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100s of years ago, your ancestors boarded boats to come to America for a better life.
Are you so indolent and pampered that you'll whinge and complain in America until you die?
Leave, GI, your country is abandoning you. Take your skills and education and emigrate to a country that treats you with respect, GI.
Programs like SNAP are up next. The time to eating the rich is nigh upon us.
It's only big and beautiful? Sorry Don I only accept the biggest and most beautiful.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Just so these dipshits know, I’m already feeling the cuts to Medicare/Medicaid staffing and services.
I live in the US and rely on Medicare because I’m fully disabled, to the point of being homebound.
Apparently the division that deals with remote visiting technology has been cut, so they can’t legally fill my prescriptions anymore unless I physically travel nearly an hour to their office every 3 months to remain eligible, and my doctor can’t legally renew medications that I’ve been on for 20 years. Within a couple of months I’ll have to stop taking all of my long term maintenance meds because I cannot travel to their office.
This will remove all my quality of life and will kill me slowly. I don’t want to die slowly of neglect, so I’ve got a decision to make, and I’m putting it off because I really don’t want to die yet.
I don’t know what to say except I have a name. I’m Lilly Piper. I’m a very good user experience designer, a pretty good writer, and decent friend.
We’re not faceless or nameless. I just want someone to remember that there are names behind these policies.
I’m good at sewing; I make period correct corsets from the 1800s and before (proof and more proof).
I’m actually great at sewing. I do embroidery and am a great listener. I’m also a good writer and editor. I didn’t need to die like this, but I won’t be homeless again, and I won’t beg in the streets for medicine. I just won’t.
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I'm a disabled vet. I'm unemployable. SSDI is the only thing that makes things breathable for us. The only real way I have to make any money on the side is by painting DnD minis, dice towers, or maybe Gunpla commissions. It's so difficult to do much in a day that it takes me quite some time to paint just a couple minis. Months on a gundam. I just don't have the stamina to do much in a day. Fatigue is killing me. I've got a few painted, but I haven't had the energy to put them up anywhere yet. I have just as many to paint still.
Body wide small fiber neuropathy, a central nervous system issue and colon removal really tanked me. Winter (Wa state) and fronts rolling through, even in summer, tank me even more. I think the change in air pressure is what does it.
A cut in medicare means that I also now have copays. I have tons of doc appointments still. No one can tell me what the root of the issue is, or at least prove it as it's very likely chemical exposures. All funding that would have led to a "here it is" was shuttered. Regular blood tests due to colon removal. Regular tests due to the fucked up nervous system, which is still progressing 20 years after the last exposure and 18 after it started.
My wife is a PARA, but we're in a low income area and PARAs don't make shit. From my excel math, we can make it by with no SSDI. However, we'll have absolutely no extra money. No money to replace clothes. No money for home repairs. No money for vehicle repairs. Before you say it, we do need them. Taking public transit is incredibly painful, and shitty at best. Plus I have no energy to do that. I can barely do the appointments I have, even driving myself the only 20 mins, avg, to the various doc appointments.
I feel like such a waste already. I love math. I love engineering. I love turning a wrench. I love cooking. I can barely do any of it. These assholes seem to think we're all grifting and "welfare" queens. Sad thing is, there are many more vets in my position. Yet many don't seem to realize that the GOP hates us. They'll keep voting for it. Voting for that shotgun to the foot and pleading for more like a gimp gagging daddy for more.
@LillyPip @inclementimmigrant This is fucking insane, it's 2025, but these assholes want to take it back to like the 1900s for no reason at all.
IDK what else to say other than this admin needs to be stopped, and it has to happen now.
As a fellow writer I don't want you to die. I bought your book can't wait to read it. Stay safe and if we on Lemmy can do anything to help please let us know.
Sincerely sorry you’ve been caught in this mess. Have you considered reaching out to your congressional Representative? They can sometimes work magic for their constituents. It’s part of their job to get us through red tape barriers.
Also, every major pharmaceutical company has a compassionate care program for meds, although I don’t know about having to re-qualify every 3 months & how that might affect their assistance. If your doc has a hospital nearby, they should have staff dedicated to assisting patients in dire situations. Your state should also have help, especially if you’re receiving aid.
