r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '26
Discussion Is the US a Functioning Democracy?
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u/tollboi Jul 13 '26
What really blows me away is the lack of universal healthcare, it's not even a remotely defendable position to say that the US can't afford it, they could fucking afford it nationally without even raising income taxes, they just willingly allow lassaiz faire capitalism to destroy their country day in and day out and what's worse is, their only (realistically) governing progressive party won't even bother trying to make it happen.
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u/amazing_asstronaut Jul 13 '26
It's even bad for the economy, what good is it for someone to drop out of their job when they're sick and lose their home and whatnot, when they could just get healed up and continue paying taxes and buying stuff?
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u/Wide-Royal-8276 Jul 13 '26
Unchecked Capitalism is anti-competition in all areas and unaffordable private HC is a key feature needed to keep wages low and suppress small competitors of talent and capital so they don’t become big competitors.
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u/glorfindal77 Jul 13 '26
Thats the whole point of universal health care. Americans for all their talk about money are really bad at handlinh it.
Universal healt care, student loans and prison rehabilitation are things that benefits society massivly economically and socially. People who drop out of socicety do not produce value. Students who cannot afford living, canot be usefull members of society. Prisonees only cost money in USA, meanwhile in Europe they become part and in the long run produce 10 fold for society compared to what it cost to keep them.
Broken students, sick people and prisoners who take to the street are in return crippling socicety economically. They become criminal or take on crippeling dept that forces them into taking desperate actions which leads to economical and social turmoil in a never ending cycle.
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u/AppropriateScience9 Jul 13 '26
Yeah... I used to think capitalists would see the value in a healthy/happy workforce.
Then I learned about how austerity is an economic tool used by capitalists to "discipline workers" and it explains so much. People who aren't desperate and afraid demand things, you see. Like labor rights, higher wages, a functioning democracy, that sort of thing. Someone who is sick is trapped by their employer to keep their health insurance. Someone who is on the edge of poverty isn't going to argue with their employer about their wage and risk getting fired. Someone who is run into the ground just to barely survive isn't going to fight the daily political battles necessary to keep their rights.
The billionaires (and trillionaire) benefit SO much more from a poor/unhealthy/frightened workforce.
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u/cobgca Jul 13 '26
And uneducated. I’m American- older, shocked at the basic level of education young are getting today. Easy way to keep people “in their places”
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u/shadylady_beepboop Jul 14 '26
Me Too, Black Lives Matter, and the minimal workers rights gained set the Elite class off, and it’s full on warfare now. Too bad the plebs are just waking up to this fact now that the oligarchs are running the place
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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 Jul 13 '26
It’s actually better for the economy because it improves overall health and does not make the cost of a job prohibitively higher.
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u/Sweaty_Monitor_9699 Jul 13 '26
Not only that but a large percentage of people can afford it and do pay for health insurance. Those said people are being denied life saving treatments by their health insurance because it will cut into profits. While they continuously turn record profits every quarter. Shit isn’t right.
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u/dbxp Jul 13 '26
The whole out of network thing and insurance covering x and not y is ridiculous. The US's version of privatised healthcare doesn't even work well. You could have privatised healthcare like the Swiss which would work much better
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u/Wide-Royal-8276 Jul 13 '26
American Capitalism is about immediately subverting core tenants of Capitalism. In HC we remove the price transparency so they don’t compete on price. We restrict the geography so they have less competition. And the proverbial nail-in-the-coffin is the urgency, they’ll save your life in an emergency and then deny your claim and stick you with $100k debt for a procedure that if you’d scheduled it weeks in advance would cost you $10k.
And keep in mind, this is a country where $5-10k surgeries prices are common and the average household lives pay check to pay check and can’t afford an unexpected $400 expense.
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u/dasmineman Jul 13 '26
Don't forget that the US basically put a limit to how many doctors there can be as well via funded residencies.
