That they didn't understand what connotation that term would have with anyone who'd played a FPS is their fault.
"They never played Halo, so they deserve to be mocked. Also cause I disagree with them."
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That they didn't understand what connotation that term would have with anyone who'd played a FPS is their fault.
Because I HAVE to like one wing for some reason? I may vote for a particular rep or party but that doesn't mean I like that rep. or party. I always try and vote for the lesser evil.Of course. I mean, if you're arguing the old chestnut of "communism hasn't really been tried yet", then I imagine all the political wings of the US would be distasteful.
He is OK but I'm not happy with him either. He says some things I'd agree with but many of the bills he advocated turned into the typical neoliberal dreck that you see out of Wash. DC today.But how about Bernie Sanders? He's an out-and-out socialist. Should make you happy.
That's a lie.
stiletto, damicatz, jpm100, WTF, and a couple others are all either TP'ers or make points indistinguishable from TP'ers so if any of them are big or small L libertarians then that would be a point without distinction.
Of course I hold small or big L libertarians with the same regard I do Tea Baggers. Most R's too while you're at it. And D's can't forget them either.
http://aattp.org/the-tea-party-actually-did-call-themselves-teabagger/
Apparently a lot of Tea Party folks did refer to themselves by the term before they realized what it meant. Honestly I had no idea what the term meant before the Tea Party movement.
Come on don't you try and check anything before you post?That's a lie.
Not quite. They deserve to be mocked because they're terrible. That they chose to call themselves something so childish also happens to be funny."They never played Halo, so they deserve to be mocked. Also cause I disagree with them."
Not quite. They deserve to be mocked because they're terrible.
Just because they were trying to "take back" the insult(which is as stupid as various groups trying to "take back" other slurs) doesn't mean it wasn't the media which popularized the term as a pejorative...and have been ever since. That one poster has used it, I believe, at least half a dozen times in this thread alone.
So far I guess though I'd like to think I was also shooting some holes in some of the meme's/propaganda.So it's statist progressives vs. everyone else?
So far I guess though I'd like to think I was also shooting some holes in some of the meme's/propaganda.
And perhaps UHC really did suck in that country...but that was in that country which you haven't named. There are many others all throughout the world that have had a UHC for decades without issue. What if the problem wasn't that the foreign country you were in had a UHC but instead that it had a leadership problem?My opinions are formed from living under universal healthcare.
Sometimes the "villian" really is that clear cut and simple though.Clearly defined villians like Insurance company CEO's and 'Tea Baggers'.
I wasn't aware that I had said it was?Our upcoming healthcare plan is nothing like, say, the Finnish healthcare plan.
Sometimes the "villian" really is that clear cut and simple though.
Ever hear of Rockerfeller or Rick Scott or Jeff Skilling or Oliver North?In fantasy land, where "free health care" exists.
Ever hear of Rockerfeller or Rick Scott or Jeff Skilling or Oliver North?
I've also pointed out a few times now only the poor would get free health care and it'd be free in terms of out of pocket costs.
I wasn't aware that I had said it was?
The villian had scare quotes around it for a reason. What do you think scare quotes are there for?Yeah, they all had volcano fortresses and robot armies.
"in terms of out of pocket costs", this was also talked about back on page 4..It's not free. Someone has to pay for it.
I don't give a flying squirrel who eats the cost of my insurance as long as I have cheap insurance for the first time in my life.
I think you can indeed have a UHC in such a country, it just won't be very effective. I've said several times now this (ie. PPACA or a crappy/corrupt UHC) isn't what I want or my ideal. But we have to make the best of what we've got and in the mean time work towards reform. Of both the PPACA and govt. at the same time. It seems to me this has been done before at least once in US history during the Great Depression/pre WWII era. The alternative is either giving in to apathy or attempt to become a revolutionary which is pretty unrealistic or untenable IMO.You can't have UHC in a country where ...
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Well clearly there are things worth paying for, like service members' paychecks.
That being said, bring the boys / girls home so that they can get re-trained / re-equipped for civvy life so that they can support their own families.
I am very, very tired of hearing about how we got enemies abroad, about how we got terrorists running around in the wings, about how we got this and that conflicting with 'national interests' in a country - and that fixing this is keeping up a constantly deployed military that costs $$$$ to run. So much $$$ to run that paychecks don't even go out.
Let it break.
Then maybe our soldiers can come home.
pfff make it easy no house or senate members get paided either and that starts first and mandatory 50% pay cut cause the results say they ain't worth it and are on the take anyways.
Here's a funny true story...one of the only budget item not effected by sequestration is Congressional pay.
There hasn't been a budget in, what, three years? So how did these sites stay up during that time?
I hope they don't cutoff or repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act.
