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Depressing: 50 Harsh Truths About Reality From The ‘Lost Generation’ Online Group (New Pics)
A quick Google search will tell you that “The Lost Generation” refers to the people who came of age during World War I. It was believed they felt disillusioned by the turmoil, supposedly turning them into rebellious and aimless individuals.
But nowadays, the term seems to apply to all existing generations: boomers stuck in their ways, millennials left jaded from chasing their dreams, and Gen Z folks trying to find their place in today’s society measured by Instagram likes and TikTok followers.
Whichever group you belong to, the Lost Generation subreddit will likely have something for you. This group of 376,000 members has no shortage of posts that express frustrations about student loans, rising healthcare costs, and wealth inequality.
We’ve compiled some of them into this post, which may (or may not) stir some emotions.
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#1
Things Are Getting More Expensive, And Wages Are Stagnating. We Will Die
H Wiley 1 year ago
I actually saw an article titled " raising min8mun wage hurts workers". Look it has to raise sooner or later or then it is too minimum. And eince when did you getting paid more make your life worse off. No ones blaming astronomical CEO pay increases as a basis to inflation but give that burger flipper 50 cents more and " you are ruining the economy"
Manana Man 1 year ago
They're probably making the point that the higher you raise the minimum wage the more people lose jobs. Which is true. But if, as stated here, the minimum wage should be enough to support a family, it's going to have to be raised a lot. And prices will go much, much higher, which may require an increase in the minimum wage...
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Sunny Day 1 year ago
It's not the pay. It's the population. Since 1960 the US population has doubled. People are fighting (financially) over available resources.
Min 1 year ago
No there are more than enough resources, it's just that now they're hoarded by about 15 people.
Load More Replies... Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
Mmmm...not exactly. The first minimum wage in 1938 was $.25 per hour. If you convert for inflation, that is the same as $5.57 today. Now, that's the simplest conversion, accounting only for inflation; however, there are other ways to convert. If we instead convert based on what is called "labor value" (and is itself a complicated set of comparisons), then that $.25 is worth between $13 and $14. Roosevelt (encouraged by his wife, Eleanor, a truly great person) told Congress that he wanted to give "...all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work." The goal was to end child labor, as much as anything else. The big difference then and now is standard of living. No car. No phone. A couple of changes of clothing. No internet. No "fun money." No A/C. My point is that it's just not as simple as this post would suggest.
Thom Serveaux 1 year ago
No fun money, no A/c, no healthcare, no housing...you're right, we all would be better if we just shut up and worked hard for pennies. /s
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Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
In a U.S. society were a family making six figures cannot afford a house payment, we have bigger issues than minimum wage. We have banks making money off buying single family homes, taking them off the market by inflating the price for people WHO MAKE GOOD MONEY, and the current presidency and congress do nothing...because they're getting a slice since their donors/owners/puppet masters cut them in.
Manana Man 1 year ago
The real problem is the shrinking dollar, brought to you by your government, enabled by the central bank. Back when the US was on the gold standard money was very stable.
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iseefractals 1 year ago
Businesses exist to make money, and every business big or small, required someone to sacrifice, time, money, relationships, stability in pursuit of making that business a reality. Let's look at supermarkets, with current wages, average profit revenue is 1-3%, and it takes a minimum of $250,000 just to get the building up and running. That means in order for you as the owner, to earn $100,000 per year, you need to have sales of $10,000,000. Grocery stores need to exist, right? Not something to be broken. So if you have 10 cashiers, who currently make $15/hr, and they demand to make $20/hr.....you're not longer a profitable business! So you can either raise your prices....which won't really work if someone can go a couple blocks away and find everything cheaper or you can install 5 self checkout lanes for the same amount of money, fire all of your cashiers and instead hire a couple people to sit up front, check receipts, and handle the occasional technical difficulty, and pay them $40/hr
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
CEOs don’t need six digit increases while the rest of the world can’t afford to feed itself
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#2
Tip For Pro-Lifers
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
If the rich - and ONLY the rich - were the targets of shootings and the corpses left behind, there would be gun control overnight.
whiterabbit 1 year ago
Deal. Don't like guns, don't buy one. Don't like abortions, don't get one. If everyone minded their own business we'd be a lot better off.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago (edited)
Really? Because babies are ignored after they’re born but school shootings get thoughts and prayers? If you aren’t willing to help support the babies you don’t want to aborted, feel free to f**k off with your “thoughts and prayers.”
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“Who Do You Work For?”
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Guess a jacket would be too small for some. More like a cape. 4 mtrs long
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
This is actually rather excellent. Maybe it's because he's always in a big black gown that lends itself to being a blank canvas, but I had an immediate image of that Supreme Court judge refurbished in the same style of gown, but with patches of bright advertising logos all over, like a jockey's colourful silks.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
I think corporations paying lobbyists to represent the corporation should be illegal, but lobbying in itself is just a person who isn't a representative trying to influence a representative in some way. I think this type of lobbying should be encouraged because it allows a community to voice its own opinions and could allow for bills to be passed that wouldn't normally be thought of.
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Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
Yes! They can all have an "I can hug myself" jacket.
Load More Replies... Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/contributors?id=N00023864 Here's a website of corporations sponsoring Trump's campaign. I couldn't find a list of Harris's sponsors
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
They would have to wear more than a jacket in most cases, some would have to wear them everywhere, carry their accessories patches and tattoo them.
American novelist Gertrude Stein coined the term “lost generation” during the “Great War.” According to accounts, she heard it said by a garage owner speaking to a young employee.
Fellow author Ernest Hemingway then used it as an epigraph to his 1926 novel, “The Sun Also Rises.” It was believed to be an accusation towards younger people in their 20s and 30s and their supposed lack of purpose during the First World War.
