Also, you talk a big talk about how great America is and anyone who doesn’t believe just like you should leave and then shit all over anything the government does. Which is it? Do you love or think it is f***ed?
And it’s cute that you think no health care is better than VA care. Really cute. Ever think about doing some work to make that system better for you and your fellow vets? Or is that too much like caring about someone other than yourself?
It is also adorable how you got so angry you had to resort to calling me big bad names like a child. Super cute. ;)

Funny, when looked into military service they wouldn’t take you if you had specific health conditions or congenital defects. Has that changed?

My point is that your perspective is from the end of your nose. And while maybe you had a minor procedure you skipped because you couldn’t afford it, you’re not facing the difficulty many of your fellow Americans are.
And you’re fighting against your fellow Americans (because there are plenty of us who agree that the medical system in this country is broken) for something you don’t need and feel entitled to say they shouldn’t have it.
You think your taxes shouldn’t contribute to paying the medical expense of other people, but my taxes contribute to paying for yours. I want that for all my fellow Americans. Even if it means I pay more.

May I ask what kind of medical procedure/care you went without? Perhaps a surgery or treatment of a congenital illness?
Do you feel like you are still suffering today for that lack of treatment, or has the military covered that expense for you now?
Speaking of military, may I ask how much you pay out of pocket for your healthcare premiums/treatment?

I didn’t ask you for a solution sir. I asked you for the last time you experienced that sort of decision.
Is that a never?

There’s a considerable gap between the people who qualify for state medical programs and people who can afford decent healthcare.
I’m happy for those of you that have such great medical care that you don’t think it’s a need, but talk to some people outside of your regular experience. Talk to some folks working in manual labor in need of back surgery they can’t get because they can’t afford insurance and can’t pay the $30k out of pocket. Or people who will have pain from injuries for the rest of their lives because they couldn’t afford the surgical intervention to properly repair it and had to settle for the ER patch up.
It sounds like you have a really nice thing going and I can see why you wouldn’t want to rock that boat.
So let me ask you, when was the last time you went without important medical care because you couldn’t afford it?

My kid had a pretty serious vocabulary when he was very young. Different kids have different skills. He regularly surprised people with the words he used and the context in which he was able to use them. My favorite was his ability to use the word “pandemic” in a sentence in about first grade (and this was about a decade ago so not as topical as today).

I’m willing to concede to a slippery slope on this.
I don’t have any notion that it could ever become legally abuse anyway. We don’t have the resources to investigate and manage nor enforce the vaccine. Then those case would have to be confirmed that the child can have the vaccine (since there are medical reasons not to). So really it doesn’t matter.

@jaharien that’s a very good question. I would agree that in many case childhood obesity is abusive. The issue that arises from enforced diets (in this case) is that obesity has many factors.
In the case of vaccines, there is. Polio vaccine prevents polio. Varicella vaccine prevents chicken pox (and later shingles).
There is not a uniform diet that can prevent/correct obesity unilaterally. Some factors are dietary, some are rooted in activity level, or hormones or mental illness or disability. Some chromosomal disorders or congenital pathology cause obesity. So it isn’t always abuse and it can’t always be managed so effectively.

I almost understand because o certainly don’t want the government involved with how I raise my child.
But generally, as a population we want want/allow the authorities to step on when children are being beaten or sexually abused. Because it is objectively abusive.
How is it not abusive to allow your child to be at risk for a preventable disease for no good reason? Your belief that science is not real is not a good reason.

I don’t know your life, nor your experience so I can only ask the question. I can also say, as someone who has lived both in the Northern US and the Deep South, the racial tension and inequity is profoundly different. I wonder if you have ever listened while a coworker told you about being pulled over in a certain county (with a reputation) not because he was doing anything illegal or questionable but because the sheriff wanted to let him know not to let the sun set on him in this town? Until that moment, I didn’t believe that kind of thing really happened in this day and age. But it does, and he was rather shook up from the experience.
I’m wondering if your neighbor has ever asked you if they could come over to your house in an emergency because they recently received a box of KKk propaganda with a note saying this is a neighborly visit, the next visit will be professional?

So, I am perfectly willing to be wrong in this, but I posit that you don’t know anyone (personally) that is involved in this movement (either violently or peacefully). So I am guessing you don’t see the people like my neighbor, a veteran who organized hundreds of other veterans to March in DC and worked with local churches to provide a street kitchen with supplies and water.
I’m guessing that you are only experiencing the acts violence, and in that only seeing it second hand.

I would think the question, do you know anyone involved with... would be just as valid for groups like proud boys (I for example don’t, and also don’t have much to say about them) I’d be less inclined to think it matters with the KKK, but maybe that’s living a stones throw from the inception of the group and seeing first hand the hate and atrocity they preach (and practice).
I ask the question because i don’t get the impression that any of you have been attacked/robbed/victimized by the violent actors in this group (BLM). And while I don’t deny that there are violent actors and l agree that the behavior is unacceptable, there are a lot of people involved with the group that are striving to make the world a better place.

Do any of you personally know one or more person/people involved in any of the BLM anything?

Yes, the old fae will eat you alive (If you’re lucky). Never thank them, either.

It can’t actually tell the host what apps are running in the background. If they host chooses to check they can see if someone is running another app for more than 30 seconds in the foreground, but they cannot tell what is running.

@interesting I’m sorry you felt insulted by my comment, but please also note that of the 5 comments yours was only one (and also the only neutral comment). So I didn’t mean to suggest that your question was on one side or the other.
The question, ‘are we sure it is real’ is a very important one and one we all need to ask more often. I was really glad you asked.
I also know that our internet personas are not as dimensional as we are in real life. And I find that having open conversations with people I know and share meals with that say and believe things like those stated here, is a valuable experience for someone who believes something very different. (For everyone)
It is important to ask if he really tweeted that. Just as it is important to ask if those that oppose Trump really believe that he has no black, latinx or female supporters.

Could easily be a school uniform. Even in the west we have schools that require this sort of dress.
As far as back story, having a kid this age makes me think that the “president’s” *parents* have religious beliefs that preclude the costume. But the kid clearly wants to participate.
Or it could be that they are just sticklers for the letter of the law.

Nah. It’s not fine for introverts either. Introverts need social interaction too. They just don’t need as much.
Not trying to compare or diminish the experience of extroverts. Just saying it’s hard on everyone. And living in a household with both types I get to see those effects manifest in different ways on each of them.

People were them like bandits. It creates a mask of sorts, is something many people already have at home and readily hangs around you neck. Oh and it makes you look like a bandit!

I like how when a republican does something “admittedly stupid” the message is still that the Democrats are stupid.
Guys, I’m not trying to be insulting, but get out of your echo chamber and listen to other viewpoints from real people that you know and not the internet or media.
Democrats are not denying that Trump has a large number of black, latinx and even female supporters. It’s confusing, but that doesn’t make it less true.
And, yes, the tweet was real. Controversy/scandal ensues.