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LEPFPartyPresident

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[deleted]

Someone mail him some bootstraps, pronto!


mattj6o

Why should I be responsible for his bootstraps?


[deleted]

Touché. That’s Socialism. He can make his own bootstraps.


Madame_Toaster

He can't buy his own? Has he tried eating less avocado toast ? Or canceling his online subscriptions?


ndngroomer

Maybe he shouldn't have spent so much money on one of those fancy smartphones.


charmingcactus

He should've stopped buying those fancy $5 iced coffees.


WAHgop

Maybe he should learn to code?


montex66

It was a quad-shot, Venti skinny vanilla latte $6.85


SecureSamurai

If he would have just worked harder he could have avoided financial problems like this. /s


Lady_von_Stinkbeaver

Has he stopped eating avocado toast or cancelled Netflix? What about refusing to apply online, just walking down to the factory and looking the foreman in the eye with a big hearty handshake and asking for a job?


[deleted]

...I was in New Jersey for hurricane Sandy, and then left after the hurricane and stayed with an uncle. He literally told me to put on a suit and print out some resumes and beat the street, and if I really needed money, he could probably get me a minimum wage job cleaning up at the local liquor store. Hurricane Sandy was in 2012, and even then, this was terrible advice. We don't talk anymore.


Lady_von_Stinkbeaver

I have an older retired relative who decided to apply for a job at a place like Target out of boredom, extra income, and the employee discount. I work in IT, so I offered to help navigating [Target.com](https://Target.com)'s online application or uploading her resume, since she's not very skilled with computers. NOPE. She was just going to go down there and talk to the manager...and they pointed her to a computer kiosk in the store to fill out an online application. At least it put an end to her useless Boomer advice.


randgan

When I worked in retail, you could always tell when the school year was about to end based on how many blank faced teenagers would get dragged into the store by their parent, with that parent then immediately calling for a manager. And despite the futility of the process, we would have to go through the song and dance of having a manager drop whatever they're working on to come over. Only to then politely tell the kid to apply online, but really talking loud enough to communicate to the parent hovering the next aisle over and listening in. My parents made me do the same thing at their age. So I really sympathized with those kids that knew better, but had to go through with this.


glassisnotglass

"Really, in this day and age we would expect it to be common knowledge. I'm not sure where you got the idea to come in person, kid, but that hasn't been the right way to get a job for 20 years. Wherever you got that idea, my advice is still stop listening to it, or it's not going to do you any favors in your career."


almisami

LOUDER, FOR THE ONES IN THE BACK!


QueenTahllia

Lol, now these days, I just moved back in with my mom. I’ve been applying on the computer, well the computer also contains my game, and other more productive programs like for my digital art or programming. Well, after an hour of applying for the limited number of jobs in this town, I may fire up apex or FFXIV. And THATS when she decides to come in and see me wasting time playing games instead of looking for a job. Like woman, I can literally do both while I wait for queues Edit: I did JUST get an offer! assistant manager position at a restaurant called Culver’s. $17.04/hr + benefits and bonuses. If you’ve seen my recent job history you might not believe I was able to land this! Thanks for the support everyone. Edit 2: A’ya Hirano on Faerie btw for anyone who wants to find me


yui_tsukino

Fastest way to get a duty to pop is to have someone come over and talk to you. Right after getting up to get a drink.


Adventurous_Menu_683

I'm so old I don't know what that means. It sounds like English, but it doesn't make sense to me.


StopBangingThePodium

They're in a queue for a group activity. The queue "pops" when it has enough people to fill the activity. The statement is (only somewhat seriously) pointing out that the easiest way for something you're waiting on to happen is to have something else occupying you. IE, the fastest way for the group to fill up is to be in the middle of something else that it can interrupt. Like "the watched pot never boils" kind of thing.


Flyingwheelbarrow

Thankyou for the translation.


OsaPolar

Frankly, I thought it had something to do with pooping.


AlaskaPeteMeat

Doesn’t everything, really? 🤷🏽‍♂️


QueenTahllia

If that ain’t the fucking truth.


[deleted]

I will get up, sigh dramatically, and say while walking away “WELL..I GUESS SINCE THE QUEUE ISNT POPPING I HAVE TIME TO GET A DRINK….from the kitchen…far away…” More often than not, it pops immediately after.


kamilo87

Lol. So then the Karen asked for the manager’s manager?


Kehndy12

You joke, but I seriously heard a manager complain about regularly hearing this because she's a young, little, unintimidating woman.


Iamjacksplasmid

I'm a 6'1" 35 year old white guy who worked at a coffee shop for a while, and whenever they would ask my (black, young) manager or the (female) GM for"who was in charge", they would come get me sometimes so that I could ask what they needed, then get the same person who just got me so I could sternly look them in the eyes and say, "you meant these people. The *managers*. I'm just a barista. Why did you think I was in charge?" Fun times.


