solomon42069

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[–] solomon42069 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

A little bit, yeah. Trump supporters are also very desperate people, many of them turned to the dark side due to grievances with the world. And not all of them are always imagined. The wrong part is the conclusions these people come to and the way they go about correcting what they think is wrong...

Conspiracy theories are rife with these people. UFO ones where aliens poke you in the butt and interview you about the planet and wipe your memory are very common in these groups.

Meanwhile as a progressive the aliens I fantasise about are like.. enlightened and compassionate lol.

[–] solomon42069 83 points 1 day ago

Just as easily applies to queerness and gender expression too. My favourite part on the these specific issues is the ignorance in the west, acting like being trans and queer is uniquely American and new.

Meanwhile South East Asia is right there...

[–] solomon42069 10 points 4 days ago

Man I'm not even sure we have a government anymore...

[–] solomon42069 51 points 4 days ago

Good ol capitalism breeding innovation. And then acquiring the innovation, cloning it poorly and killing it off so the market has no access to the product and service they wanted. Innovative!

[–] solomon42069 44 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Easy solution - new defence pact without USA and invite everyone else the Trumpian USA stiffed on defence like Australia.

We (Australia) are already in Eurovision so a defence pact with Europe (and the UK lol) would make sense!

[–] solomon42069 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If your anus looks like this, it's time to see your doctor.

[–] solomon42069 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in Australia, which is supposed to have universal health care, that system has been eroded into dysfunction by decades of neglect and downsizing by subsequent conservative governments. Right wingers slash and burn budgets, and then "left leaning" centrist governments come in with the weakest possible reform agenda, never returning things to where they were but preventing others from fixing it either.

I'm not sure where Canada, NZ and other English speaking nations are at, but I assumed that their health systems are negatively affected by neo liberalism and similarly face problems that didn't exist 10-25 years ago. Even if they have universal healthcare on paper, shenanigans by lobbyists, slashing of budgets and other institutional neglect has led to a breakdown in the care people can access.

The UK has an even worse issue with the NHS. It was already as bad as Australia before Brexit, now it's been a prolonged period of people on public waiting lists where patients wait for over 2 years, unable to see specialists or book in surgeries. Untold amount of misery, and even death, that was preventable.

Countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland seem to have done a better job protecting the interests of the public from greed. But then there's western countries that have huge social issues like Spain, France, etc.

My perception is that western democracies are not good at protecting their citizens because law makers, the media and other mechanisms in a western democracy allow for abuse by greed and self interest. It seems like despite strong laws and traditions existing, ongoing campaigning by those with money and allowing those people to earn a profit from essential services results in those services being eroded.

[–] solomon42069 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And on that score, I often muse if we should be grateful that MAGA and Trump are accelerating the timetable as they have... Capitalism, world economics and geopolitical problems as they were 20 years ago could have been sustained well into the 22nd century. We are so good at avoiding change at all costs!

Now we are headed for a societal collapse, once the ruffians who instigated it are out of the way I think the future for humanity looks quite bright indeed. We may even beat climate change, so long as we.. beat all the nasty billionaires, nazis, dictators and oligarchy first... holds head in hands

[–] solomon42069 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know if and am not saying there are enough to cover the gap... But there are certainly plenty of unused resources in the private hospital system. Doctors, nurses, beds, medicines that could be put to use saving lives, preventing trauma and improving the livelihoods of people in the public system.

The private medical system has siphoned too much from the public for too long. It should always have been a premium tier for the wealthy to enjoy caviar and have cable TV in a private room after surgery. Instead, people who go to a public hospital for urgent emergency care are being sent home to die in error, instead of the ICU, because public emergency rooms are catastrophically overloaded.

In Australia we've taken the disadvantage of the poor a step further, like we often do, and have propped up the private system advantaging it even further, e.g. by forcing people to pay a tax for not having private insurance, labyrinthian bureaucracy of referrals that rack up consultation fees and achieve nothing for patients, etc.

[–] solomon42069 76 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Western democracy is at risk until this is done. We literally don't deserve to exist if we can't figure this basic stuff out - i.e. when our own people are dying, maybe the empty private hospital beds and ample staff resources should be used to save those lives. Because people are.. gonna die otherwise. The fact that anything else needs to be said is the problem.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 week ago

What's with the photo of Kathy Bates with a lesbian haircut?

Is she playing Elon Musk in a biopic of his life?

 

Many of us are feeling a certain way right now—trying to make sense of the level of injustice, misinformation, and apathy in the world. In the absence of a satisfying explanation or solution, I've done my best to offer my own take on it. I hope that by opening up about some of my past and what I care about, you’ll see the human context of these issues. I hope this is the right place to post and not against the rules!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by solomon42069 to c/asklemmy
 

It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.

There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.

No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.

I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.

The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.

Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?

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