Don’t give up. You’re worth whatever trouble it takes. Being ill and disabled and homebound is all hard enough without this added bureaucratic bullshit to deal with. I wish you the very best! ♥️
I’d like to say I don’t understand what you’re going through.
I’m a 3x attempt survivor, disabled, and terrified. I’m on SSDI, Medicare/Medicaid, and in HUD housing. My situation is not the same but I see you.
I wish there was more I could offer, but you are not alone.
I’m sorry. I wish you didn’t have to go through this. You don’t deserve that.
i don't want you to die
Thanks. I appreciate that.
I’m not just talking about myself, but others like me. I’m Lilly Piper, but there are others like me. You can try to save all of us, and I would greatly appreciate your efforts.
It's really disgusting how these self proclaimed Christians are so eager to discard the needy to give to the ultra wealthy.
There are still American out there are trying to fight to help disabled Americans like you and everyone else to be able to live a dignified life.
Hang in there.
Thanks for sharing this with us. If my friend was in similar circumstances, I would tell them to read this de-paywalled 404 Media article with a doctor and lawyer next to them, to do what the doctor and lawyer say and comply with all laws and best practices and sensible precautions, and that it wasn’t medical or legal advice and neither is this Lemmy post.
Also, corsetry kicks ass and your work is gorgeous. My SO found creators like Abby Cox, Bernadette Banner, and Nicole Rudolph during 2020 and it’s been an absolutely mesmerizing rabbit hole to fall into even for a cishet fella well outside the key demographics. Although, unisex medical compression support garments are more relevant to me lately; is that an angle that drew you to them with EDS and everything?
I’m glad there’s a gamepad in that picture too. What you’ve shared speaks to a life lived very well in spite of health and circumstance.
at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
Don’t forget the purpose. They’re not cutting spending to “balance the budget.” It’s to pay for a fraction of the tax cuts they’re giving to the parasite class.
the tax cuts in 2017, saved the billionaires around 1.7-2.4trillion, this is double that. plus the continuing pillaging by trump.
I think from now on we should only use the term "parasite class" when talking about the elites, the 1%, the billionaires, the wealthy, the rich, the landlords. Make it a habit, maybe even trendy. Parasite class. I like it.
I've always thought of them as parasites. Like...
An economy is a big system of trading money for services, round and round, do stuff trade money, do other stuff trade money.
But we're like, "how come stuff is getting more expensive and we're making less money?"
Because there's a problem in the system. There's a fat fucking leech... or a few hundred, amassing money, and the system further empowers those with money, giving them more control over the system. It's a very broken positive feedback loop upon itself.
It's like a boat that's sprung leaks. It doesn't matter how much money you print or who you vote for if you don't plug the leaks from the system and prevent the fuckers from stabbing more holes in it, you need to simultaneously plug the holes, make sure nobody else is drowning, and slit the throats of the people doing it and get rid of them.
The boat is going down and they're stabbing as many big holes as they can, as fast as they can. There will come a point VERY soon where it won't matter if they stop or not, this ship is gonna sink, and I'm afraid that we're seriously almost there. The United States won't last at all if they keep doing this for another year.
We've been sick right now, fighting cancer for a long time, but it's metastasized into all branches of the government and a lot of the people, who now directly do the bidding of the parasites.
So, I was thinking about this earlier, actually, and I was trying to conceptualize the differences in vibe between the problems that liberals and conservatives disagree with, and then the other types that reek of billionaire leeches. There are some minor differences that we have with normal conservatives: religion, family structures, traditions and such. But when capitalist leeches really take hold like this, it's an entirely different vibe of problems that society faces. You can tell when poor conservatives are starting to hurt from them too.
It's really obvious if you think about it at all: when your political or socioeconomic beliefs no longer serve you, but serve the billionaires, it's SO obvious who's pulling the strings - if you're miserable (and it isn't just through empathy for others' problems), it's likely that you've reached the point in society, or rather, the point is society has reached YOU where it's starting to be shitty.
I'm a believer that the vast majority of us want to do things and be productive somewhat, and self help and try to be happy and healthy. So, when the prices of goods and services and housing are out of your reach for whatever reason, that is a problem with society. It's really not complicated at all.
