• Estiar@sh.itjust.works
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    Tankies try to argue at the collapse of the United States is universally a good thing and that everybody in the world is going to be better off when that happens. So therefore, whenever the United States is in turmoil, they’re happy

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        I’m right there with ya. And so are a lot of tankies. Though, most of them think that they’d survive because the party will protect them

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from community
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        On the plus side, if the US collapses the at the very least the northern states are going to join Canada. I wouldn’t mind being Canadian.

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            The Supreme Court just told homeless people it was illegal for them to exist. If you’re focusing on the bad things, then whatever you find, the United States has done much worse.

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              I’m both poor and mentally disabled, I struggle with suicidal thoughts. There’s a real chance that if I were Canadian, MAID would have pushed me into killing myself.

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                Sounds like US propaganda tbh.

                Oooh, don’t use free healthcare, it’ll kill you!

                Personal anecdote, but here in Australia, to go through with voluntary assisted dying is a whole process. You need three separate doctor signatures, each to witness and two extra witnesses, whether it’s relevant healthcare team or personal friends of the one dying and you need multiple people to physically continue the dying for every step of the way.

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                  I know it sounds like it, but I’ve read too many stories and articles about doctors pushing it on their patients “Just to free up a few beds”, and how people who originally campaigned for MAID’s passage regretted how dark it got when it was amended so that you don’t have to actually be dying the qualify.

                  Even healthcare workers are sounding the alarms, that MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) is literally being pushing on people by doctors and for increasingly minor things.

                  Here’s an article I found just now googling “Canada MAID”

                  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-in-canada-grappling-with-patients-requesting-euthanasia

                  I’m on the side of universal healthcare, it’s barbaric that America doesn’t have it just so private health insurers can murder for profit… And for what it’s worth, this MAID issue does seem to be a uniquely Canadian problem. Other nations with euthanasia programs do not seem to have this issue.

                  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from community
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                    Except that article does not in any way suggest doctors are “pushing” it on people for “minor things”.

                    Where did you read these “stories and articles”, because it sounds a lot like the “death panels” republicans were screeching about when the ACA was passed.