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sufferforme

@sufferforme@mstdn.party

Apologies for reduced interaction lately - due to ill health.

In life, possessions are not what is important. Friendships and family are. Shared experiences are. Helping others achieve their potential. Making the world a better place for everyone. Stop voting for MPs who only care about 'stuff' like gold wallpaper.

(Who I am isn't important - I'm not here to promote myself)

Life is an education, and I hope to learn from many of the wonderful people here.

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ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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While accurate data is hard to assemble, it now looks like around 8-10% of people who are 'self-paying' for private medical treatment are borrowing the money.

As the Tory defunding strategy has pushed more people into the arms of private healthcare so their chums in financial services are also starting to garner some more business.

That desperate people are being forced into indebtedness to pay for treatment is a sad confirmation of the Tory's strategy of wrecking the NHS.

sufferforme,
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@ChrisMayLA6
10 years ago I dislocated my sacroiliac joint, suffered from debilitating damage to my sciatic nerve. 24/7 intense pain not stopped with painkillers & an appointment to see a specialist 6 months away, i eventually went private. Diagnosed within 2 minutes, started treatment straight away. Couldn't work for a year. Lost taxes to Govt. Lost my house. For something the specialist told me I could have recovered from in 2 weeks if diagnosed straight away. Tory cost savings?

ChrisMayLA6, to disability
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Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

sufferforme,
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@ItsThatDeafGuy @ChrisMayLA6
This is outsourcing to the extreme - not content with policies and actions that knowingly kill their own citizens, the government now asking citizens to do the job for them by committing suicide.

sufferforme, to random
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It shouldn't take an international court ruling to tell our Leaders that killing 10s of thousands of people as a precursor to eradicating a whole nation is wrong.

DrALJONES, to random
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    sufferforme,
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    @DrALJONES
    I do not envy Americans, having to choose between a wannabe dictator, and... i cannot think how to describe him, a man who has no conscience over being a direct enabler of the killing of 10s of thousands of people, providing the funding, the political support, and the weapons.

    How does someone sleep at night knowing they could have stopped so many deaths, but made the choice not to.

    sufferforme, to random
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    Earth is estimated to be about 4.54 billion yrs old.

    Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 yrs ago.

    Modern humans started to evolve about 50,000 yrs ago.

    The industrial revolution started about 250 yrs ago.

    Astronomers estimate that the universe could contain up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.

    We are a blip. Insignificant.

    Billionaires & millionaires are trying to kill us all before we've barely begun as a species. Their self-importance would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.

    LALegault, to random
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    They’re criminalizing protesting for Palestine which will make it easier for them to criminalize protesting for climate change.

    sufferforme,
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    @LALegault
    Already happened in the UK

    therightarticle, to random
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    ‘The Time for Human Rights is Now’

    Time to step up and be counted. The alternative is horrific and will affect us all..

    https://bylinetimes.com/2023/12/10/the-time-for-human-rights-is-now/

    sufferforme,
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    @therightarticle
    In an increasingly polarised world and as more nations turn (fall?) to right wing governments, Human Rights are more fragile than any time since 1948.

    Even beyond those relating to war, a few examples of articles broken daily in most 'democracies’:

    Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

    Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

    Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions.

    DrALJONES, to random
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    Video evidence of NYPD punching, brutalising, & arresting peaceful protesters

    "New York police have beaten & arrested several protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn."

    As the protesters reached an intersection, "officers rushed in & grabbed people out of the crowd seemingly at random.

    "Officers tackled multiple protesters to the ground & then proceeded to punch them."

    ~Katie Smith

    3.00 GMT May 19 AJ UPDATES

    https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909372

    ..

    sufferforme,
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    @DrALJONES

    Number of people that student protestors have been party to killing: 0
    Number of people that the President has been party to killing: 35,000+

    And who's being arrested?

    sufferforme, to random
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    People don't chose to fight wars. Leaders do.
    People get sent to fight the wars. Leaders don’t.
    People need to stop supporting and enabling Leaders that are happy to let them die, while they profit from the deaths of their own people.

    sufferforme, to random
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    The Tory Party – Proof that power and financial status does not equal intelligence.

