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[Article] No one is radicalized by pain (bluh.org)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am deeply lucky to be married to a unionized government worker with one of the best health insurance plans you can get. I am not sure where this story would have gone, were it not the case. Certainly nowhere good. I say this because I need you to understand that chronic pain is not solved by having money, or having great insurance, or having access to the best doctors. Do they help? Yes. Can they fix you? For too many of us, the answer is no.

This is the most telling part of the article. If they had to navigate the system without top notch health care, they would feel differently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Right? He has it better then most, ‘see? I had it better then you and MY situation is still hard’ well fuck, I’m sorry that with all the benefit in the world, life still sucks. And yet he argues that there is no point in fighting. Completely blind to how the for profit system still harmed him because ‘money was not an issue for him’. He completely ignores the whole problem the system causes, justifies his own inaction, and attempts to de~legitimize the shooters actions.