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Damaged vending machines. "No change" messages on broken ATMs. Pepsi ads sponsoring diabetes research. These images may have little in common, but transmit a widely shared yet subtle sensation — they’re the unsettling reminders of a dark and strange twist in the reality we find ourselves in today. And unfortunately folks, it’s also a pretty bleak one.

Let me present to you the 'Boring Dystopia' subreddit, an online community dedicated to "chronicling how Advanced Capitalist Society is not only dystopic, but also incredibly boring." In case you've never heard of this term, it was coined by the late British academic and cultural theorist Mark Fisher. It refers to the feeling of unease in the form of mildly coercive signs that flourish in a late-stage capitalist society.

We at Bored Panda scoured the online group and handpicked some of the most vivid examples that illustrate there's something not quite right with this world. Continue scrolling and be sure to share your thoughts with us in the comment section below. And after you’re done reading this piece, take a look at our earlier compilations full of dystopian madness right here, here, and here.

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We're All Just Profit Potential

We're All Just Profit Potential

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ThePanInPanda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's so well-written as well, sounds like a passage from a dystopian novel, but the dystopia is our reality.

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From A 7-11 In Allen, Tx

From A 7-11 In Allen, Tx

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Real Nice System We Have Here

Real Nice System We Have Here

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was prescribed an inhaler, Spuriva, but I didn't have insurance. $565. I did not get it.

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To learn more about boring dystopia, we reached out to Macon Holt, Ph.D., a researcher at Copenhagen Business School and author of Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism. He told Bored Panda this phrase is related to Mark Fisher’s critical term capitalist realism, "which he used to describe the pervasive belief that capitalism is the only viable form of the political, social and cultural organization following the end of the cold war."

It may be difficult to wrap your head around the term "boring dystopia" but once you get the hang of it, chances are, you’ll start seeing it everywhere. "[It] is more about the aesthetic experience of living in capitalist realism at a point in time when the system appears ever more unsustainable (ecologically, [politically], and in terms of increasing inequality and decreasing standards of living) but in which no other way to organize society has emerged," Holt explained.

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“If I Had A Super Power, It Would Be To Fly. I Would Tell Other Children From Around The World To Come And Play With Me And My Sisters, And To Drink Tea Together!” – Mohamad, A Syrian Refugee In Lebanon

“If I Had A Super Power, It Would Be To Fly. I Would Tell Other Children From Around The World To Come And Play With Me And My Sisters, And To Drink Tea Together!” – Mohamad, A Syrian Refugee In Lebanon

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Gigi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This made me tear up. Lovely child. I cry over these babies daily

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#5

Sadly, This Situation Is Only Gonna Get Worse

Sadly, This Situation Is Only Gonna Get Worse

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sickening how screwed up the economy is. All we can do is hope it gets better in time, but unfortunately, that seems like wishful thinking. I'm so used to living in apartments (and now a trailer in a trailer park because rents for apartments are ridiculously high) that I have no idea what it's like to live in a house. Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough. But only maybe.

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Wait? Am European Lol

Wait? Am European Lol

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Alexandra Nara
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While freedom is still a glorified statement against healthcare or weapon laws- my mind humming some lines of Bobby McGhee. and it 's gettin louder everyday

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Although most of us grew up imagining a dystopian future full of terrifying end-times scenes, brutal police states, and decadent rulers, it is more likely to consist of mundane and unappealing scenarios. Holt mentioned exciting movies like Blade Runner or The Matrix from the '80s and '90s that offered depictions of going out with a bang, "But as the years in which those images came around, none of the dreams or nightmares came true," he said.

"Instead, space travel is becoming the hobby of billionaires while they ignore the ecological crises they could perhaps help with, AI and robots seem either to be surveilling us while they vacuum or when we click on a link, and the VR worlds of the metaverse are just ways to charge us more rent for spaces that we can't actually occupy."

