• TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      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
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      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.

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          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.

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              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.

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

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      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.

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

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      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.

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

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      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.