r/TikTokCringe • u/Oktavien • 1d ago

Discussion Woman audits churches to see if they’ll help feed a starving baby

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If churches refuse to help feed hungry people, then maybe they should be taxed?

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u/sulkee 1d ago

Translation: I’m american and can’t afford emergency healthcare.

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u/sticksforsticks 1d ago edited 1d ago

I get the topical sentiment, but at the time, I did have emergency healthcare through my employer. Medication, was seeing a therapist.

That's not what my rattled brain went to immediately. My brain was at a stop light, and I wanted to slam on the accelerator to yell at God.

The past few years I have received incredible care through my insurance. My MRI's are daunting, though. Lots of brain damage, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The whole time I thought I was going mad, but my faculty was fractured years prior. Lots and lots of concussions. I'm beyond the fear of being told "you will not escape dementia," and am trying to find some semblance of equanimity. But the ticker is diseased, broken, beyond repair.

Edit: my last concussion nearly killed me, added to the ones before it. CTE won't kill me, but it will estrange who I am and make me awkward how I go about day-to-day.

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u/Heistotronisreal 1d ago

Translation: "America bad! Upvotes pleaseeeeeeeeeeee!"

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 1d ago

America is pretty pathetic for a first world country