Robert KingettNew post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
🍋 Superball ☀️@WeirdWriter
OMG I can’t stop laughing. This is so so good. Oh you are so good. 🤣
@superball Never mess with me before I have my morning tea! I do think it’s utterly ridiculous that I have to do this review every few years or so though
@WeirdWriter It is ridiculous. One of my friends cares for her husband, who suffered a permanently debilitating stroke, and deals with the same bullshit. I’ll have to pass this along to her. 😁
Anna 🖖🏼@superball one of my friends had a leg amputated. Same bullshit to “prove” it hadn't grown back. @WeirdWriter
@AnnaBaguenaude @superball All because people hate poor people! I was talking to a minority republican acquaintance of mine. He likes me 1 trillion times more than I like him, but he was trying to say, that the Republican party gets a bad reputation for hating people of color, poor people, and otherwise. I pointed out all the policies that his party enacted as a punishment for being poor and or disabled and or unable to work. He said and reply, but that’s the thing. Everybody that can work should work. The government should not take care of you because you want to sit at home and be on social media all day. He said my tax dollars should never go to anybody that isn’t trying to better their lives and that whole conversation literally did absolutely nothing to convince me that they do not hate anybody they do not know.
@WeirdWriter at the very least, people who they do not know are not people in their eyes, they can't know themselves better, they are like pets, you can like them, but you won't treat them as equals. @superball
ein kleines z@superball @WeirdWriter
My nephew has down syndrome. His parents have to give updates in case they somehow one day remove that extra chromosome in each of his body's cells.
My nephew has down syndrome. His parents have to give updates in case they somehow one day remove that extra chromosome in each of his body's cells.
@kleines_z @superball I don’t understand why Americans hate poor or disabled people so much! I know it’s not just an American thing, but it feels like it most days because I’m trapped in this system that hates my existence and hates me for using it. I will never understand why Americans hate social security or why they hate anybody using it
@WeirdWriter @superball
It's in Germany in my nephew's case, and it's not about immediate withdrawal of all benefits, but one example is a certain stamp for a public transport ticket that says he can take a person with him for free for his assistance. It must be renewed every year, "proving" his disability all over again. Before he can get the stamp to validate his ticket, there needs to be proof that yes, he still has down syndrome and no, he still can't use public transport all by himself without being accompanied by an assisting person.
By the way, my nephew is five years old.
Irina@kleines_z @WeirdWriter @superball Even a five-year-old with the default number of chromosomes would need someone to accompany them on public transport!
@irina @WeirdWriter @superball
Yup.
Well, the difference is if the accompanying person can go for free or with an extra ticket for themselve.
Yup.
Well, the difference is if the accompanying person can go for free or with an extra ticket for themselve.