#4
Fair Advice
#5
Shockingly True
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
A society where houses are left empty and good food is thrown out just because it can't generate profit is a failed society.
Chris Christo 1 year ago
OMG! This is so cruel to accuse these pure souls of being greedy. After all, they've sent thousands of scrap metal in space.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Food gets thrown out because, in america, if anyone were to get sick they would sue for everything they could get, even if they pulled it out of a sludge coated dumpster. It gets thrown out because food sold in the states, is increasingly grown half a world away, and the logistics don't always work out. It gets thrown out because so many people continue to think that the sell by/best by/expires on date printed on food actually means anything for consumers! It doesn't! It's not regulated, it's for the benefit of the store selling it to you. Yet many people fight that fact tooth and nail, and continue to buy food in bulk, or buy it only to order in, and then toss it out because of that meaningless sticker. Produce often gets thrown out (at best right where it's grown) because it's "ugly" and consumers in the western world don't like "ugly" produce. It's tossed because some people refuse to eat GMO's (including food donated to starving villages in africa and the middle east)
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I read The Grapes of Wrath and was very depressed to see how little things have changed since that book was written.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago (edited)
I've been saying that since 2008. It should be a compulsory read at hs to make people wake up
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Lake Superior Really Be Swinging
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I'd like to respond to Fitton with "Freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength."
mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
I was just on Lake Superior a few weeks ago. Very pretty lake.
In our intro, we discussed a common trait among many boomers: their unwillingness to change their old ways of thinking and doing things. As it turns out, some do so out of necessity.
An April survey by real estate company Redfin revealed that 78% of older Americans would choose to stay in their current homes, many of which are larger houses that used to accommodate their children.
#7
We Are Not Free
Sarah Matsoukis 1 year ago
Amerians need to do what the French would do. Riot, behead some rich people and then learn to make good cheese, bread and chocolate.
Donald 1 year ago
We do have good cheese, good bread and good chocolate local small business does exist in this country. But we definitely need to step up the decapitations tho.
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Jayeff Vee 1 year ago
I was near to death because I was waiting for my Medicare coverage to begin. I eventually had to pay out of pocket, deep, deep pocket. But I'm alive and still don't have Medicare. God bless America?
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
There are millions of people on Medicaid that they get for free and only have to pay 3 or 4 bucks for a copay for adults and all visits and meds for kids are free. Not sure how much adults have to pay for meds. You also have charity care at hospitals that people get either a percentage or full coverage for all bills, especially if it's a University/Medical School based hospital.
aubergine10003 1 year ago
The one thing these memes always forget to mention is that the French DO pay for this healthcare system, just in a different way (via high taxes)
Mike Ray 1 year ago
Americas health care problems can be chalked up to greed. Specifically Big Pharma and malpractice attorneys that drive up the cost of insurance for doctors, dentists, etc. That said, nothing beats the U.S. for the quality health care
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Healthcare should never have been made for profit in the first place
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Je L 1 year ago
What you don't pay in tax you pay in health insurance which drives up the cost of healthcare for everyone. It may end up costing you more but at least you don't have to watch your neighbour go bankrupt because their child is ill.
Load More Replies... Aaron Parker 1 year ago
No. This needs to be repeated over and over and over until change happens.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago (edited)
John Boy - I live in France. When I call for an appointment to see my doctor the wait time is never more than two or three days. NEVER more than two or three days. NEVER. Did I already say "never"?
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Some Of Us Are Hardly Living A Fulfilled Life
tameson 1 year ago
That phrase dates dates back to the 1750s so I have no idea why you are attributing it to boomers. Plus, 2/3 of boomers are not financially prepared to retire and boomers make up fifty percent of all homeless single adults. This isn't a generational issue, it is a class issue and a political issue.
Raphapablap 1 year ago (edited)
More blaming of generations, its not a "boomer" concept, it's a wealth concept. Stop generalising by age and start attacking the wealth gap. Signed, a millennial, if that matters to idiots who can't understand.
Raphapablap 1 year ago (edited)
Before the inevitable downvotes come in, if you actually consider the blame you lay on "boomers" then you are only thinking about the small percentage that were financially successful against probably an overwhelming majority that still need to work to survive as retirement is not an option.
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rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
This is an idiotic misunderstanding just like "blood is thicker than water" (which really means "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"). It means that money in and of itself won't make you happy. Not that you can be happy without money.
Manana Man 1 year ago
That phrase (and concept) goes back centuries. But if you want to use to bolster your bigotry toward baby boomers go for it.
#9
Nobody Wants To Fish
Atero 1 year ago
What does it have to do with the GOVERNMENT? I'd say it perfectly describes asset owning class with strong rentier mindset in capitalist system...
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Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
That only applies to certain fish like tuna, not all of them
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ByeFelicia 1 year ago
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, the pond is taken by the government, tell him he can only have the fish the government provides but he HAS to fish for the government and then he'll say stuff like "I'm hungry and my teeth hurt." -- Communism
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
The scenario you've described is called bureaucratic state capitalism, not communism, and it was most typically represented by Soviet-run dictatorships. Pretending that economic ideology is simply an on-and-off switch between Adam Smith and Stalin is as ignorant as associating every conservative ideology with Nazi Germany. Many achievements of our civilization — from the five-day workweek and eight-hour workday to voting rights for women and guaranteed access to education and healthcare — have been accomplished by socialists. Not liberals, conservatives, or corporations, but socialists. Remember this whenever you're enjoying your weekend, getting paid for overtime work, or noting that child labor is illegal.
