I had a great image I was going to post here, then keep scrolling for the promised land of bathing birds. But I hit a wall. Remind me, as my TBI won't. Toodles. xx

Yeah, but that medical brace you're rocking in the second photo is top tier niche fetish wear.

Yes! Before I became too disabled to work, I happily paid for those who couldn't afford to go out with me, donated my time to shelters, my back & truck to moving others in need, and did not begrudge paying taxes for all sorts of things I didn't personally need/use. It's part of our Social Contact.

True, sadly. The Religious Right and The Heritage Foundation have been working on this for fifty years. I keep forgetting how vile a vast swath of Americans are. I suppose I've lived in areas where this isn't really the case, quite so much. Thanks for reminding me of something I keep ignoring.

Yesh, I shall! Also....

The conversation is so old, that the $15 an hour minimum wage is outdated. Last year, to make enough to live on, it would need to be around $24 an hour. As of now, you won't be afford to cook anything with eggs at home, with that. Later in the year, when there's no fresh produce? Real hunger.

Absolutely. The thing is, AirBnB started out for a fun way for people to make ends meet. As usual, corporations and businesses have ruined it. They did the same to Etsy. If a person or company sells on Amazon because it's the largest marketplace, Amazon will copy their product & sell for less.

But now, it seems some in the left think RFK Jr is acceptable, and fits with "our plans." In case you missed it the first time, if that includes you, you and I are done. I haven't been fighting Suicidal Depression for decades, just to sacrifice myself to your cause. Nor the racist oligarchs.

refused to give them vaccines, or they need FEMA, or such because the world is one fire because of fossil fuels, they're fine being Anarchists or Extreme Right/MAGA.

I thought I was incredibly lucky to never have lost friends due to them being MAGA.
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Neither extreme seems to GAF about those of us who need food, meds, housing and jobs, if their goals are apparently being met. But until one of theirs is dying from sepsis after a miscarriage because the SOP of an abortion is illegal, or their child can't get on a transplant list because they
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I've ended our friendship, despite us both being liberals. We went to college together in the '80s, but if your thing is destroying the government wholesale, because it is bloated, flawed and not to your liking, to me you are as selfish and inconsiderate as MAGA.
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If you believe that he is a good guy to be in charge, unfriend/unfollow me now. Whilst I am no fan Big Pharma, if it wasn't for them, I'd be dead. He was claiming vaccines were somehow bad. Seriously, if that's your thinking do, kindly, sod off.
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the ones in power. Meanwhile, thanks to choices and cuts made by Trump's Pathocracy, people are already suffering and dying in the USA and around the world. Does it have to actually impact you personally, before you finally realise the level of damage he and the oligarchs are doing to us all?
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Thanks. I knew the stigma of being disabled was massive already, but now Musk has subsidised it. So, today I need to get over this latest indignity, because it won't end with this. It didn't in Nazi Germany. And yes, yes it can happen here, FFS.
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Really extra to have one of the richest people in the world, who gets $8 Million a day in subsidies and contracts, come after those of us living below the poverty line.

Thanks. I knew the stigma of being disabled was massive already, but now Musk has subsidised it.
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and I hate that I can't now.

My late father referred to my being on SSDI as "sucking off the tit of society." Even now, that hurts. It's just more to carry, really, in a heart and mind that already feels so much guilt, shame and self-loathing.
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