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Look if you can't find one, just admit it and move on.
Lol I don't hear you saying "show me one single act where a Republican acted with any singular other interest besides the explicit directive of making people suffer"
I remember a few years ago the Republicans jammed through some piece of legislation that would allow terminal patients to take experimental medications. Even people on the left got fooled, thinking it was some benevolent thing that Trump and his team did for dying patients.
Really, what they did was create a loophole for drug manufacturers to allow them to skip right ahead to human trials, as long as they could find a patient desperate enough to sign a waiver, which, of course anyone who is terminal is also desperate enough to try anything; in law it's called duress and it voids consent. It's one step below doing forced medical testing on unwilling subjects.
There's a reason we do drug trials and we don't just skip straight into human testing. And I'm sure they gave it some fucking dumbass lie of a name like, the Compassionate Care Act or something. Pharmaceutical companies love it because it slashes the cost of testing, which is the most expensive part of pharmaceuticals after advertising.
I can't honestly think of a single policy that Republicans support that doesn't have an evil purpose at its core.
And I bet that you can't show me one.
You tell me one Republican policy you think is rooted in compassionate and benevolence, and a genuine desire to help people in need of help, and I will take about ten seconds to point out exactly how you got tricked, and what the law actually does, just like with the human testing law I mentioned; The point of it wasn't exclusively to make people suffer, it was to give a handout to the pharmaceutical industry, and Trump's rich supporters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/s/y1VhdzJJp9
Please show me the nefarious motivations for every response in this thread, then prove to me that Dems don't have nefarious motivations for every single policy they support. I want you to be as critical of dem policy as you are about the experimental drug policy - that is to say, ignore the obvious good it does and look for a way that it could be maliciously interpreted.
After all, I'm sure my aunt Michael didn't actually want to get into the drug experiment that my mom drove her across the country to attempt to join. She should have had the decency to accept dying of cancer a few months later so that pharmaceuticals couldn't take advantage of other people with 3 months to live. I'm sure you'd feel the same way if you had terminal cancer.
You know using absolute terms as frequently as you do is a sign of early onset dementia?
People in that thread have already ripped that post apart.
You pick one policy, don't hand me a list of 50 and then tell me to prove a negative, you donkey.
Well, you picked one and I picked one. You chose the "right to try", ignored all the positives, focused on some possible negative, then implied that every Repub that voted for it did so only in order to further their evil plans.
Then I chose the expansion of Medicare in 2006, and got crickets.
You ignored all of that and focused in on a reddit thread showing the exact type of extremist responses that you're exhibiting here. And called me a donkey. Guess you're having a bad day. Hope it gets better, sweetheart. High school is tough
You realize I'm not the person you were originally arguing back and forth with right?
By the way, I just replied to your Medicare post a few minutes ago. Thank you for picking one, as my initial post challenged.
Ps. It was between donkey and twat waffle.
Uhhh what? Did you forget what you wrote? Every part of my prior comment is directly referencing a part of yours. Are you having a stroke or something?