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It also restricts all forms of gender affirming care, including medication, from being funded by Medicare. 150,000 trans folk will soon be forcibly detransitioned, and for many, it is literally lifelong required medication because of past surgeries.

It's controlling, cruel and needless. But thats what conservatives want so here we are.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 171 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.

And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.

All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.

This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what I call "what America literally voted for".

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 40 points 1 week ago (16 children)

*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 week ago (17 children)

That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I'm not into politics. It doesn't impact my life."

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The fptp voting system and gerrymandering did a lot of heavy lifting.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I said this a million times last year on the leftist threads to people crying about the lesser evil. I don't wish any pain on their lives but I also don't know how to get through their thick skulls how real life can get unless they experience it from time to time.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (177 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.

"Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Cutting benefits for the poorest.

Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 week ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Gonna be honest with you.

Americans don't have the balls.

Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

We all do the problem is everyone is doing their own things. There is no online community server to unite everyone to do together and collaborate yet

If one was made on Revolt, & another on Matrix then getting people in to do, inform, discuss, work together, & more then we can all make HUGE progress in a day. And then from every day onward

Many people are up for this, and efforts are being done to get it started but we need more people focused on doing it together

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago

Whatever they're told to think.

[–] Starbelliedboy@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago
[–] tartarin@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make America Great Again, they never said for whom.

While this administration justified its urgency for punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to a fentanyl crisis taking life of thousands of good Americans, the same administration is about to take life of hundreds of thousands of good Americans itself to make billionaires wealthier.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 30 points 1 week ago

"I didn't vote for this!" - Every dumbass that voted for this.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 week ago

As others have pointed out, this is social murder.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.

And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Food and health. Wow

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