I feel like a lot of Gen Z don’t know that the ACA/Obamacare was the compromise.
The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say “hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too”.
It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let’s be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.
“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man” isn’t just a hypothetical. It’s literally what happened when we tried to meet Republicans in the middle with healthcare.
This post came up in conversation once and I tried to google and find it but every variation on the caption I typed in made google hit me with their “hey man, maybe stop searching for racist memes” followed by 10,000 explicitly racist memes and, crucially, not this post. While I am glad this is a feature google has, it definitely did not help me find this post (which is not racist) but it did show me a lot memes (that were on purpose racist)
nuclear power is impressive until you get up to why. “we use the most precisely engineered machinery ever created to split atoms to release energy” oh yeah how come? “boil water to turn a fan” get the fuck out
The power of atom turns out to be, yet again, the power of steam
Theres just somethings that let me know I’ll never get along with someone and that they’re not worth the air they breathe and one of them is not liking Beau