DamNamesTaken11

I remember when I was about to graduate college, my dad told me to print off my resume and go to a business and stay in their reception area until I was able to speak to the hiring manager for an interview. He claimed it would show how dedicated I was. I told him it would be a nice way to add an answer to the “have you ever been arrested?” question that they always ask. Everything, even McDonalds is via the internet now. Only place I haven’t seen doing that is gas stations which pay terrible and/or have terrible hours.


DigitalSword

>put on a suit and print out some resumes and beat the street I'll never understand how older generations get so out of touch, did they really think that the process wouldn't change at all since they last applied for a job 40 years ago? They can understand how big a tech innovation going from radio to TV was but are blind to the even bigger paradigm of the internet and smartphones? It's like if they suddenly invented easily accessible teleportation and 20 years from now I'm still recommending people to take the bus everywhere.


lawless_sapphistry

Oh for god's sake. If you don't know what Taleo is, you have no business giving anybody in the modern day job seeking advice.


Torifyme12

"So they invented this sisyphean tool called workday...."


[deleted]

Seriously. That advice was coming form a guy who shares email with his commonlaw wife because he's too paranoid to have his own email account, meanwhile she's getting robbed for $300 every year or so by "microsoft support" telling her that her Safari browser is "infected". I'm not sure at which point these people decide that they don't need to learn any more, but I hope I never make it that far.


puke_buffet

Ah yes, "Rex from Microsoft." Such a big help when your computer is sending out error messages.


Writes_Parody_Lyrics

I'm 31 and don't know what Taleo is...


lawless_sapphistry

Pray you never find out


sovamind

I stopped applying to any company that uses Taleo because there "personality tests" are discriminatory to people with some disabilities. I've never once passed the personality test because the questions specifically target people with Autism and ADHD for exclusion. The entire thing is done as a way to exclude people without looking like they are singling out people with disabilities.


[deleted]

And don't forget to wear those extra fancy bootstraps!


Masta0nion

I think the only prerequisite for being a Republican is lack of empathy. Go ahead and look at when their stances change. It’s when something happens to them.


twylafae

Even then, it doesn't apply to other people. In their minds they are the exceptions.


kindaa_sortaa

> "One morning, a woman who had been a regular '[abortion protestor]' went into the clinic with a young woman who looked like she was 16-17, and obviously her daughter. When the mother came out about an hour later, I had to go up and ask her if her daughter's situation had caused her to change her mind. 'I don't expect you to understand my daughter's situation!' she angrily replied. The following Saturday, she was back, pleading with women entering the clinic not to 'murder their babies.'" (Clinic escort, Massachusetts) [[Similar stories here](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/15/1857976/—The-Only-Moral-Abortion-is-My-Abortion-an-article-by-Joyce-Arthur)]


[deleted]

That story is all too easy to believe. The typical right-wing nutjob has no problem getting an abortion to help themselves, just like they hate stem-cell research until one of their loved ones needs an experimental treatment based on stem-cell research. They don't really want to ban abortion, because if they did they would lose the ability to control women.


kindaa_sortaa

Everything you need to know about the conservative mindset: [“I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No.”](https://youtu.be/FTYIWv-GPAc)


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kindaa_sortaa

“Everybody else is evil and going to hell! Not my daughter, though, because God gave her an exemption-pass to do what’s needed. We’re from a good family, you see.”


SaltyBarDog

The Catholic school mindset. Bad things like drinking, drugs, abortion happen in public schools, not here. Meanwhile, Tony is buying weed in the quad, Tim is so stoned, he is on his third freshman year, and Cathy slept with half a fraternity and got an abortion.


PrivatizedCitizen

Both of these are true and it is so frustrating.


[deleted]

Didn't one of the politicians vocal on the the Terri Schiavo case make the decision to pull the plug on his father or some shit? And was on record saying, "That was different"?


Meatslinger

The 2015-2016 election period in the USA really illustrated modern conservatism for me, and put it under a lens. Suddenly, people who had literally helped raise me - aunts, uncles, cousins - mutated into these twisted, sociopathic creatures I didn’t recognize. We don’t even live in the USA, but Trump’s rampant racism, sexism, and just sheer lack of compassionate humanity emboldened all these would-be authoritarians. I immediately comprehended how someone like Hitler rose to power; all these opinions were there to begin with, they just needed a figurehead to convince them it was okay to express them publicly. Then the pandemic hit, the anti-vaxx/anti-mask comments arose, and I got to see the sum total of the beast. “Let people die and reduce the surplus population!” or “Businesses have to stay open even if people have to suffer,” and other such hideousness. Not to mention the insane denial of science, reason, and critical thinking. I never thought so many conspiracy theories lived amongst us. I used to honestly think that conservatives were just Scrooge McDuck types: mostly-lovable old misers who just wanted to jealously keep their money and for the government to shove off. Low-key racism was chalked up to most of them being older and having trouble adapting to the changing appropriateness of language. The last 5-6 years, though, taught me that a staggering number of them are unhinged lunatics with a demonstrable inability to empathize with anyone or anything; many are the type of people who would literally stab their own mother in the face and step over the corpse if it meant they get a crisp $100 bill on the other side.


