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F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything9·4 天前It ain’t a rule it’s a mental health disease.
F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot?14·17 天前A John is also the customer of a prostitute. (at least in the USA)
F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•The Trump administration has made drastic cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that threaten to impact weather forecasting (headline from four months ago)24·18 天前I lived in VA. From 2nd to 9th grade pre-internet. Now VA. Is South but it’s not west va., Mississippi, or Tennessee south. Even back then, you could spend an afternoon in a library and alleviate yourself of a lot of bad information unintentionally just by looking up that information. I know because I did. I’d hear grownups around me say sketchy shit and look into it. It’s even easier to do so now. Just the act of seeking clarity can bring some small pieces of enlightenment. A lot of people didn’t bother then and wouldn’t now.
What’s happening is post-truth BS. People just choosing to believe whatever the fuck they want, often without any verification.
Are some people being led astray? Absolutely. But they’re also allowing themselves to be. People have been trying to convince southerners (and others) for decades, of not a century, that they’re being screwed over and the people they vote in are doing the screwing but many just flatly refuse to look into it at all and just keep going on blind faith. What happened to personal responsibility and self-agency? Not to mention that some people are just dumpster fires given human form and those people definitely deserve to reap what they sow.
I don’t wish hardship on anyone but if a person continually brings hardship on themselves through their own, thoughts, votes, and actions, while ignoring all the warnings being handed out like candy at Halloween, I don’t find it surprising that others feel less inclined to be sympathetic let alone empathetic with their plight.
F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump contemplating axing Tulsi Gabbard’s office, saying she ‘doesn’t add anything’ to his admin: report17·1 个月前I understand this sentiment but, as an American, if you’ve been alive for 3 decades plus, you’ve witnessed immense stupidity on behalf of America and Americans, electing Trump again was just the logical conclusion.
F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Also, they already had a deal with the US before Trump voided itEnglish10·1 个月前I’m probably? a couple decades older than you, it’s always been this way. My entire life has been Americans convincing other Americans to fuck their own country and futures for culture war bullshit, petty vengeances, and unmitigated greed on the promise that they’ll get theirs too only to be left empty handed and worse off than before. Then they vote the same way again while complaining that all the problems are the same. The joke about the definition of insanity applies.
F1gm3nt3d@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Also, they already had a deal with the US before Trump voided itEnglish12·1 个月前It’s a lot of the same people who voted Trump in, so that shit tracks.
I mean they didn’t. “Do your job or do something else” and “I’m just following orders” are worlds apart.
One is expressing the opinion that if a person freely chooses a profession but then refuses to practice it for asinine reasons they should choose a different profession because they are incapable of doing the job correctly.
The other is an excuse Nazi’s used to justify the shit they did.
Not the same.
The real problem here is that allowing medical professionals to pick and choose like you describe based on their personal values will lead to people dying. That’s the entire reason for the Hippocratic oath, to provide an unbiased framework of ethics under which physicians practice.
Hypothetically, say you’re straight, have a one night stand with your preferred gender and get AIDS. You feel sick go to a doctor and they refuse to treat you because AIDS is the “gay” disease and since you have AIDS, you must be gay and this Doctor doesn’t “agree with that lifestyle.” So you ask for one who does, turns out you’re in a Catholic hospital and no one “agrees with that lifestyle” here. Sorry, you’re fucked and maybe have to drive a few hours for treatment now because of some judgmental assholes. Or you die from AIDS because you live in America, in a red state, where you have no other options.
That phrase btw? The one about lifestyles? That’s a fucking dog whistle.