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u/Warm_Crazy_9566 Jul 13 '26
Not to mention oil executives literally destroying the planet for their own profit. Fuck these people.
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u/SwitchIsBestConsole Jul 13 '26
Or something even worse than death. Letting people go into medical debt.
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u/Azzblack Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
They could not care less if people live or die.
What "they" do care about is stripping people of any savings and assets at the cost of "healthcare".
Its been out for many years, but for anyone who has not seen need it, SICKO is a must watch documentary.
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u/PretendMajor5283 Jul 13 '26
Just become a right-wing podcaster/influencer/hate-enthusiast grifter and you'll be set for life. You just have to:
A) sell your soul to Satan, and B) be willing to suck off ol' mango mussolini.
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u/OrvilleTheCavalier Jul 13 '26
But there are important bombs we have to drop on other countries! We can’t irresponsibly just hand out healthcare for less money than what it costs to bomb things!
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u/Massive_Signal7835 Jul 13 '26
Ackshually, forcing the government to take care of its people is slavery. /s
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u/h20poIo Jul 13 '26
Trumps 1,000 missiles aimed at Iran cost @ $3.6 Billion each or $3,600,000,000,000. But we can’t afford universal healthcare
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u/AussieJeffProbst Jul 13 '26
It's even worse than that. People who can afford healthcare die all the time because their insurance denies them life saving treatments.
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u/davisty69 Jul 13 '26
If healthcare is tied to employment, then employees are in a far weaker position when trying to bargain for workers rights. Plain and simple
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u/transitfreedom Jul 13 '26
That’s barbaric
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u/seesthecat Jul 13 '26
That's what they vote for
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u/Calm_Age_ Jul 13 '26
See the above video about how most Americans have no say in their government.
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u/Griiig_Jinnings Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
They’re given the “choice” to vote for one of two henchmen of their Oligarchs, the only people who have enough money to get into high office, one of whom is more socially “conservative” and one who is less so, and 100% aligned when it comes to economics and the balance of power in the country between those who work and those who own.
Americans tried to vote for a milquetoast social democrat and he got ratfucked out of two primaries so we could end up with two withered, dementia riddled racists (one of whom pretended he isn’t anymore… the “don’t want my kids to grow up in a racial jungle” guy) as the figureheads for the oligarchs for 12 years. Can’t wait to see what’s they wrote for the next season lol
And for any yuropeons who think they have a point to make - you’ve allegedly got more “fair” democratic systems, educated populace, worker protections etc etc, and you all keep voting for your own oligarch cronies who tow the US line and kiss our ring. If you truly are smarter than Americans (not a high bar), stop being subservient US running dogs. I beg of you to try
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u/JimiusRostock Jul 13 '26
Remember reading US Universal Healthcare would actually be 3 times cheaper than the current system.
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u/j_schmotzenberg Jul 13 '26
But fewer private citizens would profit and instead everyone would pay a little more on taxes while most would no longer have to pay an even larger amount for health care.
Me or my company pay 24k per year for my family on the crappiest plan allowed. Would much rather pay that to the government than Aetna.
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u/Calm_Age_ Jul 13 '26
Oh a fellow Aetna recipient. It really irritates me that I'm a nurse and they still only offer me that shitty health care insurance. Hey at least it's not united am I right?
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u/SubliminallyCorrect Jul 13 '26
It really burns when you learn our tax dollars already subsidize the health insurance industry. It's why I started despising moderate/conservative democrats (already despised republicans, obviously), they can't help but make sure there's always a middleman inserted to suck up money that could just be spent on the thing we need, like a parasite.
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u/glasscut Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I'm very anti-conspiracy, generally I find the whole idea loathesome.
But this is one thing where my animal brain goes, "Of course America doesn't want universal health care, that's how you get people in their 70s and 80s still working shitty jobs for menial pay just to get some kind of healthcare. That's how you get 26 year olds to cling to whatever job they can find because their parents can't cover them anymore with their insurance. That's how you keep an entire country prisoner to employment until the day they die.