Load More Replies... Manana Man 1 year ago
Let's take this seriously for a moment. If you invested in building a pond and stocking it with fish, wouldn't you expect a significant share of the proceeds? After all, you just spent a bunch of money which you earned somehow, are you supposed to just throw it away? You may have even had to take out a loan to do all this and now you have to make payments. So if you hire people to do the work, you're going to have to pay enough to get workers, because if they can find a better job they'll leave in a heartbeat. So now you have a business and there's a lot more fish available than there was before you started it. So that's good. But you can't just give fish away or you'll be out of business and there will be no more fish. So you're going to sell them at whatever price the market allows. Price them too high and you'll be stuck with a lot of rotten fish. Price them too low and you'll go out of business. Am I missing something here?
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Ponds like that exist and they usually make you pay for the fish you catch and have a catch limit, but they don't take the fish from you and sell them
Load More Replies... winterwidow87 1 year ago
It's clear you have no idea what capitalism and socialism mean or you wouldn't have written "socialism" under a very evident metaphor for capitalism.
Load More Replies...Aging in place, as it is known, is when baby boomers refuse to leave their homes because there isn’t much financial incentive if they let it go. 54% have no mortgage, and 46% have lower interest rates. It would be unwise to shell out much more for a new home.
However, aging in place has caused a housing shortage since empty nesters own 28% of three-bedroom houses in the United States. That leaves only 14% for millennials with children.
And with a shortage comes price hikes. In May, Bankrate released a report revealing that the median home sale price as of that month was $419,300, a 5% increase from 2023.
#10
It Shouldn't Be
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
Pretty sure they did this in Melbourne Australia in a suburb and the local council came and cut all the trees down.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
We have an apple tree free for picking for everyone living in the apartments. People are usually too shy about picking enough, not picking too much
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 1 year ago (edited)
I worked in a building that had rows of orange trees out front, and the fruit was free for the taking. The problem is that oranges develop their orange color long before they are ripe. People would try to eat them, find out they were sour and just dump them on the ground. Some people would come inside to complain about the taste, especially if their kid ate one. I tried to lobby for the facilities management people to put up a sign explaining that the oranges weren't ripe yet, but it got nowhere. So, to this day, there is a sidewalk full of wasted fruit and people to complain about it.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
We also had fake orange trees inside the building. People would pick those oranges and then complain about our "deceptive practices" when they realized that the orange wasn't real.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Good idea in theory, but kind of a mixed bag in practice. They tried this a few cities over from me. The thought was that it would be awesome to have fruit trees & vegetable gardens planted & open for everyone. It started out good, iirc, but then people were driving in, picking the fruits & veggies, and then selling them at their fruit stands and bodegas. 🫤 Which meant that instead of having free healthy food alternatives, people still had to buy it from the jerks that were taking it to stock their businesses. The city officials eventually pulled it all up. Can't have anything nice.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Like a lot of things, looks good on paper, IF you don't count in human nature.
Load More Replies... DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
I have thought about this like a million times! I'm going to get involved and make this happen. Fire!
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Guerilla gardening is a thing. We've got a herb garden in our town, anyone can pick what they need from it.
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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Riverside, California. Citrus trees everywhere. Harvest is in November/December for the oranges and grapefruit, and there's lemons, limes, and a bunch of others all year.
Nota Robot 1 year ago
Fun fact: hunting/gathering on land you do not own/ do not have permission for is considered poaching and can lead to considerable fines. Eating berries in the woods? Poaching. Picking fruit from your neighbour's tree? Poaching. Of course the Dutch authorities are lenient with enforcing the berries in the woods thing, provided people do not go overboard.
Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
We've got a whole stretch of fruit trees growing on the street where I live in NZ. Oranges, 3 types, of apples, peaches, pears and feijoas. Anyone is free to just pick them.
#11
Tax The Rich!
Verena 1 year ago
Well, stop buying random s**t via Amazon. Bezos got rich because he offered "convenience", and customers love that more, than they hate that they made him rich.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Sorry, but Amazon isn't a mom-and-pop establishment. Successfully boycotting large corporations is impossible because the issue is deeply systemic and extends beyond the control of your shopping cart. A boycott of Amazon would only be effective in an ideal scenario where we lived in a fair and sustainable economy with just a few malevolent businesses. While I understand the desire to feel you've made a meaningful impact, but not ordering from Amazon is far from political activism.
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Avoidance_Panda 1 year ago
Ha ha, he can't even afford an 18 hole... Times must be tough for him and his weird di*k looking rockets...
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Even better, close the loopholes and tricks they use to get out of paying taxes
Ronald Robin 1 year ago
"Tax the Rich" is such a stupid statement. Billionaires like Bezos and Musk pay zero - little tax through legal ways.
#12
Greedy Landlords And Depressed Wages Are The Problem!
Kangaroo 1 year ago
I started renting my current apartment for $775/month back in 2019 - my rent is currently $817/month because they can only legally increase it on me so much every year. My new neighbour across the hall (in an identical apartment to mine) just moved in and is paying $1,600. For the exact same apartment and amenities I have. Make it make sense. I’m literally never moving out lol.
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detective miller's hat 1 year ago
My landlord hasn't upped my rent since I moved in 9 years ago, so I still pay $750 per month. The cheapest 1 bedroom rentals in my area are now going for like $1,500. if anything happens to my landlord, I will probably be homeless.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
AMEN! I recently looked up the apartments I rented 32 yrs ago for $240/month with natural gas included. It is now renting for over $1400 and I'll be damned, the kitchen cabinets are the ones I used in 1991. Just a coat of white paint.
