Maximum wage used to be a thing. It’s how we got insurance tied to employment.

Good God!

You’ve completely changed my mind!

I’m putting my kids on puberty blockers right now!

Nice edit.

You told me to huff paint

Doctors do shit for money.

They’ll recommend whatever the parent asks for.

I want universal healthcare and even UBI, but this shit is just child abuse.

Edit to add: if you want to cut your dick off and call yourself a girl as an adult, I don’t care. If you convince your kids doctor to chemically castrate them, you should go to jail.

Doctors used to recommend all kinds of stupid shit. Lobotomies, literally transfusing COWS MILK into people because it’s white and will obviously make white blood cells.

They’re wrong about this, too.

There are exactly zero federal prisoners incarcerated for marijuana possession.

I’m left on most issues, but “gender affirming care” on a child is pretty fucking outrageous.

Children can not consent. Full stop.

The adults who are affected by this law are inmates in correctional institutions and Medicaid recipients.

No prison provides elective surgery for inmates, and Medicaid also doesn’t pay for elective surgeries.

I’m completely fine with this common sense law.

Oh, man. How’d I miss that?

It’s…a direct quote. I’m not sure how shittalking me is providing any worth to the conversation. Please make one statement supporting your position with information rather than criticism.

They’re using the authority of the executive branch. Granted by themselves and validated by the judicial branch.

We could seek balance through the legislative branch.

Then what is the answer? Giving them more money to buy military equipment?

Does Medicaid generally pay for elective treatments?

I can’t imagine any prison system providing elective surgery.

Children in general are unable to provide consent.

It must be awful to base your personality on outrage.

I hope it gets better for you.

Edit: , then*

If you don’t think that economic slavery is real and exists in modern society, there’s no point in further conversation.

Frederick Douglass, arguing for unity among black and white laborers in 1883, said that “experience teaches us that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”

That is some seriously uncomfortable shit to watch.

Including the parts you type out and don’t post.

Matrix

Sh.itjust.works uses matrix like any normal lemmy instance would.

It got shut down because of the means testing he included. If he hadn’t excluded some borrowers it would have gone through.

He could have pushed to have it codified.

He could have also pushed student loan forgiveness for all borrowers instead of the bullshit means testing that got it shut down.

I would say the evidence available suggests that I would not want Hunter Biden in a position of power in my government. Good thing he’s not.

The plea bargain is its own thing, first offenders generally get a pass unless they’ve done something heinous.