Was just a question
The useful idiot’s rallying cry!
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Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months agoCan you elaborate a bit ?
It’s not a good excuse. Was just a question
vzq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You are a dick.
vzq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not meant as an insult. It’s an intelligence term of art.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
But yes, I also think you are a plain old regular idiot too.
wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] 10 months ago
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
A useful idiot is a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause—particularly a bad cause originating from a devious, ruthless source—without fully comprehending the cause’s goals, and who is cynically being used by the cause’s leaders. Erroneously attributed to Vladimir Lenin, the term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation. Similar terms also exist in other languages.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, it wasn’t, and you know it. It’s very transparent.
11181514@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You didn’t ask a question. You made two statements implying that holding this company accountable for illegal actions, robbing people of money, is harmful.
Go fuck yourself.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No fuck you. Do you work in mental health. ? No. Then fuck off.
Do you have people killing themselves on the other fucking line ? No
Fuck off
I do not condone corporations, I do when loves are put at risk. That I then have to deal with.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you work in mental health, then you know it’s exceptionally EASY to make a person in crisis even worse off than before they called you.
I am glad that YOU care about your clients, but I have a very hard time imagining that they do: a for-profit that is running a monetary scam like this one doesn’t give two shits about the people that call, and probably doesn’t even have sufficient or even trained staff, because scammers only care about one thing, and it’s NOT your client.
They weren’t just a subscription service, they were also manipulating reviews (using deceit to lure people in and then making it impossible to cancel their service). They were also trying to ensure that any time someone did manage to cancel, they got charged for another month by screwing with the billing cycles (“exploited delay in cancellation processing to issue additional charges”).
Just what someone in crisis needs, right? Find a different hero to cheer, like the guy in the mirror who cares about his clients: these people ain’t it.
TL;DR: Accept the possibility (and probability, IMO) that this closure may be saving lives by keeping people off the phone and out of subscription-model MH assistance with promises of help that are likely NOT forthcoming.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wasn’t advocating for the service. I asked who this service put peoples lives at risk. I condone all that you mentioned. It’s obviously a terrible service. However if it kept people alive then the food outweighed the bad.
These comments these people don’t understand mental health. Or maybe they do. Who’s to say. I contract for mental health charity. Do t even get minimum wage. We aren’t fully trained and have 1 phone line.
Yet I’ve talked down dozens of people in crisis and one on a roof. Service doesn’t charge and it’s not this corporate bullshit.
Fuck the CEO and the practice. However if it kept one person all be who otherwise would have died. ? In the any case. Fuck y’all.
See you next year
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kool