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In the Netherlands and Belgium employers sometimes offer what is called a "baaldag". Basically, if you're having an especially shit day, you can take the day off. No doctors note required.

That's why I said you could have someone drive you.

And mandatory sick notes are stupid.

Plenty of places you don't need a sick note for a day off.

No thank you, I just ate.

I've never lived in the US.

Going to the doctor for the common cold is insane. Why waste doctors' time on something that'll pass on its own with a bit of rest and paracetamol? Utterly selfish.

Driving to a hospital if you're not badly injured is also perfectly normal. Once again, why would you call an ambulance that could be helping someone in dire need, if you don't need to?

Unless the injury is life threatening, drive yourself or have someone drive you. Not insane at all.

Fun fact: a tarot deck has 72 different cards. That means there's 72! combinations, which is a number that is roughly 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000​ larger than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

The meme is about never compromising with fascists.

You can argue that both Stalin/Molotov and Chamberlain had good reasons to sign a (temporary) compromise with fascist Germany. Which means you believe you should sometimes compromise with fascists.

Or you can argue that Stalin and Chamberlain were wrong to compromise with fascists. Which means you agree with the meme that you should never compromise with fascists.

But this meme was originally posted on lemmy.ml, where a lot of users will reflexively defend Stalin for compromising with fascist Germany (they're also here) but then post memes which say it's never ok to compromise with fascists. Which is double think. You either think it's sometimes acceptable, or you think it's never acceptable to compromise with fascists.

Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs conflict with each other. People often react in weird ways when they're suffering from it. You can witness plenty of it in this comment section.

Pure whataboutism.

Meme: Don't compromise with fascists!

Me: Remember that time Stalin compromised with fascists?

You: That's a distraction!

Don't tell lemmy.ml. Some of their users might realise they're not genuinely left wing.

Hush now.

I think you'll find that when Stalin compromised with fascists, that was a very good thing, that's why despite being very proud of making this supposedly necessary compromise, discussing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was taboo in the Soviet Union till 1989. They simply didn't want to make a big thing of it, because Stalin was such a modest and down to earth guy.

LOL

Always funny watching the tankies tie themselves in knots defending it.

the Soviets compromised

Correct. Stalin compromised with fascists.

they had no other choice.

They could have chosen to not compromise with fascists from 1939-1941

the Soviets compromised only as long as they had no other choice.

They compromised until they had no other choice, because the Nazis invaded.

They could have chosen to not compromise from 1939-1941. You know, like liberal democracy Britain.

TLDR: Don't compromise with fascists.

USSR: finds a way to stall the fascists with a gun to its head

AKA a temporary compromise with fascists.

You can say that, but ...

TLDR: "Stalin compromised with fascists, but yadayada."