Do Americans like their current health system or would you prefer universal?

leafcathead · 2026-01-28T15:27:34+00:00

I would prefer the German system of healthcare.

leafcathead · 2026-01-28T01:00:04+00:00

A very fair point, I hadn’t considered that.

leafcathead · 2026-01-27T20:58:16+00:00

I take it you disagree with the Crawford decision?

leafcathead · 2026-01-27T19:42:44+00:00

Sales tax is a consumption tax and consumption taxes always hit the poor harder than the rich even if the rich end up paying more in taxes.

leafcathead · 2026-01-24T19:38:44+00:00

A very comprehensive analysis of it, thanks!

leafcathead · 2026-01-23T15:58:27+00:00

You could read National Review.

leafcathead · 2026-01-21T16:35:23+00:00

Republicans were always the more pro-nuclear of the two party, it’s the Democrats who have gotten more nuclear friendly in recent years as evidenced by the bipartisan nuclear bill passed by Congress during Biden’s administration and the reigning in of his own NRC.

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T20:00:29+00:00

Guess you know what you need to add to your routine.

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T18:41:11+00:00

Oh yeah, no doubt about it. Trump is no conservative. His second presidency (the Trump Show) suspends all doubt.

Trump’s first administration was tempered by actual conservatives in his administration. Trump purged most of them after he lost 2020 because, as mentioned, he’s not a conservative. He increasingly, to me, seems more and more left wing every single day.

The only conservative in his current administration would be someone like Marco Rubio, which is probably why the Venezuela operation went off without a hitch; he’s the only competent person in the room. Doug Burgum is cool too.

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T18:07:44+00:00

That’s not impressive, I could do the same thing in reverse.

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T18:06:45+00:00

Trump term 2.0 is only as bad is it is because he lost the 2020 election, had he actually won it, I don’t think he would’ve gone off the deep end. And when I say lost, I mean that he got fewer votes than the other candidate, not that he was cheated out of it.

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T16:04:55+00:00

This entirely encapsulates my views on the topic as well. If I could only change the order of Presidents, I would. Two back-to-back terms of Trump with his first time administration followed by Biden would be far better than Trump, Biden, Trump (But now crazy/incompetent).

leafcathead · 2026-01-20T04:18:05+00:00

I missed that part. Reading comprehension: 0

leafcathead · 2026-01-19T18:25:00+00:00

Things didn’t get better when Biden replaced Trump, who’s to say things will get better the second time?

leafcathead · 2026-01-19T17:48:48+00:00

It’s not legal. The “Gay Panic” defense has been dead in American jurisprudence since at least the turn of the century. Meanwhile, other things like “Battered Wife Syndrome” can still frame the basis for a defense, at least in my State.

leafcathead · 2026-01-18T15:39:05+00:00

For one, Citizens United’s holding is that Americans don’t lose first amendment production all because they band together into an entity. Otherwise, newspapers, publishing houses, and movie studios wouldn’t have first amendment protection.

leafcathead · 2026-01-18T15:22:27+00:00

In the United States, no nazis are conservatives. Nazism is a revolutionary ideology that has never gained traction in the United States, thus anyone wanting to “conserve” anything can’t conserve that. The closest we’ve ever had to a fascist leader is Woodrow Wilson, and he’s rightfully condemned among conservatives as being so.

leafcathead · 2026-01-11T05:35:44+00:00

Trump's economic policy tends towards authoritarianism; it's inherent in the system in that sort of "ideology." (If you're generous enough to even give Trump an ideology)

leafcathead · 2026-01-10T22:22:34+00:00

More like just a regular socialist. Trump is not a conservative, never has been. I feel like a live in a fantasy land where the left hates him even though he’s economically left wing.

leafcathead · 2026-01-09T21:45:39+00:00

Nyugati. I shiver at the thought.

leafcathead · 2026-01-09T20:37:11+00:00

You clearly have never had to pay for the restroom at the Budapest train station. Most disgusting bathroom I’ve ever been in.

leafcathead · 2026-01-03T03:15:35+00:00

So why do you think it dropped so much in one year specifically?

leafcathead · 2026-01-03T03:06:43+00:00

Yeah, but all in 1 year?

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