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No way. It’s the obsession with Americans weird take on “freedom” and it seems to have been around since forever.

Its freedom as in everyone is free to not have health insurance if the choose not to. Everyone is free to die by gun homicide if they wish to.

Of course, no one is free to choose what to do with their own body, like not have a baby or take hormones - that would just be weird.

And yes, any changes to the status quo would be a threat to the people profiting from it.

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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I guess you misinterpreted “land of the free”. It’s free companies, not free slaves. You guys are worker-bees with no real freedom other than buying a truck and a gun because…reasons.

No mockery of YOU. Just sarcasm towards a broken system.

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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  You guys are worker-bees
  
  I think bees actually have pretty much a socialist society. They take of each other. I think they have it better than Americans.
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    True. But, like bees, they too can’t choose that life but it was chosen for them. Besides that, bees are indeed the better society. But so are all other non-human animal societies.
    
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- chewables@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  you see America is so free that it’s free from freedom! checkmate, socialists (also we’re going to keep bombing boats sending humanitarian aid to Cuba because the world can’t see that socialism works <:)
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    HE SAID SOCIALISM!
    
    STONE HIM!
    
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  - psycholocomotor@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What’s happening in Cuba is tragic.
    
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- im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh heavens no, I’m not American silly.
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Phew…good for you 😁
    
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LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah….i would argue it’s just money and capitalism. ‘Freedom’, small government, deregulation ‘small’ business, tax changes, it’s all just for profits for rich fuckos. Environment? Well that cuts oil and gas profits! Environmental regulations? Not using that awful chemical hurts manufacturing profits! Taxes? We will cut them all! (Yours expire but the business ones are in perpetuity).

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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would add too the concept of “American Exceptionalism”.

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