• collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I am glad that conservatives are suffering for their choices. I am just sad that the suffering is not limited to conservatives.

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      3 days ago

      It is funny to watch people who voted for him get what they deserve, but it also sucks because we all have to be onboard for the eventual car cash.

    • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I literally just talked to my mother yesterday who is a maga supporter. She’s 77 years old. She’s losing her house because she can’t afford it anymore and she’s being forced to return to work because she needs the money. I warned her for years and years and years about so many things that would have prevented all of this. And she never listened once. If she becomes homeless, she’s made her own bed she can sleep on it, outside.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      I’ve not read the article, but this isn’t a case of someone getting what they voted for. This is directly affecting their kid, who likely didnt vote for this.

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    4 days ago

    David does not walk, talk or eat independently. He is visually impaired and has hearing loss. He has an unrepaired cleft palate open to protruding brain tissue, covered by a thin layer of mucous membrane. Developmentally, David is like a 10-month-old baby.

    So he is living in hell which they shall stretch out for a 10 to 20 year sentence so they can by their reckoning being tortured by their imaginary friend so long as they torture him but if they didn’t need a million dollars plus to pay for this exercise in sadism they wouldn’t spare 20k for a plain old poor person to have a normal full life.

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      4 days ago

      I don’t think he is living in hell. If he is not in pain (a nothing suggests he is) then he isn’t aware of anything. He just eats and sleeps.

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        He can’t see or hear properly. Is confused deformed.

        unrepaired cleft palate open to protruding brain tissue,

        This doesn’t sound particularly comfortable.

        He will NEVER get better. Never see properly. Never hear properly. Never be anything but angry and confused and shitting on himself. Imagine being at end stage alzheimers for 20 years.

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          People can be blind and deaf from birth and still live fulfilling lives. They need more support, for sure, and not getting that support can be devastating. But I think if you give a disabled person a choice between adequate help or euthanasia, most would pick help.

          Warner Herzog made a really interesting documentary about deaf-blind people back in the '70s, called Land of Silence and Darkness. Some of it is heartbreaking, for sure, but most of it is pretty uplifting.

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            3 days ago

            Deaf blind deformed and mentally 10 months old 4 years in. If they live to 20 while being mentally 10 months old would that be a life?

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            That’s a bit of a misdirection there. No one was saying being deaf and blind is not possible to lead a fulfilling life.

            They were saying in this particular case, being deaf and blind in conjunction to a lot of other very serious shit means they will never lead a fulfilling life. They are developmentally equivalent to a 10 month old baby at the age of 4. Who knows how much more development he will see, or if he will ever be able to walk.

            It’s not just hearing and seeing.

  • HuskerNation@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    No fucking sympathy. I hope David is fine. I hope the parents develop ulcers from stress and lose their fucking hair. I hope they lose everything. DUMB FUCKING CUNTS!!!

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    4 days ago

    I’m also here to tell you why I’m an unlikely supporter of the program. My son’s life depends on government assistance.

    Typical conservative. I have all the sympathy in the world for David. None for the author.

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      I care about his health and it’s heartbreaking that he doesn’t have a choice or know how much his mom is a sociopathic piece of shit.

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    4 days ago

    Some of her other writing in the wsj are disgusting. She is anti-abortion. She is a real “conservative christian” so I’m pretty sure she is 100% on board with everything else Trump does. https://www.rachelrothaldhizer.com/

    She is having/had another child already. Wouldn’t be surprised if she was part of the quiverful movement.

    I’m actually starting to wonder if this is just bait. She is close to the worst person to make this claim.