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Then go live in China 🤡
Bro I just said I don't want diabetics to pay 300usd per month for insulin jfc
China which is... also capitalism, but instead of CEOs there's The Party
And there is only one Party. Either you're in, or you're in the way.
US is a stone’s throw from these groups becoming one and the same.
How dare we want our country to be better and for our fellow citizens to not die in cartoonishly preventable ways? /s
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.
"I'm just gonna hit the pause button right there, bud. The US government doesnt help people."
Big pharma got the patent mate... Respect the law, shitlord
Rheee
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.
“In America, they take your money for bombs and billionaires.”
Dumb question, what is this meme format about?
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.
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.
Kind of has a point that modern "communist" systems in practice seem identical to all the bad parts of Capitalism.
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.
I donate plasma twice a week and there were rations for the past couple of months on saline. Instead of getting refilled with saline after the donation, we had to eat gold fish drink and drink a Powerade before the donation and drink a Powerade and sit for 15 min after. Last week was the first time they started doing saline again.
Tbqh the saline is only necessary because a lot people aren't sufficiently hydrated in the first place. That Gatorade did basically the same thing on a ~24 hour delay.
Ofc, that's easier to say for people with a decent amount of blood volume in the first place, and for people who aren't losing that much plasma on a regular schedule.
Be very careful about donating that frequently if it's a regular thing btw. Citrate reactions have compounding effects over time on bone density, it's why civilized countries don't let you sell or donate plasma as often as America does.
Technically speaking all of the warning material they make you sign tells you this, but in my experience they're pretty shifty about making sure donors actually understand the risks.
Best thing you can do is to buy some Tums/chalk tablets and eat one before you donate. If you ever get a tingling feeling in your lips while donating it's because the citrate anti-coagulant is binding with the calcium in your blood that is supposed to be going to your daily needs, the Tums both works pretty quick to relieve the tingling and makes sure you're getting enough calcium to negate the loss.
Your problem is neither capitalism nor communism.
Your problem is greedy cunts. Both systems will end up putting them in charge.
That's because people who aren't greedy don't seek that kind of position.
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
Why does everyone think the only alternative to capitalism is communism?
American brains have been shaped into 2-lane highways.
Because of successful anti-anarchist propaganda, an overwhelming majority of Americans think anarchy means no rules whatsoever.
That's just Americans. They can only think of 2 options; this or that. Democrat or Republican. Capitalism or Communism. Good or evil. Simple binary choices.
There are countries in Europe which are ruled by a coalition of 3 or 4 political parties. Very few Americans would be comfortable with something so complicated.
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.