Me who is stuck in a wheelchair

“I guess I don’t stand with anybody”

It kills people like me who are immune compromised and can’t get a vaccine due to specific immune illnesses.

So clinically vulnerable people like me rely on population level immunity or we get fucked.

POV: You’re a USian on disability benefits who is just assumed to be able to survive on 12k a year whilst being literally disabled and unable to do most things healthy people can. And now people with 150k a year, 10 times my income, are complaining. 👁️👄👁️

People in this comment sections really don’t understand the extractivism and displacement inherent to mass tourism.

As someone who had to move away from the place my entire family all my friends and community are because tourism skyrocketed the price and made it unaffordable, and am now isolated, I can empathise with this.

Similar situation. For every person with my illness who is like me lucky to have a stable living situation, I know a near equal amount that killed themselves due to lack of help, a near equal amount who died due to poverty and not being able to treat treatable complications of the illness or malnutrition, I know a near equal amount who made a worrying plea for help saying they would go homeless, and by the time the community could organise some help they were unreachable and never to be heard from again.

Okay but as a chronically ill person in poverty struggling to feed myself in a late stage capitalist hellscape. I feel like I tick the first few boxes.

That reminds me of one doctor advising me to look into assisted suicide…

That felt absolutely awful. The person I trust to help me live, because I want to live, doesn’t see my life worth living.

These same people don’t actually help me if I need it, they can’t seem to deal with the reality of my disability.

If people want to help, there are so many ways to actually help them.

You don’t “help” a blind person by trying to sell them a random sham, you help them by asking them if you can do something for them.

I dunno if you want this.

But just gonna say I felt this way for a decade or so. A very lonely decade where my only relationship was short lasted and one sided.

But honestly now looking back it kinda feels dumb I looked at myself that way. I’m literally too disabled to work (which I thought would make it impossible to date). And I have this wonderful partner who loves me more than anything, to the point it can be kinda annoying like she’s obsessed with me.

(Sorry if this comes off as a brag, don’t mean it too, just wanna say what can feel hopeless might change).

This was me basically before I started to learn how to do shit properly.

Ie. when I was a teenager and learnt about pirating through low quality youtube vids

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not?

Just FYI your link had a tracker added. Here’s a tracker free link: https://youtu.be/1zu41rrc_Ng

Plugging https://www.s4me.info/

because I know lemmyverse peeps will probably quite like the forum style

The people in power have the most influence. The people in power tend to also believe they deserve to be in power — ie. Just World Fallacy — so it’s really unsuprising how societally engrained that bias is.

Thanks for sharing this guy. I like his demeanour.

I had to play it at 0.4!