29 Things People Considered To Be Their Hill To Die On But Later Changed Sides Drastically

It's first now!

It is #1 now :)

Currently at 2

Virtually every time I see “this should be higher” the post is at #1. Patience.

Yes, government is supposed to represent the people and the needs of the community, all paid via taxes. Roads, infrastructure, law enforcement, libraries, schools AND HEALTHCARE. For those claiming this is socialist or communist....how are you functioning in your community? Kids going to school? You are driving on public paid roads? Calling emergency for police assist and expecting prompt response? Expecting soldiers to keep you safe from invasion or dictatorship overtaking your government? All good right? Saving your actual life and those of your community...nah, that's communist. Most of the world sees how bizarre that would be and went to public healthcare without blinking, cos, Logically tax payers would expect their hard earned money to keep them and their communities alive first of, right ?

A truly representative democracy depends upon an informed electorate. We have knee-jerk reactionary voters who vote for cults and often against their own best interests. Yet another point in favor of public education that doesn't wilt when the likes of fascist organizations (like Moms for Liberty) try to ban books, play games with bathrooms, etc.

Not to mention they raise the debt each time they get into power, whereas liberal parties always LOWER the debt.

My uncle literally got lost in the VA system when my dad, his "caretaker" was hospitalized again for Schizophrenia. Then they wanted me to travel 1 hour away to drive uncle away to a bank. Uncle was incontinent and had undiagnosed mental illnesses with violent episodes (Agent Orange). i'm a female who had little contact with him growing up for a reason. I felt bad for him but there wasn't much i could do. Thanking him for his service didn't do sh*t.

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First off thank you for your service, I too am a US veteran and a patient of the VA. I am also screwed for the rest of my life due to my time in service and I had to fight for 6 years to finally get my 70% rating. I agree with the last part of your post, sadly. Take care brother.

It is always a concern for those who want to be able to tell you how to live your life. In the U.S. that would be primarily fundamentalist Christianity. The current Speaker of the House is an unapologetic Bible-thumper who wants to install a theocracy to replace our democracy. They want to outlaw abortion, but Republicans are always trying to cut funding for kids. Forced births, but after that you're on your own. Evil and despicable.

You don’t even have to understand it, you just have to except that it happens and move on.

That's what unions are supposed to archieve, in the US they have a wierd union system though

Unions are a sure thing though. Governments change

My dad was lucky enough to be in the UAW. I had great health care until I was 18. He had great health care, sick leave and a pension. My husband tried to get into a union through his uncle but was kept out by politics. Héˋll probably work until he's 80 or dies. Unless we win the lottery🤣

Let's start in the 1900's. Republicans were business owners, Democrats were farmers and laborers. Republicans wanted to abuse their workers and inflate their profits. Democrats, the labor formed Unions. Republicans, still the business owners convinced the laborers, that Unions were communists, and that Unions were bad. Now poorly paid Republican laborers still let themselves be abused by corporations.

So the counter-argument from the gents is of course, Well,,, we also made the baby and should some say in the matter. Sure, guys, because you were set on having a baby but the woman didn't want one and you never had this discussion and so you put it in assuming your way is the WAY. I'm willing to bet 99% of women seeking abortions have a male depositor who has zero interest in the baby.

Abso f*****g lutely!

"If you don't have one, you have no right to an opinion." That should be one too.

This should be on billboards, posters, even T Shirts!! “Not your vag? NOT YOUR BUSINESS”. It would make a hell of a protest sign.

Absolutely and let me add uterus ovaries etc, stay tf out of my body

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Unless you are a wealthy old American man.

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yeah, and my income does not belong to the IRS but they have a say in what happens to it.

"Wild" is a very nice way of saying inhumanly evil.

Abortion is legal in all European countries has been for years

Yup. Pro-Lifers tell pregnant women not to abort, but you don’t see Pro-Abortioners telling pregnant women to abort.

And that's exactly how it should be.

Yes but, the Bible is not the word of God it's the word of a man or many men. Men with a capital m.

Mmmm I’d say the words were just twisted by the bias of many a-hole translators over the years

Die hard religious zealots point to the bible and say that alone is proof God exists. In that case, Spider-Man exists.

Wow buddy, the hate is real here. And the Christians are the only hateful ones... Bad people are everywhere.