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Matt
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Expat from 🇩🇪, who's been living in 🇺🇸 for more than 30 years.

Just to state the obvious: This has nothing to do with the protection of children. This is about the state of Texas creating the ability to cross-reference social media accounts to individuals, so they can ferret out dissidents.

Say good-bye to your freedom, Texans!

Today is Memorial Day, and America honors all the men and women who fell in its armed services.

When our son was a kid and a Boy Scout, each year he and the other members of his troop would spend a few hours on the weekend prior to Memorial Day to decorate the thousands of graves on Golden Gate National Cemetery with little American flags.

We don’t pose as patriots. Not in life and not on social media. The typical social media patriot wouldn’t even think of us as “real Americans”. We’re a mixed-race, non-Christian family of immigrants in a blue state

Nevertheless, our son is grown now, and last week he graduated from the Army’s Officer Candidate School.

We couldn’t be more proud!

#MemorialDay #army

I fully agree with the first 3 paragraphs.

On the fourth: Plenty of countries changed their healthcare systems for the better through political means. In fact, what other way would you propose?

On the fifth: Healthcare is always going to require insurance. Because people who are severely ill/injured aren't in a position to negotiate with providers on the basis of free market principles. And insurance will always require regulation and supervision because it otherwise invites all kinds of fraud, and not just the type (allegedly) committed by $UNH.

I think the $UNH case just illustrates the lack of such effective oversight. This is not impossible to fix. Plenty of countries seem to do a decent job of it.