Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

[fennix@infosec.space]

@Natasha_Jay

"Don't threaten me with a good time" territory right there.

[ifrit@masto.ai]

@theorangetheme
Is there: "32 hours walkable cities" (now is 40 hours)
@Natasha_Jay

[ann_effes@berlin.social]

@Natasha_Jay

Many People in Europe would be surprises to learn that these things are considered bad by many pople in the USA. Even such who would profit a lot.

[vwdasher@mymasto.com]

@Natasha_Jay OH NO THE HORROR HOW CAN WE STOP THIS

[pixelpfuscher@social.cologne]

@Natasha_Jay Das ist gut.

[morton@kolektiva.social]

@Natasha_Jay Poland is not a socialist country, yet we have public healthcare. You pay your taxes, and that’s it. When you compare the taxes we pay with the premiums Americans pay, it works out cheaper here. When the state uses the taxes paid by citizens to do something for them, that isn't communism. Back in Babylon, the state built irrigation systems using tax revenue. That works better than the free market.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@Natasha_Jay but who suffers?! How can we feel good if we’re not making someone else feel bad?

[morton@kolektiva.social]

@Natasha_Jay Private companies are profit-driven. The state is not. I do not know what profit margin a private insurer in the US has, or how much of the premiums it keeps for itself. In Poland, healthcare administration costs amount to 4%.

[morton@kolektiva.social]

@Natasha_Jay I watched an American movie called *Angels Among Us*. It’s terrifying. A man is working but has no insurance because private insurers refuse to cover him. His wife dies, and he’s left with a $400,000 debt. He also has to pay for his daughter’s medical treatment. And yet, he works. What is the point of paying taxes? What is the state for? How can anyone be a patriot in the USA when the country couldn't care less about its citizens? You pay taxes and get nothing in return.

[bazcook@mas.to]

@Natasha_Jay - most Americans haven’t a clue what Socialism is - no, it’s not a polite word for Communism - and in many aspects of their lives, they expect socialism to be there and work for them.

[kentnavalesi@mstdn.social]

@kauer
@Natasha_Jay

You'd be surprised how many working-class Americans actually read those as negatives.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Natasha_Jay if you boil it down, they're opposed to all those things because rich white people might have to pay for them.

Rich white people never pay their share of anything.

[meznor@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay Bunch of monsters, the democratic socialists, how dare they