• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    That number keeps getting thrown around but this admin dgaf. That number only works when the admin believes in human rights and when the admin cares about it’s popularity.

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      2 hours ago

      Would you say that Ferdinand Marcos believed in human rights and did not care for his popularity?

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      11 hours ago

      Turns out someone who looks like Luigi but is definitely not Luigi proved it takes only one death certificate to initiate change for scores of people

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        11 hours ago

        But nothing changed… Can you show a change in healthcare since? have acceptance rates gone up? premiums gone down?

        Nothing changed.

        Edit: Bunch of downvotes… but nobody can tell me anything that’s changed… interesting isn’t it?

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          Several health insurers reversed some of their latest shitty policies within days of the event. Like the one that would put a time limit in the anesthesia they’d pay for. That’s an immediate course change from hundred billion dollar companies.

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          9 hours ago

          Apart from all the claims that were suddenly approved or execs of other companies suddenly removing all personal info from websites?

          Fear. Nothing meaningful will change until the rich fear for their lives, and we saw just how much they’re scrambling after 1 CEO.

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            1 hour ago

            Apart from all the claims that were suddenly approved

            Source this please… To date, I still see United Healthcare at dead bottom. And rate fluctuating only nominally over the past 12 months.

            execs of other companies suddenly removing all personal info from websites?

            If you’re counting this as a meaningful change to healthcare… Then I guess you found one that I can’t contest. Congrats!

            Fear. Nothing meaningful will change until the rich fear for their lives, and we saw just how much they’re scrambling after 1 CEO.

            No, this is my point. Even with “fear” nothing changed.

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      18 hours ago

      It only works when you are near an election, and the election are coming. This administration is working on a different path: at least one year before the next election and is actively working to make sure (fair) elections might not happen anymore

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        2 hours ago

        The cited scenarios were rarely democratic in nature.

        Of course, in all the scenarios cited, there was no one telling them “get to 3.5% and things will happen”, so with everyone saying “if we get to 3.5%, things will happen”, that could itself break the “rule”, as a sort of self-denying prophecy.