Tweet is from around February 2022; I’m not visiting that cesspool to find the exact date.
Homogenate maybe more accurate
The US has by far the most expensive healthcare in the world, and for all that expense, achieves outcomes comparable with the third world.
Negotiating with providers as a single payer massively shifts the dynamic by putting the negotiating power in the hands of the people representing patients, and allows a huge amount of bloat to be removed from the system - like the entire insurance industry.
Single payer will deliver huge savings, better healthcare, and better access. The people that lose are the grifters draining the system for profit.
Man, why are Republicans so fucking stupid? Even the greediest toplofty would benefit more from universal healthcare than they’d lose.
The thing that really grinds my gears about neoliberal capitalism is that isn’t even good at capitalism. It is just mathematical fact that healthy and happy workers make you more money, and are more than happy to work harder for luxuries (that, by the way, improve your consumerist economy) than stressing themselves into an early grave over necessities, all while breeding more workers for you to exploit.
That’s not even getting into the kind of moronic system that rewards CEOs for selling off productive company assets and calling it record profits, bonus please!
I believe that it’s much less about profits and much more about power. Being unbeliveably wealthy in a world where everyone have their every need satisfied is less favourable for a megalomaniac than being believeably wealthy in a world where everyone is desperate. People rarely desire expensive jewelery or other (relative) luxuries for their own satisfaction, usually it’s used to signify wealth and show power. What use would those extremely rich psychopaths have for their money if there was no human black market to buy a child sex slave from? Where would they get their dose of praise and submission if no one desperately wished to change their dire living conditions and was willing to licktheir boots for that chance? I think capitalism was designed specifically for this purpose, and with class divide growing ever wider, it fulfills it excellently.
If it is Feb '22 then that’s an extremely prescient tweet, as the Palestinian Genocide didn’t start until Oct '23.
7/10/2023? The date you gave was three days ago.
Also, obviously there is a bloody long history there. However this is still the only all out war since 2014. It just seemed like weird timing to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I do actually know a fair bit about the history of the conflict in Palestine.
This video by Middle East Eye is a decent summary of the reasons IMO.
Specifically the fact that Saudi Arabia was in the process of normalizing relations with the occupiers, but no longer is.
if I’m paying for the creation of skeletons, I expect to receive some in the mail.
