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Re:Orthodox Privilege by debacle on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:51PM (#23847910)
It makes fruitful discussion hard. I support socialized healthcare, but for me it's down as the 5th or 6th greatest problem facing the US medical system today, and I think implementing only socialized healthcare without fixing these other problems would create a system destined for failure.

To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.

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Re:Orthodox Privilege by zozbot234 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:02PM (#23848077)
> To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.

Well, in a way, you don't. Because you apparently think socialized healthcare should not be an agenda priority in the short term, and what's the purpose of political activism if not agenda setting? Many other people who "don't support socialized healthcare" at this time might well regard it as worthwhile, if the other blatant issues w/ the healthcare system were addressed first.

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Re:Orthodox Privilege by mnd999 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:54PM (#23848957)
And there it is. No it does not mean that. It simply means there are only so many hours in the day and a person only has so much time and energy and they are devoting that to other things right now.
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