• RedCat@lemmygrad.ml
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    I love being free to starve, free to be homeless, free to be alone and depressed, free to see my best friend become a massive suicide risk because she can’t transition.

    I absolutely love the freedom of the west!

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    Free to sleep on the street! Until the police arrest and imprison you. Free to starve! Free to freeze to death when the power company cuts off you power cause you missed a payment. Free to get shot in a mall school church bar hospital dance hall outside concert. Free to be summarily executed on the street by a death squad because of an anti racist protest. Free to be thrown out of a hospital, even if you are elderly and dying, because your insurance just doesn’t cover it. Free to lose your teeth because teeth aren’t ‘healthcare’. Free to get your wages stolen by your employer. Free to sacrifice all of your time for a job that would pay you less if it was legal to go below what pittance they provide. Free to live in a city but not without a car. Free to get an abortion as long as you are rich and can fly to another state. Free to break every law in the land and just pay a fee as long as you got the money. Free to purchase people and treat them as slaves, especially if those people are ‘undocumented’. Free to dump toxic waste into a community and have the cleanup paid for by the public as long as you donated to the right party. Free to both live die without dignity in a ‘democracy’ that literally doesn’t listen to any popular petition for grievance unless it is via an expensive lobbying firm.

    AMERICA. FUCK YEAH.

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    Oh I would love to, but them NATO keeps stomping out those countries! Weird.

    (Obligatory “akschually”: a country can only be socialist, communism is a worldwide system)

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    Their example of a free country is one that still practices slave labour, I think we have very different working definitions of free.