Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

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Obama’s first proposal was for a single-payer system. That proposal lost by effectively 1 vote.

You don’t need to link me anything, because I was a grown adult in 08.

“Obamacare” for instance, was coined when Obama won, because right-wing talk channels had been expecting Hillary Clinton to win the Primary and had already coined “HillaryCare” from her own single-payer proposal shed had since the 90s.

Fuckin weird that leftists try to distort recent history as if people weren’t fucking alive in 2008 and can correct them.

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Fuckin weird that you seem to think ‘leftist’ is a cogent insult.

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It’s not an insult - right-wing people don’t do that. They make up different wholesale bullshit

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Obama’s first proposal was for a single-payer system. That proposal lost by effectively 1 vote.

Have you not noticed that this happens every time? They always manage to find that one vote to prevent anything truly progressive from happening. If we need 60 votes to make something change for the better in this country, there will be 59 yay votes, with 2 people voting “present.”

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They dont “find the vote” to do that lol. That’s exactly backwards. Democrats are a loose coalition of “not Republican” and some regions of the country elect nominal democrats that are not on board with every party intention

You have Bernie Sanders one example, and Joe Manchin as another, to give a recent opposition.

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