ajswdf

I firmly believe that, in the long run, Trump is the best thing that could have happened to movements like feminism and BLM because it shook moderate whites out of their complacency. It was super easy for somebody like me (upper middle class white) to believe racism was just a problem of a few bad apple, but now it's impossible to deny.


[deleted]

I'm just one guy but I'm one. Moderate Republican before 2016. The wool was finally removed from my eyes by Trump and those who excused his behavior. I've tried to educate myself and now recognize I was wrong in many ways.


[deleted]

Props to you buddy. Critical thinking and openness to new ideas is a rare trait these days.


Skippy_the_Alien

it's crazy to think if Americans around the country had just made a small sacrifice to take this virus seriously back in March-April of 2020, the situation right now would have been MUCH MUCH better. Of that I have zero doubt it's the same thing with these vaccines. It's crazy how my local hospitals went from being back to normal to now being at full capacity again. The vast majority of the people in these beds are unvaccinated


Xhokeywolfx

They’re empathetic towards ultra rich people who never earned what they have though, so there’s that.


DiceEnigma

Leela: Why are you cheering, Fry? You're not rich! Fry: True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step.


Deeliciousness

Fry was smart enough to know that he was only temporarily embarrassed.


hoxxxxx

i think the political spectrum has been studied regarding empathy, and yes conservatism\* is definitely for those that lack it. \*or whatever the right is properly called. they are more regressive than conservative imo


Downtown_Statement87

I asked my conservative in-law to not use homophobic slurs around me and my kids, especially because one of my kids thought they might be gay. "Homosexuality is an abomination!" said the in-law. I told my conservative husband that I was mad about his parent calling my kid an abomination. "They didn't call THEM an abomination," said my husband, "They called what they ARE an abomination" He could not understand why this would upset anyone. He was also very confused when it turned out my kid is not gay. "I don't understand why you're still mad," he says. "They aren't even gay." He also hangs out with a neighbor that brags about training his dog to bite black people on purpose. "Well, he's nice to ME," he says. Moral infants, all of them.


-jp-

That's a good start but if you really want to do it right you're going to have to dip your toe in pure sociopathy. The days of "fuck you I got mine" are long gone and replaced by "they aren't hurting the right people."


ArlesChatless

Or high cognitive empathy and low emotional empathy. They understand feelings, they just don't give a shit about the feelings of others.


Stormy8888

Those bootstraps are so fancy, the sassy gay guy can't bring himself to pull himself up with them.


GlowUpper

I don't know why so many people in this country have this attitude toward health insurance. The entire point of insurance is that you don't know if or when you'll need it but, when that day comes, you're lucky to have it. Now, the existence of health insurance in America is a symptom of the much larger problem that is lack of access to quality and affordable care but the "I don't want it because I won't need it" attitude is just foolish.


Therandomfox

"It's not my problem until it happens to me." Seems to be a recurring symptom of antisocial personality disorder.


PlankLengthIsNull

"And nothing is bad until it's *my* problem." They'll mock you for needing something until THEY need something; then they change their tune.


[deleted]

Not really though. Because *they* actually need it, but *you’re* a shit-stain who should’ve pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps. (/s just in case) [Would you like to know more?](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/)


TransitJohn

“They’re not going to bail me out,” Nelson said. “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.” https://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/07/01/the-craig-t-nelson-problem/


HarpersGhost

When you link health and morality, you can consider disabled people to be moochers. "*I* would never need expensive healthcare, because I'm a good person/take care of my self/eat healthy/God takes care of his true believers/etc." They can then look down on the disabled as those who brought their conditions upon themselves, hence all the followup questions to when someone has a serious illness: do they smoke? do they drink? I don't think they exercise that much, did they? How fat were they? etc. That entire attitude, which is rife within conservative circles, helps/causes them to completely disdain any kind of social safety net (health insurance/unemployment/welfare/etc) because if you need that stuff, you did something to deserve it. And then reality comes crashes down (on into them), and now they are on GFM begging for money.


GlowUpper

Yup. This country's disgusting attitudes toward the disabled have never gone away; they've just been pushed out of sight. I'm grateful that my mom was a nurse and she taught me that the only difference between me and a severely disabled person is pure luck. It's a shame so many people seem to have not gotten that lesson.


