LustyArgonianMana

They should be charged an emissions tax and worker safety tax since driving to/from work is one of the leading causes of death for working adults

You’re incredibly uneducated to be making the claims you are.

Racism in the US south against black people looks different than racism in the midwest/Western states against Native Americans because the goals of the racism were different.

The govt wanted to grow the black population so they could have a huge workforce to take from. Explicit racism helps a lot with this, because it’s declaring people black and enforcing that they are less than and deserve to be a lower class. This is probably what you mean about how racist the south is.

For Native Americans, the govt’s goal is to take their land and destroy their claims to land - they want LESS Native Americans. That’s why colorblindness is the racism in the midwest and west. That is also why those areas HATE Latino people, even though those people are generally just Native Americans who speak Spanish. That’s why you hear stuff like “We speak English here.” That’s why old John Wayne movies were the way they were. That’s why we had those Native American re-education schools. That’s why we killed so mamy buffalo (to starve them) and the Great Plains to this day has never recovered fully from how many millions of herd animals were killed. It’s why, TO THIS DAY, Christian organizations will adopt Native kids to explicitly white Christian families. It’s why the Mormons are in Utah. It’s why most Native reservations are in extremely inhospitable places (look at the Navajo lands versus nearby in Hatch, NM - the Native people would have lived near Hatch, near water, but we took that from them and gave them barren soil - to kill them).

The racism against Native Americans is like smothering and starving a baby to death, whereas the racism in the south is more like screaming//beating at a baby to depression/“submission”.

Rec reading: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Smith, Andrea

Old cowboys used to cut Native women’s labia off and put it on their saddle horns to play with. The west is racist too.

Behind the Nazis is what they learned from Trail of Tears and US antebellum slavery. Behind that, you get Rome.

It’s war. War is behind all fascism.

He was only offering the organ to the one person though

It’s hard to say if she would have lived or not.

I think a bigger discussion about medical gatekeeping and bodily autonomy is warranted here

I have been an organ donor since my first driver’s license

No I meant her boyfriend had a partial liver he wanted to give her

I was talking about the general disturbing nature of determining organ transplants, yes I know re: the live donation from her bf

Organ donation panels are a sick Trolley problem come to life. I don’t know either.

Doctors are cops. Pass it along

Same, it actually astonishes me

Type 2 diabetes has a stronger link to family history and lineage than type 1, and studies of twins have shown that genetics play a very strong role in the development of type 2 diabetes.

https://diabetes.org/about-diabetes/genetics-diabetes#:~:text=Type 2 diabetes has a,also depends on environmental factors.

Now that you know you were cruel and wrong about diabetes, what do you have to say? What about the type 2 diabetics that have a perfect lifestyle and still have type 2 diabetes?

Doctors are cops. Acab.

Her partner is the one saying she had an alcohol substance use issue. It’s not “assumed” she was a drunkard, he stated it. I agree she should have been given the liver- she quit alcohol, she had a donor. We shouldn’t punish people with alcohol use issues by killing them.

This isn’t what happened though. She was addicted to alcohol, per her partner, got diagnosed with needing a new liver, she immediately quit alcohol, and they denied her anyway even though quite a bit of time had passed while she was sober. I am unaware if her liver disease was because of the previous regular alcohol use. It wasn’t just 1 drink though.

Yes, organ donation is messed up. I met a girl dying in hospice once. She needed a new kidney. Genetic stuff, and then when she was 15 she tried to kill herself with Tylenol. She got her first transplant before the suicide attempt. She was denied a second one due to the suicide attempt itself. There are only so many organs in the world. She died in agony in hospice, young and covered in calcium deposits.

We punish substance use and mental health so harshly in this country. No one deserves the death penalty for previous substance use, especially for alcohol which is ancient af. It’s horrible she was denied when there was a liver already available.

Sure, sleep inertia can be caused by lots of things. It is a sign of narcolepsy, sleep apnea, or other sleep issues in many people or can be vitamin based.

Coconut water has a lot more potassium than a banana

Perhaps you had an imbalance of vitamin a. Plant based vitamin a (beta carotene) is safe and can’t really be overdosed. Plant based diets tend to have more vitamin e in them as well, and vitamin e sort of counteracts vitamin a.

“I am tired when I get up,” this is also a sign of a sleep disorder like narcolepsy or sleep apnea.

It can be a sign of thyroid issues.

Copper, selenium, zinc, and other deficiencies can cause fatigue as well

Maybe they were wanting to kill them anyway but were waiting til they couldn’t defend themselves

I’m genuinely trying to renaturalize to Germany eventually and all I need is to learn German, so this ended up being a happy accident