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Religion
It’s always a problem, but combining religious stupid with 'Murican stupid is several orders of magnitude more stupid than can be understood by anyone who has an IQ over potato
At first, I was like 'Fuck Idaho, the cesspool!", but then I did some thinking on the issue. This is probably a symptom of a greater disease: the lack of universal health-insurance. I mean, Idaho has a long history of deregulation, which makes their food and environment a poison; stagnant wages because its Idaho, a long-time Republican mecha; an unaffordable healthcare system, something that plagues this “developed” country; and an insurance system that must prevent covering care because its owned by rich people in a for-profit market. Think on it, we live in a society where someone accused of murder is a hero:
Combine all that and “being tiny” isn’t a big enough concern to risk medical bankruptcy.
The babies that died are horrific, but what really got me was:
Maicy was 16 years old but the size of a third grader: 62 pounds and just shy of 4 feet tall. She had suffered from a constellation of ailments: stomach irritation, severe anemia, erratic menstrual periods, a blocked artery, thickened aorta and thinning hair. An autopsy after she died on New Year’s Day 2019 traced it all back to a benign, treatable pituitary tumor.
She was 16. She should have been chasing boys and living life and enjoying herself and doing all the stuff teenagers do. Instead she watched her peers do this, while her stilted ruined body slowly killed her from the inside. For years she watched herself become something utterly wrong and transformed. That poor fucking girl. A benign, easily treatable pituitary tumor. One easy surgery, and she would have lived a long, healthy life. Instead her parents watched her die and did nothing for years.
They should be in fucking jail.
I wonder if they would go to the hospital for bullet wounds? Has someone tested this theory?
bullet wounds?
Just exercising their 2nd amendment rights
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Bullet wounds? Sorry, 4th amendment rights.
That’s the 2nd Amendment, you dunce.
4th Amendment is unlawful search and seizure, like asking someone for their immigration papers during a routine traffic stop.
I wonder how they feel about abortion though
Another question asked this morning has me thinking about how my parents treated me as a child. I was sick one time and my parents waited until my ear drums burst before taking me to the doctor. Really it was because someone had came by that morning and saw blood coming out of my ears. I don’t think they would have ever taken me to the doctor otherwise.
My aunt had rubella, grandparents delayed taking her in until it got bad and it developed into a life long heart disease, don’t recall what it was called, but she died young in mid 30s from complications of the heart disease. Left two young children and husband behind, my grandparents never really forgave themselves for it. I think sometimes we forget that adults are just grown children feeling their way through caring for a family, and hindsight can be 20/20.
My parents never wasted a moment feeling bad about the things they did. My burst ear drums were the first of a few times they were willing to let me die without treatment. It took me far too long to realize how terrible they were. They only ever did anything for me if they were getting public credit for it. It was all just a show for them. For their benefit. My 20/20 hindsight is full of moments where I thought they were helping me but instead were exploiting me.
The truth is simple. Some people shouldn’t be allowed responsibility for a fruit fly much less a child.
Part of me is outraged and angry at such a travesty.
The other larger part of me can’t bring myself to care that these idiots are taking themselves out of the gene pool.
All parts of me are sad knowing that in the end this won’t matter because they’re just going to full Idiocracy and unfortunately their stupidity will overcome all of us.
Except they aren’t taking themselves out of the gene pool
Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.
65 fucking grandchildren.
Out of the 65, they allowed 3 to be ritualistically sacrificed to their own idiocy. They allowed them to suffer horrifically and die in pain. doing nothing.
I wonder if Kangas would go to the hospital to treat a bullet wound? perhaps we should test this theory
Idiocracy to a tee
So they are speed running evolution
Like I literally said, I know they’re going full Idiocracy.
God damn, it’s like I can’t escape Idiocracy no matter where I go.
I think the real idocracy is the fact that the justice system of idaho allows this to continue. They know that it will result in more children dying, they care more about “muh religious freedom” than for literal children. They care more about un-birthed babies than real ones because “muh religious freedom.” They’re monsters.
Idaho is filled with fucking nut job people.
The horrors of parental hyperindividualism where personal pride and blind fundie faith exceeds reason.
Religion desperately wants a return to the 15th century and these idiots are more than happy to play along in their little cosplay charade.
The right to murder your kids. Freedom!
I prefer not to read about anything happening in the US. It’s always some horrible shit and it makes me depressed.
My parents took me to the doctor at the drop of a hat. Of course, this was many years ago, when healthcare was far, far more accessible.
Fuck the filthy rich. They’ve used their unearned influence and power to twist us against our own children. They’re disgusting parasites we’d all be much better off without. Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you.
Well they only care about them until they are born.
It would lose an election for any politician saying it, but sometimes the child’s rights supersede a parents right to do whatever they want with their kids.
You shouldn’t be able to do things like refuse to feed your child, refuse to give your child medical care, or refuse to educate your child.
Medical care is optional and premium in the US for everyone.
No. a presidential candidate should absolutely run on that. Child abuse charges for the parents for failure to seek medical help
They’d lose if it were a local position within Idaho. Those same people who didn’t wear masks, refuse to vaccinate, refuses care for their child? All those same people are the same people VOTING.
It would be different if it weren’t an election in the most brain dead state.
Yeah, it’s impressive to find a new low BELOW Florida. At least Florida knows how to pull in tourists. Who the fuck wants to willingly go to Idaho???
Honestly, it’s breathtakingly beautiful. And there are cults fuckin everywhere.
Idaho features beautiful nature and really interesting geology, so there’s plenty of tourism potential. If it weren’t for the people it would make for a lovely destination.
Yeah it’s probably one of the most beautiful states in my opinion, but fuck no I won’t go
You don’t run on it you just enforce at a federal level. Republicans love state rights until they’re in power then they love telling states what they can and can’t do.
Democrats need to force this down their fng throat
I would hope that after two years of this insanity and blatant federal abuse of states, Democrats would be more supportive of states rights and reluctant to continue the decades long trend of expanding executive power.
Not less.
Your fucking joking right
No. Don’t misunderstand, I fucking hate this. This is disgusting. But the article points to the problem explicitly. It’s a bullet point at the top.
No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for kids. Idaho, by contrast, has kept its faith-healing protections.
I just don’t see the necessity to reach for the largest most powerful tool to solve a problem that is up to the citizens of Idaho to solve.
The federal government has literally executed citizens without trial in the streets. I’ve lost my appetite for the federal government having power. Perhaps, if the fed was weaker and states had more mechanisms of resisting or standing up for their own principles, we’d be better off.
I’m not advocating for nothing to be done. I’m just asking why must it be the federal government and not the Idaho government? Why invite a protracted supreme court battle over parents rights / religious protections? Do you think we’d win that right now? Genuinely?
There are more important things to push on at a federal level. Expand supreme court. Expand the house of representatives. Move to proportional representation instead of first past the post. All of this returns power to people so they can actually enact what they want. Things like climate change. LGBTG rights.
It’s tragic kids are dieing in Idaho. Kids are dieing in federal concentration camps. Who knows many have died, actually? How many people deported are dead now? How many people will die when their asylum status is revoked and are deported? The federal government is tampering with elections. Pushing states to redraw maps. And the supreme court does nothing.
What those cultists are doing to children and their families is deranged. Something must be done. By the people of Idaho. Because the federal government is too fucked to help. Maybe next year it’ll be better. We can only hope for a great midterm and more DSA wins.
Can confirm spent a yr living there, hated every second would take death before even driving through it
It gets a little trickier when you start talking about things like teaching evolution and sex ed, or not allowing minors to be indoctrinated by religions.
