Text: When the current situation is broken and one party is determined to break it further, the answer is not to be the party of “We Want Things to Be Broken Somewhat Less.” The answer is to be the party that wants to fucking fix it. Radicalism is only sensible, because lesser measures are not going to fix the underlying state of affairs.
“Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror” by Freddie DeBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-health...
Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror
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if they are in the business of telling you what you like to hear, they are in the business of lying to you.
one way to understand the recent election is as a contest between reformists and accelerationists. that ticking sound we hear is the chain dragging our roller coaster car, upward, upward. Tick tick tick.
people complain that the English language is overly complicated and fussy. we have some great news! we're finally eliminating the confusion distinction between grift and graft.
a strange irony these times are revealing is theres no group weaker, more conformist, ultimately more pathetic, than the "rich and powerful".
they suborn the institutions then prove themselves right about the low quality of the institutions.
i don’t want to be a writer. it’s just there are things i want to say.
all of my castles are dust.
single-payer will fix it.
republicans are the party of grift. democrats are the party of a nice sinecure.
“numbers do not adequately capture the sense of intensifying lawlessness that seems to have pervaded the health care system.”
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it isn’t true until there’s a denial.
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they’ll want us all to cheer a “great economy” while it kills us with impunity. but check out those GDP numbers!
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the new york times is just vogue for mids.
we can have *wild* fintech, or we can have bitcoin. that’s the choice they are looking to set up. not your keys, not your coins, elderly person.
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move fast and break other people.
i'm so glad this community will have more political influence and less regulation, in order to innovate even more aggressively. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s... via @ernie.tedium.co
'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
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without comment. www.wfla.com/news/polk-co...
Lakeland woman threatens insurance company, says ‘Delay, Deny, Depose’: police
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