• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • 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.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      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.

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        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
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        2 months ago

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

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Just because it’s a different viewpoint from yours doesn’t make the meme stupid.

      I can’t believe the left call themselves tolerant and do this kind of shit.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        In some situations this “we should be tolerant of the other side” argument is valid. But in this case? No, this is a plain old stupid meme. It’s promoting a strawman argument in a largely incoherent way. So spare me your phony pearl-clutching.

        One good thing is that calling out this bullshit reveals all the people who can be blocked so I don’t have to see their nonsense.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeOP
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      Imagine bootlicking authoritarian governments when any reasonable democracy has free healthcare too.