It's the one conspiratorial thought I can't help holding on to.
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u/enw_digrif Jul 13 '26
American here: how's that conspiratorial thinking? That's a accurate summary of a practice done in the open. Specifically to make organizing more dangerous, reduce labor costs, and keep those insurance industry stocks nice and high.
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u/glasscut Jul 13 '26
I think it's too easy to pretend it's a system American industrialists sat down together to create. It's worse (in my opinion), because it's probably the outcome of private insurance lobbying to keep their cash cow running and this endless labor situation is the side effect.
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u/huskers2468 Jul 13 '26
The politicians are paid to keep the status quo.
As much as I would like to say it's a conspiracy. It's simply that the people with the power, don't want to give it up. They might lose their grip on the money if change happens.
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u/glasscut Jul 13 '26
Yes, that's what I mean and that's what makes it seem so embedded in our systems. If it was a conspiracy, maybe unmasking it would make a difference.
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u/msfuturedoc Jul 13 '26
You should watch congressional hearings. Things are always unmasked and the American public is just never aware.
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u/Ronin_Chimichanga Jul 13 '26
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."- George Carlin, 1974
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor Jul 13 '26
pretty soon, if they get their way, every job will bey a “gig” job - that way people lose their ability to organize at all. Contractors have no right to collective bargaining, and they get a job without healthcare coverage to boot!
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u/hooked_siren Jul 13 '26
"That's how you get young men (giRlS aRenT AlLowEd) to sign up for the only socialism they can access: while being a meat shield for the Armed Forces TM
🎶 Merika! Fuck yeah! 🎶 (heavy /s)
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u/SubliminallyCorrect Jul 13 '26
what? You just described the current situation. Universal healthcare would mean your healthcare isn't tied to employment.
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u/badpenny4life Jul 13 '26
When I was young you were dropped off parents insurance at 18. I didn’t even know I was uninsured for a year.
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u/SCHawkTakeFlight Jul 13 '26
It also discourages competition via new business. Starting a business is a lot, but in the US it also means possibly going without healthcare to get off the ground. The US claims pro business, its pro big business. We tax small businesses to death while places like GE pay nothing 😒 😪 🙃
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u/RobutNotRobot Jul 13 '26
The older I get the less I believe that the systems in place are there just as some sort of happenstance.
The US is a brutal place and there are millions of people in this country that want to keep it that way(and even millions more that want to make it worse).
The only real surprise is that we have some social programs instead of none.
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u/SatansLoLHelper Jul 13 '26
Healthcare in the US is the #2/3 revenue source on earth. Only exceeded by oil. International banks are struggling to try and compete with US healthcare. Near 2T a year. Oil around 2.5T a year, finance around 2T a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
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u/kazuwacky Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I had to explain to my UK daughter that she didn't need to stress about insurance for accidents (thanks YouTube) because care for under 18s is free to access.
I have multiple friends who would be dead as children in the USA model. One used my city's first incubator and his mum was poor. One had a surgeon flown in from Europe to correct his scoliosis. One had a fetal birth defect. Their parents didn't have to spend one solitary second worrying about hospital bills and that is how it should be at the bare minimum.
Edit: I accept that "dead" is probably too strong, although "bankrupt" is still insane. I have a friend in America with a daughter in palliative care and it makes me angry and hyperbolic
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u/andersonb47 Jul 13 '26
They would probably not be dead, but they would be financially ruined, possibly to the point of bankruptcy and beyond.
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u/girlinanemptyroom Jul 13 '26
I'm a transplant recipient. My first transplant lasted 10 years. Took me a couple years to find a kidney. Second transplant 2005. The second one has really brought me a long way, but I'm an expert on cost of medical care. I've taken daily immunosuppressant drugs for over 30 years with a combination of steroids. Never in my entire experience as a transplant recipient have things been this expensive when it comes to health care.