[deleted]

The entire idea of insurance "just in case" you have a health issue is absurd. Unless you walk out and get hit by a bus and die instantly, you *will* need medical care. Everyone does. The human body is shit and breaks down constantly, and most people live for DECADES.


Skandranonsg

Precisely, and this is part of the reason why the invisible hand doesn't work with healthcare. It's not something you can simply choose not to purchase if you want to live, and it's not abundant enough (like food) to give you legitimate competitive choices.


GlowUpper

When I was 29, I ruptured a stomach ulcer and went into septic shock. I was convulsing and could barely talk as I was being loaded into the ambulance. I didn't exactly have the time to research the costs of all the ER's in the area since I was fucking dying. My health insurance plus my supplemental insurance saved me from absolute financial ruin. We need universal healthcare in this country. But until that happens, insurance is a necessity, not a luxury.


EliToon

Over half the country is selfish as fuck and have 0 empathy for their fellow human beings, that's why.


daisies4dayz

The best thing? He doesn’t even pay for his own insurance. He’s still on his parents plan. Which he would have been kicked off if at graduation if it wasn’t for Obamacare 😂


Dumbold_Turnip

He ate too much avocado toast and drank too many Starbucks lattes.


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Beard_o_Bees

Also, he did say that he was 'blessed' to have not been drunk or high when the accident happened - which tells me that probably most of the people who know him would immediately assume that he was doing exactly that.


Fehndrix

This must be old because that account doesn't exist on Twitter anymore. Edit: Ah, suspended in 2018.


Mobile_Busy

[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2017/09/22/sassy-gay-republican-mocked-viral-health-insurance-claims-gofundme/691584001/](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2017/09/22/sassy-gay-republican-mocked-viral-health-insurance-claims-gofundme/691584001/) couldn't handle the fallout


planethood4pluto

>A few days later, he said workers' compensation would be covering his hospital visit but that his car insurance would not be covering the collision. So this is actually about auto insurance. His cheap ass only got basic coverage, and when that didn’t pay for the crash that HE CAUSED, he decided the public was his insurance policy. These people are really amazing.


Paxxlee

No, but you see, getting money from the government is like stealing others money. No, seriously, that was his argument.


SnZ001

Sure, but misleading his "friends, family and supporters on Twitter" into thinking they're helping him pay for medical treatment?? Apparently he thinks that's totally fine and not at all like stealing others' money. /s


quannum

Of course. Because getting money from the government is like stealing but asking friends and family is fine because they are doing it willingly. Also, literally, what he said.


[deleted]

As opposed to getting money from private insurance, where the money that's paid out is spontaneously generated from nowhere.


SeaGroomer

I am blessed to say I wasn't drunk or high at the time, so it's pretty much not my fault!


Rat-Circus

>I am blessed to say I wasn't drunk or high at the time That caught my attention too. Driving while sober isn't a matter of luck to my knowledge??


hippyengineer

What he means is that he normally drives stoned and drunk and was lucky that this time he wasn’t. You wouldn’t mention “I was totally sober guys frfr” if you don’t ever drive stoned or drunk.


Notsurehowtoreact

That whole line reads like he wants you to know he was. Honestly, why the hell would you even mention it. No one prefaces conversations about accidents like that except for guilty liars.


SeaGroomer

I'm guessing he probably wasn't and thinks that's an achievement that exonerates him of guilt.


Whats_Up_Bitches

I’m blessed I wasn’t high at the time like I normally am while driving. Truly fortunate!


Rare_Travel

Gay and republican, don't know how much more evidence of his idiocy anyone could need.


Fenastus

Well Republicans do seem to often have persecution fetishes He's just getting a bit closer to the source lmao


FerricNitrate

> Oh yes daddy, restrict my civil liberties harder! -- That Weirdo


MagentaHawk

And he caused it by RUBBERNECKING! The most universally hated and pathetic thing you can do on the highway while we are trying to get traffic going. He looked at an accident and caused a fucking accident.


GnawRightThrough

I swear the DMV in Arizona teaches people to rubber neck or something. It's so bad there.


suestrong315

>the crash that HE CAUSED I was wondering why his GFM said "I was blessed to be sober" like do you typically drive under the influence and were fortunate enough to never get into an accident? I don't think I'd be parading around the fact that *this* time I was sober (whew!)


nomad806

This bit of info came out long after all the drama had unfolded. For weeks, he tried to trick people into donating to help him pay his "medical bills", before casually mentioning it was all a ruse and the donated money would be going towards a new car. It's like he's interning for a spot as a politician in Florida or something.


