Grandmother playing games to raise funds to pay for cancer treatment for her grandchild, instead of said treatment being funded by their government...
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  • 230 points Tarnique

    r/mademesmile might as well become an alias of this sub with how many posts like that they get šŸ˜•

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  • 325 points dissoid

    Fuck the botched healthcare system!

    ... but still go give her a watch, she's really sweet...

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    61 points Appropriate-Sound169

    Where can I watch her? TY

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    98 points dissoid

    Here you go: GrammaCrackers - YouTube

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    83 points towerinthestreet

    The top comment on her first vid is "alive internet theory" and I couldn't agree more.

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    11 points Appropriate-Sound169

    Thank you x

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    9 points Appropriate-Sound169

    I've never played Minecraft before but why didn't she get the diamonds?

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    8 points D347H7H3K1Dx

    Which video is it in? Only pickaxes that drop diamonds when you mine diamond is iron, diamond, and netherite so without seeing context idk why.

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    5 points Appropriate-Sound169

    It's the one that says dig straight down. I think her pickaxe was stone maybe?

    https://youtu.be/MuQt6PXZUag?si=fOGpqfZtP6X0m3ga

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    8 points D347H7H3K1Dx

    I skimmed the video and the bit that did load for me showed her only with a stone pickaxe, if it was iron it’s ā€œbladeā€ color would match the sword and armor she had at the very beginning. YouTube been messing up real bad for me lately(both with WiFi and Cellular Data) and doesn’t want to load much so unless I missed something that didn’t load it’s cause of her pickaxe being too low grade/quality/level(whatever you wanna classify it as).

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    3 points Appropriate-Sound169

    Thank you. I might have a go playing it. My grandkids play it and taught me the song, we don't want to mess with the enderman, or something lol

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    3 points D347H7H3K1Dx

    Happy to help :) I don’t play it anymore(I go through some sprees sometimes lol) and out of all the hostile mobs the endermen and the pigman brutes are the most annoying to me.

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    3 points D347H7H3K1Dx

    https://stock.adobe.com/images/pixel-arsenal-of-templates-for-printing-the-concept-of-game-weapons-pixel-axe-hoe-pickaxe-sword-bow-vector-illustration-eps-10/498914155

    For context, also netherite is black since it’s not showed. Wood, stone, gold, iron, and diamond from left to right.

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    2 points dissoid

    Yeah, she used the wrong pickaxe T_T

    happens to the best of us who start Minecraft without much research, lmao

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    2 points D347H7H3K1Dx

    lol then there’s some who try to research and get told bad info like about mining bedrock

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    3 points dissoid

    I mean, somebody told her to mine straight down, which probably was a troll, and she did just that and made a whole video out of it.

    I'd like to believe she just ran with it, doing it for the clicks, likes and revenue. <3

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    3 points No-Flatworm-9993

    I was going to say,Ā  also entertaining as hell

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  • 39 points Aeroncastle

    When I saw it I was already waiting for this post

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  • 40 points HoosegowFlask

    Maybe I'm just too cynical, but the video titles and thumbnails seem too slick to match the pretense.

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    65 points Maybe_not_a_chicken

    I assume that there is a grandkid editing things

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    13 points fffffffffffffuuu

    well as long as those donations keep coming in there will be

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    3 points General_Map_4608

    Dude this comment fucking killed me 😭

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  • 14 points stoompedpoo69

    Now WHO told her to dig straight down I just want to have a friendly chat.

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    3 points ifuckedyomama2

    I just want to talk with him- Peter Griffin

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  • 1 points NeuralOverboost

    Isn't this Lynixity's grandma?

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  • -46 points xtheresia

    "By their government" ?

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    64 points Big_JR80

    Yes, as is the case in pretty much every civilised country where cancer-treatment for kids is paid for by the state.

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    51 points Prosthemadera

    Yes, the government of the people that need help.

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    -53 points xtheresia

    Taxation is theft

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    47 points Prosthemadera

    No it isn't. But you are free to say it :)

    btw: Taxation is what allowed you to make that comment because taxes helped fund the development of computers and the internet and even social networks.

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    -39 points xtheresia

    In reality: Gets pocketed by government officials and career politicians and the little leftovers is redistributed into the country or as welfare for the jobless

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    36 points Prosthemadera

    Just because your country sucks doesn't mean taxes are bad. Fix your country.

    No taxes makes for a worse society than corruption. You would get crushed without roads, or police, or courts or no one to enforce your contracts.

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    -6 points xtheresia

    Germany is not struggling as much, but is certainly held back by the massive taxes

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    30 points Prosthemadera

    They would be held back a lot more if they had no taxes. If you think otherwise you don't live reality. Your libertarian ideology is fiction.

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    12 points likely_an_Egg

    You live in a country with one of the highest standards of living, and you owe that to taxes, among other things. It never ceases to amaze me how proudly people shout their stupidity on the internet without even beginning to understand what society would look like without taxes.

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    9 points FlixMage

    Healthcare system my brother. Educate yourself.

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    6 points KiraLonely

    Yes. The basis of a government is a body that takes care of the civilians in return for the civilians pitching in to help each other.

    I don’t know about you, but the times that I hate taxes are not because it is taking my money but because it is taking my money and spending it on paychecks for rich fucks who don’t need it. I want my money spent on the roads, spent on the schools, and yes, spent to provide basic healthcare and human rights for our civilians and children.

    You do realize that every time they cut those out of tax stuff, they don’t take LESS money. They just spend it on shit that will never benefit you at all, or your family or neighborhood or people.

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    0 points jellyfish-ria

    This nuance is important ^ you guys are referring to different extremes and different situations. In reality, is it really a 1:1 correlation? Taxes:Benefits to People? Quite the opposite in a ton of cases around to world.

    Taxation is theft: tale as old as time, farmers all around the world, protection money rackets, cartels, abuse of power

    Taxation is 100% good: not exactly. in ideal scenarios, yes. but rarely is life ideal. our systems are structured in a way that depends on the will of people in power.

    Both of you are half right.

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