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"Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag", From United Auto Worker, October 1937

"Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag", From United Auto Worker, October 1937

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one made me kinda smile, but it is sadly true. 1937 authors knew what was up!

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Normal Country

Normal Country

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Cool Era We're Living In

Cool Era We're Living In

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muffin woman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The media needs a dose of reality. (also, yes we should allow trans bathrooms)

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Typically, the most evident samples of boring dystopia are senseless ads and ordinary images of broken machinery. When asked about other examples of this experience, Holt mentioned we can find it in bureaucracy, "like the terms of a rental contract that forbid tenants to use cooking oil on the stove, so a landlord can keep the deposit if a single drop is found on the extractor fan hood."

"NFTs are perhaps a good example of boring dystopia,” he continued. "If a sci-fi writer were to dream up a situation in which people paid the money they had earned doing actual work for a certificate of verification that they own a .jpeg of a bored ape, their editor would probably say the world the story depicted would be too depressing to publish."

He also noted that outlets such as Bored Panda draw attention to the conditions of contemporary boring dystopia in its name and try to break up the monotony of the everyday. "In boring dystopia, people are often anxious about work, housing and the future of the planet, and there's very little to alleviate this. As Mark Fisher put it 'No one is bored, everything is boring.'"

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#14

The American Dream: Move Out

The American Dream: Move Out

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't assume it's all peaches and daises in Europe, people are broke here too, with the same ridiculous housing costs and everything else, In the U.K. for example we just have universal healthcare, no guns and nowhere near as much racism but it isn't perfect by any means.

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2% Of Musk's Wealth Could Help 42m People

2% Of Musk's Wealth Could Help 42m People

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Boring dystopia tells us that while capitalism is often labeled as the most efficient economic system out there, it is not necessarily geared toward human flourishing. "Depending on who you ask, it can be argued that in some particular corners of the world at a certain point in history when there was a relatively strong welfare state and high tax regime, capitalism was part of what brought a good number of people out of poverty."

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Siri To Stop Bad Cops

Siri To Stop Bad Cops

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Says so much about our country that people seriously need to do this to interact with cops who are supposed to serve and protect.

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Back To School

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Validating Your Employees By A Pointing System

Validating Your Employees By A Pointing System

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If my boss tried any of that s**t (not that she would), I would sue the company to the ground, holy s**t!

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However, other people will point to the historical and contemporary violence, the destruction of the environment, and the inequality and exploitation required to make such "market dynamism" possible. According to Holt, capitalism has only ever been efficient at producing more capital. But "capital doesn't care who holds it. How it is made, what it is spent on or invested in and who gets to decide these things have always been political questions. And the answers to these questions have been, largely, deferred to the market for a long time, which has produced a world of increasing inequality, anti-democratic power structures, ecological ruin and boredom," he told us.

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Glad Critical Medical Care Is Being Taken Care Of By Private Companies That Definitely Give A S**t

Glad Critical Medical Care Is Being Taken Care Of By Private Companies That Definitely Give A S**t

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American Healthcare In A Nutshell

American Healthcare In A Nutshell

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Martha Meyer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this would be literally illegal in a lot of countries. It's basically attempted murder.

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Ivan Petrov
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would call it willfull criminal neglect - still a serious crime, than deserves jail time.

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Hannah Edwards
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF? Don’t hospitals have a duty of care? Hopefully he can sue the pants off them.

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AMH
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The paramedics didnt dump him on the sidewalk, medical personnel from the nearby hospital did. The hospital is currently under federal investigation

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RK Barbo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't the Dr.s oath say something about first do no harm?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was Georgia and those people need to have their skin slowly melted off in the fiery pits of the worst part of hell

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a child I was told USA is the land of the free, the defender of democracy, where everyone gets a chance to success if he works hard enough. As a kid I dreamed of the USA, dreamed of migrating there. Dreamed of the American Dream. But now that I'm grown up I'm glad I live in "boring" Germany with affordable healthcare, free education, (mostly) fair taxes. USA became the source of gunviolent dystopian nightmare. That's why so many of us talk bad about Murica, it ruined our dreams. At least we don't have to live there. My apologies and condolences to the US people.

