StupidBrotherInLaw

A bubble? In 2025?! Inconceivable!

You read what they wrote correctly, it's just not true. That's nothing to do with you.

It's that a properly administered epidural or spinal anesthesic wouldn't work that way.

NERDERY INCOMING

An epidural injects a numbing agent just outside of the spinal cord. The intent is to numb the nearby nerves as the anesthetic slowly diffuses into their roots and their corresponding section of spinal cord. It should not go into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

What they're likely doing is an intrathecal injection for a spinal anesthesic, which does go into the CSF. That intensely numbs a portion of the body and is more common for surgery while conscious. The reason it's done is it's very effective while also using extremely small amounts of anesthetic. In other words, you barely feel it locally, much less systemically, because so little is used. That's the point.

You might ask how I know all of this. I've had three. The account in the original post is full of shit.

By force if needed.

You know how abuse produces abusers that perpetuate that abuse? That but on a national level.

This comment made me a hard man.

It's like watching someone in an abusive relationship.

"Don't worry guys, they'll follow the rules this time. Did they say they'll change? Well no, but I just know this time will be different."

The Republicans always knew the Democrats would cave. Controlled opposition.

JFC

As many humans do, I think we tend to simplify complex situations. I see it here, where we treat heterogeneous groups of people as a monolith. Republicans think of the worst examples of Democrats as representative of the whole and vice versa, when there are truly a multitude of beliefs in each. Not all Republicans are evil racists.

Many are stupid racists, or simply stupid but not racist, racist but otherwise not stupid, or evil but indiscriminate. Some are even evil, racist, and stupid - see: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump.

The Republican party is a melting pot of the worst the country has to offer. Don't take that hard fought diversity away from them.

Depends. The classic dilemma of big, thin, and floppy or short, thick, and stiff.

I'd say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon's implementation of the southern strategy. What we're seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.