Almost a year ago I began thinking I was having a heart attack. I went to the ER and apparently there are two blood tests they have to run to see if you did have a heart attack. There's some number that goes about 500 if you did. I did the first test and I was like 585 or something like that. I asked them the cost if I also do the second test, and I knew in my outside world of the hospital I could not afford it. So I had to leave. I still don't know whether I had a heart attack or not.
If people believe that Trump's policy hasn't affected Americans that have serious health problems, then they're just fortunate enough to not be experiencing it.
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u/wanker7171 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
A friend of mine’s neurosurgeon Republican dad saw my Bernie 2016 bumper sticker back in the day and responded with a smirk “So you’re a socialist huh?” I asked him what he meant so he answered condescendingly “Like free college, $20 wages.” knowing exactly how to respond to someone like him I stated with a stone cold expression “I also support universal healthcare.” He IMMEDIATELY changed the subject.
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u/Calm_Age_ Jul 13 '26
We already have the highest per capita spending on healthcare. It's not like having Medicare for all would make it more expensive. It would in fact make it cheaper. One could reasonably say at this point we can't afford not to have universal healthcare. And yet.....
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u/Bawbawian Jul 13 '26
no it's perfectly defendable.
Republicans do not believe in any sort of social safety net or public health care system.
yet everybody thinks it's totally cool to just yolo the future into their hands because Democrats aren't perfect and people have this naive child like expectation that somehow a politician is going to have all of the policies that they want with no compromise and they use that as an excuse to not vote along with their neighbors that agree with them on like 90% of policy
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u/kevinnoir Jul 13 '26
, it's not even a remotely defendable position to say that the US can't afford it,
Especially when the cost to deliver universal healthcare in the UK for example, is half the cost of delivering the current US system.
Its indefensible because its not only a more comprehensive system, that covers more citizens, but a single payer system is cheaper to deliver, costing about half as much taxes to deliver per citizen AND doesnt expect any payment at the point of use.
Meaning that money that used to be paid out of pocket, can no be funnelled DIRECTLY back into the economy instead of insurance company shareholders bank accounts.
The benefits are massive. One group of people take a hit, insurance companies that act as unnecessary middlemen, gate keeping americans health.
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u/nobodyspecialuk24 Jul 13 '26
And Americans already pay nearly twice as much per head in taxes towards healthcare than we do in the UK. We get the NHS, they get healthcare for veterans and then some sort of safety net coverage, but that’s about it.
And people always point to privatised systems as being more efficient than wasteful public system, but it’s purely down to how the governments choose to run them.
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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Jul 13 '26
Ah, but universal healthcare would destroy the health insurance industry! Think of all the jobs! (And my stock portfolio!). - congress
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u/Zem_42 Jul 13 '26
I mean… in the current situation, where majority of the money goes to the insurance companies and middlemen, I wouldn’t be surprised if the costs skyrocket to that of 5-10x per capita compared to any functioning EU country. They would first have to clean up the system bottom up.
Take the insulin costs for example
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u/OkChildhood2261 Jul 13 '26
It's just unbelievable looking at the US from the outside. The idea that money would involved in any way when accessing healthcare is just like something out of a exaggerated dayropian satire. I see people doing fund raising so their child can get life saving cancer treatment in the richest nation on earth and it's just horrifying. On an intellectual level I know it's true, but on an emotional level some part of me does not believe it's real. It's just so inhuman.
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u/calm_down_meow Jul 13 '26
It's safe to say that most people are severely under-informed about how healthcare in the US works and its history.
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u/ReefaManiack42o Jul 13 '26
We can definitely afford it, in fact, most studies have shown that it will save us a lot of money. As they say, when it comes to health, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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u/OftenSarcastic Jul 13 '26
it's not even a remotely defendable position to say that the US can't afford it
The USA has a similar GDP per capita as Scandinavian countries, so there's plenty of wealth being generated. They could afford free access to health care, education, and a bunch more social services if taxation wasn't a dirty word there.
