hater-of-terfs:

alden-the-commenter:

Yup. It’s not any different from the norm, people die because they’re too poor to afford medical care all the time.

Except now it’s obvious. Plain as day for everyone to see, and about half of the people in the US are in serious trouble at the same time. No fiction that “they’re poor because they did something wrong and thus ‘deserve it’.”

Before this, the average person couldn’t afford an unexpected $500 emergency, well guess what’s happening right now to everyone at the same time?

redshift-13:

Instead of doing the following:

• stopping rents and mortgages
• paying everyone who normally makes under X amount per year $1500 2x/month until things improve
• cancelling student loan and medical debt
• forcing credit card companies to reduce interest rates to less than 5%
• radically raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for it all

The capitalist parties would rather sacrifice human lives. 

To many liberal and conservative capitalists we’ve already hit the limits of what’s possible.  The idea that corporations, stockholders and wealthy people might have to make significant sacrifices during this crisis is unthinkable, and apparently the ultimate moral good, the ethical standard against which everything else must be measured. 

Right now your life is being measured against the privileges of wealth, and wealth might be winning.

socialistexan:

Andrew Cuomo is asking people to consider sacrificing themselves for the sake of the economy

Nancy Pelosi blocked a bill that would give people immediate aid. Chuck Schumer outflanked Republicans from the right with his relief proposal.

It’s not just Republicans. Neither of the capitalist parties care about you, they care about their corporate buddies, billionaire donors, and stocks. Don’t let one side off the hook.

biokitty:

Honestly, I can’t do anything about this because trump supporters have dragged us all to the edge with their cult. 

But I do insist that all of them go first in this sacrifice. Every single trump supporter should go back to work and make sure not to use any hospital or medical services after they do. It’s what the market wants.

third-nature:

“Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god – a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants.”

Terence McKenna

left-reminders:

What if instead of crawling back to the economic model that allowed this crisis to fester so we can pay off the leeches still demanding our income because they had enough money to buy up tons of homes they didn’t need, we refused to pay our rent, put our work towards helping our neighbors instead of making strangers rich, and started the process of building new, just institutions to replace the corrupt ones that left us to die?

Just a thought!