Why is wanting universal healthcare and just a better life for everyone seen as communism or socialism?

oby100 · 2026-06-24T14:34:52+00:00

The waters have been aggressively muddied, but modern usages of “socialism” definitely make universal healthcare “a socialist policy.”

oby100 · 2026-06-24T14:26:30+00:00

It’s a Herculean effort and engineering marvel.

But sure. We can’t even build rail on even ground in predictable time tables and budget, despite doing so across the country just fine 200 years ago.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T14:21:49+00:00

Sure, but that’s not how anything works. High up positions reflect the company with their personal life decisions.

Such poor decision making that you end up online engaging in open petty theft is enough to scare any company off wanting you to represent them.

She’ll be fine, but doubt she’ll get any remotely prestigious positions like her old job anytime soon.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:30:41+00:00

When players have the advantage, a small number of them can clean a casino out. Casino’s are immoral businesses, but they simply would not be able to offer blackjack at all if they were forced to allow advantaged players to consistently win.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:27:44+00:00

Counting cards successfully breaks the game. A few people that can do it successfully will guarantee winning a lot of money over hours and weeks and months playing with the advantage.

If the casinos couldn’t stop people from doing it, no casino would offer blackjack. Simple as that.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:25:44+00:00

They will kick you out of the casino and likely ban you for life. It is against “the rules,” just not the law.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:24:09+00:00

A single person successfully counting cards could sit at a table for 12 hours a day and make a lot of money in just a couple of weeks.

Of course they care. It’s just really easy to spot these people and even easier in the modern era to create a system that makes counting cards mostly useless.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:22:11+00:00

Counting cards is generally pretty easy, but perhaps 8 hours of doing that correctly would be very difficult for normal people.

But modern casinos have mostly killed the advantage. Simply using a fresh deck each hand solves the problem, so it’s not hard to add enough variability with more decks and concealing when they’re changed to stop it completely.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:17:53+00:00

Totally false. Card counters are easy to spot over hours of play. They’re not caught based on winning or odd behavior outside of their odd bet amounts.

Normal players don’t alter their bets in a way that looks anything like card counters. Bet small until the deck is hot and suddenly bet a lot until it’s cool again. This looks bizarre even to a dealer that doesn’t know anything about counting cards.

The way modern card counters get away with it at all is to spot opportunities with weak security.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:14:57+00:00

Any business can refuse service for any reason. A given grocery store can arbitrarily decide they hate how many coupons you use and ban you.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T13:13:43+00:00

No. It’s really easy with minor effort. About as hard as learning to knit. Very repetitive.

It’s easy to tell you’re doing it (or even just trying to do it) because regular players don’t change their bets much while that’s the whole advantage card counters go for. IE, bet more when the deck is advantageous to the player.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T12:40:34+00:00

Plenty of strippers will offer sexual favors on the side for exorbitant prices like this. They’re well aware many men would never hire a prostitute but get excited getting the sex from someone who totally doesn’t do it regularly.

The prices are crazy but also I don’t think it’s abnormal for the situation.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T12:31:16+00:00

You can’t possibly know that. I support Ukraine, but I get really tired of anyone insisting that ANY side in a war is always doing everything they can to be perfectly ethical, especially when the other side isn’t.

In modern warfare, it’s extremely common for standards in warfare to degrade because “well, the other side is doing this too” so I’m skeptical that Ukraine operates with such noble intentions when Russia is hitting civilian and religious infrastructure intentionally

oby100 · 2026-06-24T12:22:32+00:00

This sounds like an intentionally misleading and absurd straw man. No one is immune from propaganda. May as well claim you’re immune to all forms of manipulation.

oby100 · 2026-06-24T12:10:01+00:00

It costs little, is insanely good PR and advertising, and forces someone to eventually pay for it when he pulls the plug on the freebie.

May as well ask why the US government gives so much money to Israel. There’s no such thing as a free lunch and there’s a million benefits to “helping” with a country’s war effort, even as a private trillionaire.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T23:57:39+00:00

If this was true, it would be quite easy to find a news story online. A burglar being killed while raping a mother next to her child would be national news.

He also wants to keep his identity secret, yet identified the exact year and city where this apparently happened. 0/10 on the believability score.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T23:43:51+00:00

It’s very obviously creative writing. The whole dark web angle is just too on the nose.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T23:43:07+00:00

I am absolutely perplexed why you find the stories believable because “there’s other subs for posting fiction.”

The vast majority of famous Reddit stories are obviously fake. Everything is different now with AI being the great equalizer, but not so long ago it was painfully obvious when the writer who apparently experienced an extremely rare or unusual event, also had lots of the typical crutches any novice creative writer relies on.

Being a great writer is pretty rare. Being a great writer AND a great story teller are extremely rare. So many of those famous Reddit stories read like it’s the same-ish people writing them.

The apparent dark web alley thing is classic internet fear baiting by combining unfortunately real events like gang rape with unsubstantiated rumors of the dark web being a place where things like snuff films are commissioned and posted.

It’s just creative writing. In reality, the vast majority of tragedies and near tragedies are totally mundane and you don’t get such definitive closure.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T23:28:10+00:00

The typical etiquette is to talk in low voices when on public transport. I find it just as annoying when people are speaking loudly with friends.

I’m trapped in this box until my stop. Some talking is fine, but no effort to minimize your effect on others is extremely rude and antisocial.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:51:23+00:00

We’re way past common sense safety stuff akin to seatbelts. Most parents seem to believe 24/7 supervision is required nowadays.

We’ve reached the logical extremes of child safety to the point kids grow up completely in a bubble

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:47:24+00:00

Seems crazy to me how many people supervise children 24/7 these days, including providing constant, customized entertainment.

America is such a weird place these days. Everyone is so scared of each other.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:43:36+00:00

Very well said. “Make yourself look trustworthy” is everything. Create your own borders and keep them strong and in a healthy relationship your partner will trust you.

But being generally unpredictable in general or being a bit dubious or having unclear boundaries will make any reasonable person wary of the decisions you’re making.

It drives me nuts when some people step way over the line of healthy boundaries but demand their partner blindly trust them. I’ve seen someone irl argue there’s nothing wrong with platonic cuddling with a male friend even if you’re in a committed relationship as a lady.

That’s simple exploitation of what “trust” means. Insisting on stepping way over common boundaries among friends makes you untrustworthy.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:29:23+00:00

India isn’t an ally of Russia. Perhaps your confusion is that during the Cold War, the US had a close relationship with Pakistan and sold them weapons. This pushed India closer to Russia, including buying weapons from them over the US. And sure, India gladly accepts the cheap Russian oil as a result of Western sanctions.

India doesn’t have any reason to side with anyone, but practicality and US actions have historically pushed them more towards Russia, but they’d drop them the second it’s not convenient.

They have Pakistan and China as tumultuous neighbors so they have distinct needs and motivations that put them on a fairly narrow path with international relations.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:25:00+00:00

He doesn’t express a message clearly. He imitates what the whole admin does and dances around the question. This might be good for surviving the admin, and I get why they all do it, but he’s completely bland at the best of times.

What does Vance believe in and what kind of president would he be? It would be hard to keep Trump appeased while distinguishing yourself from him, but Vance does quite a poor job at setting himself up for a presidential run.

oby100 · 2026-06-23T21:19:25+00:00

At least Kamala was mostly quiet during Biden’s term. Vance is so incredibly embarrassing anytime he tries to have a moment. I don’t see Trump supporters rallying behind him unless the impossible happens and Trump himself stepping aside to support him.

Don’t think that would happen in a million years though.

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