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Are you saying it's an inherently immoral idea to have for profit healthcare, much less for-profit eldercare?
If only there were literally centuries of fucking historical record and historical fiction on exactly why charging for healthcare destroys societies.
My parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio when I was 10, so I did not spring from the Ohio gene pool, I just grew up there. From the moment I arrived in Ohio, I knew those weirdos were a completely different breed.
Bullies were rampant, and proud, defiant stupidity was the default mentality. They have a collective chip on their shoulder because they know they suck, and they hate it, but they have to pretend they're as good as anywhere, but deep down they know they're not. Ohio is very cop friendly, and the cops are the most predatory I've encountered across America. The government is hopelessly corrupt from top to bottom, but not in an organized professional way, like in Florida, but in a ridiculous hillbilly way.
If Ohio was human, they'd be a self-loathing degenerate drunk, sobbing into their beer.
I left 25 years ago, and have never been back. I only miss The Cleveland Orchestra, the Art Museum, and couple of good restaurants, but literally nothing else, especially the shitty weather.
Ohio truly sucks, even Ohioans know it.
I grew up in ohio from a similar age, but had a lot of family there, and my experience is similar but different. I experienced a profoundly divided state. Good hardworking people, some of whom I'm proud to call family both by birth and found, but also the bullies you mention. I slowly watched the bullies start winning more and more until last year my wife and I had to leave as the state became too hostile to us.
I love where we moved and never want to go back, but I do miss a lot about Ohio, but largely I miss what it could have become. Though I also miss the weather, love me a Midwestern storm. Also my favorite bar is still there, and I love quite a lot about the 3Cs.
And yeah the chip on their shoulders is real. So many people feel stuck there. Ohio sucks and every ohioan knows it and jokes about it, but it used to not suck as bad. It still has good in it. It just gave up on improving when the jobs left. So many feel they can't even attempt to get out. The despair is real, the feeling of failure and like they're being judged for it is real, and the lashing out because of it is real.
Totally valid. There's a reason that the Cleveland Browns has the most out-of-town fan clubs than any other team - because so many people LEAVE.
Lol. I feel like you need to move to Louisiana to get some perspective.
You haven't lived until you've smelled the ass wafting in the streets of the french quarter.
It's pretty funny. Every movie that depicts Louisiana shows the three blocks that include Bourbon Street/ the French Quarter. It looks beautiful, but the surrounding mile is the ghetto in each direction. I remember when one of the locals tried to sexual assault me when I was looking for marijuana; it's hard sometimes, but I try not to miss it.
I also remember the time that my mom would go 20 minutes out of her way to work to avoid the interstate. Gang members were shooting motorists as part of their initiation. They eventually moved on to attacking homeless people, so she at least had that to be grateful for. It saved her time on her commute.
...aside from that, there is beautiful architecture. I think everyone should pay New Orleans a visit.
I hadn't lived until I licked it
At least Louisiana has good food (Cajun AND Creole AND BBQ), and GREAT music. Cleveland was a really good music city, I'll give it that, but the food wasn't anything special.
I recall hearing once that Ohio was the most "average" state in the Union. The way you described it seems to fit that quite well.
It really is, though the republican gerrymandering and subsequent brain drain, did shift it to the right of the average American
I’m from the Boston area and as a kid we took a road trip to Sandusky for Cedar Point (Summer 2002ish). Driving through NE Ohio is still to this day, the most “white” poverty I’ve ever seen. We stopped at a local diner and I swear it felt like I was in a war zone. Everyone was miserable and shuffled around; the food was awful. Everything was fucking dirty or broken. I can’t believe that it’s supposedly gotten worse there over the past few decades.
Yep, Ohio can best be described as Mediocre Shabby.
They threw that lady out for drinking a beer in her nursing home. A beer! God forbid you try to have a little joy at the end of your life. STAY IN BED YOU INCONTINENT FUCK!!
They talked about a guy who was in a nursing home for 22 years, couldn't hardly see and had no identification information on him (I suppose his meds had his name, but no ID, Birth Certificate and such) but they said that leaves him no way to get a job or housing.
How the fuck would someone who couldn't work for the last 22 years suddenly be able to get a job? If his insurance stopped paying and that's why they kicked him it isn't like someone can just go rent a place to live either, they need proof of income, which he wouldn't ever be able to get. Well and truly fucked out system is
Oh the main story for this article is about a woman named "Patient #83" who was of unknown age, diabetic, broken ankle, and dementia.
“The staff member [said] Resident #83 was unclear of what was going on, scared, and not sure who dropped her off there,”
She's missing according to the article. Wandered off somewhere.
Don't forget they kicked her out because she was drinking a beer. A grown ass woman in what is effectively her home had a beer, the horror.
And let's just assume it's okay for that to be against the rules, she has dementia. She's going to break the rules.
How did she get the beer? Sounds like bullshit
Exactly what I was wondering. If she’s unable to travel on her own, then either a guest or an employee got her that beer. Instead of investigating and taking appropriate measures against whoever provided her with contraband, they kicked her out? Absolutely absurd.
That beer didn’t materialize on its own. If someone’s supplying beer to residents, that sounds like an issue worth looking into.
Not to mention she has dementia! Even if she somehow got it on her own, she suffers from, "I don't know what's going on right now!" So how is she supposed to follow the rules?
Holy fuck that’s sad
Thats my retirement plan!
Yours too, if youve stopped lying to yourself.
"Missing", hmm? I wonder what on earth could have possibly happened.
Im sure its fine and i dont need to think about it anymore.
Nation of demons.
Sounds about right
I originally thought about this being a NotTheOnion, and then I realized I believed it really easily even if I was disgusted by it.
Isn’t it already bad enough that they’re in Ohio? Cruel and unusual punishment
Small Government and Individual Accountability, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
América!
I am a resident of the state of North Carolina. We are sometimes known as Tarheels. This nickname for the citizens of Old North originates with the derisive "tar boiler" referring to the poor whites who rendered pine pitch into tar and turpentine for His Britannic Inbredfulnesses Redcoat Boat Club. During both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, Carolinians gained a reputation for stubborn tenacity. Carolinian patriots frustrated General Cornwallis by flooding the Tar river with pitch. North Carolina was the nest-to-last to secede from the union, earning a reputation as "the reluctant state." A Texan regiment teased a Carolina regiment by shouting "Tarheels!" The reply was "If you had some tar on your heels, maybe you'd have brought back your flag from Sharpsburg!" The term has become a badge of pride, a mark of tenacity, quite literal sticktoitiveness.
Residents of Ohio are called Buckeyes, after a local species of useless, toxic nut.
So, Florida decides that they are going to be a liberal state, part of that is that they want open access to anything the state government does. This is for all things, transcripts, photos, letters, maps even, whatever. But the Police department is part of the state government, well screw it include them too and all evidence thats used. Its public. This sets up a funny president, its easy to get all the details about an incident in Florida so journalists looking for stories to write about start writing more and more of them about the state and the people in it. But they all do this thing where they simplify the headline... "Florida man does ____", see proof below.
I guess my moral of my story, is just cause you see something somewhere else doesnt mean it isn't happening at home... You are just hearing about the thing happening somewhere else.
Meanwhile, people from Indiana are called Hoosiers and nobody has the vaguest idea why.
Hoozer means large.... Maybe they were calling themselves fat?