That doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

I agree. And I think that non-vacuum isn’t that our health system is whack, but that we just went through a traumatizing time as a society that left people very fearful and looking for answers. It’s a convenient and easy one that the conmen are more than happy to advantage of for their personal gain.

I guess I see our positions as very different. . .you attribute it to people trying to avoid our healthcare system, I see it as people just looking for something to blame for how crappy shit was during the pandemic; our healthcare system has been shit for a long time, but the rise to prominence of this anti-vaccine movement happened during the pandemic. I don’t think the timing is coincidental.

But I appreciate the cordial response.

People have opposed vaccines since they were first introduced. I find your explanation just trying to force it into the current discussion around health insurance.

I would argue that it’s primarily because some people can’t fathom that the world is a chaotic place and shit just happens without sinister forces making it happen. Its exactly why the devil is such a popular theme in Christianity, because they need some evil force acting behind the scenes to justify the fact that absolutely terrible things happen while also believing in some supremely powerful and benevolent God.

With the pandemic, and people losing their shit because they were in lock down, the idea that this evil force was making it happen and fucking with them really took hold…and that made the “freedom” from it, a vaccine, a very good target for people pushing their conspiracy theories that this was a good way to push some sinister agenda…and with the amount of fear at the time, people were susceptible. Once you’ve opened the door for vaccines being a vehicle for sinister agenda, that just opens the door for questioning previous vaccines as well.

“doing real labor” “easy, sweatless, office job” “the actual wheel turners”

“I dislike the condescending attitude”

It never ceases to amaze me how often people see and hate shit in other people that they epitomize themselves.

And honestly, my experience has been the opposite and I see the condescending attitude, at least more openly, coming from blue collar workers more often.

Whether you’re trolling or if this is real, you need help.

Since for me I actually am a kemonomimi.

No, you’re not. That’s the whole point.

I am really curious why being a kemonomimi is a mental illness.

Because you’re not kemonomimi, you’re a human, they are fictional. If you were just dressing up as one for fun, or it was a kink, that would be one thing.

But this appears to be much more, you believe you are one and/or are trying to live your life as one. This is not healthy.

You seem to recognize, in the post and some of your replies, that this is the result of trauma. It’s not some healthy part of who you are, it’s an unhealthy trauma response.

I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with what you’re doing, but the reason why people don’t take to it well is because you’re exhibiting a mental illness.

You need psychological help more than you need to worry about people accepting this.

I can’t remember a time that I’ve heard a more obvious projection, especially when it makes no sense. Who would read my post and get “triggered” from it? Lol

Look at the grammatical errors throughout their post. The cherry on top being the statement at the end being terminated with a question mark.

They also just recently had a question that includes them being on a pip.

I get the feeling that this person should be grateful that this doctor is only making enough more than they are that they would use the word “twice” to describe the salary discrepancy.

It’s shocking how many people are suggesting lying in a way that’s so easy to get caught. “Weird I just took a picture with the nurses and the other doctor.” That’s going to make it even more awkward.

If I were you, just suck it up and take the picture, and then say you dont hand out your private number to patients and like to keep the relationships professional. This is presumably honest.

Not taking the picture is really spitting in the guys face. It’s so quick and it goes a long way to making them feel good, and feel good about you. It’s one of those things I would explain to my kid that you just do it and get it out of the way even if you don’t like it.

Not giving our your number is entirely reasonable, and I suspect is also honest.

What I like about tofu is precisely that it doesn’t have much of a flavor, and simply takes on whatever you are cooking it in or with. The only time “plain” tofu really does it for me on its own is when it’s nice and salty and fried really crispy…but even then it’s better with some kind of sauce.

But on its own, definitely not delicious. Just bland.

Can you expand?

I was hoping when I came over here it would be more like the good old days of reddit. And i think it is, but barely. Plenty of the low quality shit made the jump as well.

Just look at this thread. Sort by top. The top post is circle jerking about people left reddit for here. The next top post is a vomiting emoji. A fucking emoji. I haven’t even been here that long and the comments in this thread were predictable in the same exact way.

But it’s not like they would think they could block vpn users and no one would notice and complain. The fact that they fixed it means the nefarious explanation doesn’t pass the sniff test.

My guess is that it’s something like that in the process of trying to stop scraping, their filter was cast too wide and it snagged more VPN users than it meant to.

There are some things you don’t joke about, taco bell actually being Mexican food is one of them. It might be a war crime to even joke it’s better than Mexican food.

Good video and I will be sharing it in the future. And I’m also sure there is at least a little bit of that going on here.

However, the poster does have a point on how far left lemmy is. Additionally, the poster in question called the US a “festering shit hold of a country” and effectively blame capitalism for that. So the assumption seems pretty reasonable, even if I wouldn’t have made it myself.

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How do you even know someone was down voting old posts?

Im not defending the Israeli practice here, it’s ridiculous and likely to make matters worse.

I can see how they would use different wording for a legal authority taking into custody specific people under their own jurisdiction, even if it’s on shaky legal grounds, and people storming over the border, snatching people randomly off the street while randomly murdering others.

Again, this is not a defense of the Israeli practice, as even the article seems critical of it, but I could not justify calling these very disparate things by the same word.

I assume that, just like with trump, they won’t admit that they were bamboozled and will just double down with the crazy.