solomon42069

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about affording any of that? OR a home... or getting time off work for the 100th time this year.

Life is often unkind to those who need a bit of kindness the most.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

The worst part is when people call somebody lazy or make other assumptions about them cause of their lack of wealth or expensive things or tidy hair. Some people never grow out of that schoolyard shit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Better than Facebook - I had to delete my account and start over cause it kept showing me memories with my ex and old holiday photos. Cause that's what people need - a reminder of their time in hell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sounds like that sheriff aught to be in jail! What a cuntbrain!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The only thing more pathetic and limp than this law is the men who wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I think they've navigated a situation that looked hopeless better than anyone in the west could have expected. We all hoped economic sanctions were enough to elicit a peaceful outcome when negotiating with Russia failed, but instead it's turned into things like BRICS.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Many immigrants are lured into moving to Western countries with promises of a better life—safety, prosperity, and even the allure of things as trivial as Coca-Cola or a suburban home. The promise of no longer living under the threat of being shelled with U.S.-made weapons is understandably compelling.

But once they arrive in the very countries that invited them to "save the economy" and fill labor shortages, they’re suddenly labeled a national security threat. They’re painted as part of criminal gangs or conspiracies, blamed for societal issues, and treated as if their presence is an affront. In reality, their migration often isn’t about seeking a better life at all—it’s about enriching local businessmen who refuse to pay livable wages, instead trapping vulnerable people with exploitative worker visas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes! My apologies, I kept alternating between posting the banner image or the link... This is my first post ever on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Problem is there's too many vested interests. Bernie Sanders would have made a great president. In 2016.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ah, I see one of the toxic family members is with us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Anyone else see the MALP from Stargate?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly the kind of shit we must not stoop to. Let the Trumpers feed themselves to the leopards. They don't need our help destroying themselves, they're perfectly good at doing that themselves.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.

There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.

No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.

I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.

The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.

Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?

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