A Boring Dystopia

I am a resident of the state of North Carolina. We are sometimes known as Tarheels. This nickname for the citizens of Old North originates with the derisive "tar boiler" referring to the poor whites who rendered pine pitch into tar and turpentine for His Britannic Inbredfulnesses Redcoat Boat Club. During both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, Carolinians gained a reputation for stubborn tenacity. Carolinian patriots frustrated General Cornwallis by flooding the Tar river with pitch. North Carolina was the nest-to-last to secede from the union, earning a reputation as "the reluctant state." A Texan regiment teased a Carolina regiment by shouting "Tarheels!" The reply was "If you had some tar on your heels, maybe you'd have brought back your flag from Sharpsburg!" The term has become a badge of pride, a mark of tenacity, quite literal sticktoitiveness.

Residents of Ohio are called Buckeyes, after a local species of useless, toxic nut.

Nation of demons.

They threw that lady out for drinking a beer in her nursing home. A beer! God forbid you try to have a little joy at the end of your life. STAY IN BED YOU INCONTINENT FUCK!!

My parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio when I was 10, so I did not spring from the Ohio gene pool, I just grew up there. From the moment I arrived in Ohio, I knew those weirdos were a completely different breed.

Bullies were rampant, and proud, defiant stupidity was the default mentality. They have a collective chip on their shoulder because they know they suck, and they hate it, but they have to pretend they're as good as anywhere, but deep down they know they're not. Ohio is very cop friendly, and the cops are the most predatory I've encountered across America. The government is hopelessly corrupt from top to bottom, but not in an organized professional way, like in Florida, but in a ridiculous hillbilly way.

If Ohio was human, they'd be a self-loathing degenerate drunk, sobbing into their beer.

I left 25 years ago, and have never been back. I only miss The Cleveland Orchestra, the Art Museum, and couple of good restaurants, but literally nothing else, especially the shitty weather.

Ohio truly sucks, even Ohioans know it.

Are you saying it's an inherently immoral idea to have for profit healthcare, much less for-profit eldercare?

If only there were literally centuries of fucking historical record and historical fiction on exactly why charging for healthcare destroys societies.

Isn’t it already bad enough that they’re in Ohio? Cruel and unusual punishment

Small Government and Individual Accountability, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!

They talked about a guy who was in a nursing home for 22 years, couldn't hardly see and had no identification information on him (I suppose his meds had his name, but no ID, Birth Certificate and such) but they said that leaves him no way to get a job or housing.

How the fuck would someone who couldn't work for the last 22 years suddenly be able to get a job? If his insurance stopped paying and that's why they kicked him it isn't like someone can just go rent a place to live either, they need proof of income, which he wouldn't ever be able to get. Well and truly fucked out system is

América!

Sounds about right