Ah, so if you catch it early it’s a coin flip? Nice.

It’s not even his idea, though. It’s been introduced by Marco Rubio 4 times, starting in 2018.

Try Projectivy.

Not worth my time to check who it was (I think BCBS), but they were going to deny the totality of the anesthesia line item for a surgery if the allotted time (and therefore the expected amount of anesthesia used) exceeded the original estimate.

If you’re still asking this question, you are either a disingenuous troll or you are beyond help. You obviously haven’t spent even five minutes trying to understand why the U.S. is still funding Israel and the general positions of the two candidates and instead feel that time is better spent riffing on the same Lemmy buzzword.

The ACA never happened in your mind?

And guess what? If you’ve ever sold anything on TikTok, Bytedance (and the CCP) has your SSN, asking with a treasure trove of personal info! Byebye, identity!

This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.

Way ahead of you. When trying to persuade, you need to know your audience. I’m going door to door canvassing, and having conversations with voters that have these concerns. Those conversations, meeting people one-on-one with empathy, has a profound effect.

In contrast, here, I was responding to someone who was obviously acting in bad faith. I’m not trying to convince that person, but making sure others observing the conversation don’t feel gaslit and second-guess the reality others are trying to distort.

I’m not as dense as I might appear. However, I do appreciate you calling me out so we can have a conversation like this. It’s important, and it helps us all learn and grow.

Thanks for making it disgustingly obvious how easy it is to cherry-pick statements, excluding the full context, to push forward an agenda.

We all know the situation. But we also have more folds in our grey matter to understand the consequences of the alternatives.

With two Ironwolf drives, it’s more like “Awoostar”!

… I’ll see myself out.

Kirkland Signature is Costco’s store brand.

“Israel has the right to defend itself” vs “finish the job” are totally equivalent stances. Got it.

That’s still “both sides” and it’s the same shitty argument.

I have a callus on my big toe. A war vet had his foot blown clean off. Are you going to say we both have foot problems?

So she’s running hard mode Republican?

The votes left to get (amongst registered) are leftists who are still struggling to vote for a candidate who supports a genocide.

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine and clueless or malicious.

Let’s assume you’re the former first. WaPo did a pretty cool piece with undecided swing voters during the debate. It resulted in a small but significant shift left. You can check it out here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/presidential-debate-voter-poll/

Unfortunately, I’m going to assume the latter. To quote Kamala, “This is the same tired old playbook” the Russian troll farms trotted out when Biden was in the race. I’m not sure if you’re one of those that fell for it or if you’re a troll yourself, but it’s not working anymore. If Trump were in office, he’d gleefully tell Netanyahu to bomb Palestine out of existence. If this is going to be a talking point, at least discuss it in good faith.

Got sources that debunk those? I’d like to learn.

This isn’t a helpful answer and comes across as disingenuous. You should provide even just a few.

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Ah yes, a single random data point having nothing to do with the original post. You’ve convinced me.