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[–] 151 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Mandatory Insurance for Time-off, Caregiving, and Health (MITCH) Act

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    [–] 56 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Yes.

    Unfortunately, conservatives believe in hierarchy. There are different rules for different people and, to them, that's good, right, and natural.

    They don't see it as a contradiction because to them it is not. Mitch gets time off because he's special and deserves it.

    Without cracking that world view, progress will be very limited.

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  • [+] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    I remember a video from (I think) the alt right playbook series, where he remarked on how this kind of hierarchy is self similar at different levels. They get stepped on but they also get to step on the people below them. That's part of why they don't like things that help people they see as lesser. They need to stay down so they can be stepped on!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Unfortunately, conservatives believe in hierarchy.

    indeed, same everywhere, eg wages, some C suite being paid $50Mil is not a problem, they deserve it after all, a raise in the minimum wage ? heresy!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    You crack that worldview by making them the losers in it. So if you work with a conservative, you make sure they don’t get their days off. You make sure that every single bad thing they do they need to count for or they get fired. This is really easy. The problem is is that people on our side have all this empathy for assholes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    That might work, but having just read "Dying of Whiteness" I worry it wouldn't. There are people who would literally rather die than upset the hierarchy. They know their place in it. They will do their duty.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Also, if you’re missing from work for months as an elected official it should automatically trigger a special election to replace you. If I get fired for not showing up, they should too.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah and we'd get fired for a "No call, no show" like next day.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Lmao, as if they'd wait a day. I've seen multiple people get fired for "No call, no show" that same dag when management forgot they gave them the day off

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I've seen the opposite. Hiring is such a nightmare that some managers will turn a blind eye for days - even weeks - if the employee isn't critical and the hiring process is sufficiently bureaucratic.

    I remember hearing an employer begging people to come in, because he'd been saddled with flakey teenagers who weren't paid enough to give a shit one way or another.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    If I get fired for not showing up

    Technically, FMLA is supposed to prevent this from happening. You'd go on disability if you were out for months. But your employer couldn't fire you without opening themselves up to Wrongful Termination.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure his dear colleagues in the senate have been donating their sick days to him.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Democrats will call this a fringe idea even though European countries already do it. The overton window has shifted; we consider far-right policy (like building a wall across the border) but we can't afford universal healthcare and parental leave.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The overton window has shifted

    Hardly on it's own.

    A ton of money goes into telling Americans that they can't afford vacation or sick leave. Even as a ton more goes into telling us that AI will be replacing our jobs momentarily.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Yeah the billionaires are working overtime. Probably easy to do when you have more money than some countries.

    edit: I don't mean they literally are working hard. I mean they stand against worker's rights.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    They work "overtime" because they log every meal as working and having an idea at 2am, while trying to ignore the ghosts of hell screaming at them, demanding they repent, as overtime.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    This isn't a meme, do it.

    M - Mandatory

    I - Indefinite

    T - Term

    C - Coverage

    H - (for) Hospitalization

    The MITCH act is a guarantee for your employment, salary and relief from any required government service/appearance, for the duration of time required for you to fully heal and recover from injury/illness, in home or medical facility, while under the active care of a licensed physician.

    P.s. And since we are requiring that doctor as well, we're going to need to just offer universal healthcare for all as an add on, m'kay.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Don’t stop there.

    My grandfather was at one point a regional manager for a coffee distributor. He got cancer. The company was self insured in such a way that they had to foot his medical bills. They did.

    Post recovery, my grandfather describes his remaining time with the company as miserable. For example, they reassigned him to a notoriously bad region while not providing any relocation assistance. Expectation likely being that he would underperform as a remote manager for their worst region. He didn’t.

    Following about six months of a toxic work experience, they took him out to dinner to let him know in public that his role was being discontinued. He wasn’t being fired, but he’d be required to accept a demotion into a sales position if he wanted to stay. He did not stay.

