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Mar. 7th, 2017 12:00 pm
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  • Tue, 07:51: RT @Blackamazon: here's something's I and my coworkers have done while in retail selling iphones American's are investing in that Jason's m…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: apply for jobs. Set up unemployement, save the last voice messages of their dying partners. Set up emails. apply for child…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @ASlavitt: Journalists, Leave bubble. Compare bill 2 ACA, not earlier drafts. Millions of Americans lose cvg & Medicaid promise change…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: An excon wept in my arms because he could get photos and music. I saw a coworker spend 6 hours with a woman who was nasty…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: turns out ? Her husband of 30+ years had just died while she was being treated for cancer and he had sent her messages EVE…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: and her eyes were going so she was terrified she would never hear his voice again . He fixed it and she damn near collapse…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: She wept so hard we thought we'd have to call EMS . The oxygen TANK alone would have cost more than the Iphone and my cow…
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: Also PEOPLE APPLIED FOR HEALTHCARE ON THOSE CELL PHONES
  • Tue, 07:52: RT @Blackamazon: I don't care enough to go up for Apple but this isnt about planning it's about punishment
  • Tue, 07:53: RT @leenie909: It's a complete mystery--and sooooo unfair--as to why Republicans are always painted as mean and inhumane. @Lawrence https:/…
  • Tue, 11:40: RT @Sojourners: "Imagine if Jesus limited his ministry based upon the conditions of comfort and security." https://t.co/sLiVu4i6Mo
  • Tue, 11:40: RT @Shareblue: Dems on Trump plan to rip immigrant children from mothers: "Inhumane and unacceptable" https://t.co/Mo6zUgxYZ4 By @tommyxto…
  • Tue, 11:40: RT @pattonoswalt: Trump's spent more in a MONTH to play golf than Obama spent in a YEAR but yeah poor people need to decide between iPhones…
  • Tue, 11:40: RT @repjohnlewis: Our march continues. There is great work still to be done. Dedicate yourself to nonviolent social change, and we shall ov…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @bobcesca_go: FACT 1) Bush released 532 detainees. 113 returned to terrorism. 2) Obama released 161. Only 9 returned to terrorism. https…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @nytimes: "Islamic State will use this ban to say: 'I told you so. They only mean you harm. They only see you as the enemy.' " https://t…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @bobcesca_go: Difficult to believe their first real stab at healthcare is merely positioning. If so, they're dumber than I thought. http…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @bobcesca_go: Uhhhh, 113 of the 122 detainees who returned to terrorism were released before 1/22/09. You have to stop believing everyth…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @bobcesca_go: If the Trump Republicans were smart, they'd pull a Nixon-to-China and propose Medicare For All. But they won't. Because…
  • Tue, 11:41: RT @BillKristol: Been talking with conservative health care types. My sense: In terms of policy & politics, no bill (for now) would be bett…
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @Reuters: U.S. Senate Democrats make Trump tax returns a national security issue https://t.co/tPzpxg3Q1Y
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @bobcesca_go: If you miss two months of payments, insurance companies can charge you a 30% monthly penalty on top of premium costs. Trum…
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @ChuckWendig: One of the things I like about the ACA is that it puts into your hands the ability to get more preventative checks.
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @ChuckWendig: Often, though, that's a distraction -- because we are manipulated by companies and politicians who bypass our personal res…
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @ChuckWendig: Let's talk about the idea of "personal responsibility." Thread incoming, so, y'know, mute me or whatever for the moment.
  • Tue, 11:42: RT @ChuckWendig: As a core concept, personal responsibility makes sense. I control me, my actions, so forth, and so it is responsible to do…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: And it makes sense to extend that out -- the idea that, y'know, I can tend to my yard and keep all my ducks in a row, that…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: I mean, we're not like EW UGH RESPONSIBILITY -- of course, we all loosely fundamentally agree that personal responsibility…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: Problem is, conservatism and sometimes libertarianism take this to an exaggerated, or worse, to an isolated point.
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: Isolated as in, it's all that matters. "I control me, I don't control you. I'm responsible for me, not for you. The end, g…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: But that sole, singular pillar can't hold up the roof. You might say, though, "Ah, but if we ALL were responsible, the pil…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: Sounds great, except we're all people in a complicated society with lots of levers and dongles and flywheels and MANY MOVI…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: It's super-simplistic just to say, "If we all held up our end of the bargain, we'd be fine," because it doesn't take into…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: Life is chaotic. When we talk about healthcare, obviously health gets conflated with personal responsibility, which is oft…
  • Tue, 11:43: RT @ChuckWendig: Example: a person's overweight, and that becomes a MORAL COMPONENT -- a failing of that person's responsibility. Except it…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: Our body shape and type is created by near-infinite factors, and you cannot pin it to, "THAT GLUTTON JUST LIKES ICE CREAM."
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: Some people are overweight because of medication. Or because of inability to afford certain food choices. Or genetics. Or…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: Further, being overweight does not = unhealthy. I'm overweight. My numbers are good. I run. My doctor is like, shrug, you'…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: But that's tied to a moral failing. So is being poor. So is bad luck. So is X, Y, and Z. It's viewed as a breach of person…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: It empowers me to be more personally responsible. And then when that fails, the rest of the ACA (ideally) is there to catc…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: Single-payer health-care is viewed as being a social safety-net, absolving us of personal responsibility, but fuck that. I…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: A collective safety net assumes something beyond mere personal responsibility: communal, group responsibility. GASP. WHAT…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: But we've poisoned that well -- we've so long tied failure or bad luck with moral failings that we view communal responsib…
  • Tue, 11:44: RT @ChuckWendig: And that's sad. That we look to our neighbors and to our fellow citizens as, WELL, THEY JUST NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OW…
  • Tue, 11:45: RT @ChuckWendig: Because at the end of the day, personal responsibility ends up being code for "I got mine. Fuck you, get yours."
  • Tue, 11:47: RT @ChuckWendig: That's not a way to a healthy society. It's not even all that Christian, if you care about such things. It's a way to cano…
  • Tue, 11:47: RT @ChuckWendig: And it's tied into the other idea -- "choice." The idea of "personal liberty." Personal liberty is again all about the sel…
  • Tue, 11:47: RT @ChuckWendig: Personal liberty = a narcissistic, 'nuh-uh I want what I want fuck you,' thing. Good as part of a tapestry. Bad when it's…
  • Tue, 11:47: RT @ChuckWendig: I'm not saying anything revolutionary, it just strikes me that this language is poisonous, and antithetical to functioning…
  • Tue, 11:48: RT @ChuckWendig: And ultimately it's easy to hijack. It's easy to skirt blame away and say, "YOU SHOULDA BEEN BETTER." Easy to let companie…
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