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   Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 14:21:56 JST Qasim Rashid, Esq.

   Americans:
   •Cancel student debt!
   •Cancel medical debt!
   •Make insulin free!

   Most of Developed World:
   •What is student debt?
   •What is medical debt?
   •Insulin is already free!

   What MAGAs (& some corporate Dems) calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”

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     Old Man in the Shoe (jenzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:28:29 JST Old Man in the Shoe

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     @QasimRashid I've now seen this reposted by two fascists. One is apparently not in the USA (Alfred) who told us to submit to Trump. The other is telling us Trump is better for Gaza!

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:28:29 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Old Man in the Shoe

     @jenzi @QasimRashid how about you look up my option first before you start yapping lies?

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:35:30 JST Håkan Geijer

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     @QasimRashid Perhaps instead of acting like Europe is paradise, you could look at the data which, for most of Europe, does not have zero out-of-pocket expenses for people who need insulin.

     https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/clinical-diabetes-and-healthcare/articles/10.3389/fcdhc.2024.1293882/full

     Or with "medical debt" and "student debt," yes it's not like the US system, but I know people in multiple countries who couldn't go to school because they couldn't afford to not work. Or people, again in multiple countries, who can't get medical procedures that are deemed non-necessary by insurance because they can't afford them even if they're "only" a few thousand.

     I'd wager these sorts of comparisons are more harmful than helpful because it let's Euros off the hood and it limits the idea of what we could achieve to only that of what the "average" European state offers.

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     mechanistisches Entmensch (walkinglampshade@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 23:46:57 JST mechanistisches Entmensch

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     • 🦣丁斯特Dingster
     • Håkan Geijer
     • Arthur van der Harg
     • This Old Hiker

     @hakan_geijer @QasimRashid @leftsidestory @ArtHarg @Patrickoldhiker

     https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1604.02370

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 23:46:57 JST Håkan Geijer

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     • 🦣丁斯特Dingster
     • Arthur van der Harg
     • This Old Hiker
     • mechanistisches Entmensch

     @walkinglampshade @QasimRashid @leftsidestory @ArtHarg @Patrickoldhiker two things can be bad at once even if one is preferable to the other. Regardless, OP's statement was objectively false and also suggests that school and medicine are free and available to all which is also false