Let them eat something else
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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I think he'd get along great with my old dentist. The guy gave me a bad crown, then when I complained about it, it was "eat less chocolate" and "you just need to floss more."
I don't think people understand how fucked people who don't fit the societal mold of how their body or mind should function are here in the US, things are about to get very grim in the US, much grimmer than they were. The center of this society has decided what they don't like about Trump and fascism are primarily its harsh tone as he and other rightwing nutjobs murder us. The expression of how little I am worth to the society around me is not lost on me, it is only lost on the centrists who tone police me for being negative about my future.
What societies like mine do as they collapse is tend to see diversity as a threat to the survival of the society, including cognitive diversity. This is a phenomena old as time and centrists have NEVER resisted it once. As someone with severe ADHD it is crystal clear to me a brickwall is heading at me and I know especially with my executive dysfunction there is no way I am dodging it.
I have never been able to hide, if you have a brain like me you knew from a young age it was dangerous to let people think you did weird things because they felt normal to you, so you became the class clown and learned to love it even even as deep down you remember that lesson in your bones you can never forgot. If I let people see how chaotic my brain really is, as in what I turned into a joke was truly me just reacting to my own impulsivenes with clever impulsiveness, they will insist on hurting me, "I have to make this goofy or I will be hurt" is the way I survived.
The thing is, there are no class clowns left in a fascist society, so in a way this is me saying goodbye. I will still be present here for a long time yet, but the true me is dying right now. I am not a creature that can hide, people burst out laughing when I do and then an ache in my soul reminds me of the lesson I can never forget.
Let them eat less cake!
"If they can't find healthcare let them not eat cake".
He will be noted in history books to come. What a legacy.
"Let them not eat cake!"
Geez, talk about out of touch with the average Joe.
No man, Yesterday I only didn't eat 3 cakes and I was able to run a 12 mile drive to work... In my car! The other weekend I didn't eat a wedding cake and that cured my diabetes that In didn't even have!
He needs to open a history textbook book.
He isn't ignorant. He doesn't care. He's vindictively robbing all of us blind. They don't think any of this will be beneficial to any of us. We are not even a consideration.
None of these greedy fucks are doing any of this because they're incompetent. They're doing it for $$$ and control, and they'll get it, because we're all still typing paragraphs into a social media site instead of murdering all of them.
Why? So he can see historians celebrating more men in history who didn't deserve their power or fame?
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We should just start building guillotines and placing them in town squares. Just as, like, a message.
I got banned from the r-place for saying something like this.
Carry on.
Some of the lemmy.world moderators come down hard on "calling for violence". It's kind of an eye roller
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We have never not needed these.
We just forgot that they are required.
I'm sure the French could give us some pointers though.
Let them eat less cake!
J'ai des rêves de expulser toute l'administration tout de suite
He is completely wrong, while being right too. Americans could benefit from a better diet.
Maybe the American government could provide proper health care and not support junk food industry.
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche !
Maͣy iͥtͭ speͤeͤdͩ Oz' waͣy tͭoͦ tͭhͪeͤ guͧiͥlloͦtͭiͥneͤ faͣstͭeͤrͬ tͭhͪaͣn iͥtͭ dͩiͥdͩ, dͩeͤaͣrͬ Maͣrͬiͥeͤ Antͭoͦiͥneͤtͭtͭeͤ
Worried about medicaid cuts? Just stop getting/being sick, duh!
It's really that simple!
Need infinite power?
Big electric doesnt want you to know this simple trick
Me is very smort
Electo patroium Me into office
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Modern "Let them eat cake."
These people are so fucking out of touch.
This is somehow worse, the "let them eat cake" was said from a very out of touch person who just did not understand. While this is comming from someone who willingly is going out of their way to blame the peasants for the actions that they are doing to those same peasants.
This is the whole crux of MAHA. Make health a completely personal choice by denying any external causes of disease and then when you completely cut any possible health assistance then that's fine because health is a completely personal choice and responsibility and people should just try harder to he healthy
It's "prosperity gospel" but for health instead of wealth. I'm healthy because I'm a good person and you're not because you're a bad person. It's literally the same talking points too. Point at the minority of folks in a demographic who actually make genuinely bad decisions and apply that to the group as a whole.
Didn't forget the part where you get to blame people for their own illness! Being sick now becomes a moral failing because you didn't do enough to stay healthy.
Being sick now becomes a moral failing because you didn't do enough to stay healthy
But if you do try to stay healthy (e.g. wearing a mask and social distancing during cold and flu season) you're a $insult_of_the_week
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How has that piece of shit not lost his title? Stop calling that imposter a Doctor.
Have Dr Phil and Dr Oz ever had a fake doctor-off? It can be judged by Judge Judy and Bill Nye.
Time out, why the hate for Bill Nye? Did I miss something or is this just a joke on "people who are less qualified than their titles lead you to believe"? If so, then carry on.
On first read it sounds more like a list of shitty charlatans, of which I wouldn't really apply to Bill even if he's not as qualified as he would imply.
Just a joke about him being "only an engineer". He's definitely not on the same level of Oz and Phil.
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Funnily enough, just had an exchange with someone here about doctors needing to always be empathetic towards their patients so they can't say "get fucked, fascists" and such.
Dr. Oz is a still practicing (to maintain his license) cardiovascular surgeon.
he needs to upkeep the image that he can sell snakesoil to the plebs. its the same thing "llmd" for the fake disease "chronic lyme" sells pseduoscience to patients, they are even more dangerous oz.
Gall stones? Cancer? Parkinsons? Broke your arm? In a car crash?
Eat less cake, peasants.
Mary Antionette: "Let them eat cake."
"Dr." Oz: "Let them stop eating cake."
Oh cool. Not eating cake will surely clear up the brain damage from my head trauma
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Another notch for "The Age of Irony" in American History. "Let them eat less cake" sounds like a good opener too.
Avocado toast 2.0
That is absolutely useless advice. Guys, if you are worried about the cuts then simply just make more money to give to your insurance companies! Or ask daddy for a bigger trust fund.
See, easy.
Right, I'm tired after giving you that FREE advice so I'm off to my second holiday home for a week or two to recharge my batteries before my annual month summer holiday.
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