psvrh

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

Yes, but they get there "backwards".

It's not like they believe healthcare is inherently demotivating, it's that they're already Red Team members, and "Healthcare and welfare breed moochers" is a Red Team belief, and since they're good Red Team members, they synthesize it into their belief system--despite the fact functionally no one rips off the healthcare system because, frankly, you have to have some kind of pathology to visit a doctor enough for fraud to be an issue.

I mean "Oh noes, they're ripping off the healthcare systems by.. (checks notes) ..getting antibiotics for their earache!!" is not a thing. Ever.

Everyone, even in countries with socialized medicine, avoids interactions with the healthcare system until they need to. I mean, do you you really want to recreationally get your throat swabbed? I'm sure there's four people on this planet of nine billion who get off on that, but that's it.

Now, rich people, they come to this believe authentically. They hate public healthcare because a) they have to pay for it, and b) it's one less piece of leverage they have to keep people shackled to work. But make no mistake, they also suffer from the delusion, above.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

It's not that the FCC doesn't regulate cable, it's that cable doesn't have broadcast licenses. No spectrum license to revoke.

The path to regulating a cable TV channel is not a straightforward one in the US. If it was, cable news a la Fox would have been in the crosshairs devades ago.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Voted 99-0 in the Senate.

Good job, Democrats. We know Republicans were pieces of shit, but the reason Democrats' polling is in the toilet is because of stuff like this.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but only because "CBS" doesn't have a broadcast license, stations do.

Also, cable TV doesn't use "broadcast licenses", and IPTV & streaming certainly don't.

A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 40 points 8 months ago

Wow, they're really adding value and innovation and creating jobs...

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why are they protesting Israel? Why is that, Mr Newspaper?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Yup. Decisively

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You who could fight, though?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

New foreign policy directive: Waaaaaaaaugh!!!

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 months ago

Just reminding everyone that Lutke is a right-wing shitheel, and that he and Shopify explicitly platform, support and make money from Nazism.

Carry on.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

Next question: should they ban Facebook? Also yes.

Twitter? Yes, certainly.

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