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  • callouscomic@lemm.eetoMemes@sopuli.xyzDealing with health insurers
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    8 days ago

    As Obama said and people failed to comprehend and thus were outraged:

    You didn’t build that.

    People are immensely selfish and don’t want to admit the extensive societal structures that help us get to and be who we are. If anyone ever speaks about “self-made” anything, you should walk away. It’s okay to be proud of your accomplishment, but there’s a way to and not to talk about it.

    Maybe I’m sensitive to it because of my parents who obsessed over looking like a success and better than everyone else, to the detriment of their family.








  • callouscomic@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldYup
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    17 days ago

    There’s an argument to be made that Biden only pushed that stuff through knowing it’d get blocked. Long time tactic by politicians to introduce big things to look good when they know it’ll fail, yet it’s rarely introduced during times when they had full control.








  • callouscomic@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBe kind
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    23 days ago

    I think it stems from a movement to stop identifying people first by their disability. I think along the lines of the difference between “Here’s a disabled person” or “Here’s a person who happens to have a disability.” Lots of people would rather be first identified as a person.

    Shrug.