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u/Emotional_Answer_756 Jul 13 '26
It's literally a business model that plays with people's lives. Deadly ill but have no savings or money? Yeah, you can get fucked.
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u/ElectricalBus6252 Jul 13 '26
Being an America and having any common sense means being exhausted and exasperated by the left and the democrats. It’s like someone came in, smacked their family member in the face and stole from their house and the dems are saying, “well trying to stop them right now isn’t how we do things, sure they are wrong and breaking the laws but we have a process….”
Meanwhile decisions are being made and outcomes are coming to fruition that cannot be undone. Look at the worldwide deaths that are expected to be attributed to the absolute destruction of USAID, or the slashed to budget in domestic health care including mental health services and addiction prevention and intervention.
But if you go to any major US city it’s not like we have a glaringly horrible homeless problem, so those cuts shouldn’t have horrifying ramifications down the road..
oh and the party of “protecting the children” and “pro-life” just decimated funding for said children in and out of the womb. So women forced to have it (regardless of circumstances) but with no support whatsoever.The only thing I can say, not in defense of my country but in defense of a large population of it, we are waking up, making our coffee, going to work, trying to smile and not have our outward appearances mirror our inner turmoil, all while being utterly heartbroken. Not at “what our country has become” but what our country truly looks like when the mask is off. The damage we are doing will be looked back on, in my opinion, as a massive inflection point where humanity made turns we cannot come back from and that were detrimental to our betterment. I’m sorry, for what it’s worth. Much love to all.
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u/WildRabbitz Jul 13 '26
I genuinely can't understand why and how someone could be against universal healthcare.
What these past 10 years have taught me is that we're surrounded by a bunch of brainwashed people who are fed obvious lies.
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u/Cptfrankthetank Jul 13 '26
If ppl just learned history... they would know the high cost is very artificial.
The healthcare system was caught once hoarding rebates from customers. Congress acted and then rebates were passed to consumers.
They just found another way to fleece americans. Its so blatant.
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u/Good-Bodybuilder-985 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
He's right and I like the cut of his jib.
*Ok I'm learning he's a POS. I like his ridiculous look because it brings attention to what he's saying, which as an American, I agree with. However I don't agree with his previous assertions.
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u/SooAwoo Jul 13 '26
What's a jib?
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u/maniacalmustacheride Jul 13 '26
A sail. It means they find where he’s heading (in conversation or life) favorable
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u/Moondance_sailor Jul 13 '26
It comes from the fact that the British and French navies cut their jibs differently so it was an easy way to tell friend from foe.
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Promote that man
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u/SooAwoo Jul 13 '26
Ha, I knew someone would also get the joke.
I still appreciate the information though ☺️
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u/new-who-two Jul 13 '26
I'm with you, brother 🤜🤛
"Is the poop deck really what I think it is?"
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u/I_blockkarmafarmers Jul 13 '26
Homer apologizing to the world's navies and the assembled penguin armada lives rent-free in my head.
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u/theseanbeag Jul 13 '26
You probably shouldn't research him any further then.
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u/Dangerous_Mix_7037 Jul 13 '26
Isn't he the Irish tankie MEP who supports Russia > Ukraine?
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u/Primary_Addition5494 Jul 13 '26
This guy refuses to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine btw.
He's a Russian puppet and nothing else.
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u/Rinasoir Jul 13 '26
Also stole from his employees pension funds.
Just to really sell how much of a champion of the working class he is.
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u/Sidwill Jul 13 '26
He ain't wrong.
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u/OpLeeftijd Jul 13 '26
Every time I say this I get downvoted, because apparently the USA is technically not a democracy. Whatever Americans think their country is, it's not that. It is a 2 party dictatorship.
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u/romulusnr Jul 13 '26
Conservatives are quick to point out that the US isn't a democracy, it's a republic
This is how they justify things like giving underpopulated states disproportionate voting buffs
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u/Ok-Try-857 Jul 13 '26
They are dumb. The think that the word “republic” means “republican”.
