Sabres2Sabres wrote:
It can get pretty disgusting with some people. Here's one from my Facebook that I completely disagree with:
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I would also like to say that I am proud not a single republican senator voted for the bill
This is what's wrong with our political system today. As a moderate, I would be proud that 33 Democrats voted against the bill, but not proud that no Republicans voted for the bill. But that's not any props to the Democrats either. It just shows how congresspeople vote only along party lines and don't actually formulate their own opinions on the matter nor listen to the opinions of their constituents.
But I suppose that's talk better for the Politics forum.
I disagree with most things that have been said on my feed, so I'm not even going to bother.

The tamest one was:
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Social justice mindset: my life will be better when others' lives are better <3
which was a nice, subtle way of showing support for what went down, though I'd like to know all the assumptions and presuppositions she has that go into that statement; I am sure that they are not that kind to people who do not fit one specific definition of "others." At least with the more outraged/jubilant ones, it's obvious hahaha. On one side, you have people threatening to move to Europe... which has universal healthcare in most, if not all, of its nations (though, to be fair, it does operate much more smoothly than ours would, due to the much smaller size of the nations in question and to their mostly socialist economies)... Um. On the other, you have people who have never bothered to think of consequences or the fact that this is making the lives of many worse, in the form of causing them to be unemployed, or causing them to go from being full-time to part-time without a choice in the matter, and in causing entire local economies to die, which will have a radiating affect on everyone else in an already poor economy with widespread unemployment. Edit: I feel like I didn't criticize the OMG THE END OF THE WORLD folks enough, so I'm leaving acknowledgment of that here. I don't agree them by any means, either. The healthcare system isn't the greatest, and yeah, the economy and unemployment rate will eventually adjust and right themselves, more likely than not... Everything sucks worldwide right now, though. As of this week a Euro is only $0.77 American. It's somewhat impossible to predict what will happen, because it's on such a wide scale... Anyway.
As far as American politics goes, let's just say that the entire system sucks and leave it at that. I'm never voting in anything more substantial than basic local elections because my vote will not exactly... matter. Maybe someday I will move to a swing state so it will matter in presidential elections, but then my vote will just be "wasted" on a third party candidate, anyway, more likely than not. Oh well.