On the flip side, you could be in America where every single healthcare matter is a battle with insurance (who can just decide you’re too expensive and not bother, and regularly do) or just hand you a bill for tens of thousands of dollars.
Insurance is disgraceful.
But that’s kinda the point. People don’t “want to pay for it” but they also don’t want to be royally screwed either by profiteering companies. Trouble is the moment you start talking about some kind of collective scheme that everyone pays into so everyone benefits from, you’re talking about something worse than the literal devil, that dreaded socialism (which is all socialism really is, collective systems that we all contribute to so we all benefit from; it doesn’t say anything about ending capitalism or discouraging investment or anything like that)
Man, what's your problem with Trump? The American people elected him for various reasons and that says a lot. Look, I'm not going around talking trash about your Senate President being some socialist who supports gender transitions for kids. So maybe don't talk that way about the US President.
I reckon
Is it not OK to express an opinion?
Ferry needs to stop trolling. Ignore them
Only if it is the correct opinion, because that’s how free speech works now.
So now’s it’s ok to call someone a nutcase but they can’t use the “horrible” retarded word?
Like most people I see using the term free speech on here he probably doesn’t know the meaning either.
There are so few Marxists living today I doubt it was much of an upset. Or was the term Marxist also used loosely and for brevity? Or just due to a lack of being able to find the right word?
He's a dictator. Go and open your eyes.
This is quite the scandal here because of the lack of coverage of the court cases. Some bad names did try to get ahead but they got jailed. It's a touchy subject more so when the UK is going through a cost of living crisis. Elon though does what Elon does. He is loud and brash.
The hive mind in effect. One thing I've learnt is that there are no winners when it comes to politics. Much like a religion, in which the basic principle is faith, we as people are divided. The entire mantra can be seen as us vs them. Once people as a whole can collectively see through the veil, they can sit and listen and find what is in the best interests of everyone and not just the singularity.
He may believe in so-called free speech, but he clearly doesn't believe in intelligent speech.More tweets like this please Elon
Unfortunately the polarising and algorithmic nature of social media intentionally exaggerates this effect. We can sit here and talk about echo chambers but the reality is that our brave new world stirs and agitates because that drives engagement and therefore money. We are already verging on a post-truth situation, and Meta’s plan to outsource fact checking to the community (like on X) will cement that at scale for a whole new audience.
You mean more inaccurate ones?More tweets like this please Elon
This is just the grumpy old man in me although to be honest I'm more amused than grumpy. I'm amused that social media previously used to report on what one had for breakfast has become such a thing that it needs to be fact checked. It is however a little irritating to see serious news outlets embedding this stuff, a lot of which is just the ramblings of the ill-informed, Musk being a prime example.