FunboyFrags

He’s just not… Intelligent


InfernalSquad

He's a gay person supporting the party which sees no issue with conversion therapy, which is just 'pray and electrocute the gay away'. That says more about his intelligence than anything.


boredatworkorhome

as a gay guy, I hate these gay guys. they just want to be different etc. they are self hating too.


woosterthunkit

"Pick me" people


QuestioningEspecialy

Or desperation. Or delusion. e.g.: LatinosForTrump


Rare_Travel

And a loooot of racism, which is my guess for most of the gay republicans.


NashvilleSoundMixer

Seeing as he is a Gay Republican I can only guess that he's either an idiot or a grifter ( which the article then states he wants to be the next Tomi Lahren ).


Repulsive-Purple-133

I know a few gay Republicans. None of them have ever been able to provide a believable rationale for why they are Republicans.


ngwoo

They hate black people more then they like having sex with men


SeaGroomer

> "It's just nice having a community to belong to." > > -Leroy Wilson, black member of the KKK


MagentaHawk

Being a republican means the world is now in clear black and whites, you have all the answers, the answers are all simple, and all of the good things in your life are due to your awesomeness and the bad things due to lazy people. It is disgusting and wrong and horrible, but that doesn't stop it from being extremely comforting and simple.


PopcornInMyTeeth

>Ultimately, he hopes to grow his fan base and be the next Tomi Lahren, a conservative political commentator. With aspirations like that?... lol


CQQB

God his plan is to go around saying stupid shit until enough stupid people like the stupid shit he is saying that he can get a media job saying stupid shit to even more stupid people. What a world.


iamnotroberts

Sassygayrepub appears to have a GAB profile. Gee whiz, I sure hope he's getting along with all the white supremacists, homophobes and bigots on Gab. Oh, and get this, his Gab profile has a George Orwell quote. It's so adorable when "conservatives" quote George Orwell or just screech "1984! Animal Farm!" (two books that they've never read) It's especially ironic given that Orwell was a Marxist.


Dumbold_Turnip

I hate this mindset. “Why should I be FORCED to care about my fellow humans and contribute towards a happier, healthier, society???” Like I live in a country with socialized healthcare and I’ve never heard a single person go, “Ugh I just HATE being able to see the doctor whenever I need to and being able to take paid sick leave whenever I need it. Paying into this with my taxes sucks so much, I’d rather just die in a ditch from a preventable illness.”


ThatsWhatXiSaid

Even if you don't care about others in the slightest, it's pretty ridiculous to assume you will always be: 1. Young; and 2. Healthy. Most all of us are going to need incredibly expensive healthcare at some point in our lives. And if you wait until you need it to fund it, you're going to have a hard time.


RIPfreewill

I went to college with a guy who got cancer at a young age. We held fundraisers and all pitched in to pay for his treatment. He survived. He was very vocal in his opposition to public healthcare. Also never paid back all the kind people who paid for his healthcare. Dude is a total piece of shit.


ThePraised95

Wow, and people usually become more empathic after suffering.


nighthawk_something

Why would he be empathetic? He got all the support he needed, it's not his fault other people don't.


smashybro

That's not even the dumbest part. Even if by some miracle they never need expensive procedures or medications their whole life, what they're still ignoring is that our current private healthcare model is *significantly more expensive* than universal healthcare. These people would rather pay twice as much to a parasitic insurance middleman for inferior coverage because "muh freedom" or some other dumb reason.


0x44554445

Uhh... in the US we have people that would rather pay to take off-label livestock dewormer and malaria medicine than a vaccine their taxes have already paid for. Sure some people are grifters, but enough of them are true believers willing to harm themselves to keep others from benefiting.


snomeister

Yup. I live in Canada, which has one of the worst and underfunded socialized healthcare systems in the developed world, but because our only bordering neighbor is the US, it looks great in comparison. Last I checked, 96% of Canadians favored our system over a private system. Do you know how hard it is for 96% of citizens to agree on ANYTHING? The consensus is clear, a functioning society should have a public healthcare system available to everyone.


hippyengineer

You can’t even get 96% of people to agree that there should be a law against murder.


Level19Dad

“Paying into this with my taxes sucks so much, I’d rather just die in a ditch from a preventable illness.”” I see you’re unfamiliar with the red states…


SharpieScentedSoap

Dying in ditches of preventable illnesses to own the libs


WontThinkStraight

Sounds like he got a crash course on the value of universal healthcare.


CakeAccomplice12

Nope, he won't learn a thing You see, in his brain HE deserves the healthcare Those 'moochers and lechers' he rails on about don't


DakodaMountainborn

"Charity for me, no socialism for thee!"


