/r/Drama is banned.

I wrote and re-wrote a bunch of shit but it's pointless.

/r/Drama is dead and most of you found out about it because some non-drama person like Carp told you.

I'm so tired and done.

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She was never a Dev. She was a HR stunt hire they did for publicity. There was a post on Reddit once by someone who basically said she didn't do anything but browse Twitter all day and they had to get an intern to write the flavor text on weapons she was hired to do

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The simps arrive

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!eurochads

@ObamaBinLaden

@Freak-Off

Am I the only one who isn't a fan of the new subreddit icon? It doesn't resonate with me. Not all of us are into anime.

lol wth is that. I didn't know about it until now. It's definitely weird.

It's literally nothing to do with "snipers" either. It could be someone with binoculars, a telescope, even an actual sniper, but instead it's a little detective? With a magnifying glass?

I totally agree, anime makes me uncomfortable. I have never pinpointed what specifically it is about the drawing style of anime and manga that makes me uncomfortable, the best I've come up with is that it feels uncanny.

I feel exactly the same. It also doesn't help that there are, unfortunately, certain negative stereotypes attached to anime and its fans. The new icon being a young girl(?) (ironically, my vision is very bad lol so I might be totally wrong here 😅) does not help at all.

The girls look like children imo, and a lot of anime is very fan-service, so it feels... pedophilic a lot of the time

Anime makes me uncomfortable because of the overwhelming number of dudes that sexualize the anime characters. The fact that child porn is a big thing in anime is also disgusting. A guy liking anime into adulthood is a massive red flag.

Holy shit, you people are ridiculous. Anime is a medium of entertainment. Child porn is not a "big thing" in anime. Your only experience with anime is when people complain about the exceptions and outliers. That's like calling live action stuff a red flag just because stuff like cuties exists.

Reading Rdrama, it's become pretty clear that this dump is a rightoid circlejerk that's blind to what's actually happening in America, and I want to just spread the knowledge .

The first thing to handle: Am I biased? No - I'm a European () that's neurodivergentally into American Presidential Politics, especially the Cold War era (Franklin Roosevelt to H.W Bush), and I'd wager I know more about every era then most Americans here. Not saying that to brag, it's just autism.

So the next thing to handle - the state of the race. Which Dementia Daddy is winning? It started of with Trump fricking destroying Slumbering Joseph, who has been facing declining approval ratings ever since the fall of Kabul ( America hates to see an anti-war president). This is despite the fact that America does not like Trump. This is simply a fact, Americans have never liked Trump. He didn't win the popular vote against Hillary Clinton, herself massively unpopular, or Joe Biden.

Let's compare starting approvals. Gallup gives W. Bush 57% approval at the start of his term, which skyrockets to 91% by 9/11 and ends at 28% when he leaves office. Obama starts with 68%, getting a lowest approval rating of 42%. Even Sleepy Joe started with 55%. Donald Trump ? He started with 45% approval. That would peak at 49%, and would average at 41%. Please, I implore you to forget that you're a rightoid and accept a basic fact - Trump is not personally liked by Americans. They think he's a loudmouth butthole who's attitude is unfit for office, and during his term 59% of the public didn't like him. So, a Sleepy Joe sweep, right?

Biden started popular enough. He was basically an Obama third term, and Obama was massively popular. He was very old, the pic above is a newspaper reporting Nixon being re-elected while Biden unseats an incumbent, which was a concern, but people generally liked him.

That would change fairly swiftly. Inflation from the Covid spending , under Trump lmao, caught up with America and inflation became rampant. Joe Biden had been elected on a promise of being a boring cracker who could let people forget about politics for a while, an elder statesman who would handle everything. He was already being blamed for the economy, but then there was the pull-out. Despite it being awesome, America finally stops wasting money on that shithole, Americans were horrified by the images it produced. His approval ratings sank like a rock and disapproval ratings soared.

The "Joe Biden is too old to lead" stuff went from a Republican talking point to basically accepted fact. The public was promised a boring statesman they could forget about it, and they're seeing global chaos and inflation - which has gotten back to decent rates, but since the only way prices will go down is through a recession, no one thinks it has. I mean yeah you have dipshit shooters like Will Stancil, but that's about it. So, Drumpf sweep right?

Yes and no. Despite Biden's massive unpopularity, the Red Wave promised for 2022 was barely a red drizzle - the Trump Republicans were so massively unpopular, the Democrats managed to narrowly expand a Senate majority, unseated 3 incumbent governors and Republicans only got 9 seats from the 435 seats up for election in 2022. The public hated Joe Biden, but the Democrats weren't unpopular. However, that doesn't change the fact that Joe Biden is unpopular.

