Many keep asking me why I am in debt to my dentist, as he’s the only “small business” on my list of debtors, so it’s time for a short story:
Back in early 2021 I had to get all four of my wisdom teeth removed. Went to the dentist and was quoted around $700 for everything (very good price then and insane now) including anesthesia. They promised I’d be put under for the procedure. I agreed and set a date.
I showed up for my appointment, and I’m seated in the chair and they’re about to start drilling my teeth when I ask why I’m still conscious. The dentist tells me “oh if you want to not feel anything, it will cost about double what you’re paying now”. We go back and forth a little, I’m pissed this is only mentioned when I’m literally seated in the chair ready to go, I bring up being told by the SAME DOCTOR that I’d be put under 100%, but I reluctantly agreed to pay more because he did not give a fuck. They fed me nitrous for the entire thing, so I wasn’t all the way out, but I was blasted.
Procedure was fine, I get done and once I sober up enough from the nitrous I go to the front desk to check out. I am given a bill of $1400. I say I can’t pay that today (I was really broke back then and actually couldn’t), they told me I had a month.
I went home and never spoke to them again. They tried to bait and switch me. They didn’t know they had a 380 credit score demon in the room. Next time run a credit check.
Fuck you dentist
third point: american exceptionalism propaganda has brainwashed the majority of the population into believing that our military is fighting for some “greater good”
isn't it funny how being anti-cop & anti-ice is a universal statement but being anti-military is a taboo that will get you called a classist. isn't it interesting how we only judge systems of power when they harm americans but they are not that bad if they affect the global south
Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.
We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.
We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.
Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.