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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago

"YES EXACTLY! THOSE CRAFTY TREACHEROUS LIBERALS ARE TOO STUPID TO BENEFIT FROM THEIR OWN GRIFT!"

--probably literally what they think

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The idea comes from their being a law that no one can be turned away from the ER for being unable to pay. They usually just send you a huge bill later. They argue that undocumented workers are more likely to have a fake DL in their pocket or a fake social security number so they are more likely to get away with it.

My American cousins have said they've honestly thought of saying they didn't have their wallet and give them a fake name when they went in for just that reason, but they chickened out being uncertain what would happen if they got caught.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"Get away with it" is really disgusting in this context.

[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's the billionaire's world, the rest of us are just getting away with living on it.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Its humanities world and we are allowing them to be the way they are.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have a "friend' who did it with a broken arm. 10 years on no clap back.

They just write that stuff off. Put on grubby cloths and rub a little dirt on yourself so you look borderline homeless. Tell them your between addresses when asked.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

Here I was thinking we didn’t have a social safety net here. Just have to be dishonest and immoral to get it, which is how everything works in the US, so it makes sense.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It's like asking conservatives if illegals are lazy, why is ICE raiding job sites? Logic ain't their strong suit.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Magats are experts at cognitive dissonance. They can quite happily hold the belief that illegals are lazy and live off government handouts while also holding the belief that illegals are stealing their jobs.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

Migrant workers, or what Magats would call "illegals" are sponsored by US employers and come in on a special visa type such as H-1A or H-2B. We will all remember the Magat leaders backpeddling on those visas and calling them necessary right ... Right?

So if migrants (supposed illegals) are stealing jobs ... then MAGA is supporting it. Cognitive dissonance? No ... these people are just stupid.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 10 hours ago

Plus they aren't reporting raids in red states because it will dispell the illusion that illegals only occur in blue states, and red States have significantly more "raids apparently"

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 104 points 1 day ago (3 children)

there is some similarity to famous schrodinger immigrant. too lazy to work and taking your job at the same time.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Duur they look different than us so they must be the problem. If we get rid of them all our jobs will come back, we will get medical coverage again, and the government won't be in debt.

[–] homes@piefed.world 10 points 1 day ago

and somehow, Trump deported fewer immigrants last year than Biden did in 2024, and Trump still had to cut SNAP and Medicare/Medicaid just to end up in far more debt!

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 points 20 hours ago

Also theyjust rape all day while being lazy abd stealing your job.

There are a lot of latino cops, so its not entirely wrong.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They do? I genuinly tought they are that stupid

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 23 hours ago

Words are just a way to get what they want. Truth has no intrinsic value to them. In fact, they enjoy telling obvious falsehoods and getting array with it. It’s a power play. A domination thing.

They are deeply flawed people.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Depends on who we're referring to. Their politicians aren't all stupid. They talk to their base that way because they believe their base is stupid.

Edit:Spelling. I should be more careful about that when commenting critically.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The TV personalities do. The rabid audience doesn't.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The audience doesn't care they're being lied to. If you show proof it's a lie, they immediately jump to the next talking point which is usually also a lie.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That's a flat out lie!! 😡 You demoncrats eat BABIES 😭

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 7 points 17 hours ago

I think there might be another source of this stupid notion. Universities host free clinics where current students can practice their specialties on volunteer patients, who usually are from underserved communities and/or undocumented, who cannot get medical attention any other way. So of course, this is the "free healthcare for illegals", dramatically exagerrated... Ignoring the fact that it is provided by less-experienced students, at very low capacity, and is technically available to anyone.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, one of the electricians that was working on my house got a little chummy with me one day several years back and said something about how if he was smart he'd go to Mexico and then cross back into the USA illegally so he could get the free debit card with thousands of dollars in the account that we give to everybody coming into the country at the border.

I said something along the lines of, "You'll have to enlighten me, what the fuck are you even talking about."

This man insisted that Biden was giving every single illegal immigrant that crosses the border a debit card worth thousands of dollars.

I said, "And do you honestly believe that?"

His response? "Yes." Because most of the guys he works with are "Mexicans" and they told him it was true.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

please forgive an endless stream of consciousness runon sentence. it's kind of how it happened. i mean i was in dallas visiting my father in law. we were going to the jfk museum because we're all history geeks and it's a great museum. so we take this uber and the far right driver goes on a rant about all those out of state protestors being paid to come in and cause trouble and blah blah soros bux blah blah i really wasn't paying that much attention because i got that look in my eye and my wife started silently trying to get me to stop but she was trying to be subtle rather than sign and i started trying to get me to stop and i was trying to carry a conversation and then my mouth popped off "oh yeah that's why we're here" oh fuck i hope he has a sense of humor oh shit he doesn't.

so yeah the museum was fun. the ride there was entertaining at least. remember Coast to Coast AM? same kind of entertaining.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do your streams of consciousness normally come without punctuation?

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago

This isn't a dissertation. Let them write how they want.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago

So... Did any of them have this card? Of course not. Because they're here legally of course, and can't tell who else might have one.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's see how Mexico's rollout of universal healthcare works (hoping it does go well for them!) then watch that entire argument fall to pieces once MAGAS realize they're still losing their homes to medical debt, or going without any affordable drugs or doctors access..

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine if mexico built a wall to keep americans out

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago

and make americans pay for it!

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think the strawman argument is that they go to the ER, which typically cannot deny care due to lack of insurance. That in turn makes it "free" for them.

[–] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The gotcha here is that all they will do is make sure you're not actively dying. If you're well enough to make survive till the next weekday you're getting a referral and told to GTFO of the ER.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

Yep, if you're broke, but really sick, and go to the ER, they will figure out what's wrong, put a band-aid on it, and kick you out.

If they determine you have cancer, and it is treatable, or you will die, they will tell you that you have cancer, treat whatever the current symptom is, and kick you out. They will NOT treat your cancer, and you will die.

If you need a transplant, they will tell you that, but they will not give you a transplant.

They don't have to do more than that, and if there's no money on it for them, they won't.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatives believe whatever they are told to believe.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

If they did believe that, they would do what the meme says.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago

They're taught not to question. It's one of the primary reasons the conservatives started targeting religious groups decades ago. They're brainwashed from birth to do what they're told, not to think about it, but just have faith that a book written by man somehow is superior to anything else man has done because someone at some point said it came from a mystical being that no one can talk to directly and only responds indirectly.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 6 points 21 hours ago

But the hospitals know exactly who the undocumented ones are, and provide free service to them only. /s

that would involve them being able to think about what they are told

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 7 points 23 hours ago

Key phrase: "none of them have thought"

This is standard for American conservatives and makes the whole hypothesis believable. They don't think, they just go along with what conservative media tells them.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imigrants are bad. Claiming to be an immigrant makes me bad. Therefore I should pay my share and blame immigration for me having to pay. And that's just math...

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Them illeguls are stealing our jerbs!!!!

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Are You telling me, free healthcare is the norm everywhere else?

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

I worked for a hospital that would give free dialysis to immigrants for charity tax purposes.