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A community/support group for chronically ill people.
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Depressing. Not shocking though
All is not lost friend. Believe it or not there are people in the US who care about this shit and are actively fighting it (and by extension, you)
When things seem to be at their darkest, look for the candles lit by your fellow man and help them to light more.
It’s always darkest before dawn.
Hey, thank you. Really needed to hear this today.
We've known certain personalities have been russian shills for a while. What's new is that we now know they're PAID russian shills.
Though, if Tim pool is to be believed, they didn't influence his content at all. That means he would suck putin's cock for free which is worse.
True. I guess it's a bit heartening to have concrete and widely known proof that the huge uptick in shitty attitudes toward certain groups has not been completely organic? Some people might think a bit more critically, maybe, with luck? These people are doing a bit for likes and money, they should be way more embarrassed than they are.