I'm in the same spot. I'm dependent on it. I'm fucked if it goes away rn

Yeah that's all I'm saying here - we don't have to glaze the ACA. It was a compromise, we did great work getting there, but if the Republicans are going to go back to 0 then fine, we go back to single payer and they can negotiate us BACK to the ACA

ok but.....that's not the real point of what I was saying

the point is that instead of single payer, we got a Rube Goldberg device

it was a brilliant Rube Goldberg! Pelosi did amazing work getting it passed! but if we're back to the drawing board we can do better

it would but let's not pretend the ACA was a great thing

the original ask was "single payer" somehow we negotiated down to the Mitt Romney plan

We can say, sure Pelosi did amazing things to make it happen, the political situation was bad, but also, it was not a great policy

that DOES sound like an improvement

Or to the conditions of Jews in Israel.

Very very very little separates nearly all diaspora Jews from Israeli Jews. Just luck.

My parents wanted to leave ukraine, missed by a few months the final deadline to get automatic USA citizenship.

& if they'd stayed there, I'd still need as a autist,...

A genderqueer AMAB and a Jew, to escape Ukrainian conscription. And being a refugee would be *horridly* hard for me.

Just a little time period made the difference between me being an Israeli or not.

Hopefully no offense for detaching - I continued the conversation under my pinned post, but I'd rather not have my intro post be a launching-off point for other conversation

Happy to chat though

for sure. The situation of Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia is a whole complex thing, and Israel being the only place to which we can flee is a Problem that binds us together with Israel's fate

I'm very glad your family was able to escape

"the optics may look rough" this guy watched way too many hours of Washington Week

I know "Stop getting Bond wrong!" is an ever-popular thread of discourse, but I really wouldn't give any shred of credibility to the notion that Knight or anyone else is struggling with this aspect of the new film.

Some things that are true:

* Black soldiers have served with distinction in every major US war

* Racist white people will always try to minimize the accomplishments of Black soldiers or erase them completely

"Double victory" describes Black soldiers' need to fight oppression abroad and at home
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Don’t fall into the “absolutely everyone has the same rich interior life as me” trap I lived in forever. Most people do! But Fascism requires a certain number of people who are shockingly simple.

I have heard through the grapevine that alcohol companies AND *THC* companies all want to destroy the CBD hemp product biz.

So a collection of prohibitionists are in cahoots with big liquor and big THC, using Republicans to doom our fledgeling little CBD industry.

Perfect.