A long dream.

A migrating phoenix has stopped for a decadent sippy of water from a stagnant puddle in a Walmart parking lot and has ignited the years of accumulated fuel leaks into the surrounding pavement. It's so happy.

It’s worth noting many of JFK’s health issues started after he developed scarlet fever, a common childhood illness that often left victims with damage to their kidneys, heart, joints and brain and sometimes triggered arthritis. There is no vaccine against it but RFK jr is trying to undermine the vaccination schedules for other common childhood illnesses that can cause permanent lifelong damage to a child’s health.

“I don’t understand. How does this refute what RFK jr. said?” Because many of JFK’s ailments may have been preventable/treatable with modern medicine. Because he needed amphetamines to function. Because the average life expectancy for men in 1960 was 66.6. People lived harder lives and died younger. Public health campaigns and infectious disease control and education helped immensely. People were not healthier during his uncle’s presidency because they did not have the tools and knowledge necessary to address many major public health concerns, we have them now and he is firing vaccine experts and literally swimming in shit creek. The average state of health in the 1960s was not better than it is today.

Many do not know about the state of JFK’s health because it was taboo. Because disability and ill health were things that were spoken of in hushed whispers. The Kennedys buried JFK’s health problems like they hid Rosemary after she was lobotomized. RFK jr wants to continue his rose-tinted view of a past constructed through blood and pain and ignorance. He is rewriting history in a way that is so obvious and so vile.

Also by "urinary tract infections" they mean "the clap"

JFK went so hard against the ‘sickly kid becomes a disabled adult who doesn’t get laid’ stereotype that he was still cheating on his wife with a roster of women while his spine dissolved and he was on a dozen medications. If a man is a dog, he’ll continue being a dog even while he is the president of the United States and suffering from a number of serious and debilitating health conditions.

for those asking the book was the starving saints by caitlin starling

I know someone whose nephew is on this ship and yeah, the conditions are wretched. Sewage backups, food rations, and I think a nearly five month back up of packages and mail from family. Reportedly some of the people who’ve tried to jump overboard are lifers who’ve been in the service for decades. If I’m not mistaken they were initially supposed to have only been deployed six months with multiple land stops but they ended up deployed straight to the strait of Hormuz and have been stuck on the ship with deployment extended indefinitely. This was supposed to be solved this week with the USS Roosevelt being deployed to take the Abraham’s place but to my knowledge the open door meeting was changed to closed door and the Roosevelt has yet to leave port.

When you're making a male character into a woman you have to consider his relationship with masculinity when deciding if she would still be butch or if she would be more gender conforming. Is he butch because he actually likes it or because it's imposed on him

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, suck a fellow off to completion, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

you really can reach a point with transgender enlightenment wherein you can attribute any bodily feature silhouette and detail to any gender regardless of typical cisgender aesthetic connotations. anything can be a man's body if the person in it is a man. anything can be a woman's body if the person in it is a woman. anything can be a genderless body if the person in it is genderless. and so on. the only thing that matters is the personhood within and whether you are willing to look and know and see it. open your eyes. keep trying until you no longer flinch or turn away in shame or anger or confusion.

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW