this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
1320 points (99.3% liked)

Microblog Memes

6036 readers
2482 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 1 week ago (25 children)

I don't like the term "free healthcare", because most of us would be paying for it in taxes, it would be more accurate to call it "socialized healthcare".

Saying "I want free healthcare" allows the media to twist your words and make you look like some "entitled brat" that "want everything for free".

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Keep it simple and call it “healthcare”. No need to qualify it with anything.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Counter-point: calling it universal/single-payer distinguishes it from what we have now. Which I would argue isn't actually healthcare, at least by modern standards in other countries...

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we don't have healthcare. We have profit-motivated health insurance. We pay in case we get injured or sick, and they only profit if they find a legitimate way to not cover us when we get injured or sick, so they try their damnedest to do that.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (22 replies)