• mind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People end up on the street because they reported something at their company, or turned down the advances of their boss.

    All medical care is tied to employers most of the time, so if you don’t obey that means losing access to medicine. Sometimes medicine necessary to live or function normally.

    • TheLurker@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The world is bigger than the USA. Most western capitalist democracies do not have medical care or insurance tied to employment.

      And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case. So don’t try and paint it like this is an every day occurrence you disingenuous extremist.

        • TheLurker@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yeah more sensationalist unsubstantiated tankie bullshit. Good little tankie drone.

          You lot live in a fucking fantasy world. You would run a mile if you ever had to live in one of your “socialist paradise” tankie regimes.

          Here is an idea. You could move to one of them if the west is so bad. Oh no that’s right, you lot just like to cry “west of bad” while idolising countries with a laundry list of genocides, atrocities and human rights abuses from the comfort of your western democratic basements.

            • TheLurker@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Don’t try to backtrack and play the victim card.

              Your position is as transparent as glass. It boils down to being apologetic to authoritarianism regimes, and dismissing their despicable actions, while over exaggerating the problems of western democracies in order to paint them as the “bad guys”.

              It’s nothing new and not as subtle as you think.

                • Urist@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  Hey, just want to commend you for being so nice to that disingenuous commenter above. Thanks for making Lemmy a nice place to be :)

      • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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        And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case.

        It’s really not. See Portland, Oregon. It’s pretty much over run with homeless people at this point.