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            Thinking about the entire timeline of this mess has been exhausting. Lawmakers from both parties, when given the information that the coronavirus would be a threat, sold hundreds of stocks instead of passing legislation that would help anyone politico.com/news/2020/04/29/congress-stocks-coronavirus-221742
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          While millions face eviction, billionaires have made hundreds of billions in profit. Corporations get bailout after bailout while ordinary people get one (1) $1200 check. businessinsider.com/billionaires-net-worth-increases-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-7
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        The average cost to treat a hospitalized person with COVID is $30,000. Millions have lost access to health insurance and neither party supports Medicare for All cnbc.com/2020/04/09/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus-treatment-costs.html
    1. …in reply to @__MoBlack
      The Trump administration purposefully underplayed the threat of this disease to preserve capitalist profits.
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    The Trump administration brought capitalists, not doctors, to the table to discuss a national testing plan -- a plan that was scrapped under the pretense that a worse pandemic and fewer tests might somehow turn the electoral map red vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air
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      The US government paid capitalists millions for ventilators just for those capitalists to turn around and prioritize making more money selling more profitable models overseas businessinsider.com/us-paid-royal-philips-nv-millions-ventilators-unavailable-national-stockpile-2020-3
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        The state put the ventilators it did have in the hands of private corporations, which forced states to bid for life-saving medical equipment for months marketplace.org/2020/04/01/ventilator-bidding-war-covid19/
        1. …in reply to @__MoBlack
          And now, after all of that, after every American institution has proven itself to be broken by design, you want me to like vote for you because you'll run the same institutions that killed so many people while having openly promised them that nothing will fundamentally change
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            But a good guy is running these same systems that makes them better! It's just soooo important that you vote! After all, not trusting AMERICAN institutions is a sign that your Neuralink has been hacked by Putin, a noted communist dictator
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              Despite what it seems, this isn't me saying don't vote Biden. It's me pointing out that it's in Biden and Harris's interests to redirect your frustration away from things that change shit (protests, strikes) and towards things that change jack shit (voting)