Talgrath
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Personally, I think the gnostics got it right; God is an evil being that has trapped your soul on this plane of existence. If you're not a gnostic you're not a real Christian, fight me.
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ALT: a group of men wearing top hats with the caption may the christian lord guide my hand against your roman popery
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December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Personally, I think the gnostics got it right; God is an evil being that has trapped your soul on this plane of existence. If you're not a gnostic you're not a real Christian, fight me.
As an atheist, the one thing I've learned is there is no true Christian.
Do you believe in transubstantiation? If you do, you're not a Christian. Also if you don't you're not a Christian. Do works matter in the matter of salvation? Does not matter what your position is, you're not a Christian.
Do you believe in transubstantiation? If you do, you're not a Christian. Also if you don't you're not a Christian. Do works matter in the matter of salvation? Does not matter what your position is, you're not a Christian.
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
As an atheist, the one thing I've learned is there is no true Christian.
Do you believe in transubstantiation? If you do, you're not a Christian. Also if you don't you're not a Christian. Do works matter in the matter of salvation? Does not matter what your position is, you're not a Christian.
Do you believe in transubstantiation? If you do, you're not a Christian. Also if you don't you're not a Christian. Do works matter in the matter of salvation? Does not matter what your position is, you're not a Christian.
Hey chat, what is an agent?
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hey chat, what is an agent?
Since Leyva is homegrown, afaik, there is no threshold to hit. Sounders convert at least some of the fee to GAM. There's only a threshold when a transfer fee was paid.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Since Leyva is homegrown, afaik, there is no threshold to hit. Sounders convert at least some of the fee to GAM. There's only a threshold when a transfer fee was paid.
They literally have spent money the last two seasons at least. They brought in Pedro 2 years ago and they brought in Arriola and Ferreira last season.
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
They literally have spent money the last two seasons at least. They brought in Pedro 2 years ago and they brought in Arriola and Ferreira last season.
As I wrote here earlier, I think if the ACA is dead, private health insurance collapses in the USA in short order. It's gonna get real grim.
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
As I wrote here earlier, I think if the ACA is dead, private health insurance collapses in the USA in short order. It's gonna get real grim.
I mean, it's also a lie. It's close, but it's 14.3%, or about 1 in every 7.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I mean, it's also a lie. It's close, but it's 14.3%, or about 1 in every 7.
Yup! Absolute lunatic shit, at this point, I trust the craziest Sonic fan more than I trust Schumer. At least the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom knows they're making up wild shit and they aren't basing public policy on whether or not Sonic will bang their furry self-insert.
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Yup! Absolute lunatic shit, at this point, I trust the craziest Sonic fan more than I trust Schumer. At least the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom knows they're making up wild shit and they aren't basing public policy on whether or not Sonic will bang their furry self-insert.
American healthcare system; and each of these issues accelerates the other one, making healthcare endlessly more expensive and inaccesible. How quickly we reach the bottom, when we get to the point where it all fails I don't know, but we're digging a pit straight to healthcare hell.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
American healthcare system; and each of these issues accelerates the other one, making healthcare endlessly more expensive and inaccesible. How quickly we reach the bottom, when we get to the point where it all fails I don't know, but we're digging a pit straight to healthcare hell.
There comes a point where the bottom falls out of an unsustainable system, and private health insurance in the US is on an unsustainable path. Is this moment the moment private health insurance collapses? Maybe. At the very least, this will accelerate the dire issues already present in the
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There comes a point where the bottom falls out of an unsustainable system, and private health insurance in the US is on an unsustainable path. Is this moment the moment private health insurance collapses? Maybe. At the very least, this will accelerate the dire issues already present in the
but can't afford them due to all of the factors I mentioned and more. We already had a shortage of doctors and nurses, those that remain can pretty much pick where they work. We could see these already stressed healthcare systems collapse.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
but can't afford them due to all of the factors I mentioned and more. We already had a shortage of doctors and nurses, those that remain can pretty much pick where they work. We could see these already stressed healthcare systems collapse.
damaged rural healthcare systems. Immigration policies are discouraging and preventing nurses and doctors from other countries from emigrating to the US. The majority of people in poor areas are either on medicare, medicaid or ACA plans; the exact spots that are desperate for doctors and nurses,
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
damaged rural healthcare systems. Immigration policies are discouraging and preventing nurses and doctors from other countries from emigrating to the US. The majority of people in poor areas are either on medicare, medicaid or ACA plans; the exact spots that are desperate for doctors and nurses,
Some of you are saying, "okay, I get it, but why is this a BAD thing? I hate health insurance!". Well, it's because the US healthcare system is badly bruised and beaten. COVID caused the deaths of many nurses and doctors, many others left the industry. Republican anti-choice policies have badly
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Some of you are saying, "okay, I get it, but why is this a BAD thing? I hate health insurance!". Well, it's because the US healthcare system is badly bruised and beaten. COVID caused the deaths of many nurses and doctors, many others left the industry. Republican anti-choice policies have badly
prescription for about the same price as you would with insurance.
Similarly, as health insurance has gotten more expensive and less useful, employers increasingly ask employees to fit some of the bill. This leads to healthy employees opting opt of health insurance, shrinking the pool of payers.
Similarly, as health insurance has gotten more expensive and less useful, employers increasingly ask employees to fit some of the bill. This leads to healthy employees opting opt of health insurance, shrinking the pool of payers.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
prescription for about the same price as you would with insurance.
Similarly, as health insurance has gotten more expensive and less useful, employers increasingly ask employees to fit some of the bill. This leads to healthy employees opting opt of health insurance, shrinking the pool of payers.