    GW, to random
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    Unions Should Start Planning for a Mass Strike on May Day 2028

    Is it time for a big, united strike by millions of union members against the billionaire class?

    Calls for a general strike usually skip over the hard work of organizing one. But UAW leader Shawn Fain is urging unions to align their contract expiration dates for May 1, 2028 — setting up the possibility of a mass May Day strike.

    https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unions-should-start-planning-for-a-mass-strike-on-may-day-2028/

    sufferforme,
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    @GW I’d like to see this go global

    Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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    ‘It’s not human’: What a French doctor saw in Gaza as Israel invaded Rafah | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera
    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/9/its-not-human-what-a-french-doctor-saw-in-gaza-as-israel-invaded-rafah


    @palestine

    sufferforme,
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    @Miro_Collas @palestine

    The Israeli government likes to portray Palestinians as less than human ('vermin').

    What is less than human: cowering in fear for your life, or wanton murder and torture, and even laughing at the death of your victims?

    fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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    🧐
    Via Barak Ravid, political reporter at Axios:
    "Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to Biden's aides Steve Ricchetti & Anita Dunn about Biden's decision to put on hold a weapons shipment to Israel: 'Let's not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas'"

    You'd think he would have spellchecked it, considering it's an email to the President.

    sufferforme,
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    @fkamiah17

    Dear Haim Saban

    There are a lot of people who are neither Jewish or Muslim that think this genocide is wrong.

    I'm not pro- or anti-Jewish, I'm not pro- or anti- Palestinian.

    I AM anti- indiscriminate mass murder.

    NotImpressed, to Palestine
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    @palestine

    U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham:
    "Why did we drop two bombs—nuclear bombs—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? To end a war that we couldn't afford to lose"
    "Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can't afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties."
    Yes. Really.
    CodePink's answer: "it is despicable that a sitting senator can go on live TV to support nuclear bombing Gaza, but students protesting a genocide are made out to be a threat."

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/lindsey-graham-gaza

    sufferforme,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine
    Haven't heard from him in so long i thought he was dead.

    Wishful thinking.

    fkamiah17, to random
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    Breaking news ... The UN is Hamas 🙄

    "Gilad Erdan, the [Israeli] ambassador, said in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday that the UN has “turned into a collaborator with Hamas . . . maybe even more than that — a terror organisation unto itself."

    https://www.ft.com/content/f0945f3c-e4ab-4c04-8e1e-1e6f8397cb2c

    sufferforme,
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    @fkamiah17
    I am amazed that the Israeli population have not yet realised that Netanyahu and most of the Israeli government are Hamas, having done more than any one else, or any organization, to turn people against Israel.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    🤣 🤣 🧐
    Screenshot from an email still being sent to people who are no longer members of the Labour Party.

    sufferforme,
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    @fkamiah17 @sufferforme
    Personally, I think it has been worse than that - a hostile takeover by conservatives infiltrating the Labour party to negate the usual two-party state of affairs

    sufferforme,
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    @fkamiah17
    “We abandoned you, why have you abandoned us" shows considerable disconnect

    sufferforme,
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    @fkamiah17 @sufferforme
    I agree with the mechanics of what you describe, but I do not believe the labour party was their natural home in the first place

    LALegault, to Ukraine
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    Everyone understands that Europe has begged America not to do this today (veto ) because by doing so, they just lost the global south’s support for right?

    sufferforme,
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    @LALegault
    I’m sure Biden has his reasons - even if they are the wrong ones.

    And yet I can’t help thinking that he has focused on what appears to him to be in America's best interests without looking at the big picture, and how this could cascade into more political violence and instability globally, including against American interests abroad.

    Whilst this should have been a purely ethical decision, even out of political self interest I believe he has made a big mistake.

    aral, to Israel
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    Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

    sufferforme,
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    @StillIRise1963 @aral

    Aral didn't actually say this was a solution.

    He simply said that if Biden loses, that is on BIden.

    It has always been in his power to listen, and change course. He is gambling with America's future, knowing his actions could cause him to lose. He is gambling that the fear of Trump will enable him to continue to enable genocide, and still win.

    I don't have a solution. I think Americans are faced with a ghastly choice. I am grateful I do not have to make that choice.

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