Nimitz 1 year ago
25 years ago my mom paid $700 per month for a split-level 3 bedroom house with vaulted ceilings, dining room, kitchen, living room, and large den and utility room. Bills were about $150/month for gas/electricity and minimum wage was $8.95. Now it's $2200/month with bills about $400/month and minimum wage is $15. This is not the same f*****g universe. And I just love hearing boomers talk about the endless wars and inflation crises they lived through. Can't imagine what that was like.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Federal Reserve, again and again. Intentional inflation. They even admit it. Target is 2%. In 20 years at that rate you need $149 to buy want you bought before for $100. Then they lower interest rates to almost nothing 'to stimulate the economy', which makes it cheaper to buy houses so house prices rise even faster than everything else. So taxes go up on those houses and landlords raise rent. It's a vicious circle started and perpetuated by the Federal Reserve.
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
And the government that sits back and does nothing about it because they already have multiple homes purchased by these very same greedy people from which we need freedom. But, yeah, let's continue blaming the owners and not the government that sets up a system for the owners to succeed and the "common folk" to pay for it. If people would see that the government is Trump, wealth is "the wall", and the people are "Mexico is going to pay for it", they'd change their tune and their focus. Until then, it's "orange man bad, Republicans bad, Democrats better, Go Kamala".
Min 1 year ago
Wait...are you blaming Democrats for not controlling how much rent landlords can charge? Because that's some radical left-wing thinking there.
Load More Replies...Many millennials grew up following a general life path paved by their parents: get a good education and a stable job to eventually own a home and raise a family. However, getting to step three has been nearly impossible, thanks to the housing crisis.
This has urged many to delay marriage and having children. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that the average marrying age for a man is 30 and 28 for a woman. That’s a four-year delay for both genders compared to 1987.
#13
What A Society We Live In
B 1 year ago
If I was faced with living in a box under a bridge with no food or basic amenities, I'd seriously consider stealing and wouldn't give a damn about getting caught. Most first world prisons offer food and shelter, at the very least.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
"3 hots and a cot" sound a lot better than "A box on rocks."
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Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
Well, we treat our criminals better than we treat our homeless…
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
Absolutely true. The rich thieves and criminals are able to BUY their way out of trouble/accountability.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The Supreme Court even gives some of them immunity.
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iseefractals 1 year ago
in the US, 20% of incarcerated individuals are there for d**g offenses, 60% are violent offenders, which means Murder, manslaughter and rape. The notion that "poverty drives crime" is predicated on looking at statistics, without context to explain the disproportionate rate at which a given demographic is in prison. But it falls apart as soon as you look at what population totals that statistics draw from.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Wikipedia: The percentage breakdown of people incarcerated by offense-type is as follows: 47% of people are incarcerated for d**g offenses, 42% for public order offenses, 7% for violent offenses, and 4% for property offenses.
Load More Replies... whiterabbit 1 year ago
Lol yea, I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the crime(s) they committed that led to their arrest.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Yeah but said "crimes" are things like inability to pay fees/fines, experiencing homelessness, sex work, inability to pay bail, inability to pay for mental health medicine, etc. Plus, instead of putting money into alleviating poverty, the US spends $250 BILLION dollars on keeping these people in jail.
Load More Replies... Sunny Day 1 year ago
Yeah. Nothing to do with the crimes they committed. And no, the crime wasn't because they were poor. There are a lot of poor people in the world, but not all of them are criminals.
Bobby 1 year ago
There are states here in the US where sleeping on public property is a crime. Sleeping on private property is also a crime. Being homeless is basically a crime in these places, so yes some of them are in fact incarcerated just for being poor
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This Is What We're Up Against
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
Somehow my number got attached when my son purchased a townhome a few years ago. Within months I started getting these texts asking if I wanted to sell. I kept responding "not interested" until just recently. I was able to answer honestly: "Are you kidding me? My son KNOWS what he has. The home has more than doubled in value over the past 3 years, the remaining mortgage is 1/4 of the value, AND the interest rate is 2.3% FIXED. I raised a damn smart boy who, at the age of 25 years, has accomplished and created more opportunities than I have in my 56 years of life. Don't insult me or him."
Nimitz 1 year ago
People who bought "investment properties" are the f*****g worst. Multinationals and REITs who bought the rest of all the available homes are also the f*****g worst. Between the two of them they managed to destroy the future for everyone. All so they could skim mortgage money from renters instead of investing their money literally anywhere else.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Now you have confirmed your address and phone number, you are about to be scammed!
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I'm so freaking tired of calls, emails, texts and junkmail trying to buy my house. My number isn't listed so it's either auto dialers or they are getting it from the county tax records. GRRRRR!!!
SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
According to the "Tighty Rightys" this the fault of "Liberal Lefties"
#15
It's Pro Birth Not Pro Life
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
@Fifou newsflash, dipshit, not everyone chooses to have sex.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Fifou, explain your B.S. to victims of rape or incest. Also, your statement is VERY sexist - you let men off the hook. Only womb-bearers have to deal with pregnancy. And what about the babies once they're born? What will you do for them?
Patricia Smith 1 year ago
I know that men bear a responsibility here but so few rise to the occasion. Ultimately, women seem to be the lonely ones who must suffer unwanted pregnancies. So let all men abstain from voting in Congress on abortion bills and just let the congressional women vote. Mostly like in real life.. Sounds reasonable to me.
Nota Robot 1 year ago
Sorry for being cynical, but then I truly hope the AOC's vastly outnumber the Taylor-greenes and Boeberts.
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notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
The number is going to grow soon. You're forcing ppl to give birth especially SA victims, addicts, those in poverty and will soon have to house them. Then I suppose you are doing this to give your pals who own the for profit prisons more money for a kickback because they arrest the ppl who can't afford the kids, aren't fit to raise them etc. Great plan. You double child abuse and abandonment and end up with messed up future adults. Great job with your short term idea. You're going to be spending 3x as much taking care of everyone. Oh wait other countries are a priority to receive the money.