Turns out deplatforming works, hooray! With Trump, he became less of a man and more of an idea. Yeah, Trump was an butthole - but prices were low and the world was at peace. (Incidentally, ask anyone who thinks this how exactly Trump will do this again and watch them not answer you.) America has always loved it's Dirty Harrys and Dr. Houses - take no shit buttholes who get results. Trump, away from the spotlight and with Biden viewed with contempt, was poised to crush Biden. That was until;

Some rightoids have tried to spin this, arguing the public doesn't care that Trump paid hush money to his mistress. They're on the right line of thinking, but they're overestimating the public's knowledge. They don't know what Trump did, and they don't care. Trump went from butthole they don't like to Convicted Criminal(tm) - a massive step up. They have faith in the institutions, they think whatever the verdict is, it's fair, and while they could hold their nose to vote for the butthole that made prices low, they can't do it for a Convicted Criminal(tm).

Biden's popularity hasn't change. They still think he's a senile idiot that shouldn't be in office - but he's not a Convicted Criminal(tm). For contrast, NeoCon-Nikki Haley has pulled anything from 4% to 13% over Joe Biden. While the highest results were obvious bullshit, the pattern is there. If Biden didn't have to run against Trump, he would get his butt paddled.

So, two massively unpopular old men are running against each other. One is a criminal nobody has ever liked, the other is a senile r-slur. Who wins?

Frick knows mate. Trump leads in some key swing states, like Arizona and Michigan, but his sheer unpopularity following the conviction has led to these being narrow leads. Worse still, the Biden Campaign has about $100 million more then the Trump Campaign, so some targeted ads could ruin Trump. If I had to goomble, and I do , I would put money on Biden winning. The warchest advantage will be the difference maker, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump won.

Personally, I'm rooting for Biden winning while losing the popular vote . I think the Rightoid outrage after 2016 would be funny.

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!schizomaxxxers

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It's a 1989 Porsche 928 S4. Perfect exterior but the inside needs some work, which is where I come in.

Anyways, my raccoon disappeared and I'm too busy with work to hang out here anymore. I hope you all are enjoying yourselves.

Soon.

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good thing the nyt employs an ethicist to handle tough questions like this pic.twitter.com/UBfrqUXxHO

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) June 27, 2024

Context

Tldr: A doctor gets this pateint who is a topless stripper who has a kid and abusive boyfriend but no money (lmao). She becomes a regular patient of his. She develops cancer and tries to get a breast augmentation surgery with her money on medicaid. Based doctor stops this medical fraud and stripper leaves and is never seen again. Doctor soys out and wonders if he did the right thing and asks some libshits on the NYT for advice

Link to Article

I'm a family physician. A young woman expecting her second child came to me for obstetric care. She had a black eye — not the first one, she told me. She worked as a topless dancer, but her boyfriend was so controlling and abusive that she did not have money of her own; he didn't even let her have much gas in her car. We developed a relationship meaningful to us both.

Meaningful relationship?

About a year later, she told me that she was getting breast augmentation, at a cost of thousands of dollars, which she intended to pay for in cash from her earnings. Around the same time, I discovered pre- to early cancer in her reproductive tract, and treatment was imperative to prevent progression of the disease, or risk dire consequences. She was insured by Medicaid, which is paid for with tax dollars. I think she probably didn't report her entire income to the I.R.S. or Medicaid, or she probably would not have been eligible.

>Poors spending money wisely

I told her I didn't think I could ethically bill Medicaid for the diagnosis and management of the potential cancer while she was paying cash for breast surgery. (I was also not willing to risk my medical license, though I did not say this to her.) I told her we'd need to look at payment options and discuss them at her next appointment. She never came back. I still wonder what happened to her and pray she found a new, self-respecting way of life. I wonder if I handled it as well as I could have.

Guarantee she's either still a whore or got killed by her scrote boyfriend

From the Ethicist

Your relationship with this young woman was not that of an accountant or a tax auditor but that of a health care provider. True, she chose to disclose something that gave you grounds to believe that she had been misreporting her income. But there are people whose job it is to deal with that issue (although fraudulent claims submitted by providers are a bigger problem for Medicaid than ineligible recipients are). You say you didn't want to risk your medical license. Has anyone you know lost a medical license because a patient misrepresented her income to the state Medicaid program? Whatever your personal opinions might be about this woman's livelihood, your job was to keep her healthy, not to keep her honest

Listen sweaty, if some poor is leeching resources from our healthcare system its none of your business

Here's another question. Would society be better off if doctors were known to refuse to process Medicaid claims when patients gave them reason to suspect that they had underreported their earnings to the government? Under those circumstances, surely, such patients would learn to be more discreet around doctors — which might mean refraining from providing medically relevant information. I understand that you didn't want to be a party to fraud. It's still best if doctors aren't in the business of assessing their patients' income tier and policing eligibility. Burdening someone with high out-of-pocket expenses can be just as limiting to patient care as overt refusals to provide treatment.

