war1025

You've got some sort of vendetta going on here, so I'm sorry for whatever burr you have in your britches.

When someone says "you are misinterpreting what I said" perhaps you should consider that you are misinterpreting what they said.

Great. Restrict the handouts to Type-1 diabetics. They certainly didn't get the disease by choice.

> I keep hoping one day folks in the US will get tired of being screwed on their healthcare and living in fear of getting sick... shrug

As someone with good but very expensive health insurance, any time I bring up health insurance prices, the response from people who get cheap health insurance through their employers is basically, "F* you, got mine"

Unfortunately, the block of people with stable corporate jobs also tend to have a lot of political power and are in no hurry to see their perks upended.

Even if by some crazy implausibility it was the "greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War", that's like saying, "Man, I just got a paper cut and that is sure the worst injury I've had since that accident where I was paralyzed from the waist down"

Perhaps in the future you could avoid leading with things such as:

> that's about as useful as a story of how someone prayed and their mom's cancer went away.

All I did was comment and say, "Hey, we did this and it worked for us" and you replied with the equivalent of "Go fuck yourself, I don't want to hear it"

Of course modern birth control opens many doors, I don't think that was ever in question. It's a highly personal choice and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

Anyway, cheers. Hope you're having a good day.

> IMHO, I think a flag-waving socially-conservative socialism could be surprisingly successful in America, if someone could get it off the ground.

I think that's basically Trump's base to be honest. Politicians just haven't figured out how to wrangle them into something useful.

> This is a wild misrepresentation of the opposing perspective.

I think that's currently how the game is played. You can try to be better than that, but then the other side wins because they are still happy to play dirty.

> You're being downvoted because these arguments are so bad as to almost clearly be in bad faith.

I'm being downvoted because some subset of people here view down vote as "I disagree". I used to be bothered by it. I don't think much about it anymore.

Edit:

I'm also fairly certain I've got some followers who take it upon themselves to go through my comment history and start downvoting other posts of mine just for good measure. You know, really sticking it to the man or whatever.

It's weird to think of Facebook as the reasonable people in the room.

The left wants to own online political discussion in the US, and they are very bothered that the right finds a ready audience when they are allowed to compete.

My understanding is that it's pretty common on the US coasts (i.e. the major metros where housing is super unaffordable).

I imagine it's a self feeding cycle. Young adults can't purchase homes, so their parents cosign and give a big down payment. Then sellers are able to ask more because wealthy parents are backing the sale, which just makes housing even more unaffordable.

I agree with everything you said.

I guess the point I was trying to make is more that doing these things is not impossible. It is just a matter of being properly informed (which is in itself a difficult task).