Nota Robot 1 year ago (edited)
If you mean by that last sentence that they spend, store and invest their I'll gotten gains in shady tax-havens, I agree with you. If you mean that your country and my country should stop helping less fortunate nations, I do not.
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Laserleader 1 year ago
Everyone needs to be reminded over 30% of pregnancies don't last full term. Some bodies can't bear children without horrible damage and danger of death. It's scary when a doctor tells you there's a 20% chance of success and a 50% chance the woman would die... If you've ever been given those odds, tell me you wouldn't want the choice to 100% live with a 10 min simple procedure.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
Pro lifers want pretty white babies (but not too many and not from “good girls” they know) to be born so they can adopt them. They want poor non white babies to be born so their parents, especially mothers, will be so tied to caring for them that they will accept any treatment and provide a future cheap labor force.
Student debt is another obstacle for many millennials. A 2019 triennial survey of consumer finances revealed that the net worth of millennials aged 35-44 is 20% lower than that of their baby boomer and Gen X counterparts.
According to a 2023 Forbes report, the median student loan repayment amount of $25,000 to $30,000 per borrower could be a factor. Given such a debt load, many cannot afford long-term savings for a down payment on a home or retirement.
#16
No Words Describe This Tweet
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
A politician in Australia committed treason during last term of Government and didn't get so much as a fine and their identity is protected... climate protesters get 5+ years in jail.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
A politician in America committed treason during his last month in office and has been renominated by his party.
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Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
Justice is not blind, that is only a blind fold. She weighs the weight of one's wallet. How much "justice" can you afford?
Manana Man 1 year ago
According to Snopes the homeless man (Roy Brown) did perform a holdup, claimed to have a gun and he had priors. Sentencing in Louisiana is from 3 to 40 years. Fifteen does seem pretty harsh for a guy who turns himself in even so. The other case (Paul R Allen) was given some leniency because the fraud was already under way before he became CEO, his crime was non-violent and he received credit for testifying against the man who masterminded the scheme. There are a lot of differences; juxtaposing these two cases to make a point seems only partially valid.
Deedee 1 year ago
I've done no wrong, sweet Jesus hear my prayer -Look down, look down, sweet Jesus doesn't care...
Load More Replies... Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
The HAVES get the lawyers and their freedom. The HAVE NOTs get 3 hots and a cot. Money should not buy unaccountability.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
I'm looking at the sentence 'slightly less than the six year term (72 months) sought by federal prosecutors.' My workings says that's closer to half (55.5%). And then time off for good behaviour... Slightly less to me is maybe two or three months off...
Sarah Matsoukis 1 year ago
maybe he wanted to go to prison to not be homeless anymore, heard that many times before
#17
Americans Live In Fear Of Others Abusing Their Own Freedoms
keyboardtek 1 year ago (edited)
Trump has his followers believing there are thousands of immigrant rapists and murderers coming into the country so that we all need to live in permanent fear and get a gun for protection. The only fear I have is that an angry white man with a gun will take out his frustration on random people.
Verena 1 year ago
Well.... this the history of how the US was colonized. Millions of immigrants, including a certain percentage of rapists and murderers, came to that area of the world ... It's more that MAGAs are afraid that the same will happen to them, what their ancestors did to the original locals.
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Anony Mouse 1 year ago
This thread has devolved into the usual BP crapping on the US. We are bored with this content.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
So you'd rather ignore the fact that the country with the most resources is seriously falling behind in health, safety, freedom, and education compared to other OECD nations, simply because you think pointing that out is "crapping on the US"? Is it preferable for you to sit back and do nothing for your country? How ,uᴉʞɔnɟ patriotic of you!
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LB 1 year ago
Who knew, the land of the free isn't the US, but like, any country in Europe! (/S - Other places too, I'm sure, but I'm from the Netherlands so this is my frame of reference)
silverfish imperitrix 1 year ago (edited)
Is this written by a European? Because it seems to me that there is a war going on there that's killed hundreds of thousands. There's no wars here.
Calunii 1 year ago (edited)
Your guns kill more people every year than the total amount of civilian casualties in the Ukraine since 2022.
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But It Must Be Those Damn Phones, Amirite?
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
The planet is boiling alive because we cut down trees to build homes, businesses, and parking lots and NEVER PLANT MORE! Plant trees, grass, and other plants and you'll make the world cooler, return its beauty, and help the delicate lifecycle of the world. It's not difficult, but it's not being done.
Donald 1 year ago
While I agree with you and your love for plants, that is a very oversimplified solution to an extremely complex problem. Factory farming, melting permafrost, and the ever expanding human population that wants MORE MORE MORE every single day are giant factors too. By all means reforest areas that were clear cut for lumber but we need to, as a species, curb our apatite for constant expansion and learn to live with our environment instead of battling against it.
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iseefractals 1 year ago
The united states accounts for 4% of humanity, but 15% of global GHG emissions. China, accounts for 17.5% of humanity, and 27% of global GHG emissions. Americans think this statistic shows china to be the worst polluter....when the reality is that China has 4.2x the population....and outputs 45% more GHG. That's before factoring in that 10-15% of china's GHG emissions are generated during the production of goods, specifically for the U.S. If the united states had the same population as china, it would account for 63% of emissions. The average driver in the U.S produces more emissions just by driving (29% of U.S emissions, 4.5% global), then the majority of individuals in the world do TOTAL.
For Gen Z, mental health has been an issue. According to research by the Walton Family Foundation, people under the age of 25 are twice as likely to battle depression and feelings of hopelessness. They are also thrice as likely to contemplate self-harm.
