• SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world
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      11 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.

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        11 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?

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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.

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            11 months ago

            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.

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          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.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      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.