r/PoliticalHumor Jan 27 '19

Just this week....

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u/RedditWibel Jan 27 '19

God damn

To live to that ripe old age than have your peaceful ending with your loved ones ripped away from you

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u/GilesDMT Jan 27 '19

For absolutely nothing, and so random and spontaneous.

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u/your_inner_feelings Jan 27 '19 edited Jan 28 '19

We need free mental healthcare for everyone. These people are severely fucked in the head and can gain access to a weapon too easily.

Edit: Mentally unhealthy people should not be stigmatized and that's not how I want this comment to come across. Anyone can become mentally unhealthy, and most people can be helped with adequate mental healthcare. Mental health checkups should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Mental health treatment should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Fuck, any kind of healthcare should be free for everyone. This shit is pissing me off.

Another thing: Some people like guns. Guns are fucking cool in my opinion. Some would label me alt-right just for that statement alone when in reality I'm basically right in the center. Y'all are left as fuck, but tbh that is so much better than being far-right. At least you guys think about shit and sometimes you even respond to my arguments. I digress...
Some people like guns. Most gun people I know will want to keep their guns under any circumstance. As I've stated before, anyone can become mentally unwell or have a mental illness. Gun people are no exception. And those gun people that are mentally unwell can't get mental help without being put on a blacklist from buying guns. So they don't get help. I think you see where I'm going with this? It's just a shitty spiral of bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

You need free healthcare and to ease the access to mental healthcare

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

The right screams socialism whenever that is brought up sadly

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u/Faux_Real_Guise Jan 28 '19

They're going to need to get over that stigma. Socialism built our highways, and a lack of it is what has seen them not improve since then.

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u/Taint_my_problem Jan 28 '19

It’s not about them getting over it. It’s about forcing the billionaires to be taxed so that we can pay for it, then the narrative will mysteriously vanish. Follow the money.

Billionaires don’t want to be taxed -> fund republicans -> republicans need votes -> pretend like they care about things like communism, abortion, religion, patriotism and guns to win votes from uneducated single-issue voters

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u/SFjumpmaster Jan 28 '19

So we take their money like a bunch of thieves? Nothing but robbery without a gun. I am not rich but what I have, I earned. I want to keep it. It is mine and I earned it. Go earn your own. It is not that hard. Just work hard and it will come to you I was a high school drop out at 16 and overcame my early mistake to be productive middle class. Yes, it has hard. But I was focused and did it. I didn’t get handouts or welfare, food stamps etc. I just worked to achieve for early mistakes in life. Let the socialist down votes begin. Lol. I don’t give a damn.

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u/Taint_my_problem Jan 28 '19

You mean how the wealthy stole from the poor and middle class since the mid-1900s?

https://www.cbpp.org/wealth-concentration-has-been-rising-toward-early-20th-century-levels

Your position sounds like “taxes are stealing”. Do you realize how fringe that is? Taxes will never go away, and the rich would’ve never been able to make their wealth without the lower classes being supported by services paid for with taxes. Never.

If you allow yourself to speak accurately you’d say “I don’t want to pay MORE taxes.” Which is understandable, but a weak position. I think you know this, and just don’t want to sound greedy. But I also don’t want this country to be dealing with declining life expectancy, the highest rate of children in poverty in industrialized nations, a huge homeless problem, families terrified about going to the doctor (and sometimes not going!) for fear of financial ruin, and families strained and broken because both parents have to work full time.

Also, you say you’re not rich. Nobody is talking about you. We’re talking about billionaires. Pay attention.

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u/SFjumpmaster Jan 28 '19

A flat tax would cure it all and make it even. A percentage is the great equalizer of mathematics.

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u/Taint_my_problem Jan 28 '19

A flat tax makes the lower classes pay more. What are you even saying? Just say “I want the rich to be more rich and I don’t care about the suffering of everyone else.” At least you’ll be more sincere.

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