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Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:26 PM
So Wertz threw a benefit party for herself to raise money for health care bills, and she made a poster which reads "Fuck America" at the top, because Wertz has a delightfully juvenile sense of humor. And then that poster wound up on The Beat, one of the major comic book news websites, and the comic book fans became outraged. At Wertz.
This is another one of those clarifying moments as I contemplate people who attend events titled “F*** America”.
I mean…..wow. I realize the woman has some major gripes….but F-America? Really?
I think if you study hard and get a good job then you will have very good healthcare. I have great healthcare w/Boeing and they even pay for acupuncture and chiropractor. You have to encourage people to work hard. You cant just hand everything out to everyone. That stunts growth.
“The world owes me a living. and peer approval. and art fans. and free healthcare.”
Hey, Fuck you too, Julia.
Can you smell that compassion? Funnybook readers, you really know how to bring the class!
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It amazes me some people think that to share the costs of keeping people healthy, a basic value in civilized culture across the world, is to "hand everything out to everyone." What is this mythical "growth" that will be stunted somehow? The growth of insurance and drug company profits? The growth of companies that can't compete and small businesses that can't survive? The growth of bankrupt families and dead children?
Gullible idiots.
Gullible idiots.
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Throwing a benefit party to raise money for her health costs is essentially what the republican party and conservatives want people to do... beg for money.
Conservatives love to talk about how charitable they are and they don't want the government taking their money because they want to decide for themselves who to give it to.
Charity is a great way for the rich to feel powerful by making the unwashed masses beg them for their scraps. It's a way for the "haves" to feel superior to the "have-nots."
Universal health care and good social programs deny them of that feeling of superiority.
Conservatives love to talk about how charitable they are and they don't want the government taking their money because they want to decide for themselves who to give it to.
Charity is a great way for the rich to feel powerful by making the unwashed masses beg them for their scraps. It's a way for the "haves" to feel superior to the "have-nots."
Universal health care and good social programs deny them of that feeling of superiority.
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Sometimes it seems like they protest too much. If they were secure in their love for this country, they wouldn't give much of a shit if someone insults it. I bet they secretly fear that the U.S. isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that's why they're freaking out.
Faulty parallelism. Someone didn't study very hard.
I think if you study hard and get a good job then you will have very good healthcare. I have great healthcare w/Boeing and they even pay for acupuncture and chiropractor.
Faulty parallelism. Someone didn't study very hard.
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@5 hehe, sounds about right. It's like the closeted Repubs that rail the loudest against equality.
It's funny too, cause I was taught the more I complain (and of course have a hand in creating the country I wish to see) the more American I am.
It's funny too, cause I was taught the more I complain (and of course have a hand in creating the country I wish to see) the more American I am.
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If we ever do get universal coverage can we make sure it doesn't pay for acupuncture and chiropractic? Those are placebo bullshit.
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oh, I must be poor because I didn't study hard enough. If I'd done better in algebra, maybe I would have a responsible desk job where I wasted my time on fucking Twitter before going home to my fat wife and bratty kids and counted the days until I could retire so I could sit around on my ass watching sports all day and then when I have a premature heart attack, my awesome health insurance will cover it because that's how America works, right?
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Ayn Rand is the most popular funnybook writer of them all. The fanboys love her, especially her "Born into the Elite Company of Special People Who Are Fit To Rule The World-Man" character.
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"You have to encourage people to work hard. You cant just hand everything out to everyone. That stunts growth."
I get so sick of reading crap like this. They are basically saying: "if you don't work as hard as I perceive myself to do, than you deserve to die. its good for the gene pool". What a crock. I wonder if once their Horatio Alger dream comes true if they will force the same strict standards on their children, or if they will leave them as just another useless trust fund baby.
I counter as always, with a quote from Nietzsche:
"Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. Every progress of the whole must be preceded by a partial weakening. The strongest natures retain the type, the weaker ones help to advance it. Something similar also happens in the individual. There is rarely a degeneration, a truncation, or even a vice or any physical or moral loss without an advantage somewhere else. In a warlike and restless clan, for example, the sicklier man may have occasion to be alone, and may therefore become quieter and wiser; the one-eyed man will have one eye the stronger; the blind man will see deeper inwardly, and certainly hear better. To this extent, the famous theory of the survival of the fittest does not seem to me to be the only viewpoint from which to explain the progress of strengthening of a man or of a race."
to sum up, Nietszche sez we need universal healthcare so the poor people can entertain us with fart jokes. case closed.
I get so sick of reading crap like this. They are basically saying: "if you don't work as hard as I perceive myself to do, than you deserve to die. its good for the gene pool". What a crock. I wonder if once their Horatio Alger dream comes true if they will force the same strict standards on their children, or if they will leave them as just another useless trust fund baby.
I counter as always, with a quote from Nietzsche:
"Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. Every progress of the whole must be preceded by a partial weakening. The strongest natures retain the type, the weaker ones help to advance it. Something similar also happens in the individual. There is rarely a degeneration, a truncation, or even a vice or any physical or moral loss without an advantage somewhere else. In a warlike and restless clan, for example, the sicklier man may have occasion to be alone, and may therefore become quieter and wiser; the one-eyed man will have one eye the stronger; the blind man will see deeper inwardly, and certainly hear better. To this extent, the famous theory of the survival of the fittest does not seem to me to be the only viewpoint from which to explain the progress of strengthening of a man or of a race."
to sum up, Nietszche sez we need universal healthcare so the poor people can entertain us with fart jokes. case closed.
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I totally agree that studying hard will ensure that you get good healthcare in the future. In fact, I was just discussing it with two recent graduates I know before one of them asked me if I wanted fries with my order. Then the other one stole my fries because her student loans made her go broke.
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julia, i'm so happy you are a talented comic book artist and not working for boeing! health insurance be damned.
douchebags, we should all have access to health care the way we all, in theory, have access to clean water and basic education, etc. i think of it this way: if someone's house or building catches on fire, even if no other buildings are in danger, the fire department comes and does their best to put it out. but if someone gets hit by a car, their life and their future quality of life depends on how wealthy they are or how wealthy their employer is. we can't even pretend it has to do with how hard people work or how well they've planned. it's luck more than anything.
douchebags, we should all have access to health care the way we all, in theory, have access to clean water and basic education, etc. i think of it this way: if someone's house or building catches on fire, even if no other buildings are in danger, the fire department comes and does their best to put it out. but if someone gets hit by a car, their life and their future quality of life depends on how wealthy they are or how wealthy their employer is. we can't even pretend it has to do with how hard people work or how well they've planned. it's luck more than anything.
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...and here's yet another tale of "compassion" from funnybook fans: http://animight.wordpress.com/2009/01/28…
I bet they don't even really like comics and manga, they just hate people and social skills so they go for comics and manga because that's what the stereotypers tell them ant-social people are supposed to enjoy.
I bet they don't even really like comics and manga, they just hate people and social skills so they go for comics and manga because that's what the stereotypers tell them ant-social people are supposed to enjoy.
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