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Mocking Working Class People Who are Dying

LowDown said:
More working class people are dying from despair -- drug abuse, suicide, and alcohol -- than died during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The people at the Huffington Post have nothing but hatred and disdain for them.

You want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump. And you richly deserve it.
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Watching Trump supporters is like watching someone shooting themselves in the foot over and over again, and then in frustration going over and banging their head bloody against a brick wall. It's hard not to have some measure of pity and disdain for them. Poor things.

If they thought electing Trump was going to fix their problems, well, they are in for another rude surprise.

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Greenbeard said:
News flash: if the rest of us don't help pay for that treatment, those people ain't getting it. Substance abuse treatment is an essential health benefit. Now more than ever.

You can stow your phony compassion now.
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Harshaw said:
Out of curiosity, how many substance abuse treatment programs do you, personally, donate to?
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^^^^
The answer to this is "none," isn't it?

I would say wanting to require others to contribute to causes that you yourself are unwilling to support personally is considerably more "phony" a "compassion."
 
Harshaw said:
I would say wanting to require others to contribute to causes that you yourself are unwilling to support personally is considerably more "phony" a "compassion."
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Of course I have behavioral health benefits.
 
Greenbeard said:
Of course I have behavioral health benefits.
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That's not what I asked you. I didn't ask you what "benefits" you have. I asked how many substance abuse treatment programs you, personally, donate to.

Obviously, the answer is "none" -- and you tried to answer the question with what you receive, not what you give.

It's your compassion that's "phony." If you deem it so important, then pony up. If you simply expect to require others to do so instead, you're basically a mooch.
 
Harshaw said:
That's not what I asked you. I didn't ask you what "benefits" you have. I asked how many substance abuse treatment programs you, personally, donate to.

Obviously, the answer is "none" -- and you tried to answer the question with what you receive, not what you give.

It's your compassion that's "phony." If you deem it so important, then pony up. If you simply expect to require others to do so instead, you're basically a mooch.
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You asked me if I'm asking someone to do or finance something I don't. The answer is no. I'm arguing against gutting essential health benefits and relying on an unsustainable charity-based approach to financing care for a major public health crisis.

And I haven't expressed any compassion so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
 
Greenbeard said:
You asked me if I'm asking someone to do or finance something I don't. The answer is no.
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No, I'm asking which substance abuse treatment programs you, personally, donate to. The answer is "none."


And I haven't expressed any compassion so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
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It's YOU who brought "compassion" into it by calling someone else's "phony," when your own version of it is to be "compassionate" with money other than your own personal cash.
 
LowDown said:
More working class people are dying from despair -- drug abuse, suicide, and alcohol -- than died during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The people at the Huffington Post have nothing but hatred and disdain for them.

You want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump. And you richly deserve it.
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Who cares what some idiot posted in the comments section of an article? This happens all the time and includes all of the political spectrum and various mental malfunctions common to people who comment on articles. Somebody spouting off some crazy crap on the Huffington Post is not the responsibility of the author of the article or the Huffington Post. Comment sections are usually stained with idiocy like this. Is there a point to this? This is not what gets us more Trump. Misunderstanding who Trump really is what got us Trump in the first place. When Trump's failures keep piling up, they will seek a new charlatan and it has nothing to do with what one person commented on a website article.
 
Harshaw said:
It's YOU who brought "compassion" into it by calling someone else's "phony," when your own version of it is to be "compassionate" with money other than your own personal cash.
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That isn't my version of compassion. That's my version of understanding how you finance treatment for an epidemic. Unless the health care system can bill and be reimbursed for this treatment and these people can seek it as a covered benefit, nobody's going to make a dent in this. That means we all have to contribute through premiums. Meanwhile the current administration and House leadership have been trying to strip these benefits, essentially attempting to defund a huge chunk of these services.
 
Mac77 said:
Socialists are the ultimate elitists

They want government run by a select group of elites to tell everyone else what to do
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I though that was one idea behind forming a republic. Only the best people should represent the masses. A different flavor of elitism.
 
Greenbeard said:
That isn't my version of compassion. That's my version of understanding how you finance treatment for an epidemic.
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It sure is your version of compassion -- after all, you said that someone who disagrees with you about that has "phony compassion":

Greenbeard said:
News flash: if the rest of us don't help pay for that treatment, those people ain't getting it. Substance abuse treatment is an essential health benefit. Now more than ever.

You can stow your phony compassion now.
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Harshaw said:
It sure is your version of compassion -- after all, you said that someone who disagrees with you about that has "phony compassion":
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That's because his compassion is phony. That doesn't have anything to do with me. I'm not expressing compassion for these people.
 
Greenbeard said:
That's because his compassion is phony. That doesn't have anything to do with me. I'm not expressing compassion for these people.
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Yeah. Spin, backpedal, deflect, do what you gotta do. The record on what you said is clear.
 
Harshaw said:
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The answer to this is "none," isn't it?

I would say wanting to require others to contribute to causes that you yourself are unwilling to support personally is considerably more "phony" a "compassion."
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This is a stupid point.

States and feds pump in tens of millions of dollars every year, per state for substance abuse programs.

No donation program in the world can keep that up.

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LowDown said:
More working class people are dying from despair -- drug abuse, suicide, and alcohol -- than died during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The people at the Huffington Post have nothing but hatred and disdain for them.

You want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump. And you richly deserve it.
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Do you have a link to a HuffPo article that says "haha, people are dying"?


Actually, don't bother responding. Your threads are useless to a post.
 
Mr Person said:
Do you have a link to a HuffPo article that says "haha, people are dying"?


Actually, don't bother responding. Your threads are useless to a post.
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Go to the comments section.
 
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