Leading up to his death:
For those of you outside of the community (and possibly wondering why the furry side of social media is on fire), Dragoneer did a hell of a lot for the furry community. FurAffinity is the largest furry art host and social network; he could have sold out and allowed AI, or made the site friendly to corporate advertising, but he didn’t.
He intentionally didn’t.
If he had, he probably would have been able to afford healthcare, but he didn’t.
He died because he wanted to keep the site in the community instead of whoring it out to corporations, resulting in him not having the money for healthcare when he needed it the most. I wish I’d been more aware of what was going on because I would have chipped in to help (if he’d allowed it).
It makes me fucking furious that the US, the country with the highest GDP in the world by 10 TRILLION DOLLARS, still allows this to happen.
RIP Dragoneer, we’ll never forget you. Wherever you are, I hope it’s filled with fur, feathers, scales and wagging tails.
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Capitalism has zero place in healthcare.
It can never be a “free market” only ever coerced.
Burn it down (the financial apparatus, not the hospitals, duh) and empty the accounts of the “owners.”
Love when antivaxxers try to complain about greedy pharmaceutical companies and yet refuse to support universal healthcare or drug price regulation.
Love when I can point to outright easily proven fraud in American billing practices and they just bury their head in the sand.
I wonder if he could have traveled to a better country to receive care