Sexuality at the Chronic Illness Store

also it greatly contributes to the general sense of dysfunction and “government is broken” when they pass one actual bill a year and spend the rest of the time shanking each other over keeping the lights on

the sense that Things Are Being Done is a big part of the executive power grab

Notice that lgbtq people and non-Christians are left with no way to get help.

That’s the agenda. He wants destitute LGBTQ people to simple die with no way to get help.

That’s what people mean when they say “churches should handle helping the poor”

This is why we need annoying atheists again.

Interestingly, though, they do rely on getting everyone else to also hate the folks getting a ridiculously small amount of help.

Because making asking for and getting help shameful means people are more likely to agree to exploitative working conditions.

"That's so evil I don't believe you're telling me the truth" is such a specific problem with our electorate.

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but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it.

like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo.

it can only follow.

Most conservative writers at liberal-read outlets do not publish columns with their actual opinions. They craft columns with the goal of influencing liberals to adopt beliefs and opinions that harm liberalism. Don't do that! Don't hire these guys to lie to your readers.

What do I actually accomplish? Fundraising has dried up to almost nothing given everything going on.

I know on some level, but I need help believing I make a substantial ongoing positive difference in the world. Too many loved ones dying, afraid I'm too fragile to survive without them 😭

If they keep making the calculus "I could be shot by the government in the street at random," historically, that tends to result in a populace deciding to proactively and kinetically protect their communities. Not a recommendation, just an observation 🤷‍♂️

Controversial opinion but I think working at Taco Bell I should be able to afford food, shelter, medicine and occasional fun

Perhaps the most impressive thing about him is he has never risen to the bait on this, not once. His answer is always some form of, “I want to be Mayor of New York.”

When you believe God rewards obedience with financial prosperity & disobedience with disaster, you see poverty as a moral choice.

They also believe God uses suffering to drive people himself, so that makes suffering a positive thing.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

A hostile press ain’t great, but it’s manageable. But democrats often make the mistake of trying to appease a hostile press that’s fundamentally unappeasable.

i once found a full box of full sized hershey bars an an alley and ate them

Reminder:

If you hate how early it's getting dark, you don't hate DST.

We (the US) just switched from DST to Standard time. DST is what we're on in the summer; Standard is winter. If you hate how early it's getting dark, either a) you hate living at your latitude, or b) you hate Standard time.

Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such

Almost word for word what I was taught.

Understandable why grocery stores might be scared off. A store caught violating the prohibition could be denied ability to accept SNAP benefits in the future. In low-inc areas where SNAP shutdown will have biggest impact, getting thrown off SNAP could mean a store is no longer financially viable.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

The second and third sentences would create an "are we the baddies?" moment for most American Evangelicals.

But the idea that people who have unapproved sex shouldn't be allowed to eat unless they "repent" and do proper sexual abstinence is normative in American Evangelical circles.

He may not be a mainstream representative of it, but the idea he is expressing here is mainstream in American Evangelical circles; he's just being more aggressive in terms of language than is typical.

— give an accurate assessment of pain relief because they don’t have enough of an experience of chronic or prolonged pain to make an accurate assessment, and also don’t know if they are rapid, partial, poor, intermediate or ultra rapid processors because they’ve never needed to figure it out.

And while it seems paradoxical, in drug trials, we cannot use chronic pain patients. It would be incredibly unethical to ask them to risk being in the placebo group, and anyone who is on a pain management regimen is not eligible for drug trials because they’d have to stop.

So most subjects can’t —

This, and recall, one of the major reasons for the spike in opiates consumption starting in the 90s in the Rust Belt/Ohio River watershed was a 1-2 punch of factories closing & abandoning a workforce with decades of repetitive stress injuries AND no access to rehab/health care until Medicare.

and on the surface, that might seem ridiculous: they're only $4.99, and they've gotten hundreds of dollars of other groceries!

but consider. they're coming from work to do a massive shop with their kids, and they've just gotten the news that they cannot provide an easy dinner when they get home.

one of the things we see reasonably often at checkout in my store are people who are distraught when they find out that the already-cooked rotisserie chickens are not covered by their SNAP benefits.

Masking to Defy the Almighty would be a great book title

On 20 August 2021 DeaconBlues tweeted out a quote by the Televangelist Jim Bakker who said the following: How can you go to church and pray when you're wearing a mask? Do you think God can hear your prayers through a mask?

Hi, #CovidCuties ! Did you know your N95 / KN95 / KF94 / FFP2 or better is more powerful than God?!

Another reason to #MaskUp

#YallMasking to defy the Almighty? Because #CovidIsNotOver

Nauseating. Terrifying. Unconstitutional to the highest degree. And blasphemous enough to make my atheist ass cringe (obviously least important offense).

This type of Christian doesn't see forgiveness as incompatible with bombings and torture. They see forgiveness as a "heart issue", completely unrelated to actions.