No lemmy...
Rookwood
joined 2 months ago
Ah, yeah, and this highlights another issue. Therapists are in short supply in most of the country. If you're in a major city, you'll have a lot of options, but in a 2nd or 3rd tier city you will have limited options, at least in my area.
Well, for instance, BetterHelp is not covered by any insurance, and that's probably the most accessible therapy for everyone. It has more to do with your therapist than the insurance. You probably have dealt with providers that work with insurance. I'm telling you there are a lot that don't for the reasons I outlined.
I also think you're lucky or either the insurers are getting more bold about denying coverage. I've had to fight insurer's on two separate occasions regarding therapy.
No, it's the economy, stupid.
Racism and bigotry are just the keys that they dangle to keep people distracted. But it is not why people vote. Trump voters actually believe he is going to make America great again. It's stupid, but you have to consider how non-existent the Dem's alternative vision is.
It's common for the people who can afford it. Health insurance will fight you on covering it and most therapists try to operate with as little overhead as possible because it is not as reliable as primary care, for example. In other words, therapists generally don't like dealing with health insurers on the patient's behalf. It costs too much for them. This means that most end up paying out of pocket and it does not go against their deductible. I would put a rough estimate that really only the top 40% of earners in America have realistic, reliable access to it. And it will be a significant financial burden for those below top 20% of earners. Which means they will be unlikely to stick with it long-term.
You want to argue that armchair psychology is more important in this situation than condemning doing a Nazi salute?
Autism =/= fascism or even being an insensitive moron. Autistic people are often highly sensitive to such topics.
You're painting autistic people in a bad light. There is nothing about autism that excuses such behavior.
Minor clarifications aren't the end of the world. The left is fine. Stop being sensitive
Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of "cultural purity" beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:
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He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid...
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He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.
No true Marxist
Probably should just drop the term altogether then. It basically implies that being a moron is somehow virtuous.
Last year there were numerous articles about how the economy was doing so well but average people were extremely pessimistic. This confusion and divide highlights why it is and always will be about the economy. The economy is extremely unequal. When it's good, people don't realize it because nothing changes for them. Boiling it down to "good" and "bad" economy is exactly the myopic viewpoint the Dems have and why they will continue to lose.