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Cake day: March 11th, 2025

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  • You’re speaking directly to me. I am a veteran with PTSD. It was from sexual assault and the accompanying involuntary mental health lock up after I went to the doctor to seek help with my sleep.

    I was told I could not claim the sexual assault because I would have been kicked out for sleeping with someone that was married and for being gay (this was before they repealed don’t ask don’t tell)…… I would have been court martial and thrown out they said.

    Lucky for me I’m an infantry marine with a combat tour so my PTSD gets assumed to be combat and I don’t have to explain much to anyone. But fuck, how am I supposed to go and talk this out with doctors that I don’t trust? I don’t trust the system at all. I was let down by low command (squad), middle command(battalion command), and high command (regimental command). I was then failed by the nurse (corpsman), PCP (battalion doctor), psych (some fuckface colonel), his nurse (another corpsman), and the facilities personnel (nurses, doctors, psychiatrists).

    And to compound on all this, I was involuntarily locked up when I was 14(??) because my parents let me get so fucked up that I blacked out and they called cops saying they didn’t know what was wrong with me……. What was wrong was that I was 14 and handed booze and pills…… the fuck did they expect?!? Obviously both times I ended up getting released but that doesn’t remove the inhumanity of it all. The treatment as if you are “other” to them. Like a dog or some shit.

    So I’ve had trauma from psych wards from adolescence and also my time in the marines.

    Sorry for the rant. Just triggered so much inside me with your comment.





  • No. It will take decades to get back to where we were just a few months ago. And you know how that will go, we get mayyyybe 8 years, all 8 will be progress. Economy will start to correct…… then inevitably republicans convince rednecks to vote against their interests again. And bam “everything the last guy did I’m going to undo”

    It’s the only playbook conservatives have had since Obama broke their brains. Not one single real policy. Only “undo those laws and take us back 8 years”.

    8 years during Obama “we will end Obamacare”…… they didn’t. (Still just a concept of a plan)

    4 years under Biden “omg the spending!!!”……. Conservatives increased it. They are undoing infrastructure (we all agree we need). They are undoing veterans PACT ACT (we all agree we need).

    You’ll never answer, but what have they introduced that would make anything in your life better? What ideas do they have other than “ew I hate the democrats. Let’s pretend the last administration didn’t exists.”



  • You don’t think cutting social security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits and other social safety nets won’t harm Americans? How exactly do you think it will make things better or stay the same?

    Firing 100k-200k federal jobs will have trickle down effects like Reagan could only dream of.

    How is selling government property going to help anyone? We already have an over abundance of office space, now we are going to dump more sqft into the market? What will that do to prices of commercial property?

    How will anything doge is doing HELP you?