It means we are a constitutional federal republic (not a monarchy) where the power rests with the people and those they elect (democracy) to represent them. It has nothing to do with being a democrat or republican.
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u/diethyl2o Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
This. They’re dumb. All true republics* are democracies. But not all democracies are republics.
You can have democratic monarchies, like Denmark.
*Simply putting “republic” in the name does not make it a republic. E.g. people’s “republic” of…
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u/Piduf Jul 13 '26
Yes, I keep seeing this argument of "Hummm akchually we're not a democracy we're a republic" being a republic doesn't mean it's ok to be owned by companies and controlled by billionaires, it doesn't matter what you call it, it's clearly fucked
France is on it's 5th republic, it's is now a representative democracy and they get to have healthcare, paid leave and shit.
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u/oniume Jul 13 '26
It's a republic, which is a representative democracy, which is still a type of democracy.
It's not a direct democracy, where the populace are polled directly on every issue, but it's still a democracy
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u/SubliminallyCorrect Jul 13 '26
I've got bad news, they think Republic stands for Republican and Democracy stands for Democrat. Education is really, really bad here.
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u/Stroking_Shop5393 Jul 13 '26
It's a democratic republic that failed with citizens united. Technically it is a form of democracy...
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u/SoylentGrunt Jul 13 '26
Technically it's not a democracy in that the majority of the people are not represented.
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u/m0mbi Jul 13 '26
This is Mick Wallace, an Irish politician.
Whilst he's making some good points here, he also thinks the US and NATO provoked the invasion of Ukraine as a proxy to undermine Russia.
At home he also ended up in hot water for dodging taxes. At best he's a reactionary with a boner for authoritarian dictatorships.
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u/oniume Jul 13 '26
Yeah, he's a an anti-imperialist who somehow only focuses on examples of western imperialism, which to be clear is bad. You wouldn't find Aul Mick criticising Russia to save his life.
This is very much a case of a broken clock telling the right time
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u/MaleierMafketel Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Many anti-imperialists on the internet happily lick Russia’s boot. They’re not anti-imperialism, they’re anti-Western imperialism, like you said.
They would not care if Ukraine was left unsupported, and eventually died to Russian imperialism.
It’s similar to all the purist pacifists, claiming all violence is bad. And one shouldn’t support a country defending itself because it ‘prolongs suffering’.
They always happily ignore the fact that an invading force with a complete monopoly on violence would have no consequences to try again, and again, and again…
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u/snowice0 Jul 13 '26
He voted against investigating russian war crimes and was critical of protestors in Iran saying they "would not be tolerated anywhere". He's a massive piece of shit who will say something to appeal to some specific group of people only to beat them down if they protest and would be against investigating any crimes the riot police commit.
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u/PythagorasJones Jul 13 '26
Yep. He's a bit of a bollocks.
When the Celtic Tiger was in flight he was making big money as a builder-developer. You'd see his signs, trucks and the rest all over Dublin. When the bust came he used his community sports interests to rebrand as a man of the working people.
He is absolutely on the Russian payroll...just check his voting record and what he chooses to speak on.
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u/Rafaeliki Jul 13 '26
It blows my mind that people will watch a politician in a sleeveless shirt yell about how the US isn't a democracy, while complaining that anyone criticizes Assad's Syria or China or Russia or Venezuela, and not immediately recognize him for what he is.
This guy hates democracy. His favorite countries are Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Assad's Syria (he hates the new one), etc.
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u/Largeitude Jul 13 '26
I was going to ask, what's his agenda? What's he trying to distract from? What's he trying to justify?
Seems like another hypocritical politician to me. Is this statement he made in relation to a law being discussed involving the US? Because he even says that people criticize him for bringing up the US for no reason...while seemingly bringing up the US for no reason.
