Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for "insurance fairness" on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don't face the same kinds of coverage challenges.
western framing whenever someone is extremely popular among the working class. Stalin, Mao, etc. but you will almost never hear bourgeois media talk about adulation around a western liberal democratic politician as a “cult of personality”. that’s for the thick-browed mud peoples
was trying to think about this more. I’m not sure but maybe “cult of personality” describes the cultural hegemony from 2020 to 2024 when the liberals pretended Biden didn’t have dementia
Talks about “cults of personality” among the scary unscrutable non-westerners becomes extra absurd when you live in a monarchy. You have this one family that everybody is expected to form a parasocial relationship with, they’re always presented in a positive framing, their faces are on the money, stuff is named after them, TV shows are being made about how good they are, children put up plays about them being amazing in school. When they show up somewhere crowds gather to cheer them. If one of them were to fart in public, people would talk about what a brave fart it was and how it demonstrated their deep and real connection to the common folk.
But if you tell people that they’re doing the exact same thing they’re accusing Koreans of doing they look at you as if it is the most absurd thing they’ve ever heard.
western framing whenever someone is extremely popular among the working class. Stalin, Mao, etc. but you will almost never hear bourgeois media talk about adulation around a western liberal democratic politician as a “cult of personality”. that’s for the thick-browed mud peoples
was trying to think about this more. I’m not sure but maybe “cult of personality” describes the cultural hegemony from 2020 to 2024 when the liberals pretended Biden didn’t have dementia
Cult of zero personality
Talks about “cults of personality” among the scary unscrutable non-westerners becomes extra absurd when you live in a monarchy. You have this one family that everybody is expected to form a parasocial relationship with, they’re always presented in a positive framing, their faces are on the money, stuff is named after them, TV shows are being made about how good they are, children put up plays about them being amazing in school. When they show up somewhere crowds gather to cheer them. If one of them were to fart in public, people would talk about what a brave fart it was and how it demonstrated their deep and real connection to the common folk.
But if you tell people that they’re doing the exact same thing they’re accusing Koreans of doing they look at you as if it is the most absurd thing they’ve ever heard.
the weeping announcer, the doleful music… the slow movement of the cortège.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: