We could afford them easily if we rolled back tax cuts from the 80s forward just like health care, public education, infrastructure, and all the other things government is supposed to provide.
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Just .. fuck reagan.
The worst thing about Reagan is he was so shitty modern neoliberalism got shoved down our throats because "what are you gonna do vote Republican?"
Like imagine if you were one of the only two restaurants in town and the other started exclusively serving turd sandwiches. The quality of food no longer matters for you, but since half the town now swears they love turd sandwiches, eventually you offer a turd and baloney sandwich. Because it's cheaper than serving more than one thing, and your only competition is plain shit, that's all you offer.
But it's not what the turd eaters want because it's not all turd, and now everyone in town is forced to eat a little bit of shit or a lot of shit.
And asking for them to hold the turd for your order just makes them scream at you that you're a turd lover for some reason.
Reagan and more importantly the response to Reagan is what started the Overton window moving drastically to the right
I mean, the reason neoliberalism got shoved down our throats is because people chose something other than voting republican or democrat.
Sure, we get some real stinkers with little choice, but if people showed up more than once every four years, shit might actually start getting better. That's the fun thing about voting for local and state elections, they still have a huge impact on national politics, if just because they're typically the ones controlling voting locations and other means of disenfranchising voters.
He's been dead a long time. Not sure how long the embalmed body would stay together for that. 🤔
ETA: looks like it's too* late.
*2nd edit for autocorrect
Gotta get that body count up so they can fill more "nobody wants to work [low paying, soul-crushing] jobs.
Oh great, I guess I’m getting Covid this year
Not how vaccines work, they lower the chance of extreme symptoms and increase survival chances. They don't prevent catching the illness.
While it’s not a 100% guarantee of prevention, they absolutely can help prevent infection by significantly boosting immunity. Even previous boosters can help prevent future variants:
True! I was more or less being lazy and keeping it simple.
No, you were just wrong and being a dick about it
They can also greatly lower the chance of catching the disease in the first place by increasing immunity, so it seems like I’m not the one who needs a lecture about how the vaccines work.
Unless someone asks you, keep your fallacious medical advice to yourself.
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😬 Same.