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The Myth of Cuban Health Care

Bernie Convinces Republicans He’s Right

cloudballoon says...

Rich people do pay their fair share. Its called Lobbying, in return, they pay a fraction of the tax RATE (as a %) of us working-class pay.

These rich people are so poor, they go to the governments to gain tax exemptions for variety of things like land, building, power to build their HQ/factory or what have you to subsidize their billions & trillions.

MI Senator tells the truth in the face of a hateful lie

cloudballoon says...

Brain so fried bob doesn't remember which party of debauchery the Cawthorn, Gaetz and their cabal of sexual deviants belong to.

Or is bob just can't accept the level of Republican's hypocrisy?

Republicans are so ill to even dream up all those sickening, baseless accusations, one have to imagine what goes through their head all day. Like, that's Psycho & Sociopath level of mental. Seek help. Please.

bobknight33 said:

She belongs to the party of debauchery.

Big difference between hate and truth.

Too many straw man arguments .

Jury Finds Kim Potter Guilty Of Manslaughter

cloudballoon says...

Only in America: where cops in general have far less regards for human life and its "patriots" consider as normal & just, while throwing more public money at them without questions other than "Do you need more? Just ask!"

I doubt the sentencing judge will book Potter to anything worse than Club Fed though.

bobknight33 said:

A True injustice.
Hopefully the judge will rule as time served.

Jury Finds Kim Potter Guilty Of Manslaughter

'Dead as a doornail' expression explained

cloudballoon says...

A cadaver certainly has its medical scientific uses and it's still as dead as a doornail to me...

BSR said:

I've heard the expression but never knew the origin.

But after watching this video I argue that if the nail is still doing its job it's not dead yet.

New Rule: Words Matter | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

cloudballoon says...

That's a gem in this segment of the show.

Of all the things I don't agree with Maher (recently of the Mask Mandate, sooooooooo misinformed and/or self-centered, he's part of the prolonged problem), I must say, his fixation on not cancelling anyone and while urging people not being snowflakes are right stands for me. As much as a "political opposite" some people are to me, I'm actually far more interested in the reasons behind why they take those stands, whether they care to explain themselves or not (because, come on, we KNOW American culture breeds goats and they can only parrot what their political/religious/news/social media overlords tell them without understanding the ulterior motives behind their words & actions). I've long given up expecting one half of the population to be able to articulate thoughts.

His shows are still able (willing?) to invite "both sides" to the table. For that, his shows are worth watching.

newtboy said:

All’s well that’s Orwell.
*doublepromote

China’s New Bio Weapon Targets Race and Ethnicity

cloudballoon says...

A troll's gonna troll, what can we do? Don't need to give him the sick pleasure of getting a long reply. Just let these sifts die in his queue instead of wasting time asking him to get sense of reality.

newtboy said:

Jesus fuck, @bobknight33….you can’t be this gullible. Some internet failure of a traveler blogger did not discover some massive nefarious Chinese plot to develop targeted diseases to release publicly against their genetic enemies….nor did he fact check it any more than you did. If there was a scintilla of truth to this nonsense, he would have been disappeared long before he could post this fantasy through the well monitored Chinese internet or leave the country. Duh. How do you fall for this…every….single….time?

I love how these idiotic conspiracy theories require unbelievable competence, cooperation on a scale never seen, planning and execution on a god level, but idiot internet sleuths think they, on their own, have unraveled the conspiracy because the god level conspirators made some idiotic rookie mistake no professional ever would, exposing the entire scheme….but only to them, the proof is hidden, just trust them.

Jesus fucking Christ, grow up and join reality, buddy. You honestly need mental help if you believe the nonsense you post.

The Islands With Too Much Power

A very patient but frustrated Rear Admiral explaining subs

How Fevers REALLY Work

Parents Read of books from the LCPS Library

cloudballoon says...

Violence, class/race oppression, history suppression/revision and delusional self-aggrandizing American exceptionalism are all par for the course in US teens lit, but sex? Hell no!

Europeans are getting a good chuckle at this.

But isn't that's classic American education? With a conservative SCOTUS, the American education system gonna get even worse.

The Best Explanation of Addiction

cloudballoon says...

But... but... as the Capitalist says: "where's the money in THAT?"

Notice how the Western health system is designed to not solve health/mental problems and drug companies rarely want to take out the root causes, they mostly treat (i.e. suppress) just enough of your symptoms so you can get whatever problems (and/or some others) you have again down the road. Most pills don't help build your system to fight, just buying you time.

And addressing trauma? forgettabouit! The society-at-large have painted a largely negative imagine to psychologists & mental health professions, and associated victim shaming, most people don't even want to seek help?

vil said:

Some sweeping generalisations, not sure we can solve childhood trauma for everybody including ourselves.

But yes in general ghettoes, lack of education and social mobility, social exclusion of groups of people (say by color for example) are bad. These life circumstances can be improved or alleviated by state or public institutions easier than limiting drug supply.

So instead of assigning every addicted person a better trained shrink it might be easier and cheaper to get some prevention going. Reverse school segregation, make better schools financially viable for poor families, support meaningful social support programmes to allow families to leave problematic neighborhoods etc.

You can only save the fucked up ones if they want to be saved and they sure dont. Give them other options early in life. Save them quickly if they drop out of society the first time rather than punish them for life.

Incitement: Is the President Guilty of Inciting the Riot?

How China Broke the World's Recycling

cloudballoon says...

China's MAGA move: Make America Garbage Again!

China's polluted enough being the "factory of the world" already. It's one good thing that Chinese government is doing for their people/country and leading many other countries to follow suit.

China didn't "break" recycling. China just flat out pull the magic curtain away to reveal the illusion/lie.



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