"The People" are cruel but not our Robert! Also he retweeted some 10+ posts by this guy.
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Since I don't care to open up Blobbo's twitter feed to read the rest of this guy's ramblings, I'll just focus on the one part I can see. The reason much of the white working/middle class (nice to lump everyone together, that's not painting with an overly broad brush) doesn't care about Medicare for All isn't because of cruelty, it's because they've seen the debacle of Obamacare and said "okay, healthcare might be absurd in this country but I sure as hell don't want more of that." Has there ever been an instance of the government taking over any aspect of our day-to-day lives and making it more efficient and cheaper? I can't think of any.
Not to mention that a lot of people are familiar enough with basic economics to understand that "free healthcare" is most definitely not free. Someone's gotta pay for it, and it won't be the rich, they'll just offshore their money and keep it out of the socialists' hands. Nope, it'll overwhelmingly be the middle and working class footing the bill. Uncle Boiney's plan (or at least the latest thing he calls his plan) is to tax those who make over $29,000/year, which currently means just about everyone in this country with a full-time job. Since he's also calling for a $15 minimum wage, that would raise it from just about everyone who works a full-time job to literally everyone. And since taxes alone probably won't cover it all, that means running the deficit up even higher than it already is. And that's without even getting into the possibility of worsening care.
Many people do want changes to healthcare, but many would rather not rip out the entire system and replace it with something that hasn't been tested. I don't hate poor people or sick people, I just think that I can handle my own healthcare better than the government can, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Also, all those predominantly-black country flags (Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago) give me the suspicion that this is some white guy LARPing as a black guy. It probably isn't, but it still has a non-zero chance of being true, which makes the tweet even funnier.
And as one final note, Blobbo will never be able to explain what the fuck a "globally-unified intellectual economy" is, and that'll never get old to me. He just conveniently forgets that a lot of muscle goes into building the things those intellectuals come up with, and you really can't do without them. Sure, he likes to masturbate over robots and automation taking over, smugly going "tick tock" any time he reads some article about the latest robotic wonder, but he'd probably not like to hear this:
I was recently given a copy of the latest edition of What Color is Your Parachute? (I'm in the "graduated college and now I can't find shit" boat and it was thought it could help, which it is to be honest), and the beginning talks about how the work landscape has changed and is changing. The author specifically addressed automation, and talks about how when he pressed experts on AI and robotics about how many jobs are likely to be replaced wholesale over the coming years, they told him probably 5%, 19% in the absolute worst case. Rather, you can expect increased integration between humans and machines, as people find themselves able to do more with mechanical or AI assistance.
Muscle and brute strength ain't going anywhere, Robert. Have fun stewing about the jocks in your basement, they'll be contributing far more to your future than you will.