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Honestly, the saddest thing is... they're not going to learn anything. They will be PROUD they don't
Last edited Sun Nov 15, 2020, 08:46 PM - Edit history (1)
I snapped a picture of the bill and opened Twitter on my phone, absentmindedly imagining that someone might be interested in knowing why we medical mamas care so much about laws that ensure our access to affordable health care, why Obamacare has been a lifeline to our children, banning lifetime limits and ensuring that no one would deny them coverage simply because they’d been born with preexisting conditions like heterotaxy. Maybe someone would listen when I explained how terrified I was now that these protections were under siege due to the Trumpcare bill that stood before the Senate.
But as more and more people saw the original tweet, the tide seemed to shift. I was still seeing lots of people on our side, but as articles were churned out and shared, it was clear that people weren’t reading much past the headlines. They came at me swinging, picking fights I’d never asked for. They called me ungrateful, a thief, a lazy mooch, an attention whore.
The attacks became increasingly personal and increasingly violent. Strangers were telling me it would have been cheaper to make a new kid, as if anyone in the history of the world could ever replace this bright light of mine, the boy who loves animals and can’t keep himself from kissing babies and always wants to sleep with one arm wrapped around my neck.
I was offered a .22 bullet, although I’m still not sure whom he meant it for, me or my child. One man took me up on the challenge I’d posed in the thread and declared that my son just wasn’t worth keeping alive anymore. There was even a percentage of the comments dedicated to the belief that I was a foreigner or, worse, a terrorist, which is when I started asking news outlets to use my full name: Alison, not Ali, since people seemed unable to believe that I was, in fact, a white chick from New Jersey.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/7/7/15934752/health-insurance-heterotaxy-twitter
But as more and more people saw the original tweet, the tide seemed to shift. I was still seeing lots of people on our side, but as articles were churned out and shared, it was clear that people weren’t reading much past the headlines. They came at me swinging, picking fights I’d never asked for. They called me ungrateful, a thief, a lazy mooch, an attention whore.
The attacks became increasingly personal and increasingly violent. Strangers were telling me it would have been cheaper to make a new kid, as if anyone in the history of the world could ever replace this bright light of mine, the boy who loves animals and can’t keep himself from kissing babies and always wants to sleep with one arm wrapped around my neck.
I was offered a .22 bullet, although I’m still not sure whom he meant it for, me or my child. One man took me up on the challenge I’d posed in the thread and declared that my son just wasn’t worth keeping alive anymore. There was even a percentage of the comments dedicated to the belief that I was a foreigner or, worse, a terrorist, which is when I started asking news outlets to use my full name: Alison, not Ali, since people seemed unable to believe that I was, in fact, a white chick from New Jersey.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/7/7/15934752/health-insurance-heterotaxy-twitter
They got outraged at seeing a medical bill on Twitter, not at the medical bill itself, but at the mom showing it to the world. What? They don't want to know what goes into a medical bill? They don't think the way things are priced can be absurd?
They're going to put food on the self-checkout line and not question the prices of that food that they are going to waste anyway.
Trump may very well get at least one more chance to crow about the Dow and it being the best ever and how it's the sign of the strongest economy ever. None of them will question how arbitrary the Dow is, or why it's so high but yet they are living paycheck to paycheck.
But Trump losing to Biden? My God. That has to be ridiculous. CONSPIRACY. ILLUMINATI. GEORGE. SOROS. NuMbErS DoN't AdD uP!!1ONE!1!
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