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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Whoa! Free award

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Imagine bootlicking insurance leeches this hard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm just here for this fallout meme.

Now I'll block this idiot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Riding American exceptionalism all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

What trash is this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Enjoy your downvote. I hope you read some books.