Right now, we live in an insanely convoluted bandaid patchwork boat, because generations of assholes have been stabbing fucking holes in it and instead of guillotining the fuck out of the correct people and values in society, we've mistakenly corrupted what chances we've had at fixing them, and let it fester and grow. Now, it's super established to the point where the entire government is killing itself just so that the leeches can continue to grow. It's quite literally brain cancer of society.
This country is on a fast track to being a living zombie while the parasites eat the brain and fully destroy the immune system. They don't know any better, it's just what they are.
Another perspective is that maybe we'll get pulled into a truly sci-fi dystopia, where some mega-corporations explicitly own us all. Sure, the human system will have grown massive on a universal scale (if it doesn't destroy itself in the process). But it'll be a far cry from what we are capable of under a better system, one that actually harnesses each and every one of our potential to form our self revolving universe around ourselves, intelligently, rather than slaverly.
Building things like the pyramids and skyscrapers is amazing. But imagine what could be accomplished with better resource management and a more egalitarian allocation of resources. A world where every person is well maintained and is given the ability of enlightenment and a full self awareness. That's the world I wanna live in, not this shitty future, full of oligarchs and oblivious, ruthless human greed.
Maybe we do deserve world war three. But I know that the only way we're going to learn anything is through actual elevation of education systems, and not through pain, suffering, and war.
Oh look, that thing they said they wouldn't do but everyone who isn't their followers knew they would anyway.
😳😱🤯😮😲🙊😯
Anyway.
They're trying to kill as many people as possible, What disgusting human beings.
Why can't this be stopped? I don't understand. They're dismantling the federal government and destroying America piece by piece.
keep in mind He's already killed maybe millions of people during COVID.
Thump May I go down your history as one of the biggest Butchers in history.
People had their chance to stop him last November. A third of those eligible didn’t even vote.
Now it’s up to the courts. The other branches of government are controlled by a deranged Authoritarian and his sycophants.
They took the opportunity to steal the election. The people didn't vote for him.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
First and last links are the data. The middle links are for us stupid people that need to be told how to read the data in the last link.
Remember that time conservatives said they needed guns to defend themselves from a tyrannical government?
This can be stopped but the GOP is unwilling to do the legal process to stop him
gop is addicted to trumps grift, they cant afford to oppose him when they can benefit themselves right now.
It’s not death panels, it’s the market telling you to die
For-profit Health Insurance companies are death panels, always have been.
Profit Uber Alles.
They killed my mom. I won't forgive them for that
You shouldn't.
Yay freedom!
Keep an eye on RFK Jr. though. He seems like the death-panel eugenicist type.
He’s already appointed his first eugenicist. David Geier is who RFK is having conduct the ‘study’ on Autism. He and his father previously experimented on autistic children in his basement by giving them Lupron injections, which cause chemical castration. He was prosecuted in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, and his father had his medical license revoked in the process.
RFK said he was going to identify and eliminate the cause of autism. The cause of autism is DNA.
I thought this was hyperbole, but holy shit, David Geier is a horrible person. His dad was equally a piece of shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geier
Further proof that the US is never going to fully recover from this insanity.
Absolutely. At least Dr. Hans Asperger was reluctant to work on “autistic psychopaths” at the request of the Nazis. This was already a personal mission for Geier.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11237564 Bush Jr did this 20 years ago and got so shellacked by the constituency that (coupled with the whole middle east invasion that accomplished nothing and killed a few people) made it so republicans and conservatives dare not refer to him ever again because of how toxic he is
and the msm have rarely brought up that over the years.
“Savings like these allow us to use this bill to renew the Trump tax cuts and keep Republicans’ promise to hardworking middle-class families,” said Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, the GOP chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which handles health care spending.
How the fuck are tax cuts for the wealthy gonna help the nearly nonexistent middle class?
republicans think the middle class starts at 100 million dollars
How conveniently timed, right after Trump's EO to supposedly reduce medicine costs. Definitely no distractions or collusion there.
Unconscionable.
People who think they are literally Gods, and have more resources than they can ever deplete, hate the idea of giving anything to the society that allows them to exist.
