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We need universal mental health care full stop. Even if you're against universal health care in general, and I don't know why anyone would be, start with universal mental health care.
Get people assessed, get them the treatment they need. If they need to be held the rest of their lives, figure out how to make that work safely and humanely.
To break it down:
I feel dumber for having written in that voice, and dirty too, yuck.
And now the retort for these arguments:
So yes indeed, it is beyond me why in the fuck a large portion of my fellow citizens are hellbent on keeping the status quo (oh wait, it's due their thorough brainwashing that keeps them in that trance).
Right up until you switched it up that was a completely believable conservative post.
Gotta keep funding the insurance companies so they can profit by denying care. What was that about death lists?
My wife also points out that for entirely too many people #1 reads as:
"1. Black and brown people want free shit, I don't want to pay for black and brown people's free shit; make them get a job like everyone else if they want healthcare."
But you know they wouldn't be polite enough to say "black and brown people".
Idk about that, these days they are pretty emboldened by Trump to just say all kinds of racist shit out loud.
#3 Insurance companies exist as death panels currently. Their entire purpose is to deny life saving procedures as frequently as possible.