The absolute funniest part of capitalist ideology is that they somehow managed to convince everyone that "freedom" meant like...the freedom to choose between 63 kinds of shampoo, and not like...the freedom to quit a job you hate without losing your health insurance.
We pay the premiums. We pay the deductibles. We pay the copays.
Then when we actually need care, an insurance company gets to decide whether it will pay.
Healthcare should exist to keep people alive and healthy, not to maximize shareholder returns.
Something has to change.
People on the USA are so used to not getting anything out of their tax money besides war that when a mayor actually gives them fans on their subway, fixes trash cans, paves patholes, and provides services with their own tax dollars they call it communisim.
This is how capitalists will address climate change. Instead of placing the slightest restrictions on billionaires, the ruling class will propose murdering half the world’s population.
sometimes I’m annoyed that my cat doesn’t pay rent but then i remember she is forced to listen to me say “is that my baby????” 70 times a day so who is getting the worse deal here
That moment when you’re coughing in public and you’ve reached the appropriate social cough limit, now you just have to hold it in and choke to death.😞😭
At our five-borough municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, fresh produce and other everyday essentials.
In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
a lot of people, especially westerners, especially-especially americans, conflate considering others with being controlled & respond with defiance. it’s very weird behavior.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is living proof that both sides of the American political parties have gaslit us into believing that they can't implement any real change
🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani drops a massive bombshell!
He announces a historic $1.2 BILLION expansion of free childcare, increasing seats from 2,000 to 12,000 across NYC.
He is actively destroying the crushing costs of raising a family for the working class!
I sometimes feel we've REALLY lost our perspective lately because $112 billion in net profit in a year is an INSANE amount of money, yet Apple is saying it's forced to increase prices on consumers. We should just be so much angrier about all of this.