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Are you sure the US is a developed country?
Not idaho
Incarceration rate and lack of healthcare mean it never has been to me but wtf do I know
Parts of it, certainly.
But we have a strategic policy of enclosure and proletarianization that has been ongoing since the closing of the frontier. The Corporate American Dream is to have labor conditions on par with the The Philippeans accessible from Louisiana or Arizona or Kentucky.
Our problem is largely one of population migration. You can't find a large enough exploitable class of laborers, because Americans keep picking up and traveling to wealthier corners of the country. So the modern political project is to start closing off borders (US/Mexico and US/Canada and the various Caribbean islands), inflating the domestic population (One Billion Americans), and segregating the interior population a la South African apartheid (The Network State).
We are, if anything, too developed. It's too easy to move out of the backwaters of Alabama and find a job in Atlanta, Georgia. Too easy to become a petite bourgeois millionaire in Seattle and buy a cheap McMansion in the Boise suburbs. Too easy to get a college degree, land a white-collar job, and enter the professional managerial class.
US domestic policy is now focused on driving up the barriers between ethnic and gender cohorts (anti-DEI initiatives), shrinking PMC (AI initiatives), and turning the unemployed underclass into a paramilitary under the thumb of the plutocracy (ICE, private security services, massive spying initiatives).
Dubai is the future, baby! But we're not there yet.
Religion
It's always a problem, but combining religious stupid with 'Murican stupid is several orders of magnitude more stupid than can be understood by anyone who has an IQ over potato
Potato-powered GladOS had greater reasoning ability. This post is offensive to potatoes.
Idaho is the potato state for a reason. That reason is that potatoes have a longer life expectancy than their children on average.
Clap. Clap. Oh good, they managed to get my slow clap processor into this thing. I hope you’re happy because I’m a potato
In my experience, people who assume they're part of The Smarts and some vague Other group of people are part of The Stupids are the first in line to get rooked.
And yet, “pro life”.
F**king hypocrites.
Pro lifers don't give a shit about the post-born. Hypocrisy in name, but their wretchedness is absolutely consistent and comes from the rot in their cores. At least give them credit for being so predictably, reliably awful, and plainly advertising who the enemy is. It's on the rest of us to know and see them for who they are, and do the right things when when they try to do the wrong ones.
we need actual universal healthcare, not something tied to having an ID or being an adult. At minimum for getting vaccines because they are relatively cheap (less than $100) and have there be a way to get them without it being logged for some semblance of protection from family.
The babies that died are horrific, but what really got me was:
Maicy was 16 years old but the size of a third grader: 62 pounds and just shy of 4 feet tall. She had suffered from a constellation of ailments: stomach irritation, severe anemia, erratic menstrual periods, a blocked artery, thickened aorta and thinning hair. An autopsy after she died on New Year’s Day 2019 traced it all back to a benign, treatable pituitary tumor.
She was 16. She should have been chasing boys and living life and enjoying herself and doing all the stuff teenagers do. Instead she watched her peers do this, while her stilted ruined body slowly killed her from the inside. For years she watched herself become something utterly wrong and transformed. That poor fucking girl. A benign, easily treatable pituitary tumor. One easy surgery, and she would have lived a long, healthy life. Instead her parents watched her die and did nothing for years.
They should be in fucking jail.
I wonder if they would go to the hospital for bullet wounds? Has someone tested this theory?
bullet wounds?
Just exercising their 2nd amendment rights
At first, I was like 'Fuck Idaho, the cesspool!", but then I did some thinking on the issue. This is probably a symptom of a greater disease: the lack of universal health-insurance. I mean, Idaho has a long history of deregulation, which makes their food and environment a poison; stagnant wages because its Idaho, a long-time Republican mecha; an unaffordable healthcare system, something that plagues this "developed" country; and an insurance system that must prevent covering care because its owned by rich people in a for-profit market. Think on it, we live in a society where someone accused of murder is a hero:
Combine all that and "being tiny" isn't a big enough concern to risk medical bankruptcy.
Another question asked this morning has me thinking about how my parents treated me as a child. I was sick one time and my parents waited until my ear drums burst before taking me to the doctor. Really it was because someone had came by that morning and saw blood coming out of my ears. I don't think they would have ever taken me to the doctor otherwise.
It is pretty crazy that you need a license to drive a car, but not to have children.
No, that's perfectly reasonable. What's crazy is that you aren't obligated to ensure your children get medical care.
Ah, the first step on the road to eugenics.
Well, not the first step. But a step. Actually I'd say it's quite far down the road.
Idaho is filled with fucking nut job people.
The sad thing is that as I understand it Idaho used to be that old school mind your own business libertarians, wherein they were kinda assholes but they had lines and standards. Sometime in the 70s/80s/90s when the whackjobs started getting pressure put on them in the other western states namely California all the fucked up weirdos more or less overran Idaho which caused it to go from culturally similar to rural San Bernardino in morst areas to what it is now. If you want to see a solid microcosm of this with one town look up how one fucked up christofascist mega church has been trying to seize control of Moscow Idaho.
It would lose an election for any politician saying it, but sometimes the child's rights supersede a parents right to do whatever they want with their kids.
You shouldn't be able to do things like refuse to feed your child, refuse to give your child medical care, or refuse to educate your child.
Medical care is optional and premium in the US for everyone.
The nuclear family model, the parents have absolute rights over the child, is as nonsensical as it sounds.
It takes a village and the village should be able to intervene when parents put their child at risk.
Yes but under our current model, I don't know if you want the state owning all the kids. I'm not sure if Trump or nestlé or whatever lobbying firm would decide their future really has their best interest at heart.
Oh I totally agree. I’m an anarchist. Hence why I was careful to say the village and not the state.
No. a presidential candidate should absolutely run on that. Child abuse charges for the parents for failure to seek medical help
Mor(m)on faith (lack of) healings
This is so wild to me. Like this is very much - intentionally causing bodily harm to the kid - a reason you should have your kids taken away from you.
Remember that Idaho is filled with people who think Utah is too liberal.
Had a gay friend who grew up in Idaho. I was talking to him about how so many states try to pretend there's more to them than their stereotypes. Texans like to say it sn't just cowboys and Mexican food, but Idaho embraces the "Potaotoes" thing and doesn't talk about the rest.
He that when all a state has is potatoes and gun-totin white supremacists, they want you to talk about the potatoes.
Part of me is outraged and angry at such a travesty.
The other larger part of me can't bring myself to care that these idiots are taking themselves out of the gene pool.
All parts of me are sad knowing that in the end this won't matter because they're just going to full Idiocracy and unfortunately their stupidity will overcome all of us.
Except they aren't taking themselves out of the gene pool
Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.
65 fucking grandchildren.
Out of the 65, they allowed 3 to be ritualistically sacrificed to their own idiocy. They allowed them to suffer horrifically and die in pain. doing nothing.
I wonder if Kangas would go to the hospital to treat a bullet wound? perhaps we should test this theory
Well they only care about them until they are born.
They only pretend to care until they're born.
The horrors of parental hyperindividualism where personal pride and blind fundie faith exceeds reason.
My parents took me to the doctor at the drop of a hat. Of course, this was many years ago, when healthcare was far, far more accessible.
Fuck the filthy rich. They've used their unearned influence and power to twist us against our own children. They're disgusting parasites we'd all be much better off without. Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you.
I prefer not to read about anything happening in the US. It's always some horrible shit and it makes me depressed.
I like to remind people that Idaho is a shit hole state.
Lots of white supremacy.
Yeah, Idaho is one of the worst states in the nation. Look at who they voted for