This was the extremely foreseeable result(and then some) of a (or no) vote for Trump. I do not care what people's excuses are any longer, what's done is done. Fuck them.
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The point is that your premise kills millions of potential democratic voters, which, while possibly satisfying in an abstract rage, is strategically somewhat shsky
aug 26, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
My premise isn't killing anybody. They are doing it to themselves whether I lash myself to them or not. I am not wealthy. My hospital that saved my life is going under. This isn't abstract for me.
aug 26, 2025, 7:56 pm • 10 0 • view
I watched them hand Trump a knife that they hoped was pointed elsewhere and are now whining that there's a knife-shaped object lodged in their back.
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Democratic voters and ineligible voters are doing it to themselves?
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
The phrase you're looking for is "people who didn't vote and were fine with Trump winning"
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 4 0 • view
As linked to data elsewhere in thread, this is not particularly a phrase i am looking for
aug 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Look, if hospitals are going to close (let's assume they are) the choice is which ones to keep open. Do Democrats benefit more by keeping open hospitals which support reliable voters who have consistently votes? Or by keeping open the ones which support fascists and some hypothetical maybe voters?
aug 26, 2025, 8:06 pm • 5 0 • view
that is in fact the math you would have to do (which is decidedly not the premise of the thread, fwiw) bsky.app/profile/ouji...
aug 26, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
The math is not as difficult as you think it is. Hypothetical maybe sorta almost kinda potential votes don't matter. Just sort by margin and fund hospitals from the top down until you run out of money.
aug 26, 2025, 10:13 pm • 6 0 • view
remember that the point of this is to win votes; if you're killing off GOP voters, democratic voters, and democratic-leaning non-voters indiscriminately, i think the math (of this deeply silly purely imaginary exercise) is actually quite complicated
aug 26, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
People can leave those rural communities without hospitals and move to cities. If they choose to die instead, that’s a choice they made for themselves. You act like these people aren’t adult human beings with agency.
aug 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Millions of people actually have very few resources to relocate, unfortunately. It can be quite difficult
aug 26, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I’d rather find relocation services than fund rural hospitals. A one-time expense, and then we can put the resources being pumped into rural hospitals into hospitals in cities that serve far more people and also do important research.
aug 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 9 1 • view
An interesting premise although not a proposal made in the thesis of this thread, hence not something I'm arguing
aug 26, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, I’m arguing that you would actually cause more people to suffer and die by continuing to pour money into small, rural hospitals that serve relatively few people instead of using that money to help way more people in cities.
aug 26, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Maybe so, I have no idea
aug 26, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Possible Democratic voters that found Trump acceptable? I don't understand why you don't understand this is happening regardless of your feelings. Trump is President. The choice was already made. I choose to enjoy these people getting precisely what they voted for.
aug 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 3 0 • view
It also ignores the millions of non voters who are simply ineligible. Children, non citizens, etc. i suppose we can let God sort them out though. Blood attainder by proximity
aug 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you propose extracting minors and otherwise disabled people from their lawful guardians? Oh, just keep shoveling money at them and they might come around.
aug 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, by killing them? That seems to be your thesis
aug 26, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you propose undoing their vote?
aug 26, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The children?
aug 26, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Their legal guardians as recognized by literally any legal entity from local up to federal.
aug 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I think I'm unsure how this relates to my two responses there. Sorry
aug 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They voted for this. How do you propose to protect their kids from them?
aug 26, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
You don't seem like the type to support Republicans becoming illegal to identify as.
aug 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view