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.

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.

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.

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.

it’s funny and interesting but isn’t this just an LLM doing what it does and predicting the conversation based on a large number of variables?

you’re assuming those things aren’t being done simultaneously. additionally, the type of misplaced violent rage you will continue to witness is born from oppression and having no voice or power. eventually, the caged animal thrashes regardless of what it damages, itself included. it might not be rational or logical but it has to be expected as an outcome. we are not going to stop people from burning shit down. it simply will never happen. too many people feel they have no other way to make it known that fascism will not be the way of life here than to scare the shit out of our leaders through violence and a demonstration of the people’s willingness to execute.

you can fucking hate that this is happening, but it is always going to. i’m not personally going to condemn these kinds of responses because i recognize it as an emotional and forced reaction to living year after year in a country that doesn’t give a shit about you but will exploit you until you die. tesla is a representation of what the last 70 years have come to: we are now speeding on the path towards technofascism and they’re not even doing it behind our backs. people are going to take their anger out on the fascist car endorsed by our fascist presidential figurehead and sold by our South African fascist president.