We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.
So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.
TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.
They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”
And it fucking worked.
TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.
So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.
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Removing health insurance and using medicare for funding universal health care should be the obvious goal for any progressive candidate.
Blocking treatment costs more money than providing treatment.
Health care management is a massive parasite.
Why do you need to employ so many people who are not doctors and nurses?
You’re not wrong, but you’re not thinking about it the right way.
Any administration that cuts healthcare insurance jobs is going to have caused the largest unemployment wave in history.
America would fall into a massive recession if we socialize healthcare.
That’s why we don’t do it! Politicians would rather these ‘workers’ feed off the blood of Americans than tell them they’re going to need to find new jobs!
It would take a massive infrastructure change to re-employ all those people too.
We would, realistically, need to ween ourselves off having a massive ‘industry’ of thieves, and it would take years to re-employ all those people.
Yes, of course, just having universal Healthcare is obvious!
But, you have to plan for millions upon millions of Americans to be suddenly unemployed and, since all their experience is in a job that will no longer exist, many will be unemployable for years!
The obvious solution, like so many obvious solutions, disregards the history of the situation and challenges in moving to a new system, no matter how much better it is.
