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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 minutes ago

Posting this is stupid. Posting this on lemmy is like going to a nazi convention to talk about inclusion and tolerance. Wrong crowd buddy.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Counterpoint: I live in a country with free healthcare and I dont have to take a mortgage out to buy a carton of eggs.

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm just here for this fallout meme.

Now I'll block this idiot.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Imagine bootlicking insurance leeches this hard.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Congratulations! You win the award for the stupidest meme of the week! 🎉🥇

[–] colonelp4nic@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Whoa! Free award

[–] narr1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 19 hours ago

This being inane, asinine and banal at the same time must be a personal best for the maker of this comic

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

I’m sorry, can someone explain this to me?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 27 minutes ago

I think I read it wrong. I thought it was making fun of tankies. The mouse ignores the death trap for free cheese. The tankies ignore China's abuses and praise it because it has free healthcare? I used to see that sort of thing unironically all the time before I blocked grad and hexbear.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Americans think that universal healthcare is communism. And for Americans communism is the pure evil and thus they prefer to die because they can’t afford life saving treatments instead of working towards implementing an universal health care system.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Riding American exceptionalism all the way down.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The Canadian school system has begun replacing the term "special needs" with "exceptional." A student is "exceptional" and has "exceptionalities."

Seeing "American exceptionalism" has a completely different meaning to me now.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I thought this was a joke, but no, the euphemism treadmill never stops turning

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

If people were respectful of people with impairments and their needs, instead of hijacking the terminology for playground insults, there would be no treadmill.

Everyone is temporarily abled, at best.

The issue is not whether their needs are special or exceptional. It’s that there are needs that need to be met.

[–] BalderSion@real.lemmy.fan 4 points 18 hours ago

The word exceptional didn't always mean better. It used to just mean different, as in an exception to the rule.

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If everybody could get insulin (even if they stock shelves or got laid-off from a tech/gig company), that's when it's a Joseph Stalin.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

If you are not either rich or in possession of a working pancreas, that means you have displeased god.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't waste your energy trying to understand it, if I were you. It's just the usual idiotic "FrEe HeALtHcArE iS cOmMuniSm!!1!" take.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -4 points 13 hours ago

There are plenty of countries that do free healthcare without resorting to authoritarianism.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

It's pretty simple: no iPhone vuvuzela, sixteen trillion dead!

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

People will ignore all of the genocides and human rights violations communist countries are responsible for and only focus on the small handful of things it does right.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 12 hours ago

Good ideas in theory don't always work the way we foresee, in practice. That doesn't mean we can't look at successes and failures and improve the practice or even the ideas. Interestingly, if communism never works, why are certain nations determined to rush in and topple fairly elected communist leaders, before we have a chance to see their ideas in action? Why was Evo Morales demonized?

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Genocides and human rights violations are America's top exports. When did we become commies?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And here comes the whataboutism. 🙄

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wrong, here comes deez nutz

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Wait, I have another.

More like whataboutdeeznutsism

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

You probably didn't explain it well. Have you tried taking your schizo meds?

[–] koregro@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago

Enjoy your downvote. I hope you read some books.

[–] MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

What trash is this?