i was recently prescribed a life changing medication that has given me the opportunity to have my lifespan return to normal as it is currently reduced, and i am noticing true positive improvement for the first time living with this illness, and i feel like i can start regaining my identity, and my physical and mental wellbeing, and now the president of my country is going to make this already expensive drug even more costly? what am i supposed to do, just stop taking it? what is anyone with a worse condition than me supposed to do for their illness? what about people with severe mental disorders that might be invisible to the public but struggle deeply all the same? this will lead to unnecessary deaths. every time the medical supply is messed with, people die. this needs to be met with more than outrage. Trump is signing a death warrant on ill Americans. who are you willing to sacrifice so you don’t have to get involved? because, again, people are going to die.

may she rest in power. our society failed her. we should be ashamed of ourselves for breaking her resolve. it seems she went out with purpose and tried to highlight the suffering of trans people in America. i thank her for thinking of us in her final moments, but she deserved genuine help more than anything.

nobody can tell you yes or no as it is entirely dependent on variables only you have the most knowledge of. are you aware of the risks and rewards? have you weighed them appropriately? i guess we can help you there but ultimately it won’t be age that determines whether or not you should pursue higher education. do it if you want to, but do it for you… not to get a job, or a career, or anything else.

i enjoyed their previous album! should get around to the new one then.

thanks for letting me know. i just read about it now. damn, that is alarming. at least it did not spread or come into existence… that is not good.

i always check to see if human-to-human transmission has occurred yet or not… worried of the day when it will. i hope it doesn’t happen. we are not going to survive anything deadlier than COVID. we are still in the midst of the pandemic and people act as though shit went back to normal. i hear “back during covid” all the time in conversations and have to dissociate so i don’t correct them with an emotional outburst. there’s simply no way we make it through a virus with double-digit mortality rates without long-term societal and financial damage.

it is unbelievable to me that women are now more unsafe than they ever have been because of anti-trans hysteria. these people want to “protect women” but have only made a non-existent problem real. way to fucking go.

last time it was like this was in the 30s. typical of Americans to forget their history after 100 years of it. they have created an uneducated half to complicate those who’ve learned.

ah sure, fair point. i kind of glossed over that lol. yeah… i wouldn’t necessarily agree with that assessment if its meant to be a genuine statement (maybe it’s an exaggeration born out of frustration?) but i can empathize with how the commenter arrived to that conclusion. i can follow the logic as an atheist myself who happens to be somewhat of an antitheist. however, i think it’s ignorant of anyone to say religion cannot be a source of good for a community or individual. religion is complicated, it isn’t a homogenous group of thinkers. you cannot have all concepts of it share one universal tenant, i.e. fascism, because there are hundreds of thousands of religions and many do not know about each other or the cultures around them. how could they all be fascist?

What are you talking about? This is a comment in relation to an event that doesn’t have Christianity tied to it as a primary religion, and throughout world history it has been well established that religion in general will be used by those in power to accomplish their goals. sometimes those people are willing to kill in the name of said goals or beliefs.

i am permanently banned. i have gotten around it several times but this one seems inescapable lol. tbh i wouldn’t make a new account if i could.

stolen because there’s no way a billionaire could lose to the poor?

this is a choice everyone should be allowed to make. although i understand the concerns of the disabled woman in the video (for example, Canada’s MAID has some alarming issues) she is wrong to imply access to assisted suicide means disabled people are not worth as much as abled people. unfortunately, capitalists would rather kill sick people than spend money to save them, so abuse will occur as long as profit is part of our culture, but dying on your own terms as opposed to the whims of an illness is giving you your control back. there is no humanity in suffering. we don’t even let terminal patients suffer, we pump them full of drugs. everyone should have the right to avoid a prolonged, painful death.

this is rather positive. my boyfriend is worried because dementia affected both his grandparents. i’m glad to read each successive generation had lower rates.

yup, it’s frustrating as hell. it sounds like it makes sense though, so many people just accept it without thinking. there are far more voters who become suppressed because of voter ID laws than any voter ID law has prevented or stopped illegal voting. it’s ridiculous. i beg of liberals to just fucking do any research about it at all, please.

as a wisconsinite, you’re welcome lol. i was very worried. Schimel was leading and i became despondent and stopped watching. very happy things turned around. however, the voter ID passed and that shit pisses me off.

real unfortunate no one was harmed.

i have struggled with understanding my “lack of drive” concerning employment ever since i became aware of my issues. i used to blame myself and think of myself as fundamentally broken or selfish and cruel. i’d think to myself “other people can do this, this is a normal expected thing, do it” without realizing that while performing labor is normal it isn’t normal to be forced into working an excessively long schedule in order to remain alive. the problem i have isn’t that i have to do things and i wish people who reject my limitation would understand that. i want what i do to fucking matter to the community i exist in. i want the one life i get to experience to be tilted more towards our individuality and not the demands of the oligarchy. i guess not being able to handle living in a fucking prison makes me “disabled.” fine.

i do hope it doesn’t take that long for me, but i am under no delusion that it’ll be speedy. i did have them mail me some paperwork to fill out recently after submitting my initial applications months ago, so… hey… progress! i’ll definitely be contacting someone in my area then.

hey real quick, why are you even bothering to leave this comment? do you realize you are posting in a community meant for disabled users telling somebody who considers themselves disabled that “relying on other people to survive” is going to “make things worse” for me because i’m not “fixing the problem?” this is an astonishingly negative view about me and my limitations based on nothing. you tell me to try to find work i like to do as if that isn’t something i have pursued.

me having more free time doesn’t equate to having more struggles, i don’t know why you would assume such a thing not knowing anything about me other than this post. this was very unhelpful and honestly insulting.