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- American exceptionalism at it’s finest.by sharts
- These poor people marginalized by politics trying to find a better life. I just don't understand how people can be so far removed from this problem and not feel a profound sense discontent with the world that we enabled this to happen. What's worse is the children affected by this too. It's hard to believe the world can have billionaires and yet also people dying from lack of food, medicine and shelter. There is enough to go around we simply don't want to change. Worser still those that work for these systems are often protected, heralded and celebrated even.by kraig911
- How can we be better documenting the perpetrators involved here for our own Nuremberg trials? Narrative articles are obviously necessary for highlighting the moment, but seem too impermanent to actually prosecute these crimes against humanity.by mindslight
- Guantanamo was just a penetration test. With such list of horribly crimes and Antiamerican behavior, if citizens don't decide to dismantle the Republican party forever with a "so long and thanks for all the fishy collusion with the enemies of US", this will be a carnage for USA. What more needs to do this party to be fired?
The citizens need to teach politicians a very firm and hard lesson. This ICE people assassinating people at will must be prosecuted and punished before they are allowed to coup and kill your own children in a stupid civil war.
Several new parties based in real republican values but with none of the larvae and spies should had been created from scratch one year ago. In Europe a democracy doing 1% of this would be on general strike.
by pvaldes - Detention centers are run by for-profit companies--caring for prisoners would eat into their bottom line. Seems obvious.by nielsbot
- From liberating concentration camps to running them. How tf did this happen? And why do people think this is ok?by karlkloss
- Speaking to lack of insulin here.
When you don't have any insulin, your body goes into a state of diabetic keto-acidosis (DKA). While in this state, sugar builds up in your blood, but does not enter your cells. Your liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream which causes dehydration, as the kidneys work overtime to clean the blood. The body eventually uses an alternate metabolic pathway to produce energy which dumps byproducts into the blood which cause it to turn acidic among other things.
Speaking from experience, severe DKA is extremely uncomfortable. The problem is in your blood, so you feel a constant and extreme discomfort everywhere in the body, there's no body part that you can focus on where it isn't happening. You become extremely tired and lethargic and also irritable. You get angry and panicked and cognition slows down so you don't feel like yourself. You are very hungry and very thirsty but nothing you eat or drink alleviates the sensation. You also feel as though you cannot breathe enough to sate your body, so your breathing becomes faster and shallower.
It's difficult for me to imagine anything worse than dying of DKA. Maybe being lit on fire? That's short though, a death by DKA happens over hours or days. The cruelty here is spectacular.
Insulin is on the WHO essential medication list. The type of insulin that could alleviate these symptoms is cheap and widely available. There is absolutely no excuse here. Every doctor and nurse knows how to treat this and stop this kind of suffering.
by mlsu