05-26-2016, 06:11 PM
(05-26-2016, 06:17 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:Quote:--I'd love to junk the monstrosity of the current health care system in favor of a "Medicare at age 0", or single payer. But politics is difficult, and it's just not politically feasible at this time, so you gotta take what you can get.
Bullshit. Obama had a majority in the House and enough to break a filibuster in the Senate. He could have gone for "Medicare Part E" as I sometimes call it (E stands for everyone) but he didn't. Not because of politics, but because it was never on the table. The whole time with Establishment Democrats whining that "one should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good".
If the situation was that he didn't have enough votes to obtain cloture (pursuant to Senate Rule 22) that might be a reasonable argument but the fact of the matter is he had both enough votes in the House and the Senate to pass whatever he wanted.
You've got the process backwards here, though it is a mistake almost everyone makes (I make it myself at times). Congress is the one responsible for creating law. All that the president's responsible for is signing or vetoing it after the fact. Obama could have screamed bloody murder for a Medicare Part E and it would do no good if not enough votes in Congress are interested. It's true that the president can try to set the tone via public relations, but the president isn't a prime minister: in the US system, the executive and legislature is separate, and neither particularly likes the other to tell them how to do their job.
Quote:Here's the problem. Men do not slutshame at all. Men might not marry a so-called slut but shaming them is not relevant to male interests. Women on the other hand slutshame all the time. This is of course because of sexual dimorphism.
The type of slutshaming does tend to differ in society by sex, I'm using the term a bit broadly here. Most women do it on terms that are more blatant and familiar--for most men it ties back to the awful concept that a woman should only be having sex with the one man that is "his woman", that a woman's sexuality is only for the purpose of the man.