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Yelena Yardeen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in America against my will and you couldn’t get me to go back (not that they’d allow me to live there anyway, not being American)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've learned a lot since my sick father had moved in with me. Basically, the Medicare pays for a certain number of days in the hospital,then they kick you out unless you're literally unable to get out of bed. One doctor even tried to get me to sign off on "pulling the plug" when he was in a medically induced coma to recover from an operation, even though his chances of recovery were good. I refused. But, yeah, there's been plenty of times he's been sent home, not because he's better,but because insurance "ran out". It's all about money.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true and very sad. As a nurse some of us know some tricks to keep patients in the facility longer, unfortunately it's criminal for us to do it so not everyone does. I do, though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how I lost my grandpa. He was attacked in a hospital parking lot in Florida by carjackers, beaten, and left for dead. When his health insurance refused to let him receive treatment at that hospital they dumped him on the sidewalk with IV needles still in his hand. My grandmother picked him up and drove him home but he died a few hours later. To add salt to the wound, the carjackers got away and were never identified. The police had no interest. They got the car back after a few days and seemed to think that was good enough.

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Jennifer Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this happened in my town. I had my 3 of my kids in that very hospital.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone is considered unstable (physicallyormentally), critical, or needs life saving measures to stay alive IT IS ILLEGAL TO EVICT THEM FROM ANY HOSPITAL UNTIL THEY ARE SAFE OR CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER MEDICAL FACILITY! I hope whoever did this lost their job and their license

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please stop saying free. Nothing is free, there is no free healthcare, free transit, free housing. It is other people, (the community), sharing in the costs of these things. That's not a bad thing but please stop with the illusion that these things are free.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, its real, but that unresponsive dude is also rescued by chief officer. https://boingboing.net/2021/10/18/a-hospital-dumps-a-black-man-on-a-sidewalk-with-tubes-still-attached-he-is-found-unresponsive.html

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That place needs to be shut down and all the corporate execs should be executed.

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Nicole McDowall
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This disturbed me on so many levels! F**k the money, take care of people!

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M Rob
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I place money that it was a religious hospital? If Jesus is on the wall... You better pay to stay

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Laura A Williams
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually most often that's not true. Religious hospitals help everyone, they are non for profit. They are sometimes not the best hospitals in the world, but ones I have experience with (Catholic hospitals run by nuns) help everyone.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a feature, not a bug. This is exactly what they hope will happen to the poor, in particular to the minorities - that we'll just go away and die off somewhere. It's sickening how corrupted our country has become 😔

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Ray Martin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is unspeakably disgusting. As a collective entity, the United States is an utterly vile society.

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Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are correct that this incident was disgusting. But this doesn't happen every day here. What the hospital did was illegal.

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Paul Ellis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A similarly-themed earlier post attracted the comment: "But we have freedom". Yep. Worth more than life or a dignified death.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They keep using that word but I do not think it means what they think it means.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, that hospital has a history of mistreating their patients! https://www.cbs46.com/2022/04/04/cbs46-investigation-uncovered-ga-hospitals-history-dangerous-discharges/

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Mark Morey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the Tulsa Race Massacre in miniature, and it happens in some form or another every day.

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Garritt VS
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what happens when healthcare is a FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS instead of a HUMAN RIGHT.

