Just wait until you or someone close develops an autoimmune disease, then the trust meter falls off a cliff during round after round of tests and "you're fine".
Or if you have a bunion that skews your big toe 35° but they tell you it's not bad enough for surgery and there's nothing to be done for it.
Or...yeah we could be here all day just for the system's failings for me and my wife.
And there's our lack of or inadequate mental health coverage and care.
And that's just one example.
The most glaring generator of mistrust for decades now is the thing citizens discuss all the time but is never addressed: our out of control military budget.
We could solve every one of our country's financial issues multiple times over by reducing the military budget, and not even drastically so.
Our military was tasked with an audit to reign in waste and spending. They couldn't pass an audit so they were just given a free pass, no penalties or repercussions. The first audit was 2017 and they failed to pass. They failed two more since then. Senator Sanders intoruduced a bill in 2021 and again in 2023 which required an audit and was supposed to impose penalties for failure, it's been introduced so we'll see how that goes.
That's a thing? Ugh
Well said, even if you are the grossest of schnapps.
That is an amazing idea!
We should make a site where people can set up their own internet homepage. Each person can have their own space on the internet! To give the users a sense of ownership let's call it MySpace.
I think my friend Tom will help design the site.
Welcome. I wasn't trying to stir the pot, just lookin' out for a fellow linguaphile.
or else they turn words that we could previously use just fine into slurs
/gestures the "ok" hand sign
Like that?
Digital dadaism?
Exactly what I was driving at.
Or you found the person using the example of the Nazi party being socialists in name only to highlight the ridiculousness of the comment I replied to.
social democrats sure do like building police states
Oh good, so Google has stopped all political donations and canceled all government contracts so they can stay out politics?
No? Ok fuck you.