• BeanBoy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      A lib I was talking to after a few pints handwaved that fact away saying “yeah yeah yeah that’s just because they have universal healthcare”

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    1 year ago

    Reminds me how the U.S created a war in Syria which inturn flooded Europe with refuges who will be a burden on social services just to say, “see socialism doesn’t work”

  • raven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This exists on the micro scale too. Go to a DMV in a shit hole state, it’s a literal trailer home with a few dozen folding chairs in the “lobby” wait times of like 2 hours. Three completely checked out guys with no chairs and no AC seemingly for the sole purpose of maximizing their shitty attitudes. Have to schedule a driving test a week ahead. “Oh you don’t have three pieces of ID and a bill to your address? Sorry, no can do.”

    “You think government can do anything right? You should go to the DMV then” debate-me-debate-me

    Go do the DMV in middle-of-nowhere Minnesota with an expired passport, they don’t even bother to look at it, find me on the computer, license renewed in <15 minutes with like six people ahead of me, only one woman working the desk.