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Bernardo Oliveira
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one of the reasons I really do not wanna live in the US. Third world countries have better health care systems

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Moezzzz
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course it was in Conyers. Piedmont Rockdale Hospital if anyone wanting to, you know, burn it to the ground or something

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Helen Jane Witten
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my goodness. That simply would not happen in my country. This is so sad :(

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Angie Taylor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coming to this post late…I’ve been an RN in the U.S. for over 20 years and I’m the first to admit that our healthcare system is horrible. Many of us have risked our careers to try to change it. Unfortunately, most of us get to a point where we realize that it is unlikely that significant change is going to happen in our lifetimes, so we have to do our best to provide quality care to our patients in spite of it. I can’t believe that this is what really happened. 1) “Dumping” is illegal. 2) I’ve never met/worked with a single doctor or nurse that would ever let this happen to a patient, even if the CEO himself/herself told them their job depended on it. It is much more likely that this patient walked out (left against medical advice) and realized he really needed to be in the hospital. Patients try to do this sometimes when they are confused or angry. We do all we can to convince them to stay, involve family members, clergy, etc…but, they have the right to leave if they want to.

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Laura A Williams
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone else above was from the area and said this really happened and the hospital is being investigated.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This can’t be real? Even with out any insurance hospitals have to accept you in for care.

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Jaime Hendrickson
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a state that the hospital will see you, admit you,, operate on you etc. I They just have a social worker retroactively apply for MA. I never realized that not àll states were like this. But if course I live in a state that is easy for adults to get medical assistance. This should never happen in America. It's downright embarrassing.

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Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe all states have to provide emergency care, regardless of ability to pay. This hospital broke the law.

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Donna Partain
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I HOPE A REP FOR HIM SUED THE S**T OUT OF THAT GEORGIA HOSPITAL!

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Darcy Marie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was county wide that this was illegal, maybe just NY? In 2016 I Had a horrible infection that spread into my blood. I had to go to the ER with no insurance and had to stay a week. They billed me for everything (around $30K) and I'm still paying it off.

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Dina Anastasakos
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this not a criminal offense? Sorry but the US is a vile country.

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Gary Harkins
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I googled this to see if their was anything else to this story (not that anything would make this ok) and nope. True story. This makes me sick!

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Sharon Dean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you Georgia for pointing out the grievous sins you commit.....

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Helen Taylor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG! And this whole thing was actually done was supposed medical professionals?

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Marilyn Russell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my God - what kind of people could do such a thing to a fellow human being? Someone made that decision and someone followed orders to carry him out. And they work in a hospital…

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cruel people. I never imagined that anyone could do something like that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like the American health system is run by an organized crime ring.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't that illegal? How is that not illegal? I thought if a person had a medical condition, they had to treat them? And I'm not talking about the Hippocratic Oath. I realize hospitals have administrators with business degree for the express purpose of NOT adhering to the Oath (as a doctor might feel compelled to). I thought there were laws to protect people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn’t that go against those rules of ethics? - “Beneficence (doing good) Non-maleficence (to do no harm) Autonomy (giving the patient the freedom to choose freely, where they are able) Justice (ensuring fairness) “

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so repulsive. How do they live with themselves after doing that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This kind of inhumane awfulness happens everyday in America. I am not proud.

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aiyshag
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we should be ashamed of ourselves....but we are not.....at all!

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carol bland
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That has to be attempted murder - by whoever ordered him out of the hospital.

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Anne Mitchell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called "managed health care". You can pay insurance all your life but if you become seriously ill you are on a clock to either get better or die before the insurance runs out. Only in the USA

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Jonathan Nichols
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That seems odd. Wouldn't the hospital rather give him treatment and then sue him and anyone within 10 feet of him into debt for the rest of their lives?

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Anna Martinez
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wtf again. I had an apendicitis and got to a hospital. They did the surgery first and asked me to pay for it later. The doc said I would've died had they not done the surgery.

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Lindsey or Something
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read the rest of the article, he was taken back into the hospital and treated almost immediately. If you're in a hospital even without any sort of medical insurance you're not supposed to be released from care until you're well. This is solely on the two doctors who cleared him for discharge.

