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Journal by DeathMonkey
But I am perfectly fine with the US hoarding our vaxxes until every American has had the opportunity to get them.
Those companies are free to sell to whomever they want but we got our orders in early and we're currently first in line.
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A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 11 2021, @10:38PM (3 children)
DeathMonkey... #America1st did we live to see the day?
The concept of "charity beginning at home" is more noble than the oft-repeated "I got mine" dismissal allows. As Gregor Samsa discovered, you cannot be of any use to others if you cannot look after yourself. Somebody once told me of a concept like this in Buddhism but I don't recall the exact details.
It's not selfish. If Operation WarpSpeed™ and a forward-functioning economy allows the US to distribute the vaccines to the rest of the world at close to cost it's approaching selflessness.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 12 2021, @01:13AM (2 children)
It's unusually pro-America.
To be fair though, it is also anti-freedom and anti-capitalist. It's authoritarian. It's support of a command economy, as found in Venezuela and other shitholes.
Sometimes values come into conflict. Some people flip a coin. What wins out, communism or hatred of America?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Subsentient on Friday March 12 2021, @03:28AM
Historically, those two go together pretty well.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 12 2021, @06:15PM
The people with the most money got in line first and the vaccines makers can sell to whoever they want. It may be crappy but it's definitely not ANTI-Capitalist!