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  • So political donations are often open even small donations you can use that and social media to find the majority of magas in the state. One of the most obvious disqualifying criteria is voting in another state or being dead names being pretty non-unique you can find someone who died or votes in another state with the same name for most people. If you automate this you can probably legally file a challenge for literally every Trump voter in your county.

    If you make this automation available you can probably with a little help from your friends (thank you joe cocker) file a challenge for every Trump voter in the entire state.

    I’m betting this wouldn’t actually disenfranchise anyone though because the system would simply collapse under hundreds of thousands of challenges.


  • How on earth are other voters supposed to have or get evidence of other voters citizenship? Challenges filed by actual elected officials may still be corrupt attempts to suppress the vote by challenging without reason but at least its a limited pool of people who are actually accountable to the people. Allowing any yahoo to challenge all the brown people in the county opens the door to a flood of nonsense.

    In theory it could be contained by the actual officials that should throw out nonsense but nothing is stopping them using chatGPT to mass produce “evidence” that passes a minimum smell test of looking like real evidence. For instance names are VERY non-unique find every record of registration in any state which matches an ethnic name in your county submit one challenge per name and challenge half the brown people in your county because again names are NOT very unique.


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    MAGA just doesn’t think like that. They think putting women in their proper place isn’t anti women its pro women because if they have traditional values imposed upon them then they will have a more happy fulfilled life. For those with minority associates or family members that they don’t silently hate they rationalize that they are among the “good ones” Ask them if they hate black people and wait for them to tell you that they don’t they hate n words which are somehow different than black people. Their compartmentalization is perfect. They see no tension with believing black people in general are bad but the ones THEY know to be good are good.





  • You said there were people who couldn’t afford insurance but could afford elective procedures. For reference most can get high deductible insurance for ~$300/month from your employer

    The totality of people you are referencing are those who cannot afford insurance. A moderate to high earning family may CHOOSE to forgo insurance they are not the people you were ever referencing. You have successfully proven that there are people who can afford insurance who do not purchase it. Those who cannot afford any insurance are those who have a lower income than the 2/10 you reference. They cannot afford another $300 a month. Rather than the top 20% of the uninsured they are the bottom segment. They are frequently the people who would have medicaid in states that expanded it. This too is a feature you don’t understand because you don’t live here.

    From your own link again these are the bottom-most not the topmost uninsured.

    63% of uninsured adults ages 18-64 said that they were uninsured because the cost of coverage was too high

    Here is a study that found that 59% of the entire country didn’t have enough to absorb a $1000 one time expense.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/

    The overlap with those who don’t have 1000 available to cover an emergency with those who don’t have enough to cover 1000 is basically total because of the distribution of wealth in MY country. The top half has 91% of the wealth. The next quartile has about 9% of the wealth. The last quartile has debt and nothing else. It is literally that bad. It is a regular thing for people to engage in short term loans at 300% interest until their payday so they can pay their rent on time and get stuck in a loop where they have to keep getting another payday loan because they can’t catch up. People regularly crowd fund medical debt and the biggest single source of bankruptcies which are common here is medical debt but oops some years ago we fixed it so even those who have nothing have a hard time getting out from under it unless they have a bunch of money and time to litigate it whilst rich people frequently walk away from debt painlessly and repeatedly.

    We are fucked. We are fake successful living off debt like Wile E. Coyote before he runs all the way off the cliff and looks down. This too you don’t understand because you don’t live here.



  • If not insured and they find shit or anesthesia is complicated or god forbid you have complications it could balloon out into 5-20k. Even if you can afford to pay up front 2K can you afford to risk financial ruin if something goes wrong?

    Again the kind of people who can’t afford insurance even high deductible insurance can’t afford this shit. Hell you are still wrong that people can afford to come out of pocket $2000. Do you even live here?






  • Pricing is far more complicated with the old having Medicare, many of the poorest having subsidies some free, and others a range of plans mostly at least somewhat subsidized by employers.

    We are a fat unhealthy folk in a country where a single hospitalization can run you 10-100k and financially ruin you due in no small part to cartel pricing.

    So your various medical providers have negotiated given rates for given things that are less special rates and more what you might consider normal pricing whereas if you are not protected by such a “deal” you may pay several times more at hundreds of percent profit for the provider with the expectation that you pay up front for services or die essentially so long as your death isn’t immediately caused by their immediate neglect. Eg you can’t be allowed to actually bleed out for lack of a stitch but you can be allowed to get septic and then be admitted after it’s really too late to do anything but try to bill your family 100k and steal any inheritance from your estate if any.

    So you are incentivized to buy at least the shittiest high deductible plan with an 8000 deductible just to have access to sane pricing, get treated and then billed, and limit max damage if things go bad even if you expect to not actually get much direct benefit. Plus favorable tax treatment paid in.

    Whilst some may choose to risk it being literally incapable of paying a subsidized 100-300 for the shittiest plan possible means that you are poor in a state which doesn’t choose to subsidize the poor and likely illiquid. Most people in America don’t have 2500 to cover am emergency of any variety. This is true of nearly 100% of the bottom half

    Furthermore anyone who needs a colonoscopy needs other things like annual checkups and medication.

    The number of people who can cash pay the sucker uninsured rate but not shitty insurance is basically zero