Posts by antiproton@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APqMjY3I49p2hWUPzc by antiproton@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T23:24:57Z
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@drhafezster I've literally walked right up to that butte when I was a kid. I think that's one of the mittens.
(DIR) Post #AYXMi1EcOfDkLkhj9s by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T01:07:02Z
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@Npars01 @bobjmsn Oh that is so true. I get little documents in the mail all the time trying to offer me money to buy my house. Like they would do anything to buy my house and turn it into another rental. That's already happened to like a third of the houses in my neighborhood since I moved in.I couldn't even afford my house now. It's like doubled in value due to all this crap. How can people afford them now? They can't 😥
(DIR) Post #AYXMi2reL22JP5yPdQ by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T14:53:13Z
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@Npars01 @bobjmsn Oh there are a million problems.In my neighborhood, it now costs over two times my mortgage to rent one of these houses. That means my neighbors are paying twice what I'm paying and I'm owning a house and they're not. That is an incredible amount of inequality.I just am shocked by how we've let this happen, and it's happening continuously and nobody's doing anything really to stop it
(DIR) Post #AYXMi4K2uwLRvSGbXE by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-04T21:52:14Z
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@PabloMartini @Npars01 @bobjmsn oh, I mean yeah I guess. I've certainly paid enough lol I just think it should be easier for others to get the same thing. And I'm sick of hearing about people who own hundreds of houses and charge exorbitant fees. They're just sucking people dry
(DIR) Post #AYXMi5jxe4fWK7OoZE by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T04:31:25Z
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@PabloMartini @Npars01 @bobjmsn yeah, the conservatives definitely messed up UK. I mean they kind of do that everywhere though. They go around telling everybody to be afraid and that they have the cure, they get elected, and then they barbecue everything. Happened over here too many times
(DIR) Post #AYXMi76KaO9mXmsC4e by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T14:47:10Z
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@bobjmsn @PabloMartini @Npars01 That may be the case in UK, but in the United States, conservative does not equal libertarian. A libertarian usually just wants maximal freedoms. We do have a libertarian party but they are right-leaning liberal, whereas most of the socialism crowd in the US is left-leaning liberal. But I'm operating more off of the political science terms than their instantiations and politics which could be incorrect
(DIR) Post #AYXMi93ZJd8Sbnb12u by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T18:34:47Z
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@Npars01 @bobjmsn @PabloMartini most of the progressive lefties in the US with technically categorize as left libertarian, but it's important to distinguish the political science term from the movement, libertarianism, or classical liberalism. Both of those are conservative and right-leaning. They can be fascist, but the primitive, analytical definition of libertarian is quite literally antitheses of fascism. It gets so damn murky because of the terminology 😵💫
(DIR) Post #AYXMi9koipjKlvpYSO by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T18:36:54Z
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@Npars01 @bobjmsn @PabloMartini So that's why I am not a fan of the United States libertarian party, classical liberals, or anything like that. Because they are really right-wing libertarian whereas I am left-wing libertarian. And you're correct that a lot of them honestly aren't really libertarian so much as fascists who want only personal libertarianismBut of course this gets into the confus ion synthetic knowledge lol It's murky when terms start floatung around lol
(DIR) Post #AYXMiBIsxeZlZsmHCK by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T18:52:32Z
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@bobjmsn @Npars01 @PabloMartini well I don't think I would be fully qualified to explain it all to you as that's not my field of expertise and some of the things I say may not be entirely precise although I think they are lolI bet your biggest fun fact is that blue is kind of the left and red is kind of the right, which I think is opposite where you are. Except that our blue is actually more centrist in our red is far right actually lolA lot of it boils down again into definitions
(DIR) Post #AYXMiCmhSI1EAdjbJA by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T19:23:01Z
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@bobjmsn @Npars01 @PabloMartini lol yeppersJust like how "anyone" has "access" to healthcare, but that doesn't mean they can afford it. I hace spent maybe $2000 this year on medical stuff and paid maybe 4000-5000 in insurance (mu employer has paid WAY more on my behalf.The USA is the Ferengi from DS9, incarnate lol
(DIR) Post #AYXMiEPjOepnDz0Hmi by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T00:40:58Z
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@ipd @bobjmsn @Npars01 @PabloMartini lol not so sure about that, but I cannot deny that you might be right lol
(DIR) Post #AYXMiFfiihDb7rUZLU by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T17:13:56Z
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@ipd @bobjmsn @Npars01 @PabloMartini yeah, that's definitely true. I lost everything once due to medical stuff. Took me a long time to get my finances restored. And I've almost died from American medical care. So I always laugh when people claim it's the best in the world lol
(DIR) Post #AYXMiHDmxW41voRI5Q by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T18:40:49Z
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@bobjmsn @ipd @Npars01 @PabloMartini Oh I love Scotland! I've been there many times and It's where much of my family comes from a million years ago. I went through the hospital in London when I was much younger, and it was much better than the US. And completely free. I heard it's going downhill 😥And what they do to transgender people is absolutely appalling. Making them wait for years for no reason. England is screwed up (So is my country)
(DIR) Post #AYXMiJ5i0WmzjKfrlo by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T19:52:39Z
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@bobjmsn @ipd @Npars01 @PabloMartini I just can't believe they would give up something so wonderful as free healthcare. Like, some of the people voting for that should come to America and experience the paid for version. It's absolute nightmare. Like you literally die because your insurance company won't pay.Had to quit my therapist because I just can't afford hundreds of dollars a month. My insurance barely covers any of it.
(DIR) Post #AYXMiKlZmLsCvTGofQ by antiproton@mastodon.social
2023-08-07T07:13:54Z
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@TomSwirly @bobjmsn @ipd @Npars01 @PabloMartini yeah that's how it goes, sadly. Another annoying thing is that you going to a hospital, and they can't give you any upfront idea how much anything is going to be. It's just going to be whatever it is.I had to do a bankruptcy over medical debt. Can you imagine how absurd that is? I had so much medical debt that I would have never have been able to pay it off. It was just bonkers