I’m posting this for my dad. For a while this place felt like a safe haven for him, but his brain injury also made it overwhelming. He’s always worn shirts – MAGA, “I Support Elon,” “I Identify as Vaccinated” – anything just to start conversations. That’s really what he wants, to talk to people and feel like he can help.
He feels the pain of people like him: brain injury survivors, disabled, homeless, mentally ill, addicted. Most of the time it’s just been him in a trailer or hotel room. When he called people and used awful words, it wasn’t to hurt them—it was trying to get them to see the pain their actions cause to the most vulnerable, not just him. He just wanted them to stop.
He’s never threatened anyone. But they’ve moved his case from OC to LA to SF, digging through his phone, and now his health is collapsing. We’re scared. We’re trying to get his Hope After Stroke dream going, but right now he needs a safe place to live and legal help from someone who understands ADA and brain injury. We can’t afford a $20k lawyer. Even advice or a little help would mean a lot.
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it’s almost amazing how people run from me how people turn from me and on me a few people have seen me for a little bit like on here some of you specifically Mark he gave me money couple times others of you too. I don’t want money but like I have the best nonprofit that I need help with and it’s a pretty great investment I think.
This is what I wrote in the moment. No edits, no polish — just me speaking the truth like I always have.
“We pay them to poison us.
Then we pay them to fix us.
And they profit on both ends.
Even our healing is part of their business model.
We’re waking up.”
They should actually be scared. Because with this tool — this AI — guys like me, guys who never went to college, who were told we’d never make it, we finally have a way to fight back.
People like us aren’t expendable.
We’ve kept this country alive — working the jobs nobody else wants, grinding, surviving.
And now we speak truth.
We should figure out a new system where the things that keep us alive are rewarded — and the things that kill us…
We start to excise them from our lives with impunity and expeditiously