    Decades later, one of the C-suite members retire. My gramps was close with this guy, who could not speak “off the record” until now. The guy said that C-suite had it out for gramps, viciously so. They wanted him to quit, because they knew that cancer often comes back. They did not want to pay another set of medical bills, so they made gramps life miserable to try avoiding the potential expense.

    So, how do you protect people like my gramps in this situation?

    Your solution is still better than nothing, but it should go further.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Yet another reason to be dissatisfied with employer provided health insurance. They want to be the provider of health insurance coverage so that its availability can be used as leverage against workers, and if you need to actually use in any significant way you'll be punished.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    That sucks. Yet somehow it seems like one of the better outcomes in America. I feel like now they'd just find some reason to fire the person or lay them off and thus not cover the medical bills to begin with. Hell, my wife was fired during the maternity leave the company offered because she actually took it rather than I guess just being so grateful that she worked through it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thats why employer provided health insurance is a bad idea

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Even without, employers if unregulated may see any longterm treatment that takes you out of work as a liability purely for the costs to keep them on payroll.

    Unionization or worker-owned corporations could overcome this. Ideally both, at the same time.

    I want to create a system where the unregulated state of affairs naturally tends toward ethical behavior. That would be nice. But I also want regulation.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    Hey. It's the kid that survived a school shooting and has worked to make our nation better ever since, even after knuckledragger Marjorie "Neanderthal" Greene stalked and harassed him in public.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    I'd love to see the Twatter replies.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    A really good idea to build upon this is to set the amount of paid time off to same amount of time to who over has the most absentism in Congress.

    Your local representative hasn't shown up to vote in four months. Now, everyone in America gets four months of paid time.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    This also covers loved ones and business partners collecting your full paycheck after you’ve died.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    starting with every serviceman deployed to the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    burn mitches house, congress, senate, white house

    burn it all

    fuck this government

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe don't type this into a public platform.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    And pay. And perks. And retirement.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    They don’t have the balls to do that. But it would be hilarious.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Nah you see, if others do it, it's communism

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In a better country, your non-profit wouldn't need to exist because it was a government service.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    And that's wonderful. But you should all be government employees with access to full benefits. People shouldn't have to worry about proving they qualify for the right to have access to food.

    Food, shelter, healthcare, and clean water are human rights that should be guaranteed to anyone regardless of income, citizenship, criminal background, or anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    But do companies pay it or is there a national fund?

    Listen, I agree that people need time to have lunch and take shits.

    But why are businesses forced to pay for these hours of idle labor? Shouldn't we have the government assume the cost they're imposing on private industry?

    We should be privatizing the profits. We need socialize the losses. That's the only way a business can actually function profitably.

    someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees

    Should definitely be keeping a staffer with influenza on site, making food for other people.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Whatever works for Europe, let's do that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Sure, that's kind of a truism. But I really, really struggle to find one thing* that the United States, as a nation, does better than, say, Germany or the Netherlands.

    (* ) Here I'm restricting myself to stuff that the people benefit from obviously. The US is really good at killing civilians in other nations, they're really good at holding the world economy hostage, that sort of stuff, but not anything that actually matters to people who live in the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It seems like you're advocating for all workers to die.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    America needs to better deal with the selfish and cruel within it.

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    That's not how America works.

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    [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    GOP won't vote for it. They already get the benefits and therfore Noone else needs them

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    I had a long conversation with Mitch, he said he doesn't want anyone worrying about him, he's doing fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Please, no. We should not make all of the workers die and then conceal their deaths.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wait a second. This is a meme community so I assume you're joking but... don't you lot have paid sick leave or parental leave?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    No, the Mitch act would be for paid DEAD leave.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Medicine In The Caring Home...pays for all prescriptions, doctor and nurse visits, hides actual ability or response time to public, continues to hold contracts far out of date..

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    David, don't you know that you got kicked out of the DNC for sharing such common-sense ideas? The people should have NO say in their leadership, that's the meritocracy... far too obvious /s

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Off topic, but shout out to the Ubuntu font for looking so nice. Love to see someone using it in the wild

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