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But on Lemmy atleast we can argue without some fuckass mod deleting the messages and banning everyone.

lmao, no, lemmy has fuckass mods too. I wrote a whole thing once on feminist theory, and how gender essentialism was actually upholding the patriarchy, only for it to get deleted for the reason “pointless slap-fight”. The comment I was responding to was about gender segregation being feminist, and other TERF-y nonsense, and that remained up.

This is the way

A what?

It’s really easy to ignore these big numbers or to attack the credibility of the presenter

Yeah, I think part of the problem is that we kneejerk so hard away from using appeals to emotion, that we forget people check out with lists of dry facts. It feels like homework, and the average American is barely literate to begin with. We’re already busy trying to balance our household budgets, and nobody wants to do more math that the government should be doing for us anyways.

First, a society that allows preventable deaths can’t call itself civilized. Second, most wealthy countries spend less, have better health outcomes, and have taxes similar or lower to the US

I don’t know if the civilized angle would land, tbh. I grew up in Oklahoma, and it just feels like something that’d set people off down there. People respond poorly to moral arguments if it’s not a position they already agree with, or coming from an authority they already trust. Now, if we could get pastors to make that argument from the megachurch pulpit, or the evangelical television channel, it might be different, but good fucking luck with that, lmao.

Second, most wealthy countries spend less, have better health outcomes, and have taxes similar or lower to the US

I think this would go a long way if it were in infographic form, coupled with a political campaign about lowering the cost of healthcare.

I think it’d also be beneficial to do more framing of insurance companies as greedy middlemen, which a lot of working-class people hate here. I don’t understand why there isn’t more hammering on the fact that private insurance takes your money and doesn’t cover fuck all. Like, why does the opposition get to talk about fictional death panels, but we can’t even run ads about insurance companies using AI to jack up prices, deny claims, and make record profits? Please!

I’ll keep an eye out and try to pass it along if I come across something like you’re looking for, search is just really bad these days or I’d try to grab you something

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Yeah, so, I agree with you that the messaging on this topic is generally terrible, lmao.

This past election cycle, I have seen absolutely zero politicians talking favorably about it. I’ve heard El Sayed and Bernie have said something, but I can’t find any infographics or anything written at a 3rd grade reading level that I could share with low-education/low-information voters. I try to look for it, and the DuckDuckGo search mostly gives me anti-M4A shit.

So I was trying to ask if you had anything.

Lmao, did you get me confused with the other guy you were talking to?

I’m sorry, I thought you were sincere with that bit I quoted! I’m highly in favor of M4A, and have many critiques on how we can more effectively talk about it.

Towards the end they started to involve gore. I got one with a photo of a corpse and the Nicole copypasta.

I’d love to be wrong, please tell me if I’ve convinced you though this type of messaging and I’ll reevaluate it’s effectiveness

You say that these questions have been answered repeatedly, but didn’t provide a link to any political candidate that brought it up during the last election cycle. I can easily find Republicans talking about how Medicare For All is too expensive, but I have a hard time finding the opposite.

I’ve gone back to reddit for medical stuff, there just isn’t anywhere here for me to ask advice specific for Ehlers Danlos exercise adaptations, for example. I’d just get a bunch of generalized advice that’d be more harmful than helpful.

I’ll take your vinegar BBQ sauce, if you don’t want it

Midterms was just the start. Keep the pressure on, don’t let up now.

My local dispo has joints with 9% THC and 11% CBD, and I swear, it’s just like the 90s shit

But why would you pick a European country to protest US-defaultism on lemmy.ca and not something that makes more sense, like a place in South America?

Otherwise known as a FART, a Feminism Appropriating Ridiculous Transphobe

TIL Lucerne had elections yesterday. Time to look up the results

Edit: I’m not finding any?

Edit2: Fun fact, the whole canton is smaller in landmass and population than the city of Houston. I really don’t understand why it got posted.

Typical american attitude

They make my tummy hurt :(

I haven’t tried it, but I grew up around hunters, and always heard it tastes like whatever the bear’s been eating, which is unfortunately a large amount of garbage around here.

Don’t wait, there’s more! Dotage is a related term for the time period of being a dotard. I worked in elder care, and we’d often use “They’re entering their dotage” as a polite way to say “they’re going senile”.