[–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

FWIW universal healthcare is not single payer. Its nationalizing healthcare providers and doing away with health insurance entirely. Which is better than any single payer plan IMO. Hospitals have never really been successful profit generating ventures.

The entire health insurance industry would be deleted along with all the jobs and stock value it produced. And yeah fuck'em but there's going to be knock on economic effects from deleting an entire industry.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    The good news is it won't be full bipartisian. Plenty of junior politicians know which way the wind is blowing here. But its still going to pass and it will be largely bipartisan.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    Operation Paperclip was real but the CIA wasn't founded by (German) Nazis. IIRC NATO had ex-nazis in its founding but they were like Wehrmacht or politicians not SS.

    Now the CIA did organize former SS agents in West Germany to act as terrorists/partisans should the Soviets invade in the German version of Operation Gladio.

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