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  • In some states they don’t even have that. I’ve been seeking disability for six years in America for a partially broken back, with ten years of documented ongoing treatment at this point from childhood and my parent’s medical coverage (I can walk, but I’m stooped most of the time and get to live with chronic pain, yippee) and because I couldn’t get by on nothing, and got a part time gig that didn’t cross the threshold I still got my benefits denied. So like, in all technicality, though I see myself as an able-bodied young man and pursue an active lifestyle to make sure my weight doesn’t cause my spine to degrade and leave me fully paralyzed, I’m not even who this guy’s talking about, and I can’t get benefits through the current system. Now I’m just uninsured and planning to immigrate for education (and healthcare).












  • Location: USA, Midwest and the Internet

    So, We all gotta be more careful about our online bullshit going forward. Personally, I like to stir shit along with promoting myself professionally as an author. Due to that, Reddit used to be a helpful resource. Over the past two weeks since posting on the last collapse board there, I’ve gotten triple-banned when I’ve never been bothered prior. The latest cause was joking about the Iran nuclear situation by saying I hope a war breaks out so we can begin ignoring Washington. All this to say that the internet is rapidly becoming less the place to try stirring shit directly.

    As for the midwest, times are getting rough; people are defaulting on cars, rents, and cards out this way and the state’s services seem to be taking the same attitude, leaving trees fallen from windstorms for weeks or months, and sinkholes and potholes to the same fate. Additionally, the illegal reforms to the citizenship process have thrown my area into a good deal of chaos. Many of the local meat-workers in our region currently come from American Samoa and the Caribbean, among other Latin-settled areas much to the chagrin of both the federal administration and some of the locals (the locals are just angry they no longer have the work they need). Additionally, everyone is desperate for work, this week alone I’ve been approached with more requests for under-the-table work than I’ve ever received in this city. Lots more gunshots and sirens than usual as well, though I haven’t checked the crime map, so I couldn’t rightly say how much is self-defense and how much is the usual community stand-offs, business gotta business after all.

    For me though, I’ve been setting up immigration plans with my sister and working on a garden and chicken coop for my elderly parents who do not want to leave the nation they were born in and grew up in. Unfortunately, as a writer, one can find damn near anything to distract one’s self from what I should be doing, editing, and the issue with a fascist uprising? Lots of great material for a fiction author who focuses on anti-fascism in fiction. Anyway, hang loose y’all and if you were talking to a “greycomedy” on reddit, my bad, I got myself banned.