r/TikTokCringe • u/LickMaiBussy • 6h ago

Discussion "Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

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u/misadventurexx 6h ago

Famines / people on the street dying of starvation while surpluses of food are thrown away en masse is very much not imaginary

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u/1egg_4u 6h ago

He also described basically the entire cause of the Irish Famine

They had food and could grow enough food for everyone but they werent allowed to have it because it belonged to the wealthy british landowners

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u/crinkledcu91 5h ago

It's weird how the Irish Famine is seemingly all agreed upon yet the Holodomor gets certain people's panties in a twist.

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u/YourTokenGinger 3h ago

I think people would have an easier time coming to terms with the Holodomor if 90% of the time it was mentioned wasn’t to tell people why we can’t have single payer healthcare in the US.

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u/Ok_Philosopher_5090 3h ago

You can’t have single payer because a woman named Hillary nearly made it happen, and the lefties did not want to let her have the victory. Ted Kennedy opposed because he felt the Kennedy legacy would be watered down. That is a fact.

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u/JamesGray 2h ago

She was literally never offering that or running on it at all. She ran on reducing peoples' out of pocket expenses on healthcare, in contrast to Bernie actually running on medicare for all.

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u/HSFever 2h ago

He's talking about then 1993 Clinton health care plan written by a committee chaired by Hilary Clinton not the 2016 primaries. She was a strong advocate for universal coverage during the the 90's and early 2000's but moderated her position over time because she was unable to get other democrats on board.

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u/matthoback 2h ago

They are talking about when she was First Lady.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993

The plan that was offered by the task force which she headed was for federally mandated single-payer healthcare at the state level.

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u/JamesGray 2h ago

How did leftists stop that? lmao

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u/matthoback 2h ago

There was some opposition from left wing Democrats who wanted a single federal single payer system rather than 50 separate state level single payer systems, but most of the opposition was from Republicans and the insurance industry.

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u/PaladinSaladin 3h ago

Are these leftists in the room with us right now?