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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)
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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[+] -15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Yes, I was specifically talking about America. I don't know how mental health is in Argentina.

Edit: Not entirely sure why I'm being downvoted here. Why would I talk about mental health care in Argentina? I've never sent foot into the country and the only thing I know about it is that the city of Buenos Aires is in it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    You're probably being dogpiled for perceived Ameri-centrism.

    The irony, in my mind, is that while you were kinda veering the discussion in a different direction, per your edit you explicitly did so because you have no knowledge of mental healthcare in Argentina which is very much not Ameri-centrism.

    If I had to put words to most of the downvotes, they would probably say "fuck you, this is a discussion about Argentina's mental healthcare, not mental healthcare more broadly," which again in a bit of irony, detracts from the discussion of how to address mental health crises.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I think it's just annoyance at the idiomatic use of "America" when the discussion is about the Americas.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Huh, never considered that.

    It's hard to get into the minds of a sea of semi-anonymous voters to determine their motivations. I'm sure they all had their own reasons, and yours may be one of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    The minds of the sea of semi-anonymous lemmings is likely hard to understand due to endemic parochialism in the USA.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think that's part of why I can't read anyone's mind, but okay.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well it's a fairly common discussion on Lemmy, Reddit, microblogging, etc., that "America" as the USA doesn't float well outside of the USA.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Some corners of Lemmy that I haven't seen maybe, but over my decade+ of Reddit I've never seen anyone present that as an issue.

    I acknowledge it's a bit lame that only a specific part of North America calls themselves "American," but I doubt inaccurate and exclusionary endonyms are a phenomenon unique to the US.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, the double-down. Interesting gambit

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Doubling down on what? Do you know what "doubling down" actually means?

    The comment I replied to was talking about humanity as a species. I responded by narrowing the discussion to individual countries because mental health care varies dramatically from one country to another. Some countries have excellent mental health systems; others don't. The United States, in my view, has a particularly poor one.

    The fact that the original incident occurred in Argentina is irrelevant to the point I was making.

    More importantly, I can only speak from my own experience. I've lived in the United States for the overwhelming majority of my life, so that's the system I know. Why would I pretend to speak authoritatively about countries I've never lived in?

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