I can't get medical insurance from any major insurance company like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, or others except for a state run insurance from the state of California. Why? I have cancer, the major insurance companies consider it a pre-existing condition. The best excuse Blue Cross gave me in a one page letter summarizes it down to this: It'd be too expensive to cover me for the duration of any necessary cancer treatment.
If I paid out of pocket, my chemotherapy treatments, hospital stays, doctor visits, and any possible surgery for one to one and a half years would cost approximately half a million dollars. I don't have that money. I'd rather die than try to pay off the medical bills if that happened. There is absolutely be no way I'd be able to come up with nearly $500,000 to pay for medical bills. I got lucky that I got approved by the state-run insurance.
And, they just voted to delay the AHCA for another year. I was hoping to see it take effect January 1st. The AHCA would have prevented insurance companies from denying someone like me from getting insurance.
I don't know how long I will be able to stay on the state run insurance especially if and when I return to work. And, when I return to work, I'm sure I'll need periodic medical checkups to ensure that the cancer hasn't returned.
I'm hoping that with the AHCA I'd also be able to find affordable health insurance as well after I start working again.
But, no. These fucking idiots in Congress would rather delay funding it for another year than cut their own paychecks by a certain amount or cut spending to the defense budget or other other unnecessary programs.
They'd rather see the majority of the American people in poverty as well as any war veterans, and have people without any means for medical insurance.
They're unempathetic idiots.
I'm no fan of Obama, and I REALLY dislike the ACA, but the way these tea party controlled Republican assholes are trying to go about getting rid of it is completely irresponsible.
The pathetic thing is, shutting down the government will not stop the ACA from going into effect. The ACA is not subject to annual appropriations funding bills. Regardless of what does or doesn't happen in congress, the ACA marches on gets funded anyway.
The impending shutdown though is not what worries me most, however. The Republicans plan to use this extortion-style politics in the upcoming "crisis" over the debt sealing. They are threatening to default on the national debt if Obama doesn't give them their way. Fuck them. What they are trying to do is reprehensible. The potential economic consequences of a default can not be overstated. It would be a treasonous act by the Republicans IMO if it happens.
While I feel for you, why exactly do you think you should be entitled to sign up with a company knowing that your bill, for an illness you already have, will costs tens of thousands more each year then what you would be paying?
Yes it sucks, but requiring insurance companies to sign people up who are already suffering from an illness, and making them cover that illnesss would be like requiring them to sell you low cost collision insurance on your car AFTER you've totaled it.
Yes it sucks, but requiring insurance companies to sign people up who are already suffering from an illness, and making them cover that illnesss would be like requiring them to sell you low cost collision insurance on your car AFTER you've totaled it.
Hence why I prefaced that statement with IMO. I'm using that term loosely.While the Republicans may be a group of shitty brats, it's well within their legal right to do this. Treason isn't a word that comes into play.
It would be a treasonous act by the Republicans IMO if it happens.
Ideon have you considered voting for a small 3rd party? The US doesn't have a "vote of no confidence" on its ballot but that is about as close as you can get.
Succumbing to apathy is what many of these politicians want too BTW since it helps the "complete retards" win primaries and elections. Some food for thought.
I'll have to look into this for the next election.
Thanks for the info.
I'm no fan of Obama, and I REALLY dislike the ACA, but the way these tea party controlled Republican assholes are trying to go about getting rid of it is completely irresponsible.
The pathetic thing is, shutting down the government will not stop the ACA from going into effect. The ACA is not subject to annual appropriations funding bills. Regardless of what does or doesn't happen in congress, the ACA marches on gets funded anyway.
The impending shutdown though is not what worries me most, however. The Republicans plan to use this extortion-style politics in the upcoming "crisis" over the debt sealing. They are threatening to default on the national debt if Obama doesn't give them their way. Fuck them. What they are trying to do is reprehensible. The potential economic consequences of a default can not be overstated. It would be a treasonous act by the Republicans IMO if it happens.
So the Republicans not giving into the Democrats is treason but the Democrats not giving in to Republicans is just fine and dandy?
That's why when you're healthy and don't need to go to the doctor you should get reimbursed for a portion of what you paid into your insurance when you move on or cancel your insurance (with limits to prevent fraud). Otherwise, health insurance is a scam.
Which is all well and good...except that medical care of any sort is too goddamn expensive for just about anyone to afford without insurance coverage. It happens every year, people conduct their financial lives right their entire lives. And get bankrupted by medical care costs for things like cancer. Should anyone who is sick with a non-covered condition really be told to go die in a hole when they cannot afford the cost of treatment?
Boot-straps is all well and good. Until you have loved ones who are decimated by "pre-existing conditions" and being booted from insurance for costing too much to treat.