MAGA just doesn’t think like that. They think putting women in their proper place isn’t anti women its pro women because if they have traditional values imposed upon them then they will have a more happy fulfilled life. For those with minority associates or family members that they don’t silently hate they rationalize that they are among the “good ones” Ask them if they hate black people and wait for them to tell you that they don’t they hate n words which are somehow different than black people. Their compartmentalization is perfect. They see no tension with believing black people in general are bad but the ones THEY know to be good are good.

No because the presumption is that you will provide ID to your employer and they will go by whatever is on the ID when assigning rides.

It’s not. You as an employee or contractor aren’t entitled to a particular client being assigned to you against that clients wishes. Customers are allowed to pick their contractor

Many women want to ride with other women for safety reasons. Men would only choose their riders gender for bigotry reasons. There is little reason to enable their bigotry. If fewer bigots ride it’s a bug not a feature.

this island because it is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to this land.

Holy shit see all of Englands history

You said there were people who couldn’t afford insurance but could afford elective procedures. For reference most can get high deductible insurance for ~$300/month from your employer

The totality of people you are referencing are those who cannot afford insurance. A moderate to high earning family may CHOOSE to forgo insurance they are not the people you were ever referencing. You have successfully proven that there are people who can afford insurance who do not purchase it. Those who cannot afford any insurance are those who have a lower income than the 2/10 you reference. They cannot afford another $300 a month. Rather than the top 20% of the uninsured they are the bottom segment. They are frequently the people who would have medicaid in states that expanded it. This too is a feature you don’t understand because you don’t live here.

From your own link again these are the bottom-most not the topmost uninsured.

63% of uninsured adults ages 18-64 said that they were uninsured because the cost of coverage was too high

Here is a study that found that 59% of the entire country didn’t have enough to absorb a $1000 one time expense.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/

The overlap with those who don’t have 1000 available to cover an emergency with those who don’t have enough to cover 1000 is basically total because of the distribution of wealth in MY country. The top half has 91% of the wealth. The next quartile has about 9% of the wealth. The last quartile has debt and nothing else. It is literally that bad. It is a regular thing for people to engage in short term loans at 300% interest until their payday so they can pay their rent on time and get stuck in a loop where they have to keep getting another payday loan because they can’t catch up. People regularly crowd fund medical debt and the biggest single source of bankruptcies which are common here is medical debt but oops some years ago we fixed it so even those who have nothing have a hard time getting out from under it unless they have a bunch of money and time to litigate it whilst rich people frequently walk away from debt painlessly and repeatedly.

We are fucked. We are fake successful living off debt like Wile E. Coyote before he runs all the way off the cliff and looks down. This too you don’t understand because you don’t live here.

You don’t live here so you have no idea what you are talking about. Being uninsured in the US is absolutely insane.

If not insured and they find shit or anesthesia is complicated or god forbid you have complications it could balloon out into 5-20k. Even if you can afford to pay up front 2K can you afford to risk financial ruin if something goes wrong?

Again the kind of people who can’t afford insurance even high deductible insurance can’t afford this shit. Hell you are still wrong that people can afford to come out of pocket $2000. Do you even live here?

You are missing the primary part. Without insurance it costs several times more than it would with insurance.

Well the civil war pretty clearly established this and if we try we would absolutely have to fight and win a multi year war during which in addition to millions or tens of millions of deaths there would be ample pretext to not count our votes. We would seem folks herded into death camps which nukes would insure nobody would liberate.

Our military would be firmly on the side of compliance with the law which they voted for 2 to 1 and we would lose.

You can vote so you can vote for local people. You can even sometimes vote between 2 Republicans to try to get the less shitty one and also vote to send a message

Pricing is far more complicated with the old having Medicare, many of the poorest having subsidies some free, and others a range of plans mostly at least somewhat subsidized by employers.

We are a fat unhealthy folk in a country where a single hospitalization can run you 10-100k and financially ruin you due in no small part to cartel pricing.

So your various medical providers have negotiated given rates for given things that are less special rates and more what you might consider normal pricing whereas if you are not protected by such a “deal” you may pay several times more at hundreds of percent profit for the provider with the expectation that you pay up front for services or die essentially so long as your death isn’t immediately caused by their immediate neglect. Eg you can’t be allowed to actually bleed out for lack of a stitch but you can be allowed to get septic and then be admitted after it’s really too late to do anything but try to bill your family 100k and steal any inheritance from your estate if any.

So you are incentivized to buy at least the shittiest high deductible plan with an 8000 deductible just to have access to sane pricing, get treated and then billed, and limit max damage if things go bad even if you expect to not actually get much direct benefit. Plus favorable tax treatment paid in.

Whilst some may choose to risk it being literally incapable of paying a subsidized 100-300 for the shittiest plan possible means that you are poor in a state which doesn’t choose to subsidize the poor and likely illiquid. Most people in America don’t have 2500 to cover am emergency of any variety. This is true of nearly 100% of the bottom half

Furthermore anyone who needs a colonoscopy needs other things like annual checkups and medication.

The number of people who can cash pay the sucker uninsured rate but not shitty insurance is basically zero

Voting third parties don’t put any butts in seats and therefore do nothing. For example green has literally NEVER put someone in a federal office iin their 40 year existence.

In the recycling example its a sham because the net effect of all individual parties recycling is bubkis whereas with voting the net effect of another 1% getting to the polls turns the entire thing around.

We are absolutely at fault for not understanding the meaning of our choices…

They aren’t here for regime change they are here for PR points and to distract from domestic problems.

A) They aren’t going to ever tell you it’s time because your needs never meant anything to them

B) There will be no weapons air dropped to you because your revolution is a non-goal for them.

C) The remaining military is still going to be mostly alive and capable of machine gunning you down again

D) The new leader will be as bad as the old in fact it will probably be one of his deputies who have already been largely running the show

We can’t do that

The candidates job isn’t to teach you that allowing Hitler to come to power is a worst case scenario nor is it their fault if you fail to realize that. The candidate got one vote just like you

We aren’t going to get to have any elections that count because of protest votes. Meanwhile the number of current and upcoming dead kids from loss of usaid alone is well into 6 figures. We killed both children and democracy in America because we are stupid.

Why would you vote for a party which has never and will never hold federal office?

Nobody who can’t afford insurance can afford 2400