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Bob Cakin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Within capitalism, people are only deemed worthy of care if that care is profitable for the care provider. So if you can't pay and are unable to work, capitalism doesn't care about you. This goes double for marginalized people unfortunately. And that's why organizing healthcare around a capitalist mindset is so uniquely terrible. For many Americans, healthcare is tied to their employment so what our capitalist system is basically telling us that if we are unable to physically work then we don't deserve to live. And this is just one reason why capitalism is so oppressive for disabled people. A good video on the topic for those interested: https://youtu.be/X-bQvd0e2DE

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Glen Moore
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, that's one of the worst things I have ever heard, even your race-baiting pales in comparison.

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EJN
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The trend towards "for profit" medical establishments makes their real feelings known in this episode...they would prefer you died if you cannot pay.

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Verified Losr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These people are actually helping him. It was the people who discharged him and wheeled him off the property of the hospital that are at fault.

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Sarah K
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I live (a different US state), the hospital would have had his Medicare and Medicaid reinstated and running as fast as possible. This would never happen. I'm appalled how immoral and evil the system can be to others who happen to live in other places.

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sara Attar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why don't nurses, doctors and first responders refuse to work unless they can follow their medical oath? To do no harm. I'd say leaving someone to die is doing harm 😳

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DeeDee M
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

??? Is this real? There would have to legal recourse for this, this is heinous.

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El Dee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't that against the Hippocratic Oath? This is what you'd expect in an undeveloped country..

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Oliver Seitz
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trumpcare would have solved this for sure, he promised, he wanted to deliver,... But never did as Trump never cared. USA, the most greatest country has the most expensive disfunctional healthcare System at all... So sad :((

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were cases of people being placed on the sidewalk outside of nursing homes, sometimes in their wheelchair, because their funds ran out. If they had no family, they were homeless. This practice was stopped, eventually, due to public outcry.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't doctors have to take an oath to do no harm? Fairly certain they harmed this man.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@June's Very Own ...its all about making money for the hospital

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well if this is true it's 100% illegal. My guess is the story is made up. No hospital just dumps someone who doesn't have insurance. They legally have to care for anyone regardless of insurance status and risk being sued in to oblivion if they don't.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be dubious of this one. There's a thing called EMTALA that prevents this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously? Do you really think a hospital is going to just "dump a seriously ill Black man" on the sidewalk? They are not that stupid. They are a money-making business and they wouldn't invite the negative reaction that is showing up here. There has to be more to the story.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks more like they are picking him up… please, please tell me this can’t be real

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHAT IN THE FUCKEDUP PSYCHOSHIT HELL?! >:O There are just not sufficient words!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t believe this story actually. I live in the states and hospitals are required to treat you regardless of your ability to pay. You might rack up a debt you can never repay, but they are still required to treat you. That is the case in Florida at least, and I have multiple relatives working on health care that have parents bringing their children to the er for the most ridiculous things because they have to treat them and the parents just don’t plan on ever paying the debt. I’m sure they’re not able, but a lot of times these kids could be treated with Tylenol or a band aid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually this is illegal in America, too. So I'm calling b******t or a lawyer. It's possible he refused care because he was scared of the debt but that's the only way it's true. You're not allowed to treat someone without their consent. And nobody should have to be scared of not being able to pay - there are ways around that even without insurance. Medicaid also doesn't "run out". You either have it or you don't. The hospital either accepts it or doesn't, but that status doesn't change over time - it's determined long before a patient ever gets to the hospital. So the b******t meter is about 150% on this one.

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Government insurance. For once, we can’t blame a private insurance company. As I’ve been saying every time BP dredges up the healthcare debate, Insurance companies are not the only bad guys out there.

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After The Government Let Companies Influence School Curriculums, My Exams Now Look Like This

After The Government Let Companies Influence School Curriculums, My Exams Now Look Like This

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For some, pictures pointing out our dull dystopian reality could be a source of entertainment. For others, they may create a daunting sense of a lost future. Speaking of the latter one, Holt said that the material things that make people feel that way (skyrocketing housing prices, student-loan debts, insane medical bills — the list goes on) stem from actions at various levels of society. "It is just what happens when the interests of people with power align," he added. "Boring dystopia is the experience of our faith in the future having been betrayed. There is not a quick fix. Instead, to quote Donna Haraway, we have to "stay with the trouble" if we want to commit to a future we can flourish in."

