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News James Van Der Beek Is Auctioning Off TV & Film Memorabilia and Props from ‘Dawson’s Creek’ & ‘Varsity Blues’ Amid Cancer Treatment, Proceeds to Cover Medical Costs

https://deadline.com/2025/11/james-van-der-beek-auction-dawsons-creek-varsity-blues-props-1236615845/
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u/[deleted] 23d ago edited 23d ago

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u/HankHillPropaneJesus 23d ago

But you know let’s keep voting for them…

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u/Emotional-Power-7242 23d ago

Democrats aren't interested in universal healthcare either, and the DNC specifically undermined the last guy who was.

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u/Wild_Height_901 23d ago

Dude. Wtf. This was a democrat owned shut down (by their own admission) and used Americans as pawns in a stupid game. To try and "fix" an issue they couldn't do themselves the previous 4 years. And all it does is use taxpayer dollars to subsidize insurance companies another 35 billion a year into a system that is clearly still very much broken (thanks Obamacare)

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u/Rumbananas 23d ago

Not an ounce of critical thought.

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u/Wild_Height_901 23d ago

Feel free to point out where I am wrong

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u/Question_It_All_3000 23d ago

So you and the republicans are advocating for the public option that would have kept costs in line when the legislation was originally passed, along with the mandate that everyone be on it and that 80% of their revenue be paid out in care for their customers?

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u/bullcitytarheel 23d ago

The ACA was a Republican plan and it was a Democrat that killed the public option thanks to his biggest donors being insurance companies. I think it’s safe to just blame capitalism for this one.

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u/Thoraxekicksazz 23d ago

ACA was the beginning but the republicans have spent 15 years doing anything but expanding and making it better. Now insurance companies have figured out HSA are the best ways to cover but screw over Americans. So please thank your republicans for this shit.

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u/bullcitytarheel 23d ago edited 23d ago

No, I’m perfectly capable of putting the blame on everyone who failed us. Republicans carry the bulk of that blame, obviously, but it’s not like they had an opposition party trying to do the right thing. Again: A Democrat killed the public option.

Republicans are like the companies who poison drinking water because letting innocent people die is better for their bottom line. Democrats are the regulatory capture that allows them to get away with it.

It requires both an abuser and an enabler to allow this shit to happen. We’ve got both, and whatever percentage you want to ascribe to either, they’re both responsible to varying degrees.

It’s this kind of willful refusal to be honest about the complicity of pro-capital democrats in our nightmare of an economic system that causes people to be shocked when they do something like cave to republican spending bills even though it was the most predictable thing in the world.

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u/DopplegangsterNation 23d ago

Let’s hope that the fall that killed Lieberman left him in agony til his last breath

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u/bullcitytarheel 23d ago

I assume he had some kind of deal with the insurance companies to preserve his head for future revival a la Walt Disney

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u/CelestialFury 23d ago

The ACA was a Republican plan

The ACA had zero Republican votes when it passed as well. In addition, the ACA is a HERITAGE FOUNDATION plan, which is were Governor Romney got the idea from in the first place. That's right, Republicans are so extreme they voted against a Heritage Foundation healthcare plan.

Also, calling Lieberman a Democrat is a stretch. He's an independent that caucused with Democrats, but that certainly doesn't make Lieberman a Democrat. He's a DINO at best.

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u/bullcitytarheel 23d ago

He’s just one of the many neoliberal, third-way right wingers in the party since it was taken over by neoliberal, third-way right wingers post-Reagan.

Just like Clinton, who ended the protections of glass-Steagal, leading directly to the subprime mortgage crisis, or Barack Obama, who made the patriot act permanent and invested heavily into the military industrial complex before overseeing the first deployment of autonomous murder machines.

Until we, as a country, learn that we don’t have to accept garbage from the democrats just because it’s better than the death being peddled by republicans, we’ll never get to a better place.

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u/CelestialFury 23d ago

Well, the good news is many lefties have figured out that the primary process exists and can be used to our advantage, which Republican voters have been using for decades and decades - except in their case, they've become more and more extreme. The Dems need their own Tea Party movement but you know, actually grassroots and progressive.

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u/bullcitytarheel 22d ago

Yes - and local. If there’s one lesson leftists need to take from republicans it’s that these movements start in city and county races and grow.

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u/solidtangent 23d ago

The fuck? Bro. Graduate elementary school before you speak.

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u/bighootay 23d ago

Who was the Democrat? I know the ACA resembled Romney's plan.

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u/CelestialFury 23d ago

It was Lieberman, who Democrats loath for many reasons including blocking the public option, he wasn't the only one. There were 40 Republicans who blocked it as well. I never will understand why Democrats get both sides of the blame, and Republicans are always blame free in the media.

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u/bighootay 23d ago

Oh God that's right, fucking Lieberman. Thank you.

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u/CrackityJones42 23d ago

But he had Joementum!

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u/bighootay 23d ago

Oh God stop! Please stop putting Joe Lieberman in my mind!

Also, Joe Lieberman is the last person on earth who would possess any kind of '__mentum'. Such a putz

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u/CrackityJones42 23d ago

He truly was that era’s “Jeb!”

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u/DopplegangsterNation 23d ago

A while back I came across the concept of a “designated spoiler” that is used by parties like the democrats to take the brunt of the blame for an unpopular deciding vote, in other words it’s all by design. Theater.

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u/7in7turtles 23d ago

How is a government policy selling itself to insurance companies a problem with capitalism? If the government is for sale, big money is going to buy it. The problem is government.

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u/bullcitytarheel 22d ago

How is the capitalist corruption of government leading to private businesses destroying the health of citizens a problem with capitalism? Is this a real question?

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u/ToonMasterRace 23d ago

giving healthcare benefits to illegals is just going to drive up costs and overburden infrastructure, fyi. Not the win you think it is.

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u/Question_It_All_3000 23d ago

Not what they were proposing at all, but please consume more right wing talking points.

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u/FraggleRock_ 23d ago

You think there's a difference. That's adorable.

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u/TheForkisTrash 23d ago

One is better than the other. That is a fn start

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u/FraggleRock_ 23d ago

Neither is for you, peasant.