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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

It’s sad to see USA so shackled by pure capitalism that it starts to lose its scientific edge left and right while drooling libs jerk off to the big pharma freedom of unrestrained gains. Still believing they have a chance for a piece from the cake if only they squeeze their cheeks a little harder.

[–] KredeSeraf@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (18 children)

I am super confused by your take here. Liberals who, and let's be clear, regularly push for better if not universal health care (and are the only major party to do so) jerk off big Pharma to you? How exactly do you get to that conclusion?

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

Liberals means different things around the world. Here it means free markets circlejerkers, Adam smith cultists, invisible hand of the market preachers while at the same time anti lgbt for some reason. Pro freedom but anti freedom. Full of paradoxes. Neonazi too and even conservative despite based around free market peddling.

After all we live in a post truth word where even people who agree with each other cannot communicate anymore due to shifting meaning of the words thanks to the politicians and media.

How can we even converse if the words itself are stolen, changed and used for war? Do we need to use mathematics instead of language if the latter is disfigured beyond recognition? Changed into a tool of some demagogue?

[–] sneakybells@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Adam Smith had a completely different definition of "free markets" than Neoliberals did.

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