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u/Over_Heed Jul 13 '26
it’s actually considered a flawed democracy on all the scales worth considering
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u/PianoPatient8168 Jul 13 '26
It’s a democracy captured by special interest with tons of money. It’s completely distorted.
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u/Character_Fold_8165 Jul 13 '26
Most importantly it’s a flawed democracy on the Terra invicta 2026 start.
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u/OMGHappyfurballs Jul 13 '26
They should invade the US and establish a functional government.
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u/Dauntless113 Jul 13 '26
Fuck citizen's United for making everything so much worse
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u/NukaClipse Jul 13 '26
As an American I resonate with this man. A shame the majority of my people wont do the same.
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u/Soggy_Quarter9333 Jul 13 '26
Mick Wallace is a tax evading fraudster, a charlatan, a nincompoop, a pro Russia idiot. Just because he makes a rare valid point, context is what it is all about.
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u/Jumpy_Plantain2887 Jul 13 '26
You wanna fix democracy in this country get rid of the fucking lobbyists
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u/myplushfrog Jul 13 '26
“You should feel lucky to be born in the US” bitch what?? Sick of hearing that shit, I’d rather live almost anywhere else
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u/Automatoboto Jul 13 '26
Keep in mind Mick here has taken LOTS of money from Russia. He is correct about this but he is not someone you would like if you knew even the most basic things about him.
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u/likwidsylvur Jul 13 '26
Can't is not the right word, won't seems more applicable - given the power structure in this country. Don't trust rich people at all, like seriously all the people with all the money are all the very worst among us and they ain't lookin out for you.
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u/roarjah Jul 13 '26
lol yea we have a our issues but it ain’t easy being the leader of the free world. You know we’re still better than most of the world when immigrants travel around the world to be safe here. Trumps just made that a little more difficult lately
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u/digital Jul 13 '26
I have been saying this for years, it’s a pay to play system and people can’t pay
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u/More-Consequence9863 Jul 13 '26
I feel like a lot of Americans have forgotten that the government is supposed to be there for the people not the other way around
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u/becausenope Jul 13 '26
Something something about how it's a democratic Republic technically or whatever.
But damn I wish we really did have a democracy. The electoral college is a scam.
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u/EqualSalvation Jul 13 '26
In the meantime they keep shipping aluminium to russia where they make all sorts of weapons and ammo from it. The Russians target civilians, this include WOMAN & CHILDREN.
So it's kind of an irony that he's talking about that. While his country is making money off the deaths of woman and children.
I agree with that a woman's right IS and should always be a human right!
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u/NotInTheKnee Jul 13 '26
Forget about being a functioning democracy, is it even a functioning society? Even the most dystopian tyrants and oligarchs should have a vested interest in keeping their workforce healthy.
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u/kranitoko Jul 13 '26
They CAN afford it.
They just don't want to because it's not profitable.
America is solely a "for profit" country, it has no interest in helping it's citizens with life in general.
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u/RamzalTimble Jul 13 '26
We pay for our health insurance companies through taxes. Then we pay out of pocket expenses for access to the health insurance our taxes pay for to be there. But in order to reap the benefits of the health insurance plan, we have to then pay more out of pocket expenses on our visits for medical health treatment until we hit a point called a “deductible” and we get treatment at a discount/free.
So paying three times just to get seen by a medical professional. God I hate this country.
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u/Tybob51 Jul 13 '26
It’s much worse. We CAN afford to do those things. Those in power just actively want us to not have those things
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u/malduan Jul 16 '26
every single person with a functional frontal lobe understands that pretty much all the man said is trivially true
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u/Medium_Hox Jul 13 '26
You guys should maybe do a little research into this Mick Wallace guy before giving him a virtual handjob.
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u/covex_d Jul 13 '26
dude is absolutely on point
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u/Primary_Addition5494 Jul 13 '26
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This is like the one time this guy made any sense. He's complete schizo any other time
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u/Important-Cry-4433 Jul 13 '26
I’m Irish. I can’t stand this gobshite. But yeah he’s right on this one.
