This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.
No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.
The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.
Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.
Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.
The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”
America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.
Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.
Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.
It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
Dear Unvaccinated citizens of the world,THIS is a reminder, to congratulate you on surviving a multi-billion dollar psychological propaganda operation meant to demoralize you into compliance.
You beat them… but don’t ever stop demanding they pay for what they did to us. They all belong in prison.
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NOT ONE DEMOCRAT CALLED FOR MASS UNREST IN THE STREETS WHEN LAKEN HOPE RILEY WAS SAVAGELY BEATEN, RAPED, TORTURED, STRANGLED, AND HER HEAD WAS BASHED IN WITH A ROCK, BY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN.
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT CALLED FOR THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AFTER 12 YEAR OLD JOCELYN NUNGARAY WAS RAPED AND HER THROAT WAS THEN SLIT BY TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS.
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT CALLED FOR “PROTESTS” FOR MOTHER OF 5 RACHEL MORIN, WHEN SHE MET A SIMILAR FATE TO LAKEN RILEY. STRANGLED, HEAD BEATEN WITH A ROCK, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED….
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT TWEETED A WORD ABOUT DACARA THOMPSON WHEN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER AND THEN HE THREW HER OVER A BRIDGE!!!!
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT CALLED ANY OF THESE PERPETRATORS THE MURDERERS THEY ARE!!!!
NOT ONE!!!
SO SPARE ALL OF US OF YOUR ANTI-ICE/LAW AND ORDER PROPAGANDA AND VIRTUE SIGNALING WHEN IT COMES TO YOU DEFENDING AN UNHINGED LIBERAL WHITE WOMAN WHO STRUCK AN ICE AGENT WITH HER CAR!!!
NONE OF US GIVE A SHIT! LITERALLY!!!
JUST LIKE NONE OF YOU GAVE A SHIT WHEN THESE AMERICAN WOMEN WERE BRUTALLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND MURDERED IN THE MOST HORRIFYING WAY IMAGINABLE!!!!
IF YOU STRIKE LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH A 4000-4700lb VEHICLE, LIKE RENEE NICOLE GOOD DID, THAT VEHICLE NOW BECOMES A DEADLY WEAPON, IN WHICH LAW ENFORCEMENT IS 100% JUSTIFIED IN USING DEADLY FORCE AGAINST YOU!!!!
RANT OVER.
@abdul_now You don’t get to define who God is or isn’t. Only he can do that. Also, God/Jesus was no more constrained by the cross than he is by time or any other realm.
@KGeorgeBSRN@littleapostate Cmon, a man trying to pretend he’s a mother?? If you think this is ok, maybe you should try the psychiatrist. This should be offensive to any rational person.
Joseph of Arimathea took down a corpse.
Hands still sticky with blood.
Skin already cold.
Touched death. Held it. Wrapped it.
Became ceremonially unclean for Passover.
For a dead man.
Here's what most Christians miss about the burial of Jesus:
Joseph was a wealthy man. A member of the Sanhedrin. A respected Jew.
And Passover was 3 hours away.
The holiest day of the year.
But he climbed Golgotha anyway.
Jewish law was clear:
Touch a dead body = unclean for 7 days.
Can't worship. Can't celebrate. Can't enter the temple.
Joseph knew this.
He'd spent his entire life following these laws.
But Jesus was still hanging on that cross.
Picture it:
The crowds are gone. The soldiers drunk. The women weeping.
Joseph approaches Pilate—the man who just murdered his Lord—and asks permission.
"Can I have the body?"
Pilate grants it.
Now Joseph has to actually DO it.
He walks to Golgotha.
Blood-soaked dirt. The smell of death. Three crosses against the sky.
Jesus in the middle.
Still.
Finally still.
Joseph climbs the ladder.
Grabs the first nail.
Pulls.
Feel the weight of that moment.
God's body in your arms.
The blood isn't dry yet.
It stains his expensive robes.
His hands.
Under his fingernails.
He can taste the iron in the air.
This is what obedience looks like.
Messy. Expensive. Permanent.
Nicodemus shows up.
Another secret disciple. Another Sanhedrin member.
He brings 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.
That's about $150,000 worth of burial spices in today's money.
Two wealthy men. Two cowards until now.
Finally brave when it's already too late.
They work fast.
Sabbath is coming. They have maybe 3 hours.
Wrap the body. Pour the spices. Seal the tomb.
The sun is setting.
Joseph is now officially unclean.
Can't celebrate Passover tomorrow.
Can't enter the temple for a week.
Think about what he just gave up:
His ceremonial purity.
His Passover celebration.
His reputation (everyone saw him bury a "blasphemer").
His position (the Sanhedrin won't forget this).
His safety (Romans might come for disciples next).
All for a dead man.
But here's what most Christians miss:
Joseph didn't do this expecting resurrection.
He did it expecting NOTHING.
Jesus was dead. Gone. Finished.
This wasn't faith in resurrection.
This was love for a corpse.
That's the part that wrecks me.
Joseph touched death—literally—knowing it meant giving up everything.
Not because Jesus promised him anything.
But because Jesus deserved honor even in death.
Modern Christianity wants clean obedience.
Safe obedience.
Obedience that doesn't cost you Passover.
But Joseph shows us something different:
True discipleship gets your hands dirty.
You want to follow Jesus?
Then stop avoiding the messy parts.
Stop waiting for clean opportunities.
Stop demanding that obedience be convenient.
Joseph climbed Golgotha when everyone else went home.
He wrapped a corpse when he could've stayed clean.
He missed the holiest day of his life to honor a dead "criminal."
He risked everything when there was no visible reward.
That's not religion.
That's worship.
The twist?
Three days later, that tomb was empty.
Joseph gave his grave to Jesus.
Jesus left it empty.
Forever.
Joseph thought he was burying God.
He was actually setting the stage for resurrection.
Your messy obedience?
God's using it too.
Even when you can't see it.
So here's the question:
What are you avoiding because it's too messy?
What obedience are you postponing because it's inconvenient?
What grave are you unwilling to give?
Joseph of Arimathea held death in his arms.
Got blood on his hands.
Missed Passover.
Lost his reputation.
And earned his name in all four Gospels.
Religion says "stay clean."
Discipleship says "get dirty."
Joseph chose discipleship.
What are you choosing?
—TBM