A special “go fuck yourself” to Virginia Foxx and Mike Johnson.

  • @CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world
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    152 days ago

    True story.

    I was given a chance to talk to a bunch of high schoolers about volunteering at volunteer healthcare clinic.

    Most highschoolers ignored me. They had no idea what healthcare is. They think it is free.

    They feel invincible, as expected.

    I stressed the importance of volunteering because there are many people are uninsured and underinsured.

    One highschooler made a snide comment, “Everyone has insurance. Our family have Medicaid. It is free.”

    I hope life will treat her kindly.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    Sooner or later, the U.S. is going to have to face the reality that the only thing they should be seeing in a photo like that is a really good spot to have planted an improvised explosive device.

    • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      72 days ago

      Imagine having half the villains responsible in one room (the other half are their donors and largely present at fundraisers)

  • @0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    142 days ago

    Yankistanis will never reflect on their history and think their country was built for the rich, by the rich, from the very beginning. They still think it’s built on some humane “values”, lol.

    The values like genocide, racism, sexism, slavery, oppression, segregation, xenophobia, and neocolonialism.

    Useful fools.

    • @kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      The values like genocide, racism, sexism, slavery, oppression, segregation, xenophobia, and neocolonialism.

      Thanks for sending over your best and brightest, fucko.

        • Maeve
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          We can exit the ride at any time. Few are willing to climb out of the top car of the stranded Ferris wheel and scale down, though, and in this case, it’s enough or nothing. So far it’s nothing.

      • Bakkoda
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        93 days ago

        I mean if you had no idea who Rambo was and you just like saw that shit on your lunch break or something… That’s wild. You don’t know who the fuck this short muscle-bound speech deficient asshole is. He’s screaming and popping off rounds like end of days shit. Wild.

        • Ebby
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          23 days ago

          Queue police siren and light…

          “The Naked Gun” theme music begins

          Roll intro!

      • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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        343 days ago

        No one’s going to rally around creepy Mike Johnson’s corpse. No one cares about the guy Luigi (allegedly) shot.

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            So was the Nazi leadership more dangerous as dead martyrs or were they more dangerous when they were living?

              • bthest
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                I agree. And I don’t think any of these Republican Nazis will be martyrs either.

                • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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                  That much was made clear from the downvotes. But I don’t think the two situations are equivalent. I’m not interested in continuing on a debate though so we can agree to disagree.

    • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      And send it to everyone diagnosed with a life-threatening illness that won’t be able to pay for treatment.

  • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    343 days ago

    Every single one of these people is a human rights violator and should be tried for such, along with being some of the most corrupt, hateful people in history.

  • @HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    I wonder what the combined financial net worth of this photo is because the calculation for the combined human value shown in this photo is easy

    That is zero

    • @Etterra@discuss.online
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      133 days ago

      It wouldn’t help, there’s an unstoppable army of fuckheads that blindly vote Republican no matter who it is. At this point I’ve just given up entirely.

      • @AniZaeger@lemmy.world
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        103 days ago

        Proof why the only good fascist is a dead fascist.

        And thank the gods this isn’t Reddit; this comment wouldn’t last 5 minutes in that fascist circlejerk.

      • @WorkshopBubby@lemmy.ca
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        113 days ago

        They aren’t unstoppable. There are a lot of them for sure, but there are at least as many bullets in the US.

      • PastafARRian
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        23 days ago

        It’s like 100 people pulling the strings. Those stupid people will vote in their best interest even if they don’t understand it, with disinformation removed from the picture.

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    This, like so many other cruel unnecessary things, could have been easily avoided.
    “But… but… muh puriteh! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe”
    vOtE fOr A wOmAn? mE?!! wHeN PIGS FLY!!!

    The mental gymnastics so many non-voters use to convince themselves that their lazy mediocrity is not a HUGE part of the problem. They exert a hundred times the energy to stab themselves in the chest with a rusty knife, and as gangrene sets in, they fancy themselves as hero martyrs, because they so bravely did nothing of value to stop this. Useless deadweight flakes that they are.

    • @oozynozh@sh.itjust.works
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      we have to stop blaming voters for their apathy and instead try to understand why a campaign fails to mobilize them. scolding a voter for rejecting persistent mediocrity implies that we must accept it, simply by virtue of being less bad. pragmatically, this makes sense but not everybody has the privilege of accepting the least bad option when doing so appears to have little impact on their present untenable situation.

      i exercise what little power i have to try to keep fascists from power but if others weren’t motivated to do the same, we have to actually speak to their grievances. Kamala campaign had every opportunity to reach these people and instead chose to basically say, “fuck what you want, we don’t need your votes.” so when she gets BTFO across the country, she has nobody to blame but herself for running a campaign that failed to stand for anything her constituents cared enough to vote for (i know there is also always voter suppression that favors Republicans too but she also failed to pursue effective legal remedy for that).

      yeah it sucks hard that this happened, especially so for those of us first on the chopping block for fascism. but to break the cycle, the impetus is on our politicians to be better, not on the voters to settle for worse.