v: There-there. Life is hard, yes. Sometimes you have to choose.
So you've shifted from pretending that bosses aren't more powerful than their employees to mocking what many people in this country are currently going through. I suppose that's progress of a sort. We can dispense with your entire earlier line of "argument" and deal with those snickers of yours aimed at people going without medicine and food.
"Choosing" between voting for the candidate you want and keeping your job is similar to the "choice" of friend of mine faced when she was confronted by a large scary man with a knife. She could lie still while he had sex with her, or she could lose an eye. Hey, it was her "choice," right?
Used to hear the same from a Soviet apologist back in the '80s. All those silly dissidents had the "choice" of keeping their mouths shut. They had only themselves to blame if they ended up in a gulag.
v: It's not the first time I observe your deep and sincere indignation about the fact people ALWAYS have to decide for themselves.
So it's your contention that the uninsured and the unemployed "decided" to be uninsured and unemployed.
Do the uninsured who die for lack of access to medical care "decide" to die?
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Date: 20/10/12 19:14 (UTC)So you've shifted from pretending that bosses aren't more powerful than their employees to mocking what many people in this country are currently going through. I suppose that's progress of a sort. We can dispense with your entire earlier line of "argument" and deal with those snickers of yours aimed at people going without medicine and food.
"Choosing" between voting for the candidate you want and keeping your job is similar to the "choice" of friend of mine faced when she was confronted by a large scary man with a knife. She could lie still while he had sex with her, or she could lose an eye. Hey, it was her "choice," right?
Used to hear the same from a Soviet apologist back in the '80s. All those silly dissidents had the "choice" of keeping their mouths shut. They had only themselves to blame if they ended up in a gulag.
v: It's not the first time I observe your deep and sincere indignation about the fact people ALWAYS have to decide for themselves.
So it's your contention that the uninsured and the unemployed "decided" to be uninsured and unemployed.
Do the uninsured who die for lack of access to medical care "decide" to die?