are very far right of centre economically by the rest of the world’s standards.

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                You can’t backpedal from a lie by lying more lol

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                  Except you’re wrong? Most democrats are economically very right. Its why they’re liberals and not leftists. The vast majority of US politics is right wing with the only difference being how much they hate minority groups.

                  US politics has people fucked up thinking reasonable policy is left.

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                    Well they have us thinking politics is 1 dimensional. And have replaced the actual concept of left and right. The actual underpinning and economic organization. With the social axis. And just discard the notion that any economic model other than capitalism can exist. Acknowledging other systems brings up too many questions they can’t adequately answer. It’s so much easier to have us fight over whether we plebs deserve any rights.

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      This. I was too young for Obamacare to be something I knew a single thing about but as a car owner and leftist auto insurance has always rubbed me wrong.

      It’s just another means to keep people from being hireable by denying them jobs due to shitty public transit and the inability to legally drive their cars.