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Capitalism At Its Finest. Smh

Capitalism At Its Finest. Smh

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the $150 is a fair price, giving that they need to do a mass amount of tests (aids on of them) and store the blood. They also do a lot of non-profit support. But charging thousands for a blood transfusion is criminal

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"One piece of advice that is really easy for coming to terms with and starting to imagine a way out of boring dystopia would be to read Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? It is an incredibly accessible piece of critical theory and is only about 86 pages long. It is a great jumping-off point for finding out more. Read it with friends and talk about it after. It is a great way to feel less alone in a world that seems to be ever more isolating," Holt concluded.

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Gen Z And Millennials Are Ruining This Country! How Dare They

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Capitalism Leads To Concentrated Wealth. Concentrated Wealth Means Concentrated Power. Therefore Capitalism Is Incompatible With Real Democracy, Which Requires Dispersed, Not Concentrated Power

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bill Gates is the odd one out here. He's spent billions on initiatives that are improving the world, as opposed to denying his workers bathroom breaks, or building a giant penis to fly to space for fun.

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A Grim Reality Sets In

A Grim Reality Sets In

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this. You just work and work everyday with the aim of life or economic status getting better. But it feels as though it never does.

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The Way Most People Engage In Online Discussion Today Is On A Handful Of Centralized Platforms Owned And Operated By A Few Very Large For-Profit Tech Companies

The Way Most People Engage In Online Discussion Today Is On A Handful Of Centralized Platforms Owned And Operated By A Few Very Large For-Profit Tech Companies

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Don't Solve The Problem, Just Spend Tons Of Money To Ignore It

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's one of the saddest things I've read in a while. Won't even let the desperate eat their scraps. Dogs are treated better.

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State Trooper Fired For Disloyalty Simply For Speaking Out And Telling The Truth

State Trooper Fired For Disloyalty Simply For Speaking Out And Telling The Truth

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How Might This Have Happened

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans: Vote Blue. At every level of every election until the Red party gets their heads out of their a*sses and rejoins democracy with at least a modicum of decency and a tiny bit of care for regular people.

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Arrested For Holding Up A Blank Sign

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Facebooks Re-Brand Did Nothing

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We took a right at common sense, then a left at compassion, did a U-turn at greed and ended up in hell.

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Anti-Ai Face Paint

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's an AI technique called universal perturbations which subtly changes pixel values which are entirely indistinguishable to humans but completely mess up classification algorithms. You can even train them to cause the algorithm to mistake you for something specific: like a panda! 🐼

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#40

Whoever Made This Billboard Can Shove It Up Their A**

Whoever Made This Billboard Can Shove It Up Their A**

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Texas Lawmakers Posing As Human Beings, After Passing The New Abortion Ban

Texas Lawmakers Posing As Human Beings, After Passing The New Abortion Ban

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Monsters, all of them. And hypocrites!!! "My body my choice" for masks but not for abortions. "Parents get to decide" for vaccination but not for all the books they've banned. Party of small government my A**E.

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After Working From Home For Two Years, "Return To Work" Today

After Working From Home For Two Years, "Return To Work" Today

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Nbc Is Turning Water Into Thousands Of Pounds Of Real Snow For Their 'Once In A Lifetime' Superbowl Coverage... In Southern California... During A Drought

Nbc Is Turning Water Into Thousands Of Pounds Of Real Snow For Their 'Once In A Lifetime' Superbowl Coverage... In Southern California... During A Drought

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#44

Haha, There Was A Tussle At The Rich People's Gold-Statue Party

Haha, There Was A Tussle At The Rich People's Gold-Statue Party

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“I think I’ll just watch from here. From my balcony. In my million dollar mansion”

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Yea... Let's Go Ahead And Bring Back Slavery

Yea... Let's Go Ahead And Bring Back Slavery

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