In my area, Walgreens always seems empty, their prices are super high, and their pharmacists seem ready to quit.
I'm sure their mismanagement of the medical practices they're snapping up isn't helping them much either. I'm pissed at them for buying up one of the largest local medical providers and completely fucking them up. We used to be able to get in to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time for long-term issues and could generally get an appointment day-of or the day after for acute issues. Now, when you call to get an acute appointment they say that nothing is available for MONTHS. I called to be seen for a sinus infection in February and was told nothing was available until July.
We switched providers and are much happier with the service, but we miss our old doctors...
There is nothing bad faith in my arguments. I am sincere in saying that I disagree with sending troops over there and in saying that I don't see it as a massive escalation to send 100 troops when we already have 50,000 in theater.
You are arguing in bad faith by ignoring what I am saying and simply labeling any disagreement as "obvious propaganda". Nothing here is black and white. This conflict has been going on for generations. Any immediate response has generations of previous actions behind it. To say otherwise is disingenuous.
Nothing in this conflict is simple. Nothing is clear. Nothing is black and white. Maybe labeling me as a propagandist for disagreeing on one specific thing while agreeing with your broader stance shows who the real propagandist is.
Jesus fucking christ... Why does everything that anyone disagrees with "propaganda"? Why can't it be someone with a different fucking viewpoint? What the fuck is wrong with people on Lemmy that we can't discuss something without it being "obvious propaganda" or some other bullshit?
Not everything is black and white. There is room for disagreement on parts of this conflict. I don't agree with the US sending troops of any kind to Israel and I think we should stop giving them weapons until they stop committing genocide. The only point I was trying to make is that it doesn't seem like a massive escalation to send 100 troops and a defensive system when we already have 50,000 troops, many war ships, two nuclear aircraft carries, and a ton of aircraft in theater already.
I agree that we shouldn't be sending troops to Israel right now but 100 troops is hardly "all the troops" and isn't a large change in the number of troops in the region.
Again, I don't think we should be sending troops or weapons to Israel right now, but this does seem like a proportional response to Iran's attack. They launched missiles at Israel. The US sent an anti-missile battery and 100 troops to support it. It seems like kind of a token force to say "we're supporting Israel in this, but we're also not going to go crazy".
I don't hope anyone met trajedy. If someone's MAGA parents did, I hope they posted enough on social media to show that they made their decisions because of Trump's statements. I hope there is enough there to charge Trump with something like negligent homicide.
Trump's language during his speech in the video is so cowardly. "Some people are saying that they aren't helping these areas because they are republican." Hey, asshole, who is "some people"? If Trump weren't a coward he would say "I think that" instead of "Some people are saying that". He's too much of a coward to own his own rhetoric, though.
I don't really think of Thanksgiving in its original context at this point. I think of it as a day for family and togetherness. I wish we could just rebrand it as that and drop all of the fake, sappy stories about pilgrims and native americans getting along.
I'm going to old all over the place. When I was a teen in the late 90s I worked at a grocery store. We were open 24/7 except three times per year. We closed at noon on Thanksgiving (reopened at 5am the next day), noon on Christmas Eve through Christmas Day, and noon on New Years Eve. We always had assholes come in to try to "get one thing that I forgot" but turned them away because they'd inevitably try to load up a full cart. We were given strict instructions to turn everyone away starring at noon sharp.
Now, grocery stores just stay open. Like, really, you can't close even a couple of times per year to let people be with their families?
About a year ago I asked the grandmother who recently passed away whether she would want euthanasia. Despite being a devout Christian who firmly believed that suicide is a sin, she said "Yes, absolutely". She said that she didn't consider it to be suicide at that point. She felt that she had lived her full life, given what she could to the world, and was now only detracting from the world by burdening others.
Personally, I don't belive that she was detracting from the world, even in her state, but she was obviously miserable. Also, maybe her adult children who were taking care of her would have seen it differently since caring for her really put restrictions on their lives.
I had two grandmother's who made it to 95. One passed earlier this year. The other is still doing great, though starting to slow down.
The one who passed essentially spent the last several years wishing it was over. Mentally she was still there but her body was failing her. She could barely see or hear. She also had no balance. Essentially, she was a prisoner in her body. She repeatedly told people that she wished it was over.
My other grandmother is still doing as well as can be expected, both cognitively and physically. She is still active doing huge crafting projects and winning competitions. Even so, she has made it very clear that she is ready to go whenever it's her time. All of her friends are gone. She has outlived every family member her generation as well as one of her children. She spends most of her time at home doing the same things day after day. Friends and family visit sometimes but not often enough. She can't travel anymore so she has to wait for others to come to her.
Based on my two grandmothers' experiences, I honestly think old age should be considered to be a terminal disease where we offer "compassionate care" as a dignified option.
Well, that's kind of what a cease and desist is. It says, in a formal but mostly polite way, "stop doing that or we'll become less nice".