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[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid. I’m also here to tell you why I’m an unlikely supporter of the program. My son’s life depends on government assistance.

What does she mean unlikely supporter? She supports the cuts? Or she supports Medicare? It doesn’t really look like an unlikely supporter when your child literally depends on it now is it?

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 39 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

She means she's an unlikely supporter of medicaid. Unlikely, because she's a fucking asshole who votes for the party that demonizes people who need medicaid. What she doesn't realize is that she is made from the same mold that all Republicans are: they're against anything that could help people unless they personally could benefit from it.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I think most are against the programs while simultaneously benefiting significantly from them.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

True. It's only when they lose access to the program because they voted for the party that said: "I'm going to kill that program" that they go out and write pleading articles like this bullshit saying: "Wait, no - but good people like ME benefit from it! You can't kill this program!"

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Sorry can't do it, billionaires need more money and we need to blow up more brown people on the other side of the world.

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