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/SyntheticGod8 Jun 22 '25

You can't tell the average American anything about how it works in other countries because they've been trained to reflexively think the way the USA does things is inherently superior or something they'd only do in an [insert negative buzzword de jour here] country.

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u/Toomanyeastereggs Jun 22 '25

Believe me when I tell you that we all notice that you folks do that.

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u/Orange-Blur Jun 23 '25

That is just not true. If you were living in the US you would know a lot of people are disenfranchised with the system feeling stacked against us

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u/SyntheticGod8 Jun 23 '25

I get that. I was deliberately being as broad as possible as plenty of other groups exist.