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Yeah my mother and brother are 100% convinced that if healthcare was free at point of use then all the good doctors and nurses would move to other countries and all the government doctors would be bad and "real" doctors would cost extra. I try to explain that in either scenario, we cannot afford the good, expensive doctors, but in one of the scenarios there is still free healthcare available, even if it's lower quality, and they just shrug and go "well, i dunno..." Just don't talk politics with anyone in your family, it's just a waste of time. Veni, i've had like that exact conversation
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Bust Rodd posted:Just don't talk politics with anyone in your family, it's just a waste of time. 
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Feb 15, 2020 18:36
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Yeah avoiding talking politics is the only way I'm able to maintain a healthy relationship with my parents. Every once in a blue moon they will say something so dumb I just can't not say something though  . To be fair to them, they clearly try to avoid talking about it too, so at least they aren't actively trying to jam it down my throat of anything.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:39
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Bust Rodd posted:Just don't talk politics with anyone in your family, it's just a waste of time. I get it, but also don’t let lovely ideals go unchallenged. Even if it doesn’t change their mind, make sure they know they’re loving brainwashed idiots who’ll kill us all if things go their way.
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univbee posted:I get it, but also don’t let lovely ideals go unchallenged. Even if it doesn’t change their mind, make sure they know they’re loving brainwashed idiots who’ll kill us all if things go their way. Nah it really isn't worth it. Go rage in the streets, canvas, punch nazis...but ruining an otherwise good relationship with your own family over politics isn't worth it even if they are brainwashed. Or at the very least challenge their ideals in a way that doesn't ruin your family imo. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 18:44
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I love how the thread went from people talking about how they were ready to drop 5 hundo on the PS5 to talking about how this hellhole of a country destroys us all and drags people into poverty.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:50
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Spending part of a months rent on something you are going to really enjoy for 6 years is blessed, having your life ruined because you drew the short stick in the health lottery is cursed.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:55
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I feel really nice with my 16k/year salary but having a great health care in Spain comparing to these costs (I'm in the army and I have private health care and can still use the public one too).
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Feb 15, 2020 19:00
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SlothfulCobra posted:I love how the thread went from people talking about how they were ready to drop 5 hundo on the PS5 to talking about how this hellhole of a country destroys us all and drags people into poverty. Almost as if an entire generation has reached a level of being squeezed to such a degree that it is impossible to rationalize in any way in the age of information where all machinations are mostly known by a theo-plutocracy with its hand around the world's throat that can't hide its history and deeds from the young working class anymore. A whole class of Wesley Everetts. Like it's the ps4 thread and all but we can't let this poo poo go and like univbee said, frankly we shouldn't.
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Feb 15, 2020 19:00
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veni veni veni posted:Or at the very least challenge their ideals in a way that doesn't ruin your family imo. I guess if you want to be subtle about it you could host socialist meetings at your parents’ house or put a Trump book jacket over a copy of Das Kapital or something.
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Feb 15, 2020 19:02
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Show them the Fox News thing with Bernie. They’ll watch it because it is on the only network that isn’t FAKE and they will become Bernie fans because they will hear his words.
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Feb 15, 2020 19:06
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OxMan posted:Almost as if an entire generation has reached a level of being squeezed to such a degree that it is impossible to rationalize in any way in the age of information where all machinations are mostly known by a theo-plutocracy with its hand around the world's throat that can't hide its history and deeds from the young working class anymore. A whole class of Wesley Everetts. Like it's the ps4 thread and all but we can't let this poo poo go and like univbee said, frankly we shouldn't. Elena Gorokhova posted:The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.
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Feb 15, 2020 19:07
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veni veni veni posted:I went and got lunch with my Fox News loving mom recently and mentioned how much it sucked getting nailed with a bunch of unexpected medical bills out of nowhere. I love it when ppl in America are like if you don't like it then leave cuz that's exactly what I did Started playing dq11 again and love how chill this game is
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Because their lies play into our system’s inherent racism, so far to many find it far to easy to believe. Is PS4 news, I played some RS6 last night; is it bad I failed the laser trip mine dude protect the hostage thing three times in a row on normal before going to bed?
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Feb 15, 2020 19:13
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Healthcare in the US sucks and I don’t make a lot of money, but I will absolutely drop $500 on a PS5. Priorities.
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man nurse posted:Healthcare in the US sucks and I don’t make a lot of money, but I will absolutely drop $500 on a PS5. [In unison to audience] the PlayStation thread
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Feb 15, 2020 19:27
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Hey friends, come join us at the Democratic Primary thread and talk about our thin sliver of hope. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3912894
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veni veni veni posted:Nah it really isn't worth it. Go rage in the streets, canvas, punch nazis...but ruining an otherwise good relationship with your own family over politics isn't worth it even if they are brainwashed. My trick was to become the best cook in the family, now everyone has to put up with my poo poo or else they don't get sous vide ribeye steaks and fresh homemade bread at the gathering. How's the twice-baked potatoes? Prosecute ICE, it should be legal to hunt and eat Jeff Bezos, can you pass the Brussels sprouts?
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Feb 15, 2020 21:06
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I don't understand how Americans are not all out in the street protesting for affordable public healthcare every single day. Your entire medical system is a money making machine off the backs of people. It is disgusting.