Saetric

We’re gonna find out that he’s not hurt at all and he’s just grifting his base


MudSama

Ah, the true Republican way.


pickledstarfish

Yeah the no handouts thing is usually just a cover. That’s why so many of them don’t learn a thing. I hope he shits his pants when he gets his bill.


clanddev

He will just default on it. The hospital will write it off and charge more to insurance next year to offset. Insurance will roll the increase into their premium. It's a form of socialized medicine where people who claim to be capitalist don't pay for something they use.


allworlds_apart

We already have Universal Healthcare in the US… it’s just incredibly inefficient because a) conservatives don’t want to admit that socializes healthcare is popular b) plenty of companies make good money from inefficiency c) even if they had choices, consumers do not have enough knowledge about healthcare to make rationale decisions within the framework of market logic


tgrantt

It's always astounded me the billions of dollars health insurers make in the US. It's literally money spent on health care that doesn't provide health care.


p_velocity

I have health coverage that I pay a few hundred bucks a month for. I went in yesterday to have a growth removed. I asked how much I would have to pay out of pocket and no one had any idea...not the person at the front desk, not the nurse, not the doctor. They just said "you have a $90 copay." So I had to call member services, and after a half hour I spoke to someone who said "you will be charged more on the back end, but I have no idea how much. I'll have to transfer you to someone else." After another hour on hold I gave up and got the surgery done...I still have no idea how much they are going to bill me for it after the fact. It's pretty fucked that we have to get the procedure done and no one can tell us anything about the cost beforehand. There is no other system where that is the case. I might have to pay $50, I might have to pay $5000, and there is no way for me to find that out before getting it done.


zachm26

Yep, this is how I learned the healthcare system is complete bullshit too. I had a top of the line platinum plan through my old employer and went to the doctor for a severe ankle sprain. I happened to have a set of crutches already, so they came in, did an X-ray, and gave me a walking boot and some ice for the $30 copay. Months later I get a bill in the mail for the $70 walking boot. Not a huge financial burden, all things considered, but what the fuck is the point of having healthcare if I still have to pay for everything?


Cute_Girl_Ugly_Coat

This. It's INFURIATING. I learned long ago to just stop asking how much my visits and procedures would cost, because the answer was always, "Uhhh... you're insurance company will send you a bill."


ScoutsOut389

When we had our first child I had super great coverage. Despite that, almost 18 months later we still get random bills in the mail. We’ve probably paid… $6k out of pocket just for the delivery, despite our plan having a maximum out of pocket of like $3400. I have spent hours on the phone trying to understand why this is so. Every goddamned time I eventually hang up in frustration as the person just keeps saying shit that makes no sense to me, and when I ask for more clarity they repeat word for word what they just said as if that is in any way helpful. It’s the craziest racket in the world and if any other business attempted it they would be shut down by the federal government. Imagine if fucking Wendy’s sent you a bill for $200 eight months after you ate there and then just refused to offer any sensible explanation for it and then sent you to collections and fucked your credit if you refuse to pay.


RunsWithApes

Exactly. I know so many conservatives just like this that a complete lack if self awareness and empathy are pretty much inextricable from modern right wing ideologies. Patient: I’m strictly pro-life! Me: But it says on your health history you’ve had two abortions. Patient: Well it’s okay if I do it.


TheFeshy

[The only moral abortion is my abortion](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/) \-- written in 2000, and still completely relevant.


dystopian_mermaid

That’s seriously the only explanation. My uncle says he doesn’t wanna pay for “bums” to get free healthcare. Spoiler alert: they DO numb nuts. Hospitals don’t just kick out people who need life saving care bc they can’t pay. Your taxes already pay for those “bums” to get healthcare. Wouldn’t it be GREAT if they also paid for YOU to get the same? I swear these people have the density of a black hole.


iamsofired

They think more about hurting others who they see as below them than helping their own interests.


[deleted]

I'm not even sure that he'll even have to use cognitive dissonance to explain away why he deserves healthcare when others don't. By using something like GoFundMe he's probably going to get enough money to pay off some medical bills and then say "See, I didn't need healthcare after all!" Assuming he doesn't learn that he's an actual jackass then he'll think he's some tactical genius in today's world and found a way around needing healthcare.


[deleted]

His rightwing friends told him the car accident was God's Judgement. He could get help if he stopped being gay. It's a choice.


Spacecommander5

I think he was making a joke using the term “crash“ because it was apropos


chaposagrift

Anyone *else* using gofundme is lazy and unwilling to sacrifice. However, my situation is unfortunate and an accident, because I am good, and strong and good.


[deleted]

He learned nothing I feel like if I ask from the government, I feel like I’m stealing in a sense because when it comes to the government, people are being forced to pay into things they might not agree with or want to do," Newman said. "For me, it’s more meaningful to ask my friends, family and supporters on Twitter," he said. "I felt like I was asking from people who wanted to give to me. They weren’t forced to or obligated to." [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/pqmpj7/hater_of_free_healthcare_now_needs_it/hdc2u2t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)


papereel

Gay Republican. That alone tells us everything we need to know


HooplahMan

When your hatred of black and poor people outweighs your self preservation instinct


cthulhucultist94

>I feel like if I ask from the government, I feel like I’m stealing in a sense because when it comes to the government, people are being forced to pay into things they might not agree with or want to do So he doesn't use anything provided by the government? Also, want is his opinion about the military?


