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Erghh posted:Also related: Emergency/First Responder services in rural PA have pretty much collapsed for lack of funding. There's a lot going on with "MaH TaxEs", privatization, dying small towns and FYGM but the point is the other side of that coin is that people in urban areas - which can at least support the infrastructure for first responders - aren't calling 911 either because they know they literally can't afford the ambulance ride. apparently people are now using uber / lyft for rides to the hospital more commonly when the injury isn't obviously life-threatening those are your two options in the united states in tyool 2020. either you live somewhere too poor to provide emergency medical services, or you live somewhere that you are too poor yourself to pay for the EMS that exists
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the last time i was at the hospital i saw a guy pull in with a really nice car whose wife had just given birth in the backseat
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Police cuts so great they couldn't even afford a barrel and a pair of braces.
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“What kind of a town lets their chief of police walk out in a snowstorm in his underwear?” Rick Sampson said. lmao owned
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i used to bring this up with my family in alabama (before they moved away from that urine-soaked hellhole)  The black families living in the cotton belt that are hit hardest by this didn't vote Trump
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zegermans posted:
maybe, but those areas, esp that strip through the middle, are also real low in population - way more black families are in the cities, and plenty of the people in the affected areas did in fact vote for trump 
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this counts right? https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1230562835630968838?s=20
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lol the "great economy" is a complete house of cards and is gonna crash any day now
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my bony fealty posted:lol the "great economy" is a complete house of cards and is gonna crash any day now the rich will make sure it doesn't crash until after bernie gets elected though
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lol small towns in america are so broke they can't afford local police and they drat sure can't figure out how to raise the money! Why they've taxed the poor but those lucky duckies keep finding a way to "not have enough money" to pay taxes and, frankly, they're out of ideas! local plutocrat had this to say "hwah hwah hwah! jchwa ta ba rota socialism! hwah hwah hwah!"
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lol fukc you my hate will keep me warm at night when they cut off my utilities
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cumshitter posted:lol fukc you my hate will keep me warm at night when they cut off my utilities Must... endure... so long as *those people* are having it worse
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Gringostar posted:this counts right? Doing a really great job at attracting immigrants! Lmao, can you imagine moving to the US from a European country now?
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Definitely NOT a cult though.
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Power Khan posted:Doing a really great job at attracting immigrants! To be fair, he was giving the speech in England.
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"Save me from this fire!" I cry at the man ignoring me as he pours gasoline on my head
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hobbesmaster posted:To be fair, he was giving the speech in England. Oh right, that should work
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1230629128812056577 quote:Angel Mcceig-Escalanti, 44, says most of her family's income is spent on rent, and dealing with problems with their car.
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I was about to say that I hate both of those people but honestly, it's not their fault that the century of propaganda has convinced them that the taste of boot is actually good. If all you have to eat for your whole life is boot, it seems natural
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Trump actually will cut food stamps, and that guy is just gonna be like "no he didn't" until he starves to death
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Hillary 2020 posted:The story's not just a safari into Trump's America but these two stand out. Apart from laughing about these people literally working towards their and their kids demise, I guess the takeaway is, that propaganda works really well
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In this case all it took was a church man telling them abortion is bad.
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Despite that, he feels pleased to have medical coverage in his job - and says he “absolutely” feels optimistic about his future. “I’m setting money aside for future plans - I plan to move to Texas because the healthcare’s better.” ... Meanwhile, Christopher and Angel both support President Trump - Christopher because he disagrees with the Democratic candidates’ stance on abortion, and Angel because “when he says something, he does it”. Christopher uses food stamps, and is not convinced by reports that Mr Trump’s proposed budget would cut food stamps and the safety net. “That’s one thing I don’t believe - if I see it, I see it, but I’ve heard nothing about that.” Meanwhile, Angel believes Mr Trump’s proposal to reduce the safety net is a good idea. “I’ve been working since I was 13, and… I only used the system when I needed it. People don’t do that anymore, now they use it because there’s free stuff.” this 100% accurately describes a lot of the poor people I meet in the middle of Pennsylvania
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I always wondered how 60 whatever percent of people were saying the economy is doing well when it's objectively not for anyone but the very top and I guess I have my answer.
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Thundercracker posted:I honestly don't get. At least the facists in other countries buy off their base in some way. American facists just openly poo poo in the mouth of theirs. Is this the exceptionslism we hear so much? The payoff is that they will kick minorities harder.
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Thundercracker posted:I honestly don't get. At least the facists in other countries buy off their base in some way. American facists just openly poo poo in the mouth of theirs. Is this the exceptionslism we hear so much? it's sadopopulism and it seems to work extremely well in a country built on racism and genocide quote:In "The Road to Unfreedom," you introduce the concept of "sadopopulism." I have used a similar concept which I describe as "political sadism" to describe the fact that Trump is not really a populist but rather part of a larger right-wing effort whose goal is to actually hurt their voters and then redirect the rage at nonwhites, Democrats, liberals, progressives or some other designated enemy. How much of this policy do you think is intentional and strategic? Or is it just something that grew organically out of authoritarian tendencies?
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Smirking_Serpent posted:Trump actually will cut food stamps, and that guy is just gonna be like "no he didn't" until he starves to death reminds me of 2012 when reporters were showing republican voters ryans budget and they were refusing to believe it was real because why would anyone want those kinds of cuts
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quote:Deidre, Brianna and Adrielle all support Bernie Sanders because of his Medicare for All proposals - and do not want to see President Trump win. Brianna says bluntly: "If Trump gets re-elected I'm probably dead. He plans to cut all the programmes that make my life possible."
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Groovelord Neato posted:I always wondered how 60 whatever percent of people were saying the economy is doing well when it's objectively not for anyone but the very top and I guess I have my answer. This thread might help: https://twitter.com/oren_cass/statu...r%3D330%23pti19 Basically economic indicators show everything booming because economics is a poo poo garbage science for morons, but under the surface actual cost-of-living and wage trends have made people way poorer in real terms than they used to be. So every person individually feels the squeeze, but on aggregate the media, which is dominated by people individually doing well, talk to economists who are also individually doing well and measuring the wrong things, keep going on TV and newspapers to tell people the economy is booming and doing great and never been better in the history of humanity. The end result is extreme cognitive dissonance where people are being told 24/7 that the economy is doing great but personally they and everyone they know feel poorer than they've ever been, and how people choose to resolve that dissonance is basically politics in 2020.
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Mercury_Storm posted:when you have it spewing from your tv and radio 24/7 yeah The first amendment was a mistake
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vyelkin posted:This thread might help: And then you have those same millionaires on the TV wondering why socialism is making a comeback and being genuinely baffled. We are really headed for some kind of head where we'll go screaming into total fascism or violent socialist revolution, aren't we? Because willful ignorance is blinding a lot of people.
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