VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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No. Absolutely not.

Terminal cancer patients can't take care of themselves either, do you want to take their rights away too?

What about people with disabilities that require constant care, should they become "wards of the state" with fewer rights than children again like in the bad old days?

use of drugs should be decriminalized, but it should also come with other responsibilities

Do you want to do that with alcohol and tobacco too, or just the ones that the rich and powerful consider taboo?

For example, a government organized intervention and mandatory rehabilitation.

One size fits all mandates are a recipe for disaster. Depending on the individual case, you end up either violating the patient's right to bodily autonomy, refusing needed help because the mandate says it's not time yet or both.

Better to leave the medical decisions to medical professionals. They're much better at it than even the best politicians and/or parliamentarians.

Depending on how much money the person has, they should be required to pay for it

Absolutely not. Means testing like that breeds resentment and often leads people between a rock and a hard place where they're too wealthy to get it for free but not wealthy enough that they won't have make sacrifices they might not think to be worth it.

Rich or poor, cost should never be a determining factor in whether or not to seek needed healthcare.

We should have a welfare state. It should also come with responsibilities.

People have enough responsibilities already without the government making demands in order to give them healthcare that they need.

When someone needs help battling addiction, the caring thing isn't to check whether they've worked hard enough to be allowed to work hard.

Absolutely.

And if they WERE reporting on us, every other article would start with a paragraph explaining how stupid we are as a species in spite of having so many excellent individuals amongst us 🤷

I was actually thinking about Megatrainer XL/EX, but good guess!

I was talking about them, but now that you mention it, that assertion is partly true at most.

Apart from being the most incarceration-happy country in the world, it's also one of the worst surveillance states and the police are mostly there to protect the property of the rich at the expense of such freedoms as bodily autonomy and the rights to peacefully protest injustice for everyone else.

Seldom have I been more happy to already not like any of a company's products! What a bunch of idiotic antedeluvian moralizing hyperauthoritarian assholes!

You really shouldn't be grading something as fundamental as press freedom on a curve, though. Nobody ever became freer by pointing out that others are less free. Least of all the land of the incarcerated!

Except for the fact that every time there's a Republican president (and sometimes even when there's a Democrat one), the media have to self-censor true and important stories or risk losing access.

And of course there's the fact that all of the biggest media outlets are pretty much on one or two political teams, which also restricts the editorial largesse.

And that's not even counting all the CORPORATE interests making the press less free.

I maintain that"mostly free" is ridiculously generous compared to reality.

I mean that their press freedom rating for the US is far too generous..

Not that I in any way disagree with you on that, but this made me laugh:

Country: USA Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE

Guess they have a bit of pro-establishment bias themselves..

usually without being arrested by the police

That's the good part, though. Problematic drug use is a health problem and should be treated as such rather than a criminal and moral one.

And that's not even mentioning what often happens when cops interact with members of any marginalized group..

misplaced fears of radioactivity.

The half life is how you know it’s fresh.

Would you please make up your mind?

Either way, I lean towards you being right the first time and afaik Japan has some of the absolute best seafood in the world, so China are missing out big-time!

I see a Japanese game show in the making! Add some scantily clad women and a sumo wrestler farting in the face of the losers of each round and we have a hit!

#FirstWorldFeverDreamProblems

Unfortunately, for all his posturing as the principled resistance, he's a centrist who's more than willing to work with the fascists to get woefully inadequate versions of bills passed when possible.

Also, one of his top campaign contributers 2019-2024 (including already raised contributions to his next re-election campaign, I guess 🤷) is Bain Capital. Yes, THE Bain Capital where Mitt Romney destroyed companies for a living.

Almost 70% of his campaign funds in the same period came from large individual contributions (aka rich people and corporations) and 0% from donations under $200. Not a single one of the latter.

Source for Campaign funding data: Open Secrets

Don't be super rude and go behind the table, though. He can still bite you!