• Melllvar
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    -3010 months ago

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

    • SonnyVabitch
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      1110 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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        -1610 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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          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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            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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          210 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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            -810 months ago

            Nonsense. Humor and hyperbole are often used to criticize.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      810 months ago

      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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        -1510 months ago

        Literally the first comment was disagreeing.