Starting 2026 with re-confirmation that our neverending monthly medical bills are the reason my family cannot get ahead financially.
If you live in the USA and either
1. have access to oodles of money or
2. don't have chronic illnesses (yet),
count yourself among the highly fortunate.
Because this nation's systems are designed to restrain your thriving if you don't have 1. or you suffer from 2., and the systems are functioning flawlessly as intended.
As long as there is money to be made in the gun industry and on the violence-in-schools-deterrence industry, the shootings will continue.
"(T)rying to buy safety feels very American, just like school shootings."
--Jillian Peterson,
Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry
#GuncareAndHealthControl
#AmericanGunViolence
#SchoolShooting
#capitalism
#FollowTheMoney
@QasimRashid I like the idea of calling them health exploitation companies in everyday conversation.
"Hey, who's your health exploitation company?"
"We're with UnitedHealthsploitation."
#healthcare
#HealthUnsurance
#UnitedHealthcare
#LandOfTheIndebted
#HomeOfTheCraven
#GunCareAndHealthControl
I didn't want to just repost this without a warning.
It's a photo of an art piece I remember seeing a few years back -- can't remember anything more of its context.
The image depicts a little girl "crucified" on the back of a man in a red hoodie. He has three guns, and spent ammunition is scattered on the floor.
https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/113082638053066751
#MassShootings
#SchoolShootings
#Apalachee
#ApalacheeHighSchool
#ItsTheGuns
#USA: #GunCareAndHealthControl
no way Jesus supports the #nra !
God 'being' all about the violence and retribution, that's the first book ... not the second book in the series
#GunReformNow #bibleBS #nraisaterroristorganization #Itstheguns #thoughtandprayers #momsdemand #GunCareAndHealthControl #DrBrianWilliams
@edgeofeurope @georgetakei We shouldn't use abortion opponents' biased and misleading term "pro-life". We should call them what they are, ANTI-CHOICE or even better, PRO-FORCED-BIRTH.
(Speaking of being pro-gun, etc., see the graphic meme.)
#abortion #ProForcedBirth #AntiChoice #ProGunAntiChoice #ProGun #guns #war #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #healthcare #GunCareAndHealthControl
it does appear as if the american taliban have gone into overdrive.
they want a subclass of slaves.
ban abortion. kneecap education. legalize child labor.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
standard republican operating procedure
they know. everything about them is projection.
you can not debate with them in good faith.
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut about like it's won anyway"
Court Cantrell does not comply
nanowiz
Grinning Cat 
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paul