Any adult who is raising children will be more serious than a young person with other things on their mind.
That’s why saying your fuck you’s is important.
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I’ve had six operations in past year
Looking at more. These are fairly gruelling procedures
May have degenerative disease causing these problems.
Given the chronic pain and awful circumstances
I joke around… a loooot. Hard to take things seriously when things look so bleak.
What’s on my mind is “fuck… I’m 22… what is 30 going to look like… do I even want to find out? How will I ever find a wife like this? I’ve been told to never get my hopes up about being able to have a child.”
The prospect of a normal life is more/less out of the window.
That’s unfortunate, but dealing with illnesses is not the same thing as raising children. It is entirely understandable for people with illnesses to prioritize dealing with those conditions, just as it is entirely understandable for people with children to prioritize dealing with those conditions.
You just said your fuck you, btw, and that’s totally fine.
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A guy who became my best friend through high school and into late 20’s did so by sliding an exacto knife across a light table in print shop and hit me in the stomach.
So after class I pushed him into a corner and blasted him in the temple with a hard right. Ktfo.
A couple days later he walks up and says “Man, I play hockey and have been in a lot of fights, but that was the hardest I’ve ever been punched. Gotta hand it to you for that one.”.
Then we shook hands and ditched school to get a case of beer.
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Alt right that worships Islam lol?
Legitimately hate to hear that.
The few surgeries I’ve had were rough enough.
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It sounds contradictory but Andrew Tate supposedly converted to Islam.
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Weirdly specific here…have you been finding yourself dwelling on these thoughts?
Daily.
It is 2023 bro. Don’t kink shame me.
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alt-right OR radical (insert religion).
There is more overlap than you’d think. Oddly enough, both sides USUALLY hate one another but barring shariah law’s practices there’s a ton of overlap with regards to how people on the alt-right AND radical islam think about various topics
They should be homiez, not enemies.
I’ll continue with my initial post, although i’ll make it an open ended discussion by not linking or referencing anyone
Culture wars are stupid because they’re mediated by two opposing extremes. This alienates the average American.
The average American should be telling these EXTREMELY vocal minorities to STFU. America has more pressing issues to worry about
Take reparations for example… this is a byproduct of a very vocal, radical faction of the left… where did this come from? Are African Americans and Native Americans begging for reparations?
If not… SHUT UP about it. Slavery was hundreds of years ago. Discriminatory practices against native Americans to my knowledge persisted until around the 1970s (Australia commited genocide against aboriginal population until 1972 for comparision).
It is NOT mainstream for Australian politicians to demand reparations for our indigenous population. Only the far-left is advocating for this.
Unlike America, neither the far left nor the far right has much of a voice here. Aus is steeped in centricism with an authoritarian slant.
School shootings, violent crime, drug addiction, the exponential rise of China as a potential global superpower (cold war 2.0?)… these are issues that matter.
Stop meandering and gerrymandering over divisive topics that the average American doesn’t even care about to begin with.
This was what I was meant to post… before I accidentally hit send on an unfinished post.
Deepening Americas divide only serves as a further detriment to America. If someone wants civil war… have they ever thought about what that means on a broader scale?
While Americans are fighting each other (descent into chaos)… who becomes the next global superpower and what implications will that have for Australia, Europe etc.
Aside from the fact that I lived in America for seven years, I care BECAUSE if America is fucked… I’m fucked… most of the first world is…
Prism
Msirp
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The vast majority of what we have here is just political theater. Politicians writing unenforceable vanity bills so that they can grandstand for the cause and play the victim when the other side stops it- instead of enforcing the laws that are already written.
So stupid
Such a waste of time
Waste of money
This happens in Europe and Aus too… but hardly as often.
Australia typically does it with nanny state nonesense as a means to mediate a rally around the flag effect. For instance, vapes (electronic cigarettes) are illegal in Australia without a prescription.