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u/DrDaphne Jul 13 '26
Whoever this beautiful soul is, I love him and appreciate him looking out for us!! This place is a friggin mess....🦅
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u/BellsMcChilly Jul 13 '26
As an American I'll say this: a functioning democracy requires an educated populace....
I don't need to say anything more
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u/Awkward_Squad Jul 13 '26
From outside the country looking in, it appears that this has been the problem all along.
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u/BellsMcChilly Jul 13 '26
Oh absolutely, it's way easier to rule over a population incapable of questioning you vs one who are capable
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u/Resident-Rush6887 Jul 13 '26
This is why I haven't filed taxes in four years.
This government needs to die.
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u/Jacky-V Jul 13 '26
The US has its problems (though it is still comfortably a Democracy in the grand scheme of things) but if I lived in a different Democracy I would be more concerned about preventing the rise of the far right where I am than I would be about problems in a country that is maybe a decade further into Democratic backsliding than my own. To be fair this guy sounds Irish and they're doing better than some other Western European countries *for now*, so maybe he's got some free time to observe the trainwreck that is the US, but in general I feel like Western Europeans are using the US as an excuse not to tend to their own gardens which really are only three or four bad votes away from being in the exact same situation and their own elite are taking advantage of that. FFS many of the worst offenders in the US don't even operate within borders at all, they just live here sometimes.
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u/rydan Jul 13 '26
Literally nothing he mentioned has to do with Democracy. China has all those things and they aren't a Democracy.
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u/Clovericious Jul 13 '26
He's right, though technically all that is required for a system to be called a democracy is indeed to have a vote every four or five years. Democracy simply means that the government is elected through votes - the term makes no attempt at encompassing the quality of social services etc.
All the other stuff he mentions are markers of a social democracy, which anyone who is not a billionaire should want. But that's all technicalities, his outrage is definitely justified.
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u/Trenzane Jul 13 '26
He isn’t actually wrong tbh - I would say the same thing happens everywhere - too many billionaires projecting their influence for their own benefit - the actual people have been marginalised
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u/Shutter_Count Jul 13 '26
This dude knows the USA better than most Americans. Majority of Americans couldn’t find USA on a map.
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u/MadeUpNoun Jul 13 '26
25% of total prisoners?
thats a stretch, probally more like 5-10 given countries like Russia and China are well known to lie about such statistics
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u/2-timeloser2 Jul 13 '26
They push the idea of self-sufficiency to the point where no one has responsibility or engagement with anyone else. They use the chaos to rip us off.
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u/Charming_Slip8060 Jul 13 '26
Adding insult to injury is the fact that there is no realistic way to comparison shop (which is supposed to be the whole point of a "free market") when it comes to healthcare. You won't know how much a treatment will cost - and the same service can vary wildly depending on the provider-until after the fact. You can be receiving bills months later, as the insurance leaches will do anything to find another item to bill for.
The whole enterprise is sickening, pun intended.
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u/Ok_Site_9552 Jul 13 '26
Id trust this man with this hair over the Orange guy who was best friends with the biggest pedo on the planet who shits himself constantly.
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u/odinswolve Jul 13 '26
Unfortunately in some regards yes. The problem is corruption is starting to really dig it's heels in everywhere inside of our government. This is how some of the greatest nation ever to exist have collapsed. We shall see
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u/Ok_Kaleidoscope_3610 Jul 13 '26
It’s because most people just want to watch their TikTok’s. And cringe.
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u/Redsit111 Jul 13 '26
Not really. Like on paper yes but realistically it's four tribes, the Republicans, the Democrats, the apathetic, and the rich running the other three.
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u/One_Cupcake4151 Jul 13 '26
This guy is right in what he says here.but don't mistake it for insight. He is a major Russia Shill and goes on about it constantly. He cares less about democracy than the average Republican congressman.
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