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[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I watched a video that had dr. Robotnik say how is going to take over the US Healthcare system and make it hell... then shadow keeps interjecting to tell him that his plans are actually a vast improvement over the system, and Robotnik is then left unsure what to think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Why would you do this? Why provide a link to the youtube video but have it hyperlink to this post?

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

Even better, since his IQ is like 300

[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Dumb question, what is this meme format about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeonmi Park, DPRK defector and conservative media darling. Claims of her life in North Korea are debated hotly- things along the lines of they eat rats and the like.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So, the joke here is that you've got someone, presumably a Chinese official, saying a reality about America in a startling way that sounds like completely cooked up propaganda but isn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

It would still be propaganda. Propaganda doesn't have to be false.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

“In America, they take your money for bombs and billionaires.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Socialism: A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Then go live in China 🤡

Bro I just said I don't want diabetics to pay 300usd per month for insulin jfc

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

China which is... also capitalism, but instead of CEOs there's The Party

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And there is only one Party. Either you're in, or you're in the way.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Nahh mate we got a choice in the US 🤡

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, technically speaking, if it's the same shit from the same ass but you can chose your favorite buttcheek, you do have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Up until recently you really did. US citizens decided to not have it, so who knows in the future, but you really did.
American really cannot do comparative analysis, they believe that their country is the only one in the world and very unique, so it's hard for american brain to comprehend that some countries are better at something and some are worse. They need to be either the best or the worst.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Up until recently you really did.

Not in my life time... or ever really. Political process is captured by the two party regime.

Do you want to get fucked and dirty or slow?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

This attitude betrays that you never actually engaged with it besides reading about a candidate 2 minutes before casting a vote that one time and never again.

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

US is a stone’s throw from these groups becoming one and the same.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How dare we want our country to be better and for our fellow citizens to not die in cartoonishly preventable ways? /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to mention that those same people will post shit about “why are we helping foreigners when people at home are suffering”-sorry stop me if you’ve heard this one ten-thousand times before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

"I'm just gonna hit the pause button right there, bud. The US government doesnt help people."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The median cost for a daily dose of insulin in China is $0.59.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I literally had to tell people libertarianism fails harder and faster than communism was getting weird stares until I told them about the book "a libertarian walks into a bear"

I still look like a raging communist but idc

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago

I have multiple times had the experience of explaining to non-Americans elements of our system, and they simply don’t believe me. They think I’m making it up to fuck with them because it’s so atrocious that it couldn’t be real.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kind of has a point that modern "communist" systems in practice seem identical to all the bad parts of Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Your problem is neither capitalism nor communism.

Your problem is greedy cunts. Both systems will end up putting them in charge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

That's because people who aren't greedy don't seek that kind of position.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Phrase I picked up from Well There's Your Problem: centrally unplanned economy.

One company, Baxter, makes 95% of the saline IV solution for the US. Most of it comes from one factory in Marion, N.C. It has been hit by natural disasters before and caused shortages. One happened just this past few months.

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