Here’s some perspective.
Americans:
•Cancel student debt!
•Cancel medical debt!
•Make insulin free!
Most of Developed World:
•What is student debt?
•What is medical debt?
•Insulin is already free!
What GOP calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”
@QasimRashid Unfortunately as the UK government is attempting to demonstrate, these rights are *never* safe even once obtained.
We have to stick up for them.
@QasimRashid
Currently, Americans have a choice between a center-right party and an ultra-right-wing fascist party.
It’s time to move America center.
@bigheadtales @QasimRashid I've voted Democrat for 50+ years and what was radical left when I was 18 is now "center-right"?
If Hillary hadn't been trashed like this, we'd be far ahead in the goals we worked 60 yrs. to achieve.
Instead we have a medieval SCOTUS, lost hope of our last chance to keep Earth habitable, lost voting, women's, and equal rights, and it can get worse.
Because it was worse. And "far right" has laid their plans for 50 years to make it worse again.
@EarthOne @bigheadtales @QasimRashid I think you got that backwards. Things that would have been center-right when you were 18 (government spending to keep housing, education and healthcare affordable) are now considered "radical leftist" policies.
90% of what kids these days want are the strong social programs of the Post-War Boom but not systematically denied to minority groups this time around.
@EarthOne @QasimRashid
Don’t misunderstand, I’m a Democratic supporter.
But what I’m saying is that anywhere else in the world, the American Democratic Party, at least based on their actions, would be considered center-right. That’s how far right the Republicans have dragged the country.
That said, if we want change, we need to vote Democratic, every race, every election, from POTUS to dog catcher.
@bigheadtales @EarthOne @QasimRashid
#BlueMAGA strukes again.
##Vote3rdParty
I agree with Harry Belafonte (Rest In Power)
@EarthOne @bigheadtales @QasimRashid
The DNC is much more of a right wing tool than when I first voted in 1972.
There is only 1 real solution.
Withdraw support.
Vote 3rd Party.
@PensiveTM
I would love to hear your plan for elevating a third (or more) party.
I’m all for multiple parties, but I don’t see a viable to get there save for a massive collapse within one party or a long term, planned, supported, funded generational effort.
@PensiveTM Sure, in local culture or possibly state races, or in Congress.
If you can build to having enough seats for a swing vote, a third party could take hold. But I’ve not seen anything remotely of that scale in my lifetime (in the US).
Right now, third parties in the POTUS race just siphon off votes on the left, ceding ground to the fascist right.
But local and state is a good start.
decades of open repression will do that
@QasimRashid
I see you're point, but it's increasingly common for European's to have student debt.
Obviously it would be a better world if it wasn't the case.
my remarked was based on my experience in France and the UK, I assumed that they where fairly representative, but after a little more research it seems I'm wrong. Tuitions fees are either small or non-existent in a lot of Europe.
(The situation is complicated in France, public University fees are minimal but most of the prestigious instructions are private and do charge big fees)
@robertpi @QasimRashid nationalised healthcare is still to some extent a "sacred cow", although even this is threatened by privatisation and outsourcing.
Student debt has also vastly increased in Europe (as grants have been scaled back), just in the last 30 years - nothing can be taken for granted..
@QasimRashid Ways to fix this:
Option 1: reform elections (i.e., fix gerrymandering and campaign funding) to create a meaningful democracy
Option 2: reform the US ruling class to stop being greedy, amoral, warmongers
Put in these terms, voting Democrat seems like a half-hearted option 2
@QasimRashid You are, Most Unfortunately, Correct, in your Assertions, here:
*Student Debt must be Cancelled, perhaps for Excellence in Performance!
*Medical Debt must become ERASED, perhaps bc the #1 Country, on Planet Earth, to Source That Stuff, DEEMS IT SO!
*Free Insulin must be made available,
Bc {SEE ABOVE.}
SOCIALISM: "Public Expenditure, for the GOOD OF ALL!"
why not?
@QasimRashid GOP billionaires, born not on "third base" but in the Sky Box, come from inherited money & power made through corporate deals, signed in obscurity with kickbacks run thru laundromats; lots of pork barrel add-ons to US Bills. GOVT. CONTRACTS: from railroads to highways to oil/gas to insurance to war; all paid for by US taxpayers accused of being leeches.
All these billionaires do is scheme how to gaslight us.
THAT'S why they're attacking LGPTQ+ people now: another election grift.
@QasimRashid in The Netherlands, every student got financial support until graduation. If you got a state-sponsored student-loan, you did not have to pay it back until two years after graduation, and the interest-rate was low.
I think the system is still in place.
"Humane health care is achieved when the rich and the poor receive the same treatment."
SearingTruth
The most egregious example is #KochNetwork calling themselves "anti-Communist" for nearly a century when it's really a disguise for being anti-union.
Their corrupt Supreme Court even allows companies to sue unions for striking.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-concrete-company-union-damages-dispute-rcna77242
Their pet Nikki Haley even pats herself on the back for attacking unionism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nikki-haley-unions-gop-2024/tnamp/
In a world built by Republican billionaire donors, workers are serfs and perhaps even slaves.
https://popular.info/p/deregulating-child-labor
@QasimRashid Student debt is everywhere, yes in the developed world. Here in The Netherlands, a rich country, too. Medical debt can be a problem here too. We do have health-insurance for everybody, it’s obliged, but not everybody can pay for it. And when they do, some people don’t visit a doctor because of a big part you have to pay yourself for.
Did you research this before tooting? Or is it just a ‘funny’ thing you made up? Which (most) countries don’t have student debt fe?
@QasimRashid Developed World?
Dude, I'm in Indonesia and I have my dental (removal and tartar/calculus/whatever it's called) covered by national insurance.
My mom got chemo from the same national insurance.
Half of our national universities students are free, the other half gets reasonable tuition (unless you went somewhere private and real prestigious).
The US is just insane. We may not have all our shit figured out, but I think we did okay in the areas that matters, all things considered.
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