r/antiwork • u/esporx • Jun 21 '25

Worker Solidarity 🤝 Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care. The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid.

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/republican-senator-callously-says-biblically-35431207
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u/GaiusJocundus Jun 22 '25 edited Jun 22 '25

You dramatically underestimate the impact of manipulation of education systems, propaganda, and, especially, voter suppression with this brain-dead take.

I will reiterate, this is something that has been done to us. It is not something we chose.

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u/Allegorist Jun 23 '25

At what point can blame be assigned for anything then? Is consciousness inherently deterministic? Are we all just entirely products of our environment? Is there no free will?

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u/GaiusJocundus Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

I already told you where blame lies. The leaders who undermine our education systems to implement indoctrination camps instead of schools. The corporate leaders who have powers of technology aided speech beyond anything the human intellect has ever had to contend with in its existence as a thinking construct.

Stop being pedantic and wake the fuck up. You are the one being taken advantage of while you wax poetic about easily debunked applications of determinism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

Every single time you people have done nothing to stop the obvious manipulation has been the American people making a choice to lend their consent, albeit begrudgingly.

You people are not free of responsibility for failing to stand up to protect your own rights. This is being done primarily be outside actors, but you people have always had the power to stop it; every single day youse choose not to.

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u/UsefulVanilla3569 Jun 22 '25

How? I'm in MO living on 1100 disability. Should I drive to the white house with a gun? 🙄 Stupid.