For experts from Hofstra University, the obsession with technology and social media could be one reason. Associate professor Jamie Mitus says tech addiction may result in psychological disorders like depression, repetitive motion disorder, anxiety, and sleep deprivation, to name a few.
“When you’re getting a device at five years old, you haven’t developed that ability to regulate yet,” he explained. “So it’s easier to slip into the impulsivity of using the technology and having a harder time breaking away from it.”
#19
Pro Life Until You're Born
UKGrandad 1 year ago
House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and D**g Administration to address the shortage of baby formula — within days of criticizing President Biden for not doing enough on the issue. (Source - Washington Post).
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
They are Pro Birth . They are not Pro Life. They don't want to spend money to help these poverty stricken ppl they force to have kids now but better be prepared to open orphanage and foster care and pay double the cost later for the majority of the kid's lives after taking those same kids away because they refuse to help feed them for a little while and then blame the parents and jail them. Then pay to house them in jail because they can't afford to feed their families on p**s poor wages.
H Wiley 1 year ago
They need the workforce. Grow up in care, get offered a job in slaughterhouse at 14 ( a GOP proposal ) and you jump at chance to earn pittance. We are in Dickens territory here.
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Christine Caluori 1 year ago
How can you vote against baby formula ? mind you UK government has just stripped nearly 10,00 pensioners of their winter fuel allowance which isn't to bad for the wealthy but will hit those who are only barely above the minimum to be eligible in the first place
DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
Additionally, 'pro-life' should also cover Medicare, Medicaid, and all assistance programs. PRO-LIFE IS THE WHOLE LIFE!
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago
BoredPanda: where the best, brightest, and most learned political experts and scholars gather to comment about issues they absolutely and fully understand. To quote the great Jerry Seinfeld, "Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo!"
Vidas Zlioba 1 year ago
Happens all the time: write a bill concerning something that practically no one opposes, load it up with objectionable items, and if the bill fails to pass, use it as a cudgel against your political opponents by claiming it failed because of the item that no one opposed. Everybody does it.
Load More Replies... Ronald Robin 1 year ago
Not all politicians who support pro-life ideology truly care about the babies. If they did, then stuff like this wouldn't happen.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
I can’t even with this thread anymore. Take responsibility for your actions or f**k off!
Manana Man 1 year ago
Just read up on it. There were two bills. Unanimous passage of bill expanding the types of formula available under WIC. Republicans voted against a second bill that gave the FDA more money without the bill specifying any particular use for the money. Democrats used it for political gain.
#20
Of Course We Do
Orysha 1 year ago (edited)
Can you (and some friends) get a gun and steal from a wheelchair factory? Seems faster and easier to me.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
True, true. Just a thought that it might be more poetic to get a gun and steal gun grade metal from a gun factory.
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Getting approved for disability is even harder. I checked a guy in for an appointment in a power chair that is quadriplegic because somebody crashed onto him. His disability had been denied and was being appealed. I asked him what idiot denied it because he is clearly disabled, guess they didn't actually read his medical records. He was finally approved after getting a disability lawyer.
Jennifer Swain 1 year ago
Is this to buy not outright or waiting for insurance to pay for it? Kind of a big difference.
Thom Serveaux 1 year ago
Who has money--disabled or not--to pay cash for what seems like a power wheelchair?
Load More Replies... Bluonthefront 11 months ago
Sure is. And people are getting righteously angry about health care costs/inefficiencies. Complete the puzzle.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
WTF.. A wheel chair in my place is only USD 50 for a shiny new one.. There are load of people that will give them for free if you ask nicely.. My goodness, USA healthcare is doom..
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Take a closer look at their profile picture. It’s not exactly a $50 dining chair on wheels they're talking about.
Load More Replies... whiterabbit 1 year ago
Not necessarily. You're paying for a gun out of pocket, if you were paying for your wheelchair out of pocket you could simply go to the store and purchase it in one day. It's the insurance company slowing things down.
Betsy Hood 1 year ago
You mean to get them to pay for the chair. You could buy it and get reimbursed
#21
What Do You Think?
Paul Rabit 1 year ago
I read somewhere that Hammond spared no expense on everything except IT and security.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Now do Batman, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Wild Wild West, Avatar, Planet of the apes? 🙃
The mental health crisis among Gen Z has also left them struggling to land jobs. In January, the New York Post reported a survey involving 800 hiring managers and executives in the U.S.
They revealed that recent college graduates are failing job interviews, urging 60% of employers to offer more benefits to attract older workers.
Experts like publishing entrepreneur Stephanie Kaplan Lewis are pointing to anxiety as a likely cause. In a January interview with The Guardian, she stated that Gen Z “won’t use corporate speech” and “may struggle with eye contact, body language, fidgeting, or not holding their phones.”
#22
"Angry Oinking Noises"
Needie 1 year ago
Employ 'retired people' to converse with kids, watch what happens. It's a personal goal of mine when I'm financially independent.
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago
Sadly, there's a significantly non-zero amount of "retired people" who think the current generation all belong in jail, just because those kids don't agree with fascist policies. So about half your "retired people" group would be actively calling the police on trans kids, gay kids, poor kids, black kids, girls who wear shorts, and a number of other "undesirable elements".
Load More Replies... Betsy Hood 1 year ago
Not true. Numerous shooters have been stopped. But the media ignores it because it doesn't fit the gun control narrative.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
And what is the exact ratio of successfully stopped shootings to bloodbath tragedies that makes you feel so satisfied with the situation? How many school shooting per year are just okay with you?
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School Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g
Manana Man 1 year ago
How can you possibly know if they stopped any shootings? Where do we find a list of how many things didn't happen.
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
Okay, I agree with the sentiment, but this is so very, excessively untrue. There are reports of several school shootings that were stopped without death, and there are dozens (at least) more of people who saw security and decided not to shoot.
