DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: “I’ve been let down - and I’m not the only one.”
It was proof that Northern Ireland’s health and social care system had “crashed”, said the 49-year-old.
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Billionaires exist and this poor man can’t get a goddamn health care worker.
At all levels of government we’re (worldwide) making due with less while these fucking parasites grow.
Shit is going to get ugly in the next few decades…
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Eat the rich and more rich pop up. It takes more than just “let’s get rid of who we think the sole problem is and everything will turn out fine”. The rich didn’t just appear from a vacuum, they’ve accumulated power and wealth for centuries, if not millennia. “Eating the rich” would require vastly more fundamental changes than just grabbing goods from the nearest billionaire and tossing at “the poors”.
Lol Eat the rich is a euphemism for killing them…not just taking their wealth.
No. Dine upon the flesh of the rich. Consume their nutrients so that you may absorb their power.
I’d like to propose for maximum psychological impact they should be literally eaten using whatever gold plated dishware and diamond knives they’ve got laying around.
Why do we keep saying ‘eat the rich’?
Just take their wealth and give it to those who need it. It is literally that simple.
Make them part of the working class. It’s a fate worse than death in their eyes.
Thats… literally what eat the rich means
That’s figuratively what eat the rich means.
Dammit I’m a FOOL i’m never going to have SEX now
Don’t worry. Stick with me, I’ll teach you all the pedantry you need to trick some idiot’s pants off.
The problem is it’s just a phrase. You can keep repeating it ad nauseam, but unless it comes with actual strategies to complete a goal… it’s as meaningless a phrase as all the rhetoric that right-wingers throw around. And they’re much better at it.
Bringing out the guillotine again.
I read the headline thinking ‘so what else is new’ and then realized they weren’t talking about the US. Here it wouldn’t be news at all.
Over the past while, our government has essentially turned our welfare system into a parody of the US’s. This guy makes the most amazing Lego sculptures, and it’s so fucking sad he’s going through this.
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They do, the problem is the ones in power are all in on it.
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Yep.
I had a construction worker try to explain to me how Elon Musk is a genius who makes it possible for me to do my job (I work in the Space Industry, NOT for SpaceX) and I should be grateful he’s creating those opportunities for me instead of hating on him. He got really mad about it when I didn’t agree.
He got even angrier when I asked him why someone like him, on the lowest rung of the labor ladder, was simping like that. He had no answer though.
Really? No other system in the world has made so much disposable wealth that we actually have some sort of safety net. In most countries or in past centuries, a disabled person would have only his family as a safety net and barring that begging. Most did not live long.
Is not perfect. But if past indications are to go on, it will get better even if you have some back sliding.
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Literally EVERYTHING that’s good in the modern world, including technological advancement, is thanks to capitalism. If it wasn’t for capitalism, we’d still live in slavery in the dark ages.
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Oh bS. The majority of gains have been exclusively from capitalistic countries. Capitalism gave us the luxury to create art like the such that Disney can provide.
Tell me what has the other models given? Theft of IP, Human rights issues, poverty, hunger and sometimes mass deaths. If you don’t like it, move to Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, China… Seriously move. I am sure at least one of those countries would take you.
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And what have the Communists invented? Go back to your hole. Communist like practices. Lol. That is rich. Really you should move to a communist country. How many people have literally starved to death under those governments? But your only response is look at what came out of capitalist countries that I believe are the results of Communists in that country.
Really before you come up with these ideas, you need to first explain why so many people died of starvation in communist countries.
This is Northern Ireland. We don’t have a government at the moment. not saying the Tories haven’t fucked it over. But there is more to it.
The sad thing is in the US its extremely likely the fellow would have already been dead after years living on the streets with a cardboard sign.
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You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.
I trust that in order to make such such a generalizing and dismissive statement you have some form of qualification or primary experience?
Yes. I get free healthcare, and I qualify for free food and low income housing. Many of my friends have been homeless and they have had an easy time finding a shelter.
Fair enough then, not going to argue with your own experience.
You sure were getting geared up to put him in his place though, huh? I’m going to just start telling people like you “thank you for your service “
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A man born without hands or legs has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.
It added that it understood “the worry it is causing”, and would “seek an alternative provider” that would “support him to continue living independently in his own home”.
His care is provided by Connected Health but that is due to end on 1 December, with the company telling BBC News NI that it was “increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances”.
Mr Calvert’s friend Vicky has been making additional visits to help four days a week but now that looks to be the only assistance he will get.
Mr Calvert’s mother, Heather, said she “just couldn’t believe it” when she heard that her son was losing his care package.
She told Evening Extra that over the past seven months the situation surrounding DJ’s care has been “a rollercoaster”.
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did he vote for brexit?
My dad in his 79 years of wisdom told me a few years back about brexit ( we have been in Canada since the 70s)
“It’s just a roundabout way to say we don’t like brown people”
I still stick by that. Succinct.
mind boggeling that sunak yesterday stood infront of a sign saying “boats must be stopped”.
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