>Would society be better off if doctors were known to refuse to process Medicaid claims when patients gave them reason to suspect that they had underreported their earnings to the government?

That's especially true in this case. Because her abusive boyfriend controlled her money, you were leaving it to his discretion whether to pay for her cancer diagnosis and management, and he doesn't sound like someone who could be trusted to look after her best interests. Given your specific duties of care, your priority wasn't to look after the government coffers; it was to look after your vulnerable patient.

But she was paying for it anyway? She was on medicaid lmao

Drama

When I was 23 a doctor denied me BC pills because I was a stripper and drank alcohol at work occasionally. I told her I was celibate but she insisted that bc of my job & drinking sometimes I would have s*x with random men regularly w/o condoms and get an STD if she gave me BC

This really cements my idea that doctors dont see us regular people as their peers. I've heard too many stories of doctors making decisions for their patients as if they were their guardian or parent, and it's almost always because they think they're smarter than everyone

dawg i fricking hate doctors so much

I love that we stop trusting the experts when they dont cater to whores. Its

It is not appropriate and probably actionable for a provider to speculate about whether someone really deserves their insurance and threaten to deny care. The use of 'self-respecting' says it all, their unexamined bias is the issue

And anyway breast augmentation is a work-related expense for a topless dancer. Through-and-through his excuse for not providing life-saving care is hypocritical.

being on medicaid doesn't mean you don't have any savings, wtf

in fact it does require it in most states, but WHO THE FRICK CARES. most people will elide details for patients all the time, and no one's license is at risk for not reporting a patient.

It's a good thing he included things like the abusive boyfriend and the fact that she's a dancer, those are important to the ethical analysis of denying her medical care.

Right? Curious the dr is so fixated on denying this patient CANCER CARE while painting her as frivolously prioritizing augmentation - she & indeed, her children - are victims of a coercive manipulative abusive man -obvs HE controls 💰 but ABUSE is of no concern bc 💃🏻??

Plus, like, the implication is that the boyfriend will pay for plastic surgery but won't pay for her cancer treatment, and the doctor is taking the treatment away. The thing he won't say out loud is that if she won't--or more likely can't--leave her abuser, this doctor would rather she die. I wish I believed in heck so I could hope he would burn in it.

YES. It's vocationally an ethical violation of the hippocratic oath "first do no harm" & additionally the ethical principles of (what I feel defines) humanity. Sick fkin COMMON cruel heck world scenario, wonder how the answer goes addressing that

>heck world

More like clown world

"which is paid for with tax dollars" Not tax dollars!!

Which is funny since most of the people who complain about welfare queens tend to be like this doctor, in offices that accept Medicaid out of "the kindness of their heart" (aka government grants, public service loan forgiveness, and many other benefits). Losers who are not there because they "want to help the poor" but because they were very likely rejected from competitive medical programs and now work in places that are desperate to hire anyone, so they carry a chip on their shoulder and take out their anger on the most vulnerable in society.

The real loser is the employed doctor

Boomerbook Drama

I found a picture of the doctor:

There's also a lot of comments on the NYT page but i don't have access to them . Either way, I hope you liked this post and have a wonderful weekend

https://twitter.com/sod4_soda/status/1807706954636353899

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1dqq0oy/biden_is_back_last_night_was_just_a_trick_to_make/

This is my President after a full nights sleep and a bucket of ice cream.

Where was this guy yesterday man? He was so much better here, even had the crowd chanting "frick him up" about Trump at one point. Bro is making this campaign hard on us.

Okay panic over, just a bad day at the office even Michael Jordan had scoreless games

This is my response when people say we should give up on Biden.

/r/Destiny Sub is in cope mode

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1dqorv3/whick_is_still_ridin_with_biden/

I think what is good about this first debate is that Biden's team now know what needs to be improved for the second debate coming in September 10. It is certain we will see a different Biden then, and he will also have drank some dextromethorphan before the debate hopefully if he has a bad throat again. He just needs to hold good rallies and events where he speaks freely for now along with bringing awareness of his work as president and all the negatives about Trump. The Democrats have at least built a robust canvassing and voting assistance network in the whole country and have raised a lot of money.

This wasn't a knockout blow against Biden, and it can still be salvaged. At least Biden's team know where they stand. They can only improve.

Also Trump's sentencing in the hush money case is next month, and that will be very interesting to see if he gets actual jail time, or probation.

!chuds

!neolibs

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