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DisabledAceSocialist

@ DisabledAceSocialist @lemmygrad.ml

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Worked several jobs, including in a nursing home. Got thyroid cancer and the treatment caused me to have a stroke and many other health issues. Thanks to the stroke I'm now partially sighted, can't walk properly and can no longer work. Also have chronic foot infections and migraines. NHS treatment is so awful it has made my health worse rather than better. My local pharmacist tells me I'm a drain on the NHS because my medications cost so much. Still waiting for my disability benefit backpay and still desperately struggling financially.

  • who came up with ts 😭

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  • I've gone through long periods of hunger in my life. Starved for so long as a child i got a malnutrition related cancer. Been so hungry as an adult I've resorted to stealing from supermarkets and begging. And i still don't think I could bring myself to eat this. 🤢

  • Adolf Hitler probably pissed his pants when David Ben-Gurion entered hell.

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  • I imagine Hitler in hell like he was in Little Nicky, wearing a French maid's outfit, having pineapples shoved up his bum for eternity.

  • are you afraid that tides will turn in the near future and you will be killed?

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  • If it's a fairly quick and painless death, I welcome it. Life is just too shit.

  • The average redditor seems so extremely over privileged.

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  • This reminds me of a thread on reddit where they were saying that people on disability benefits should be given just enough for basic shelter, and the most basic food to keep them alive. No entertainment, no extras. I was thinking, I'm so disabled I'm virtually housebound. Am I meant to sit here alone, staring at the empty wall, bored out of my mind, all day every day until I die? Why even keep us alive then?

  • The average redditor seems so extremely over privileged.

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  • A rented apartment that's so small the living room and bedroom are the same small room, with a tiny bathroom and kitchen.

  • The average redditor seems so extremely over privileged.

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  • I live in the UK and I can't imagine anyone here being able to afford therapy for long. The NHS only gives you a few months, if that.

  • The average redditor seems so extremely over privileged.

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  • I live in a country with healthcare and if you want therapy it's 5 years on the waiting list to get 12 sessions of shit, useless therapy. You'd have to pay for real proper therapy (if there is such a thing) and hardly anyone can afford that.

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    The average redditor seems so extremely over privileged.

  • Feeling Depressed and Hating Life

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  • I feel the same way. And the only help on offer from the authorities is: "Be on the waiting list for 5 years for a 3 month course of shitty therapy that involves drawing pictures and meditating. What do you mean it didn't work? How are you not cured????"

    I really think life has been made miserable by design.

  • Had my foot surgery this afternoon - thanks so much for the help!

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  • Thank you. The entire NHS is like this. I have to see the endocrinologist, neurologist, stroke clinic, GP and others, and it's always endless difficulty and bureaucracy, struggling to get an appointment, being on waiting lists for years, I'm finally on the urology waiting list after begging to see a urologist for about a decade. This whole time I've had endless bladder problems and all the doctor wants to do is prescribe more and more drugs (all with terrible side effects) without even trying to find out what the problem actually is. And if I'd been given a proper programme of rehabilitation after my stroke I might not be disabled now. It also took them nearly 4 years to diagnose my cancer because they refused to do any tests, saying I was "too young for it to be anything serious." Not to mention having to beg for money to pay for bandages and things after my foot surgery. The NHS has ruined my life.

  • Had my foot surgery this afternoon - thanks so much for the help!

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  • Thank you.

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    One in five Brits 'would never' apply for financial aid due to stigma

    www.mirror.co.uk /money/one-five-brits-would-never-37139105
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    Had my foot surgery this afternoon - thanks so much for the help!

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    New research found that depression may begin in your gut when a common bacterium interacts with a chemical found in most personal care products

    tech-paper.com /new-research-found-that-depression-may-begin-in-your-gut-when-a-common-bacterium-interacts-with-a-chemical-found-in-most-personal-care-products/
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    Student accommodation now so expensive that student flies to and from class rather than live at university.

    www.reddit.com /r/SipsTea/comments/1tf1gcu/well_he_has_a_point/

  • i just want to get a normal job

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  • It's just pure snobbery to insist everyone must have a top notch job and a degree. So many kids who aren't cut out for it get pushed and bullied into going to university by their parents and teachers, only to end up tens of thousands in debt with a useless bit of paper at the end of it. It's child grooming.

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    I am who I am' - Reform councillor Stephen Mousdell quits over adult film career

    www.birminghammail.co.uk /news/uk-news/i-am-who-am-reform-33952653
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    Reform councillor suspended after calling Nazis visionaries and Brits ‘fat ugly and poorly dressed’

    metro.co.uk /2026/05/14/reform-councillor-suspended-calling-nazis-visionaries-brits-fat-ugly-poorly-dressed-28359411/
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    New Reform councillor is a porn star.

    www.liverpoolecho.co.uk /news/liverpool-news/new-st-helens-reform-councillor-33944653
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    Keir Starmer raises eyebrows as he proudly declares himself a 'gooner'

    www.themirror.com /news/uk-news/keir-starmer-raises-eyebrows-proudly-1835439
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    The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?

    www.theguardian.com /news/2026/apr/18/the-impossible-promise-are-we-witnessing-the-return-of-fascism
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    UK households cut back spending at fastest rate in 16 months, Barclays says

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/may/12/uk-households-cut-spending-barclays-credit-card-iran-war

  • Reform candidate who said ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes’ wins seat

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  • they want to dismantle the NHS and introduce private healthcare and give tax benefits to the wealthy.

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    I see my rich childhood friend differently now.

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    Reform candidate who said ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes’ wins seat

    metro.co.uk /2026/05/09/reform-candidate-said-nigerians-melted-fill-pot-holes-wins-seat-28297091/

  • UK food prices on track to rise by 50% since start of cost of living crisis

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  • Everyone is just too exhausted from struggling to survive. It seems to be engineered to keep revolutionary activity down.

  • Always remember, capitalism creates the conditions for its own abolition. Keep fighting, comrades. Keep educating, agitating, and organizing.

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  • It's hard when most people are using all the effort they have just to survive from one day to the next. Which is probably why they make life so hard in the first place.

  • What is your favorite quote from a Marxist?

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  • Not exactly by a Marxist, since Marxism didn't exist yet, but I like this poem:

    They hang the man and flog the woman

    Who steal the goose from off the common

    But let the greater villain loose

    Who steals the common from the goose.

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    UK food prices on track to rise by 50% since start of cost of living crisis

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/may/04/uk-food-prices-rise-cost-of-living-crisis-beef-olive-oil-inflation

  • I hate doctors so much!

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    Millions of UK households skipping meals as confidence in the economy plummets

    www.which.co.uk /policy-and-insight/article/millions-of-uk-households-skipping-meals-as-confidence-in-the-economy-plummets-which-warns-a7CAI7X1iWQJ

  • I hate doctors so much!

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    Pet Shop Boys - Go West.

  • I hate doctors so much!

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  • People really do treat being ill or disabled as a moral failure. When I was first diagnosed with cancer people were understanding and sympathetic for a short while, and then as i got sicker and sicker and eventually had to quit work and didn't go back, they just became judgmental and eventually drifted away and abandoned me. It really annoys me how whenever you meet someone the first question is always "So what do you do?" I would find myself trying to explain my health situation to justify why I wasn't doing anything work-wise. But I could always see the look in their eyes, I was now considered subhuman and no longer worth talking to. They'd look shocked and judgmental, then their eyes would glaze over and they'd drift away.

  • I hate doctors so much!

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