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    5 months ago

    That’s an example used in the OP meme, but the context still suggest all those other things, too. That’s what the “news is always like” part is. You can replace wheel chair access with all sorts of things and the meme would still ring true.

    • Melllvar
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      -305 months ago

      The context of this thread is my criticism of that example.

      • SonnyVabitch
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        115 months ago

        Finland did not in fact make ice cream free, but you don’t challenge that. This is a meme, it could have said anything that sounds grotesquely arbitrary and callous, like banning left handed scissors, even if two-handed tools are probably more easily available in America than in many other parts of the world, perhaps even Finland.

        • Melllvar
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          -165 months ago

          Except the OP’s point would be much better made by criticizing something the US doesn’t actually do pretty well at.

          Wouldn’t it?

          • @[email protected]
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            5 months ago

            No. It would be weakened. The point is America is taking things we’re good at and rolling them back. It loses its point if you pick something we’ve always been bad at.

            • Melllvar
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              5 months ago

              The point is America is taking things we’re good at and rolling them back. It loses its point if you pick something we’ve always been bad at.

              That seems backwards and ridiculous to me.

          • SonnyVabitch
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            25 months ago

            It wasn’t criticising anything though. It was a hyperbole, an outlandishly absurd proposition that nobody in their right mind would take seriously. Well, almost nobody I suppose.

            • Melllvar
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              -85 months ago

              Nonsense. Humor and hyperbole are often used to criticize.

      • Check the thread as a whole, my guy. Your critique of the example isn’t where people started disagreeing with you, but the secondary argument you made when someone said the meme itself isn’t just about wheel chair accessibility.

        • Melllvar
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          -155 months ago

          Literally the first comment was disagreeing.