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Lumisal

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Lumisal ,

I mean if you're in the USA many of you are pulling the lever everyday really. It's just that y'all constantly choose not to run over the wealthy and the corrupt in exchange for peace, love, or whatever reason you may have. But the easy access to weaponry does mean you're constantly pulling a lever.

The problem is the green guys have no issues running y'all over daily.

Lumisal ,

Well you see, they're like onions

Lumisal ,

Hi there. Had kidney failure for about 8 years.

There was this one medication I badly needed to control secondary hyperparathyroidism. Literally used all avenues, and couldn't get it approved or covered, other than by paying around 800$ for a single dose. I even had private insurance still at the time btw. The alternative was a surgery to remove a parathyroid gland which would then lead me to having other severe health complications if I got a kidney transplant. You know, due to now missing an organ.

Second treatment in Finland when I was just VISITING, not even a resident yet - "oh, you're PTH levels are extremely high. We're going to give you "medicine I've been trying to get for months".

Just like that. No struggle even. Cost? 25$, and that includes the superior diafiltration treatment (USA only has dialysis, despite it giving poorer quality of life and lowering life expectancy, thanks to lobbying from DaVita.

Anyway, fuck you 🙂

Lumisal ,

What is lemmy.ml and lemmygrad? I'm just a casual using Voyager

Lumisal ,

How to block? And I'm still a bit confused about instances. How do I know which I joined?

Lumisal ,

Thank you!

Lumisal ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d9fdec9f-e8a6-4230-885e-91ffed1fd954.jpeg

Lumisal ,

Pretty sure Windows 11 itself has become a data collection service at this point

Lumisal ,

Yeah it's a joke but probably how the Russian air force works

Lumisal ,

I don't think it's complete bullshit. Not a universal truth as some make it out to be, but not completely false. Cultural background plays a role, as well as social setting.

The Tonga boys were all from the same group for one.

In Lord of the flies, they were separate groups.

Tonga boys had a shared culture.

Lord of the flies groups had 2 separate cultures: 1 religiously militant, the other not.

That second factor might be the most important one. If you're taught growing up to villainize and hate an "other", that's what's more likely to happen.

Or to put it in a more US centric way: if 7 kids from deeply racist families were stuck on an island with 4 black kids in the 1960s, would they still have gotten along as well as the Tonga boys?

Lumisal ,

Too bad for that whole "tolerance paradox" being a thing...

Lumisal ,

I'm talking that such a revolution can't be peaceful to happen because there exists powerful parties that are very interested in keeping the status quo who will NOT hesitate to use death squads to stop you from changing the status quo.

Good luck convincing companies like Black Rock, that have both huge investments in housing properties and paramilitary, to just let everyone have free housing, or Nestle (who I hope I don't even have to cover the atrocities they have and still do) to let people have free water, when the CEO has himself publicly stated he doesn't think people are entitled to water.

Also, never said death squads, but nice strawman.

Lumisal ,

Obviously it means you're getting part of a room /s

Lumisal ,

Yeah. After thinking about it, it's not like the USA will ever have a revolution as much as a forced civil war, if it happens, and then violence would be inevitable.

So arguing about a utopia that can't peacefully happen is really redundant.

Lumisal ,

Yes, but considering most of the world at least has some form of nationalized healthcare already, including UK, Canada, and Australia, and the commentary is in English, it really narrows the likelihood that you and most others are talking about the USA.

I know it isn't here in Finland you're talking about at least.

Lumisal ,

Everyone can't get quality healthcare if you can't afford healthcare in the first place at all.

Lumisal ,

It can be one of the goals. Pretty sure it was for Cuba actually for example. And many times it comes about from one as well, like, again, Finland

Lumisal ,

Most of us are not revolutionaries. We're just people who have some basic logic and a straightforward solution to some of the main causes of basic human misery. These days that's not even a revolutionary thought. The majority of people in surveys of different countries agree with the original statement.

A real revolutionary takes extreme actions. They break laws. They cause "good trouble" when they can. They stop the means of production, either as a collective or even as an individual. They invent and strongly advocate for an original and novel idea that goes against the status quo.

Most people here are extremely unlikely to be true revolutionaries. And if you are, be careful when admitting it in public, because those in power by nature do not like true revolutionaries.

It would be nice to think you are. But from my years of experience, it's more unlikely you aren't.

You're most likely a follower, a messenger. And that's not a bad thing either - the world needs people to support true revolutionaries. Stability wouldn't be possible without that either.

But change only comes through true radical action.

Lumisal ,

Never said the majority of people had to be revolutionaries.

But a decent chunk does either way.

Lumisal ,

Fair enough. Language changes. Once revolutionary as a word has been diluted in meaning, there'll be another to replace it.

Lumisal ,

Or existing in 2D

Lumisal ,

And the girl is nami

Lumisal ,

Don't you mean x_x XD

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