nice. i’ve met a guy with stitches they gave themself more than once. probably not that uncommon in the us. My red bag has scalpels and sutures anyway. god forbid, but shit happens.

this was pushed in the 80’s/90’s on conservative talk radio (iirc). strangely, it gets an ideological push from the phenomenon of income reduction resulting from lost welfare benefits as income increases. the brain correlates things irrationally.