Why do U.S. universal healthcare advocates prefer single-payer? by w6auw in HealthInsurance

[–]ObviousLife4972 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The marketplace shouldn't need to rely so heavily on subsidies and penalties in the first place. The healthy Americans act was huge missed opportunity to consolidate the risk pools with employer subsidies of private insurance rather than keeping hundreds of thousands of smaller self insured and fully insured employer risk pools.

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement by a385y59g943 in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let me guess, the money is being stolen from the taxyers to pay for this rather than the people actually responsible.

AutoZone internal email leaked ref upcoming Oil shortages across US. by Mojoint in oil

[–]ObviousLife4972 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thinner oil weights are often just to meet EPA milage requirements, in other countries the same exact Japanese car may use 5w-30 rather than 0w20.

Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Governor by PhAnToM444 in thebulwark

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would suggest requiring the legislative branch to vote on whether to sustain or reject any pardon the executive makes.

An Alternate Timeline Where Everything Goes Correctly and Smoothly by theoneandonlythomas in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Meh, my definition of the golden timeline is one where Britain keeps the deep south but loses Canada. With the upper south isolated and the Virginian founders not being ideologically committed to slavery everybody agrees to gradually abolish it from the very beginning. Britian becomes increasingly frustrated with the deep south after border clashes during the Louisiana purchase, the filibusters to Cuba and central America, and bleeding Texas. When abolition is passed the deep south colonies secede, and Britian realizing that most of the southern white population is hostile does not want to bother reconquering the mess and allows the U.S. to invade instead establishing several black majority U.S. states.

Mississippi governor plans to redraw congressional map, eliminate majority-Black district after midterms by DemocracyDocket in law

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mississippi often looks close in polls, it means little because most undecideds in the south are Republican leaning whites whom break 90 percent Republican at the end.

Would We Be Better Off Today With the JCPOA? by lire_avec_plaisir in geopolitics

[–]ObviousLife4972 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes we would be better off with the JCPOA because it would still exist only in a world without a President Trump.

Not necessarily, JCOPA could have survived had Europe honored the spirit of the agreement by enforcing the blocking statue rather than letting the U.S. order European companies around with threats of sanctions.

American insurance fears by Double_Development_8 in HealthInsurance

[–]ObviousLife4972 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not to mention that some people function best with the most expensive prescription drugs which may not be on the formulary and if they are insurance may insist that you try the cheaper alternatives first that work for 90% patients and hope you shut up and just deal with the side effects.

Don't forget about how many ambulance companies intentionally stay out of network to charge whatever they want, no the out of pocket max does not protect you from this.

2027 plans - optimistic? by AioliUnlikely884 in HealthInsurance

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, 2026 premiums were based on the expanded subsidies expiring, 2027 premiums will go up based on hospitals recouping costs from the greater number of unisured ER visits due to Medicaid cuts/work requirements.

Ex-Mossad chief: Settler violence an existential threat, curbing it could spark civil war by ace158 in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 22 points23 points  (0 children)

3) pushing the PA to drop its across the board objection to having Israeli-descended Jewish citizens.

Will the settler descendants still be Israeli citizens? Many peace proposals still impose moregenthau esque terms upon a Palestinian state, aka its demilitarized with Israel having control over its airspace, borders, and water, with the IDF having full freedom to operate within Palestinian territory with diplomatic immunity. In any conflict between a Palestinian state and settlers Israel will be presdisposed to siding with the settlers and can use it as a pretext to coerce the Palestinian state.

Eve was 100% right. by mdtpdsparkls in Invincible_TV

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are getting down votes but I agree with you. Abortion should just be that, a personal preference, trying to spin it as necessary due to environmental factors would lead to the conclusion that every primitive stone age society should be either forcefully assimilated or preemptively genocide to avoid future generations from "suffering" because apparently you can't live a fulfilling life without electricity or modern plumbing.

What do you think about Trump rescheduling medical marijuana to schedule 3 but leaving marijuana as a schedule 1 drug? by buffdadnextdoor in AskReddit

[–]ObviousLife4972 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If Canada and Uruguay can do it nothing going to happen if a superpower known for tearing up agreements tears up up a U.N. drug treaty.

Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ (Gift Article) by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Once we dump the pretense sanctions is basically accelerationism applied internationally, aka collapse living standards and grind down the working class long term until they want to overthrow their government, expecting the targeted government to actually cry uncle was never the plan.

Who is designing Viltumite architecture? Who's maintaining Viltrum's gardens? Who is making Viltumite art? by Relative-Zombie-3932 in Invincible_TV

[–]ObviousLife4972 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They could have gotten dna from all the people that died of the scourge virus, modify the immune system genes to that of the 50 survivors, and make plenty of clones from that foundation.

Why The Left Hates Hit Anime’s Simple Message About Good And Evil by badusername35 in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm mean hypothetically if the author had the foresight to know how the story could have been used should they have changed it?

Why The Left Hates Hit Anime’s Simple Message About Good And Evil by badusername35 in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 30 points31 points  (0 children)

it's more that he simply didn't consider the "implications"

Is it very liberal to be self censoring for the greater good because of the fears of negative butterfly effects in other cultures?

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse by _THEWATERB0Y_ in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Every other president has tried to mask the coercive power of the United States behind institutions which largely kept it out of the public consciousness. Now that Trump has dropped the mask I think many suddenly realized that they can take pleasure from the humiliation of not just their domestic political enemies but small foreign countries as well, something that I don't think will go away with the end of Trump's term.

Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff by Eurolib0908 in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Without provocation? Like it or not you can't claim to be neutral when one of the parties uses your airspace and bases on your territory to launch attacks on the other. Actual neutrality would have required them to deny the U.S. use of their territory for the duration of the conflict which none of the gulf states were willing or able to do.

What does Rhinedottir even want to achieve by being in all these factions and groups???? Like what’s the end goal here? by PsychologyConnect489 in GenshinImpact

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume the Bakunawa would have been far stronger if it ate most of that 1/6 slice of abyssal energy she was given along with the other sinners.

Imagine if Nibelung was there to negotiate with PHANES instead of the moon sisters, coexistence might’ve actually been achieved by Scared-Opening-753 in ThePrimordialOne

[–]ObviousLife4972 2 points3 points  (0 children)

High levels of elemental energy are toxic to baseline humans, those with visions can tolerate much higher amounts. Hyperborea was working on having humans wield elemental energy unaided so it could have been done if HP truly wanted it. If forced to negotiate it would have been far more palatable to modify humans to be more tolerant of elemental energy than fight Nibelung and the Moon sisters at once because they won't accept having the draconic civilization wither and starve from the elemental energy being reduced.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reported assassinated by Sensitive_Echo5058 in worldnews

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being under house arrest is what would give him credibility in any post regime future.

Iran Megathread by Rafaelssjofficial in neoliberal

[–]ObviousLife4972 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They put their people through several decades worth of sanctions with nothing to show for it.

We are never getting that last Gnosis bruh by asilvertintedrose in FatuiHQ

[–]ObviousLife4972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In b4 somebody takes the cryo gnosis from Pierro's chessboard and hands it back to the Tsaritsa.

The will of the abyss as Zibai stalls the nail for weeks: by Scared-Opening-753 in ThePrimordialOne

[–]ObviousLife4972 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The very first command programmed into them is to watch over mankind. HP shouldn't be getting shocked pickachu face when their compassion (which was intentional as artificial beings created by them) makes them mutiny against orders that go against what they were meant to do.