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It’s really easy to ignore these big numbers or to attack the credibility of the presenter

Yeah, I think part of the problem is that we kneejerk so hard away from using appeals to emotion, that we forget people check out with lists of dry facts. It feels like homework, and the average American is barely literate to begin with. We’re already busy trying to balance our household budgets, and nobody wants to do more math that the government should be doing for us anyways.

First, a society that allows preventable deaths can’t call itself civilized. Second, most wealthy countries spend less, have better health outcomes, and have taxes similar or lower to the US

I don’t know if the civilized angle would land, tbh. I grew up in Oklahoma, and it just feels like something that’d set people off down there. People respond poorly to moral arguments if it’s not a position they already agree with, or coming from an authority they already trust. Now, if we could get pastors to make that argument from the megachurch pulpit, or the evangelical television channel, it might be different, but good fucking luck with that, lmao.

Second, most wealthy countries spend less, have better health outcomes, and have taxes similar or lower to the US

I think this would go a long way if it were in infographic form, coupled with a political campaign about lowering the cost of healthcare.

I think it’d also be beneficial to do more framing of insurance companies as greedy middlemen, which a lot of working-class people hate here. I don’t understand why there isn’t more hammering on the fact that private insurance takes your money and doesn’t cover fuck all. Like, why does the opposition get to talk about fictional death panels, but we can’t even run ads about insurance companies using AI to jack up prices, deny claims, and make record profits? Please!

I’ll keep an eye out and try to pass it along if I come across something like you’re looking for, search is just really bad these days or I’d try to grab you something

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Yeah, so, I agree with you that the messaging on this topic is generally terrible, lmao.

This past election cycle, I have seen absolutely zero politicians talking favorably about it. I’ve heard El Sayed and Bernie have said something, but I can’t find any infographics or anything written at a 3rd grade reading level that I could share with low-education/low-information voters. I try to look for it, and the DuckDuckGo search mostly gives me anti-M4A shit.

So I was trying to ask if you had anything.

Lmao, did you get me confused with the other guy you were talking to?

I’m sorry, I thought you were sincere with that bit I quoted! I’m highly in favor of M4A, and have many critiques on how we can more effectively talk about it.

I’d love to be wrong, please tell me if I’ve convinced you though this type of messaging and I’ll reevaluate it’s effectiveness

You say that these questions have been answered repeatedly, but didn’t provide a link to any political candidate that brought it up during the last election cycle. I can easily find Republicans talking about how Medicare For All is too expensive, but I have a hard time finding the opposite.

This happened to someone in my neighborhood a few months ago. ICE torqued his arm real bad getting him into the car, then after driving him around and “interrogating” him, they realized he was a citizen and just left him on the side of the road.

The local cops took a report and started a paper trail, but because it happened outside town, it’s the sheriff’s jurisdiction, so not much happened.

Midterms was just the start. Keep the pressure on, don’t let up now.

Typical american attitude

You can be in dotary and go senile, or you could be a Dotary and be a braille ebook.

Don’t wait, there’s more! Dotage is a related term for the time period of being a dotard. I worked in elder care, and we’d often use “They’re entering their dotage” as a polite way to say “they’re going senile”.

Fun fact, the Mayans had a zero too.

Anecdote time! I grew up in Oklahoma, and when we were learning about addition and subtraction, I asked what would happen if I subtracted a bigger number from a smaller number. Instead of being reasonable and telling me I’d learn about that later, my teacher told me that was a stupid question because you obviously can’t have less than zero, and the class laughed at me.

A huge part of Oklahoma history was that it’s foundation was literally going back on the promise of Indian Land after the Trail of Tears, and they’d celebrate it’s anniversary by getting the school kids to dress up and LARP stealing territory by taking a sack lunch to the playground and staking your claim.

I couldn’t get out of that state fast enough.

I thought JD stood for Juicy Douche

Aww man, I misread “resident” as “President” and got all excited for a moment

Get off the internet and go outside!

I’m pretty sure the downtime is just for enforced grass-touching.

Based