On the news recently they were talking about a vape tsunami amongst younger generations. One politician (I believe CHO) came out and said “there will be some people who take one hit of a vape… and they’re instantly hooked! They’ve never felt that good in my life”
I burst out laughing… who is paying for this bullshit? Why are politicians focusing on criminalising and persecuting (personal use and distribution) those who use or sell a product that is arguably less damaging than cigarettes?
Waste of time… you know what IS an issue in Australia? Violent crime in cities like Alice Springs… impoverished communities that have been underfunded for decades… wait times for psychiatrists exceeding a year and psychiatric facilities still being forced to enact social distancing protocols notwithstanding the backlog of patients applying to get in, the lack of staffing and more.
Cost of living is a huge issue here.
With Aus I take issue at bills passed that are ‘nanny state esque’.
With America it appears many of these bills getting passed are blatantly unenforcable, and only exist for politicians to virtue signal and deepen the divide currently omnipresent between the two opposing extremes.
Sometimes these bills (from my perspective) look like they’ll do a whole lot more harm than good. Banning medications that have a multitude of potential uses to treat a myriad of conditions comes to mind.
People in the USA are being refused refills for methotrexate. This is a COMMON immunosupressant/chemo drug used to treat a wide variety of autoimmune conditions… and certain forms of cancer. VERY occasionally can it be used to terminate a pregnancy.
Meanwhile men and women who aren’t pregnant are being refused refills because the drug has been put on a “do not dispense” list in certain states in case it is being used to terminate a pregnancy… people don’t think these bills are going to be interpreted that way… but they are
Banning methotrexate was a stupid, stupid, stupid thing to do. If you’re REALLY that upset about abortion, just ban it for that particular indication… not that I agree with a ban, but if it HAD to be done…
Wasting time and taxpayer money, eventuating inferior public health outcomes.
I remember when guidelines were released for prescribing opiates. They said use them as a last resort, and said in most cases daily doses should remain below a certain threshold, and even then… these were recommendations, not law… the result?
MANY states passed LAWS making doctors criminally liable for prescribing above certain thresholds (at times this also included for those with terminal illnesses), the DEA clamped down not only on doctors prescribing inappropriately (which was a HUGE problem in America), but on legitimate pain management physicians (a well respected pain management doc in America recently commited suicide followed repeat harrassment from DEA for no good reason)… and doctors in general refused to take on or dropped chronic pain patients EVEN if said patients weren’t actually taking any pain meds
This put a select cohort of patients with intractible pain (think conditions like MS, ankylosing spondlytis, rheumatoid arthritis, ehlers danlos syndromes etc) in limbo. Many turned to street drugs and wound up dying which is ironic as these bills designed to prevent addiction wound up causing a lot of addiction and overdose.
Others took their own lives
It took a lot of time and effort to create bills that only increased rates of addiction, overdose and suicide at the end… but it was politically popular to demonise pain medication… another example of fighting a pointless battle.
The correct battle to fight was/is the battle of treating the ADDICTS… and punishing the doctors who ran pill mills… not the people in pain… and not pain management physicians.
Focusing on the wrong issues seems all too common right now in America. I’ve just outlined two examples of politicians picking the wrong fights, with bad outcomes eventuating.
Picking the wrong fights = waste of time, energy, resources… detracts from looking at issues that could actually make America a better place.
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They are now.
Do they deserve them?
If I can be so bold. What have the doctors said you may be afflicted with?
Welcome to the land of ignorance and cult-like praise for the “free-market”.
Really? Wasn’t aware. Have any proof of this? Was this reported in the mainstream?
You mean mostly Republicans. It’s a big part of their deflection politics. Don’t look over here, pay attention to Mr. Potatohead. Do not think intently about things that will add to your material benefit, our donors don’t like it.
Here is one article. I had mistaken the 60% for increased in subway crime because I was jogging through memory and not looking back.
Here’s this as well.
You can look further yourself simply from using search engines and YouTube. I will not post here because I could easily jam up this thread with the amount of content over the past few years.
Some info on school violence increase.
NYC school-related violence surges, deaths increase