Curry on... 1 year ago
And one group of police stood outside a school listening to shots being fired.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
There was 1 stopped in Hillsborough, NC that was stopped by a State Trooper who is also a Driver's Ed Teacher. He happened to be in the right place at the right time that day to stop a guy that had killed his father before going to the school. There were a couple of f shots outside and a teacher heard it and dialed the lockdown code. Nobody was hurt and that guy is in prison. I think the school resource officer helped with the arrest. My son's bed friend and his twin sisters went to that school and my kids went to the other highschool on the other side of town.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago (edited)
Since 1999 there were almost 92,000 school-related arrests. Not over 1 million. Idk where this dude got the 1 million stat from
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Yaaay, we finally added the Nazis' favorite pseudoscience (AKA race) to the discussion about safety, education, and gun control! America's favorite subject to avoid constructive discussions about policies that actually work.
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I Mean, I’d Rather Die Than Owe Medical Bills For The Rest Of My Life
Farnzy 1 year ago (edited)
That's literally why I don't go. I don't want to deal with the shame. Oh yeah and I can't afford it
Load More Replies... Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I had dental insurance. After a procedure, I went to settle the bill. I was asked if I really wanted to use my plan because paying cash would be cheaper. WTF?
Curry on... 1 year ago
My cousin said: "I went to the dentist. I did all the stuff. I still had to get work done over the years. Now they want to take out most of my teeth. What was all that work and expense for? They could have pulled them all and saved me a ton of money."
Data1001 1 year ago
I have dental insurance and I'm still waiting a few more years to fix some broken teeth that I've had for about 8 years now, because I know that even with insurance, it'll cost me a pretty penny. In the meantime, I'm just using sensitive teeth mouthwash every day to avoid feeling too much discomfort from it.
distant_echo 1 year ago (edited)
Really. I went to the dentist every 4 months because it was covered under my plan. I moved to a different state, got new insurance and a new dentist. Apparently I need $1100 worth of dental work done-after insurance. THIS.
Joshua Moore 1 year ago
I work for a medical company in the USA doing IT work. I will sometimes see a patients bill, which goes into the millions or tens of millions of dollars. It is so much cheaper to die at home.
SuperNovaToiletClog 1 year ago
Let's break it down for that dentist: If I go to the doctor, I pay a $30 copay without a limit. If I go to the dentist, I pay a sliding percentage based upon the procedure being performed AND I have a maximum that I will hit in 1 or 2 visits max.
#24
The Myth Of Hard Work
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
...and many more millionaires would have experience of what it means to work in the service industry (let alone work hard).
Raphapablap 1 year ago
Because no other sector works hard? We're all struggling, don't make it about you, make it about all workers who are trying to survive.
MC Scott 1 year ago
Service work is its own particular kind of disempowerment hell, because you’re at the mercy of the always-right customer, and you can’t say or do anything that might remotely put you a risk of losing your job. I’m of the opinion that working at least 6 months as a server or store clerk at minimum wage (or below) should be a required form of national service. Maybe a few more people would develop some manners and empathy
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
No, Fifou's English isn't good enough to be an American. But arsëhole definitely
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
What planet do you live on? Sure as hell ain't Earth.
Load More Replies...Despite these generational struggles, Boston University experts say we have many good reasons to be optimistic about the future.
An article published on the school’s official website in early 2024 mentioned greater acceptance of mental health matters, the use of AI to speed up scientific discovery of new drugs, and the improvement of healthcare as some things to look forward to. It isn't all doom and gloom, after all.
#25
We Need More Financial Literacy
frederick clause 1 year ago
This is also why religions want you to have a big family. If you are poor and struggling to survive you don't have time to question authority.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Also if you're poor and too busy raising a large family, you won't be able to educate them. So they'll also over-reproduce uneducated people who vote against their own best interest and believe in religion. It's the conservative/religious feedback loop
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Are You Burned Out Or Are You Having A Normal One?
Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I no longer watch the news. I figure if it is important, I will hear about it.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Eventually you just give up. You resign yourself and wait for the other shoe to drop or if something good is offered, what's the catch?
#27
American's Experience In Wonderland
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
And people still believe that there is any overlap between capitalism and freedom...
Now, let’s shift the discussion to you. What generation are you a part of? Are you going through any of these issues? Let us know in the comments!
#28
Yup, Sounds About Right
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
I'm sorry but I am Gen X, what retirement plan? I am lucky if my monthly income lasts 2 weeks. Retirement savings is a fantasy
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
The greedy boomers are dying off slowly but surely. Maybe when they're officially gone here in about 20 years things will get better. That's my hope
Atero 1 year ago
Gen Z don't have a plan at all... "Work until you drop" is for gen X and "crash and burn" for millennials.
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Me Too
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
Both parties are bought and paid for....Bernie was "too far out there." It scared them
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I would have paid money to see the debate between DJT and Bernie. Notice Trump never tried to tear down Bernie near as bad. He is scared shitless of him.
Load More Replies... rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
What an idiotic tweet from an idiotic person who understands nothing about how Roe v. Wade was overturned.
john doe 1 year ago
The only reason roe was overturned is because the Democrats loved using the threat of losing the rights to reproductive choice to get people to vote for them, they were worried that if they passed it into law then the threat would be gone and the voters wouldn't be afraid of the Republicans and vote for the Dems out of fear. They used it as a stick for decades they still are, they won't stop, that's what happens when your "left" party is actually center right on a political spectrum. We need to oust about 99% of them and ban super pacs and big money donors or it will never get better.