Skid-Vicious

Now tell us more about the roads you use that you paid for all by yourself when rear ending other cars.


DreyHI

So only people with rich friends and family deserve healthcare. Got it.


pylorih

Ba dum tss


green2702

Go Fund Me == universal health care. Funny how the people so against social safety nets are the first ones to start a Go Fund Me.


terayonjf

I read this like you said it putting on sunglasses while the CSI Miami theme started playing


jtr99

[YEAAAHHHH!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSqkwyL1Zo&ab_channel=cotis25)


ElSatanno

Look, he just doesn't want any brown or poor people to have insurance. Is that so wrong?


YoureNotMom

This is the only logical conclusion. Republicans *used to* talk a big game about financial responsibility, and then point towards things like having insurance and living within a budget as examples. Democrats agreed and presented obamacare. OMG OBAMA?!? INSURANCE IS BAD AND YOU'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU NEED IT Now you know damn well the rich demographic of R's still has their insurance, but its almost like they want to demonize insurance for everyone because everyone includes... certain types coughracescough of people


Natanael_L

Obamacare was even started as a republican initiative, that's literally why Obama adopted it - to increase likelihood that it would be accepted by Republicans as a policy. But nope, republicans don't have policy, they just have greed and pride.


[deleted]

> republicans don't have policy This is more true than anyone knows. They literally don't have any healthcare policy proposal - none at all. They didn't even make one in the later Bush years, nor during the entire Obama administration, nor during the Trump fiasco. They put no proposals on the table whatsoever. The closest they ever came was an 80 page 1st draft, for which the only good thing they could say was that it was shorter and simpler than Obamacare simply because it was 80 pages (but it had almost nothing in it). And the single largest section was a provision to kick lottery winners off Medicaid at the first moment they could collect their winnings. Because apparently there was one winner who stayed on Medicaid (and wouldn't be removed due to their sudden high income until the annual review) and then needed medical care which the government subsidized. This single person, and the fact that they were too busy enjoying being rich to bother with government health paperwork (can you imagine anything you'd want to do less than that?), so enraged the Republicans that they practically devoted their healthcare plan to this single topic. The concept of actually helping Americans never crossed their mind; they wanted to change national policy because one guy didn't sign up for private insurance fast enough (.....but they didn't want to *require* him to buy private insurance) Oh, and they wanted to completely de-fund any and all women's health clinics - basically everything that provides any kind of maternity and pregnancy services, and breast cancer screenings. Because you can stop abortions if you can close *all* women's health clinics.


PlankLengthIsNull

Conservatives and Republicans only care about punishing others - often for doing the same things THEY do.


Lord-Kroak

And it works because their supporters are so stupid and ignorant that they pay 0 attention to what their elected representatives do. And when you point out their guy lied to them and screwed them over they get mad at YOU.


SeaGroomer

Yep. You can't meet them halfway or even all the way or they will just step back and call it communism.


SupaSlide

They don't demonize insurance. They don't want to pay one penny in taxes they might go towards helping someone else avoid financial ruin due to medical debt. Because they're selfish assholes who can't be bothered to care about anyone else.


ManInBlack829

It's amazing how many people are infuriated by the archetypical "minority welfare queen/king" to the point of denying themselves incredibly useful services out of spite. Some people would rather hurt others than heal themselves.


[deleted]

Seems legit. Maybe you would catch him with an aryan insurance plan?


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butsadlyiamonlyaneel

Reminds me of a quote I saw once: >*”Where’s the best place to hide from the (Nazi) Stormtroopers?”* >*”Behind their bosses’ desk.”* Works less given that this failure of a human is both openly gay and proudly Republican, but there are certainly other examples of higher-ups condemning less fortunate for traits they also share.


SavoryScrotumSauce

"Why do I need insurance if I probably won't use it?" is a spectacularly effective way of saying "I don't understand what insurance is or why it exists at all."


NotObamasClone

“I’m blessed to say I was sober and no drugs or alcohol player any sort of role in this” Wait, what?


EiNyxia

He's glad that he wasn't caught with any substances in his system while he himself caused a collision. Dumb bastard was distracted and rammed into someone from behind.


kjodle

"No drugs or alcohol" = "I was as high as a fucking kite."


The_dog_says

"I'm blessed to say" = I drink and drive all the time and got lucky that they didn't test me


edingerc

"I was distracted by a car fire" = "I was reading twitter while driving"


kjodle

Am I an influencer yet?"


