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• pieland@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i posted it and i’m not the target audience… i’m experiencing it and doing everything in my power to prevent it from killing me.

  and as someone very ill living below the poverty line, i don’t have a lot of power.

  sharing this video is one thing i have the power to do, at least.

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  • stephen@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think my comment, and the person I responded to, were being a bit … light hearted (not sure if that’s the right term) about it.

    Speaking for myself, don’t let use dissuade you in any way at all. More Americans need to be:

    1. aware of how shitty the for profit medical system is. It’s the most expensive healthcare in the world and not even close to the top in healthcare outcomes.
    2. Aware that countries much poorer that it dignify all of their citizenry with healthcare. (And zero countries that have done so have ever gone back on that choice)
    3. Much more vocal, including in deciding who to vote for, about ending the predatory, immoral profit imperative in healthcare.

    Personally I don’t think America can vote its way out of a damn thing, but the corporate propaganda seems to be so terrifically good at getting people I know and care for who I believe have fully functioning brains to believe that somehow this shitty healthcare system is the best in the world.

    Thank you for posting the video.

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    • pieland@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      i’m not trying to be rude or disrespectful, but i can no longer believe in fully functioning brains or corporate propaganda.

      i’ve received so much abuse for being sick because of people who worship this system. that their tax dollars are paying for a “lazy fuck” like me.

      before i became this sick i got a full ride to a genetics program at one of the top schools in the world and even while getting sicker i had a lot of extreme successes until i became almost completely bed-bound.

      i have autism, adhd, and developmental delays and i am very insecure about being “stupid” and weak, and that has made being a workaholic my identity, and it has made it a requirement for me to be successful because i struggle to love myself otherwise. i always have the need to prove to others and myself that i’m worthy of something. to lose all of that has been extremely traumatic, and society regularly puts salt on the wound. they don’t care what i’ve done. they care that it’s a fact that i have “chosen” to be lazy now and i am stealing their hard earned tax dollars.

      most of my family shit talks me. i have lost friends. just this month a former friend who pretended to be supportive threw it in my face, suicide baited me, and told me i was a waste of space.

      i literal have a caregiver from the department of rehab as part of a program from preventing me from going to a nursing home. they do not take mental illness into consideration. i was approved on physical illness alone. the interview to go over my health issues took two hours. i was told it normally never exceeded 45 minutes. and i nearly died years waiting to be approved for this as well.

      i also haven’t been approved for disability (which i know, wild, the government decided im sick enough to be in a nursing home but also i can work? ok), so i live off of $500 a month from the part of my family that has a soul. as you can imagine, that does not go very far. and people don’t realize that there are a lot of things medicaid does not cover that sick people still need to pay for to live. i also have a senior cat with medical needs that are getting more expensive.

      i keep begging my body not to die because she needs me. my body keeps begging me to die.

      but tldr, after what i’ve been through, i really don’t like those people anymore or think they have a soul.

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