An uncomfortably large number of people who have kids shouldn’t have them and treat popping them out like a fun little side quest they do to make cute babies they can play dress up with, while having no actual regard for the deeply important aspects of parenthood. Kids aren’t an accessory, they are a human being whose entire life will be deeply impacted by how YOU parent them. We pussy foot around telling people they shouldn’t have kids because it’s controversial but if we were more bold we’d have less mentally fucked up humans in this world. So I’ll tell you.
So we’re clear:
The Supreme Court ended affirmative action yesterday by saying you CAN’T discriminate by helping a minority group, then turned around today and said you CAN discriminate by hurting them.
Rape as a crime is so fundamentally different. There can be loose justifications for other crimes, like poverty; even murder can be accidental or in self defense. There has never been & will never be a situation that necessitates or accidentally causes rape. The answer is no.
We can’t control our thoughts. Thoughts are neurological impulses that reflect the state of our nervous system. What we can do, is learn healthier ways to respond to our thoughts. Our thoughts don’t need to dictate our behavior.
The inventors of insulin sold their patents for $1 in 1923 - almost 100 years ago. It is a crime against humanity that insulin is made by corporations that care only about maximizing profits, not saving lives. Yes. The fake Eli Lilly account was right. Insulin should be free.
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
Every US news network is running the funeral of the Queen of England, after 10 days of nonstop coverage of her, meanwhile this is the US colony of Puerto Rico