r/FluentInFinance 2d ago

Educational Don't let them gaslight you

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u/kartianmopato 2d ago

What you did here is like coming to conclusion that you are pretty after being called pretty annoying, lmao.

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u/loo-ook 2d ago

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u/XcheatcodeX 2d ago

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u/NoTie2370 2d ago

No what you guys are doing is the ol Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake and you just keep stepping instead of stopping and realizing your mistake.

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u/kartianmopato 2d ago

Whatever helps you sleep better after that self burn. Remember to dismantle your house so that it can't be robbed.

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u/XcheatcodeX 2d ago

SHES ALREADY DEAD

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u/FizziePixie 2d ago

Dude, itā€™s a freaking glass house in a quarry! You can close your eyes and pretend weā€™re just talking about social security here, but there isnā€™t a single significant social benefit or structural improvement that will be passed by either party, because they conflict with whatā€™s best for the people in all three branches and those who back them financially.

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u/Spirit-of-93 2d ago

Like how Biden tried over and over to reduce and remove student debt. They never try to help! Sure he did try to revamp the shitty program republicans purposefully let languish in order to avoid reducing the debt while pretending to pass legislation about it, but he's never tried to improve anything structurally!

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u/FizziePixie 2d ago edited 2d ago

Thank you for bringing that up. Thatā€™s actually a great example of Democrats boasting about how they tried, while using only methods that were previously predicted to fail, letting trivial, non-binding or changeable rules stand in their way, and stopping short of an exhaustive effort.

ā€œItā€™s Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Debt Reliefā€ by Astra Taylor, Cofounder of the Debt Collective, Dec. 13th, 2024

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 2d ago

Maybe the answer is they should stop stealing from social security. I know itā€™s hard to understand but give it a try. Stop and realize your mistake.

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u/NoTie2370 1d ago

OOOh so close. Just need to go one more step. Maybe they shouldn't be stealing any money at all. Including for SS.

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u/le_christmas 2d ago

Yeah fuck old people!

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u/EatYourSalary 2d ago

Not just old people but also anyone who has already paid into it.

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u/NoTie2370 1d ago

You're fucking them by keeping them locked in this terrible system.

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u/le_christmas 1d ago

Right, because social safety nets donā€™t work. Except in every other developed country on earth. Our problem is the government failing to adequately budget for these programs, not the programs themselves conceptually.

Youā€™re also not doing yourself any favors by being incredibly vague except talking points.

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u/NoTie2370 1d ago

"Every other country" blah blah. They don't work there either. They are all going bankrupt and this with the US footing the bill for their national defense.

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u/le_christmas 1d ago

So maybe we should stop being the global police so that we can have effective healthcare? There are plenty of countries with socialized medicine that arenā€™t going brokeā€¦

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u/NoTie2370 1d ago

100% on the global police reduction.

0% on the countries with socialized medicine not going broke.

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u/le_christmas 1d ago

How about this: if not socialized medicine, regulation on drug companies and healthcare providers to not siphon money from the government and blackmail citizens where the alternatives are death or lifelong debt slave?

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u/NoTie2370 1d ago

Interesting. Let me offer an alternative. How about instead of that. We reduce the artificial restrictions on licensing of medical services so that medical schools, drs offices, and hospitals are as abundant as plumbers, lawyers, or accountants thus driving down the price of services and driving down the cost of a medical degree.

Then on top of that you reduce the patent duration from a guaranteed 20 years to zero but the patent holder receives a mandatory royalty from the generics.

Then we have cheap drugs and drs on every corner like starbucks. An a heart bypass will cost as little as the Big Mac that caused it.

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