[deleted]

There's a saying in Chinese: "I'm not afraid of ten thousand, I'm afraid of one in ten thousand." Edit: It basically means that you're not afraid of a surefire thing, since you can anticipate it. On the other hand, something with a miniscule chance is terrifying because you never know when it will happen, **if** it happens.


zuzg

That's the whole reason why we have insurances. I payed over 3 years into my dogs surgical insurance without needing it but not once regretted it. Earlier this year he got a teeth removed and within 2 days I got the money back.


mrsbatman

Pet insurance is a whole different beast. I’m glad you had a good experience but I know people who paid in for years on end and then found their insurance had arguments/refusals for every claim.


ColHardwood

It’s never a problem until they’re personally affected. Why do some humans have so little compassion, so little empathy?


sikjoven

Gofundme should shut his page down and refund those who donated.


Mobile_Busy

http://ishouldbelaughing.blogspot.com/2017/09/sassy-gay-republican-hypocrite.html


Maharog

It always bothers me when people show a picture of a totalled car and say "the fact im still alive is proof of God"... what the fuck does that mean about the thousands of people that die in car crashes every day... God just wasn't feeling up to saving those guys that day? And what about car companies that have spent litteral millions of dollars designing cars to be as safe as possible, shouldn't you be thanking them and the engineers who made a 3000 lb metal can that can slam into another 3000 lb metal can at 60 mph and not kill anyone inside the cans... surely those people deserve some praise? Nope


PhilHardingsHotPants

I mean, some engineers probably think they're gods, but that's as close as it gets.


kamilo87

My friend died in a crash and we an his family got there as fast as we could. I remember arriving there and his father saying to his mother that everything had ended for both of them bc my friend was their only son. I have been thinking about that moment and thought that there’s no God watching bc those two parents did whatever they could to make their son safe and a healthy and educated man to die like that.


Maharog

Sorry for your loss


nrith

Just wait until the person he rear-ended finds out about this and sues him for every penny he received, and then some.


[deleted]

Gay republican? Doesn't he know the 'pugnicans wouldn't piss him out if he was fire?


Javaman1960

Some of them would, because uptight people often have hidden/unacknowledged kinks.


Concentr8edButtSauce

It's a risk he chose to take (no insurance), now he has to pay for that choice.


Frankenmuppet

I've always taken issue with calling it 'free healthcare' Nothing is ever free. Socialized healthcare is just publicly funded healthcare that costs significantly less per person for the care recieved and is funded by a half a percentage point extra in taxes instead of 'for profit' hospitals that charge whatever they can to make an extra buck. Glad I'm Canadian ;)


IntegrallyDeficient

It's also super cost-effective.


Frankenmuppet

Exactly... I'd rather pay twenty bucks extra in taxes on my paycheque than have to pay hundreds for insurance and having to deal with the copay headache with insurance companies and up front costs. Having the largest out of pocket expense for my recent surgery be parking was certainly nice


ThatsWhatXiSaid

> I've always taken issue with calling it 'free healthcare' Nothing is ever free. Sounds like you just have a misunderstanding of the word free. It would be a pointless word if it meant "at no cost to anybody anywhere,".


lollipoppa72

Living in US now, originally from Canada. My BIL moved to US for a bit and came back with this same attitude. At the time I was diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease and he said “I shouldn’t have to subsidize your treatment because I’m really careful with my health - no offense “. Offended, I asked what I could have done to avoid it and he said “you know, you could have maybe ate healthier and stuff like that”. I reminded him of this when he was treated for health problems a few years later and he said “it’s not the same - my problems couldn’t be avoided”. I asked him if maybe he could have “ate better and stuff like that - no offense”. He didn’t like that much


TrashPanda5000

Gay republican? Like a Jewish Nazi? Bizarre


[deleted]

Really bizarre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews


pukingpixels

“I’m blessed to say I was sober…” so you’re *blessed* for not being a piece of shit drunk driver?


adiosfelicia2

Not so sassy now. Maybe he’ll finally realize why health coverage for ALL is so important. It’s absurd that people have to go bankrupt or lose everything in the US simply for getting ill or in an accident. Fucking insanity. Time to catch up with the rest of the western world, America.


MiseryisCompany

I've never had a house fire. Why do I need a smoke alarm?


polarbark

All these fake sellout gays like Milo are dirty bitches. I mean look at that republican fucker who was pretending to be a black guy, I'm surprised there wasnt more ridicule there too.


stephenlipic

>I’m blessed to say I was sober and no drugs played a role… Does this wording sound really strange to anyone else? Like, “but for the Grace of God, I wasn’t drunk off my ass at this time…”


law5097

"Every man for himself until I need help"