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i grew up thinking it was perfectly fine and normal that we didn’t really have enough to eat and that my shoes had holes in them at the toe for a year before I could get new ones because that’s just the way god wanted us to live
it was okay that all my friends had all the latest toys and gadgets and could go pay to have their hair cut, and they always had new clothes and shoes and i didn’t because in the end i would be in heaven and have everything i needed, and plus we were middle class
man… that was some potent ass copium
“It’s normal that half of my school clothes just barely fit, and that every time I save up enough of my allowances for an NES game, my mom ‘borrows’ my stash from me to go buy tacky shit at yard sales. She’s going to pay me back!”
real talk
my mother giving me an allowance and then calling take-backsies every month because she needed it to cover the bills.
The DPRK is about to invade Israel and there’s no way you can convince me otherwise
that’s that good good shit
Been planning for retirement. The idea that I’m going to survive that long feels like copium. That I’m not only make it through Trump’s America and whatever comes next without being wrongly imprisoned or killed, but am also going to be one of the people who survives climate change because I live next to a large body of fresh water and the rich fucks who survive are going to need townies as their workers. And that the stock market I’m required to invest in to save for retirement will still exist and I’ll still be allowed to retire at all. Some privileged shit on top of being cope. Feels real bleak.
I used to be a chronic copium huffer then I did 6 months in doomer rehab and now I’m sober.
Bernie is definitely going to to win this time there’s no way he can lose super Tuesday to Democrats again
I was Yang Gang in 2020.
Andrew Yang is probably one of the least bad capitalists. I read his books so I gave him a fair shot, but UBI is prolonging the inevitable.
What’s a real shame is he seems pretty honest about his intentions, and there doesn’t seem to be much evil in his intent, so to me he’s a victim of capitalist realism like many others. This begs the question, how many
s are also permacopers?i dont believe he was very upfront about the fact that his UBI was supposed to replace all other government programs. so if someone is receiving section 8 and SNAP they would no longer get section 8 rates on their rent and the UBI would be immediately eaten up, and now that person has nothing left for food cause the UBI was meant to replace SNAP as well
im no yang expert but that always seemed really dishonest to me
FWIW, Andrew Yang is pro universal healthcare and wants regulations on tech firms, but I also know he has cozied up to some sus people in the past.
There was that week where it seemed like a cheap and easy super conductor was possible with lead and copper.
I was a little bit sceptical but I got quite a bit of hope up because it seemed like that would help with climate change a bunch. And it wasn’t possible…
I actually still believe it is a super conductor, just not a practically manufacturable one.
corbyn :(
that living after [personal tragedy] would be worthwhile. holy shit it’s been worse than i could’ve imagined.
Russia beating Kiev in a couple weeks i really did believe manouver warfare wasn’t dead
Turns out for peer on peer warfare it’s still trenches and arty like it’s 1914
the extremely telegraphed B2 movements had to be a bluff. idk if i really believed that but fuck
Bernie 2016 and, the one that hurts the most, 2020. When he was on the upswing, I confidently proclaimed we’d have affordable housing and healthcare in a few years.
Thats the beauty of me being a grumpy old fuck… I’m all out of those now
That you know of
hillary vs bush, #resist with Keith Olbermann, Bernie having a shot after Iowa, Russia ukraine war being a bunch of posturing, etc.
The Albanese government not being shit. Twice.
And they’re not as shit as a liberal government, sure. Compared to Dutton I’ll take anything. But they effectively destroyed unions in Australia. Not straight away, but as long as what they’re doing to the CFMEU can happen to other unions, they’re all effectively powerless.