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Hopper posted:I don't understand how Americans are not all out in the street protesting for affordable public healthcare every single day. Your entire medical system is a money making machine off the backs of people. It is disgusting. Because if you go protest, you didn't show up for work, you get fired and you starve to death before the lack of healthcare kills you.
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Hopper posted:I don't understand how Americans are not all out in the street protesting for affordable public healthcare every single day. Your entire medical system is a money making machine off the backs of people. It is disgusting. Also America is very very large and our government spent the last decade militarizing our police and funding aerial predator drones. It’s basically exactly like The Matrix except the machines don’t even bother lying to you
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Feb 15, 2020 21:32
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If I go out and protest that cuts down on the time I can play my Sony PlayStation 4
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RichterIX posted:If I go out and protest that cuts down on the time I can play my Sony PlayStation 4 PS4 Remote Play is on phones now, you can play your PS4 with one hand while hurling molotovs with the other.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I love how the thread went from people talking about how they were ready to drop 5 hundo on the PS5 to talking about how this hellhole of a country destroys us all and drags people into poverty. Videogames are money well spent on mental health.
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Sony is truly "For the Players"
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Lumpy posted:Because if you go protest, you didn't show up for work, you get fired and you starve to death before the lack of healthcare kills you. Also Masses and masses of propaganda and some of the stuff that happens is so evil that no one believes it because no one can be that evil, right?! Video game chat: If I am remembering it properly, this is an actual plot point in Metal Gear Rising. No one believes that a major military contractor is kidnapping thousands of children and harvesting their brains to turn them into child soldiers because it’s too evil to be believed. People who end up with artificial soldier bodies are stuck working for mercenary groups because that is the only job that pays enough to cover the maintenance on the robo-bodies. Also coming from Sekiro to BB has been weird. Is Sekiro in the same engine as the rest of the Souls games? Obviously it was developed much latter, but it has so much more visual polish and has much less jank than the Souls games. BB owns though. I’m only up through BSB but I think I am liking it more. Sekiro has had better boss fights, but fighting regular enemies is far more fun in BB. You can actually take on more than one enemy at a time (though you can still get wrecked pretty quick), while in Sekiro your only option is to run away or spam certain prosthetics.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I love how the thread went from people talking about how they were ready to drop 5 hundo on the PS5 to talking about how this hellhole of a country destroys us all and drags people into poverty. Get thee all to cspam
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The new metro expansion is pretty great. Really digging the story and environment.
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Pulcinella posted:Sekiro has had better boss fights, but fighting regular enemies is far more fun in BB. You can actually take on more than one enemy at a time (though you can still get wrecked pretty quick), while in Sekiro your only option is to run away or spam certain prosthetics. I'm phone posting but someone is gonna show up with those sick sekiro slowmo gifs and show you the error of your ways.
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Lmao when I imagine how much more miserable and depressing my life would be without the ability to blow off some steam via vidya games. Those persona dance games are basically a super effective ssri you can get for sixty bucks and never have to refill.
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DrNutt posted:Lmao when I imagine how much more miserable and depressing my life would be without the ability to blow off some steam via vidya games. Those persona dance games are basically a super effective ssri you can get for sixty bucks and never have to refill. I've been playing music games regularly for like two decades because of this.
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I like when people say "well if you don't like it, move to Canada!" I've tried that. I lived in Toronto for 2 years. Illegally, because do you know how hard it is to become a Canadian citizen
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So I finally finished the chalice dungeon line in Bloodborne along with all optional trophies. Just gotta beat it two more times and I'll be platinum.
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enojy posted:I've been playing music games regularly for like two decades because of this. The only reason I own an Xbox one was so that I could carry my Xbox 360 rock band library forward. Worth it, even if the PS4 is superior.
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Hilario Baldness posted:So I finally finished the chalice dungeon line in Bloodborne along with all optional trophies. Just gotta beat it two more times and I'll be platinum.  GOAT game
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When I had my first herniated disc, playing Jedi knight 2: Jedi Outcast capture the flag multiplayer was the only thing that could distract me from the constant crippling pain: pills did nothing. I have never since been as good at a multiplayer game that I was at that one, I could fly.
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Pulcinella posted:Also Masses and masses of propaganda and some of the stuff that happens is so evil that no one believes it because no one can be that evil, right?! That room full of brains in vats that get a jolt to their pleasure centers when they commit virtual war crimes = Twitter Pulcinella posted:Also coming from Sekiro to BB has been weird. Is Sekiro in the same engine as the rest of the Souls games? Obviously it was developed much latter, but it has so much more visual polish and has much less jank than the Souls games. BB owns though. I’m only up through BSB but I think I am liking it more. Sekiro has had better boss fights, but fighting regular enemies is far more fun in BB. You can actually take on more than one enemy at a time (though you can still get wrecked pretty quick), while in Sekiro your only option is to run away or spam certain prosthetics. https://twitter.com/SunhiLegend/status/1134882178926632960
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"Why are so many people overdosing on pills cut with Fentanyl that they bought off the street?" the media asks "Yeah really, it only costs around $1000 to get started at a pain clinic, and then another few hundred every month or two. Chump change!"
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You dont "spam" prosthetics. You use them when you are outnumbered yes but that's what they are for. Ninjutsu skills (Bloodsmoke, Puppeteer and Bestowal) are also specifically meant to be used against groups because they weaponize corpses.
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