#like its healthcare but still

[mothdruid]

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[false-anomaly]

Yet again I'm thinking about the eradication of culture within the THG universe,, I have very complex opinions on culture wars within Panem and if they would exist at all in certain cases but like. Do you think they still speak Spanish in Ten? Do you think trans people can still change their names and wear what they please as long as they meet their daily quotas? Do families with religious ancestors remember to observe their holy days, even if it's in private, or was the eradication of religion in Panem so concrete that they don't remember anything at all? Much to think about

[katabay]

lmao sorry to everyone in my inbox, this month has been a mess and I'm just not really around enough for it. someone in my immediate family got a new cancer diagnosis, my not-art job got restructured because management is a joke and it's been.... not great, to be honest! to top it off, my mom's cousin just died because the major hospital didn't have enough beds open for the provincial hospital to transfer him. etc etc etc.

anyway. it's been a lot and I'm Very Tired Of Things Happening 🙃

[vaguelypersonshapedholeinawall]

My 2022 through present obsession with the riddler explains my fascination with the United healthcare shooter, the neural pathways were already there and WELL established

[kylejsugarman]

idk, i dont think people are inherently Wrong in saying that the events of "breaking bad" wouldn't have happened if the us had universal healthcare but like. walter straight up broke off his engagement with gretchen because her family's wealth made him feel insecure and refused elliott's monetary offer and gave his own son the cold shoulder for creating a gofundme for him. even treatment paid for by the federal government probably would've made him seethe

[lesbianralzarek]

why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

[jvlianbashir]

there is something so deeply american about the fact that the super special reward that the human protagonist receives at the end of the last transformers movie for helping to save the planet is government-funded healthcare

[sonknuxadow]

so wild that whenever i see sonic fanart on here theres like a 60 percent chance sonic will have top surgery scars and this is just an accepted thing and barely anyone questions it back in my day if you said you think any sonic character isn't cis or het 500 people would suddenly appear to demand evidence or to just tell you you're wrong and you cant say that

[hirazuki]

Hira's year in medical review:

Me, August 2023: *experiencing extreme fatigue, fainting spells, mood swings, sudden and drastic increase of suicidal thoughts, and intense hair loss*

P.A: let's do blood work

Me: ok!

Bloodwork: *normal except for prolactin*

Doctor: sometimes that's a fluke so let's retest

Me: ok

Bloodwork: *exactly the same*

Doctor: your values are higher than normal range, but not high enough to be in range for a pituitary gland tumor.

(P.A: go see an endocrinologist and get an MRI, that might be indicative of a pituitary gland tumor.) <- bless this person and only this person in particular

Endocrinologist, seen earliest available which was January 2024: *wants to retest blood work instead of ordering an MRI*

Me: ... ok

Bloodwork: *the same*

Me: can we please do an MRI now?

Endocrinologist: Well. Your values are above the normal limit, but it's highly unlikely that's it's a pituitary gland tumor because they are not high enough for that. Let's retest blood work in four months.

Me: ...................... ok

Bloodwork, May 2024: *THE SAME*

Endocrinologist: hmm, I recommend an MRI

Me: *gesturing angrily*

MRI, June 2024: 🎉 pituitary gland tumor 🎉

Doctor, when I went in for something else: I doubt your endocrinologist will want to treat that, we typically don't treat adenomas that small

Endocrinologist, who took 3 weeks to review my results: I recommend just monitoring. It's highly unlikely that this is causing your symptoms, it's too small for that.

Me, July 2024:

[taliejane]

Omfg UK and US 18-25s I'm begging you to vote in the general/presidential election 😭😭😭 young people already don't vote and then to actively abstain (I get it, all your options suck) but then politicians will have zero reason to appeal to you ever! You're entirely excluding yourselves from the conversation! Vote strategically to vote OUT the worst dude but just vote fr

I know they're all doing genocide and it's fucked but like you literally are not preventing genocide by not voting you're just sitting on your hands

[scalpelsister]

what if i lost the will to live like. as a joke. what then.

[mac-n-cheese-flavored-arson]

I'm sick of having to be nice when telling people that they should do anything in their power to protect minorities. I'm sick of having to ask nicely that people pretty please don't do something that actively endangers minorities lives. I'm sick of the entire idea that we have to be nice and civil to people that want us dead or those that enable the people that want us dead through inaction.

I'm so so tired of having to be polite to fascists and bigots just so that my entire argument isn't thrown out for being emotional, irrational, and extreme. I'm sick of the entire political sphere feeling like reactionary abuse, where the abuser pushes you and pushes you and pushes you until you finally snap just for them to use that to frame you as the bad guy to everyone else.

I'm sick of the expectation of civil conversations with someone that already views us as less than human. We shouldn't have to reason with people that want all minorities dead to come up with some kind of middle ground that just keeps moving the line further and further right anyways.

[tony-andonuts]

Hey by the way. If you can't respect and acknowledge mentally AND Physically disabled people, people of color, immigrants who don't know your country's language, queer people (ESP TRANS PEOPLE), fat people, people who aren't of your religion, and overall anyone not like you,

YOU HAVE NO FUCKING BUSINESS WORKING IN HEALTHCARE!!!!!!!!!!!

[funeralfire]

I've legitimately been thinking a lot about trans women lately and like the women I know in my life and how complex and human and real they are. Specifically because I understand the world is not kind to trans women and likes to generalize them horribly.

I know a woman who's an artist and spending her time dreaming about stars. I know another woman who's a terrible friend and manipulative as hell. I know one who's shy and sweet and so intelligent. Trans women can be so many things 💖

I really care deeply about trans women and I hope in my friend groups I'm a good ally to them and know to stand up vocally for them. Trans women deserve so much and they're given not enough. Everyone can do something to stop transphobia by speaking up when they hear it. Don't let your friends make transphobic jokes. Don't let your dad regurgitate trump's words. Protect the trans women in your life and everywhere else, they need to be loved and respected. Mwah! 🥰

[sweetbabymantykes]

How many wishiwashi do you think it would take to overthrow capitalism?

Buddy I've spent the last four years trying to find the answer to that exact same question

[fatcowboys]

frustrating how fucking. disabling. being disabled is rn. im tired