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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Luckily there's still many other important things such as food safety, workplace safety, consumer protection... um...

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Add disaster management and informing people about disease outbreaks ans product recalls! America is so great about... um.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Paid sick leave exists in some US states, for example vermont. It’s not a lot but it’s better than nothing.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Sadly we are all not blessed by having Bernie as a governor.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bernie isn’t our governor. Republican Phil Scott is. With ~70% of the vote.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Whilst you are correct, he said a governor, not the governor. So they were implying your Congress members and senators are also governing bodies. (Bernie being one of your 2 senators)

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit tier well ackshually level comment

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

What an idiot

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. The Democrats screwed up that opportunity for us. Twice.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Free college is no longer a thing here in the UK. But our student loan terms are bloody generous.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We used to have free college, but college students protested things which pissed off Reagan so he campaigned against it

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is new to me

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 14 hours ago

Would you look at that, Brazil has all of those! The problem with UHC is that right wing politicians have been doing everything in their power to dismantle it ever since its inception.

The previous govt (fucking bozo) was also keen on "isn't it better to have some work and no rights, rather than having rights and no work?"

Public universities, while being free, often can only be attended by the well off, since class times might be all over the week (Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning AND night), fucking anyone that needs to work to sustain themselves.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

The world isn't this black and white, so you can't just compare things at a basic level like this

For example the Netherlands has intuition fee's for universities. It's about 2500 euro per student per year. I'd much rather have it free, but it's still nothing compared to the 50K or 100K some people pay for an American University

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Similar in Canada. It may not be free, but it's ridiculously cheap compared to what the US deals with and we still have great financial assistance for those who can't afford that.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans: Don't care, owned the libs.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

What was that quote? "A Republican would eat shit if they thought a Democrat would have to smell it"?

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