Similarly, as health insurance has gotten more expensive and less useful, employers increasingly ask employees to fit some of the bill. This leads to healthy employees opting opt of health insurance, shrinking the pool of payers.
It does not help that health insurance has steadily made itself less and less relevant as it pays for less treatment. How many people have chipped in for a GoFundMe campaign for someone whose treatment was denied by insurance? With internet ordering, generics and discount plans, you can get your
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It does not help that health insurance has steadily made itself less and less relevant as it pays for less treatment. How many people have chipped in for a GoFundMe campaign for someone whose treatment was denied by insurance? With internet ordering, generics and discount plans, you can get your
Ever since, the Republican party has been chipping away at the benefits of the #ACA and now, they've finally killed it off.
So now, given a choice between many hundreds or thousands of dollars more for health insurance or food and shelter, most people will choose food and shelter.
So now, given a choice between many hundreds or thousands of dollars more for health insurance or food and shelter, most people will choose food and shelter.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ever since, the Republican party has been chipping away at the benefits of the #ACA and now, they've finally killed it off.
So now, given a choice between many hundreds or thousands of dollars more for health insurance or food and shelter, most people will choose food and shelter.
So now, given a choice between many hundreds or thousands of dollars more for health insurance or food and shelter, most people will choose food and shelter.
#Obamacare was a bailout for private health insurance, a lifeline in which, under its original writing, everyone had to "get in the pool" for private healthcare. Government money was directly paying costs too, a subsidy for private insurance. Republicans sued to kill the individual mandate.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#Obamacare was a bailout for private health insurance, a lifeline in which, under its original writing, everyone had to "get in the pool" for private healthcare. Government money was directly paying costs too, a subsidy for private insurance. Republicans sued to kill the individual mandate.
5. As the benefits of healthcare diminish, the appeal of having them as a work benefit decrease.
In short, the pool of people paying in increasingly only includes sick people who pay in less than the benefits they get. The pools are getting smaller. And the benefits are becoming less attractive.
In short, the pool of people paying in increasingly only includes sick people who pay in less than the benefits they get. The pools are getting smaller. And the benefits are becoming less attractive.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
5. As the benefits of healthcare diminish, the appeal of having them as a work benefit decrease.
In short, the pool of people paying in increasingly only includes sick people who pay in less than the benefits they get. The pools are getting smaller. And the benefits are becoming less attractive.
In short, the pool of people paying in increasingly only includes sick people who pay in less than the benefits they get. The pools are getting smaller. And the benefits are becoming less attractive.
Consider these issues:
1. Healthcare is getting more expensive,
2. "Healthy" people are getting more rare as the population ages.
3. Health insurance is trying to pay out less, making their services frustrating and unattractive.
4. Sick people need health insurance to afford their healthcare.
1. Healthcare is getting more expensive,
2. "Healthy" people are getting more rare as the population ages.
3. Health insurance is trying to pay out less, making their services frustrating and unattractive.
4. Sick people need health insurance to afford their healthcare.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Consider these issues:
1. Healthcare is getting more expensive,
2. "Healthy" people are getting more rare as the population ages.
3. Health insurance is trying to pay out less, making their services frustrating and unattractive.
4. Sick people need health insurance to afford their healthcare.
1. Healthcare is getting more expensive,
2. "Healthy" people are getting more rare as the population ages.
3. Health insurance is trying to pay out less, making their services frustrating and unattractive.
4. Sick people need health insurance to afford their healthcare.
Take, for example this article by Humphrey Taylor, a researcher, titled "How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse" (behind a paywall, FYI): www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Humphrey Taylor is also not a lefty by any means, and he's writing this in 2002.
Humphrey Taylor is also not a lefty by any means, and he's writing this in 2002.
How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse | Health Affairs Journal
The advocates of defined-contribution health plans extol the virtues of consumer-driven health care, consumer choice, and empowered consumers as solutions to the problems—particularly the rapidly grow...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Take, for example this article by Humphrey Taylor, a researcher, titled "How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse" (behind a paywall, FYI): www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Humphrey Taylor is also not a lefty by any means, and he's writing this in 2002.
Humphrey Taylor is also not a lefty by any means, and he's writing this in 2002.
The author, Charles Whelan, is not a lefty liberal. he founded "Unite America" which is an attempt to make a "centrist" party, he wrote "The Centrist Manifesto". This book is filled with pro-business, anti-communist anecdotes, which is why it fascinated me. And the more I dug, the more I found.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The author, Charles Whelan, is not a lefty liberal. he founded "Unite America" which is an attempt to make a "centrist" party, he wrote "The Centrist Manifesto". This book is filled with pro-business, anti-communist anecdotes, which is why it fascinated me. And the more I dug, the more I found.
As a young lad in the far off time of 2010, I'm sitting in an airport, bored out of my mind. I go and look around the airport, and wind up buying an overpriced copy of "Naked Economics". Chapter 5 has a passage that caught my attention, discussing potential collapse of private healthcare.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
As a young lad in the far off time of 2010, I'm sitting in an airport, bored out of my mind. I go and look around the airport, and wind up buying an overpriced copy of "Naked Economics". Chapter 5 has a passage that caught my attention, discussing potential collapse of private healthcare.
Some of you might be cheered by that idea, and I agree, private healthcare sucks. But if there is nothing to replace it, we could be in for a very unpleasant and dark timeline. But first, a little side story, the story of how I got interested in this topic in the first place.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Some of you might be cheered by that idea, and I agree, private healthcare sucks. But if there is nothing to replace it, we could be in for a very unpleasant and dark timeline. But first, a little side story, the story of how I got interested in this topic in the first place.