new atheists deride religion as “primitive superstition” but when you hear their take on what religion is it’s clear they have the shallowest concept of it
Y'all are the ones with holy books about talking snakes and blood sacrifices, but go off I guess
hi y’all. i just wanna say….that i am so fucking sick and outraged by guad and their incessant bullshit, and the fact that they were payed over $1,000 to eat a fucking crayon. in light of that, i thought i’d compile a list of pretty much every single donation post i’ve reblogged over the course of a few weeks. please feel free to add your own in the notes/a reblog!! i’m so sorry if i forgot anyone. as well, let me know if you’d like to be taken off the list for any personal reasons. i will understand! (ps: if any links are broken, feel free to add that in the replies)
regardless of the fact that i used to enjoy and laugh at edgy tv shows like tosh.o and “adult animation” type shows like family guy and south park, i now absolutely loathe them because i associate them so strongly with my abusive father who adored shows like that, and would play them around us all the time -even when the youngest of us was still in elementary school. he would make fun of me the way family guy characters made fun of Meg (one time that comes to mind is when he told me i should consider throwing up more so i would be prettier. he was “joking” of course.) and once me and my sister began to argue with him about trans stuff and/or come out and experiment with gender expression, he would play that goddamn episode of south park where they compare being trans to wanting be a dolphin over and over. he would laugh hysterically loud at trans/homophobic jokes and make fun of us if we told him it bothered us, or if we left the room because of it. when i started wearing lipstick he would quote jokes from tosh.o and say i looked like a whore. he would make fun of us for stimming and call us “autistic” as an insult and call us weak and “brainwashed” for taking the medications prescribed to us by doctors to treat bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety, treating those shows’ episodes that portrayed psych meds as a scam for weak willed people the same way.
he’s the type who considers himself a particularly smart guy, thinks he’s immune to advertising and propaganda. so naturally, he regurgitates south park’s dumbass radical centrist talking points, and all of these shows’ “everyone who gets upset is just a triggered loser” attitudes, at us when we tried to stand up for ourselves.
none of these shows “made” my father act like that, but they gave him cultural permission to be a bombastic, narcissistic tool. they made him feel like the world was on his side. they made us feel like the world was on his side. these shows foster a fanbase that believe they have the right to cause any kind of hurt, even real psychological damage, to those around them that they want, provided they can claim it’s all a big joke. they give their fans an eternal justification to dismiss any and all criticism: people are just too damn sensitive. assuming this post gets any attention at all, there’s gonna be people in the notes telling me i’m “triggered by cartoons” and adding fuckin’ south park gifs in childish, inept attempts to upset and mock me for having the audacity to be honest about how something that should be harmless, was not. (and incidentally, not a single one of these ‘jokes’ will actually be funny to anyone with a sense of humor that goes beyond “”ironic”” sadism.)
i dont care if you personally like these shows; sometimes, i can still enjoy watching them myself. just don’t tell me it’s more important that adult, affluent creators of content like that getting to never be criticized for what they put into the world, is more important than the tangible, negative effect it has on people.
Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it. Now, even the mainstream media is reporting it.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and adviser to Donald Trump told Inc. magazine:
“I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”
As Vanity Fair reports, Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists, like Thiel, though Karmazin stressed that tech types aren’t Ambrosia’s only clients and that anyone over 35 is eligible for its transfusions.
Aside from the gruesome historical and occult background of such practices, there is literally NO DATA that suggests the process even works.
“There‘s just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial], and you‘re basically abusing people‘s trust and the public excitement around this,” Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who conducted a 2014 study of young blood plasma in mice, told Science magazinelast summer, as reported by Vanity Fair.
I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!
If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)
You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)
You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)
You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)
You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)
Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.
I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.
The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.
I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.
I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.
The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.
Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.
I am about 900% sure there are people who don`the know this.
PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN AMERICA AND HAVE MEDICAL BILLS
I had to do this once as well and I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that this is true.
Get in contact with the hospital. Don’t just…sit there and let the anxiety grow and panic and then ignore it in an effort to find peace.