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aubergine10003 1 year ago
LOL who fought against Bernie Sanders? He did as well as a mediocre politician with very few bills to his name in his lengthy career could possibly do (come at me, Bernie Bros, the millions of you who VOTED FOR TRUMP in 2016 instead of Hillary is astounding) source: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
Mike Ray 1 year ago
If it were that important Democrats had 50 years to codify RvW into law but failed to do so. Democrats in congress even had a heads up that the SCOTUS was likely to overturn it, send it to the states and still did nothing. Know why? Abortion was/is such a controversial topic no one wanted to take a position that might risk their chances for re-election. Until now, when it can be used politically
Miracle Max 1 year ago
The Dems had multiple opportunities, with full control of Congress and the Presidency, to pass an actual law enshrining the right to an abortion. Instead, they have used abortion as a campaign issue in order to fear-monger their base against Republicans. They relied on a questionable Supreme Court decision that was eventually tossed out, instead of taking actual action on a federal law for abortion.
Caramello 1 year ago
I thought the issue was they although they had the House and a tie-breaking vote with the VP in the Senate, they did not have the 60-vote threshold needed in the Senate. Please correct me if I'm wrong on the facts.
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HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago
The Democrats controlled Congress for most of the time Roe was in effect. Plenty of opportunity to take a shaky legal ruling and make it law. And what have they done since?
#30
Yeah, Sounds About Right
featherytoad 1 year ago
I'm going to get downvoted to s**t. You may be able to afford the mortgage, but by the time you figure in insurance on the house a year, property taxes, maintenance, and all your monthly expenses like car payments, utilities, and food, it's going to get expensive if you don't have the yearly income to support all of this. That is what the bank is taking into account. Don't forget about having to buy new appliances when the others take a s**t, new roof and A/C. I don't know what I'm going to do when I need a new roof as they have doubled or tripled in price. It's just constant stress with all the upkeep. If you can comfortably afford an apartment, stay there.
Hugh Crawford 1 year ago
Ya, except most of those other costs, they are already paying. Unless you think renters don't need cars or food.
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Needie 1 year ago
This I can't work out. Have banks increased their lending rules this much? I started at 5% back in the early 2000's
Isabella 1 year ago
Yup. What's more the older you get the worse offers you have from them. In my country a youngster [who btw cannot afford mortgage has to have 10% down payment of home's worth and that's it. If you hit 25 - you have to have 25% down payment and additional insurance in case of death. Like it's so much more risk between 25 year old and me, LOL.
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#31
You're Not Supposed To Say The Quiet Part Out Loud
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
well, its amerikkka, soooooo, yes, its the "i don't give a f*ck, no shame, morons will applaud" maga attitude
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Laserleader 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, I got caught in a 14k loan for my bachelor's degree, and never made enough money as an adult to qualify to make payments, so it was deffered... now it's over 35k, and I still don't qualify to make an actual payment because I'm too poor. Luckily, the credit scores no longer reflect it for now so for the first time I can buy a car and maybe even some overpriced property to start building a life after the age of 40.
Jerry Lane 1 year ago
Worse. Student Loan forgiveness is applied to people too old to be drafted.
#32
You Can Leave The World(Country) If You Do Not Like...yes This Is An America's Face
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
Well Mr Lee, you also have the freedom to get killed by the schutz abteilung maga polizei. So much freedom. The best.
Rodney Boathand 1 year ago
Yeah. You have to get permission from someone who has never seen you, ever.
#33
She Was His Queen. And God Help Anyone Who Dared To Disrespect His Queen
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
He wasn't. The problem is in unfair distribution, not numbers. We can support 11B with what we have if we get rid of capitalist overconsumption.
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Kyra Noelle 1 year ago
I really never thought about it that way before. Things that make you go Hmmm
#34
There Is A Reason They Won't Defund The Police And Are Increasing Funding Everywhere For Upcoming Mass Disobedience
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
police do whatever they want, they don't enforce the law, they enforce the laws they like.
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Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Tbh it's not the cops is whoever's in charge of them. They are just doing their job and to avoid getting fired they have to do what they're told.
H Wiley 1 year ago
Wasnt that the excuse the guards in the camps gave in ww2 ?
Load More Replies... Aaron Parker 1 year ago (edited)
I don't agree with this one. No police means it's the wild west out there and only the physically strong and devilishly cunning will survive. Everybody else will be slaughtered and exploited with no consequence. Police at the very least uphold an appearance of law to protect the weak and helpless.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
The alternative to police corruption is not “no police”.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
At least they protect and serve - protect the interests of the ultra-wealthy, and serve the demands of the far right.
Betsy Hood 1 year ago
Who do you call when someone breaks into your house? Asking for a friend.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Tell your friend that just because the cops do some of their jobs, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable for corruption and misconduct.
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
Why not organise a protest for police officers 'against police budget cuts'. Then, they will attack and arrest themselves!
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Are you actively trying to downgrade the discussion to this idiotic level by using overly simplified labels, so even the pro-police state fascists appear reasonable in this thread?
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#35
Cancel My Student Debt So I Can Pay My Medical Debt
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
I can now put the $38 monthly student loan payment towards my $440 medications.
Goat express 1 year ago
I can put my $800/month student loan payment toward my credit card!
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Alexandra 1 year ago
I have no idea how the American system of student debt works. Here, if you start at University, everyone gets the same basic amount: it's a gift, not a loan. You can supplement this by borrowing. After you've finished, you get an overview of what you ow the state. Depending on the kind of loan, you have 15 to 25 years to pay back what you borrowed in monthly installments. How much those installments are depends on what your income is. If, after 15 or 35 years you still have debt left, it will be forgiven. That there is a basic gift is to encourage people with the brains but not the money to go to University anyway: we all benefit from smart people.
Laserleader 1 year ago
It's a scam in the US. They say it's a "grant" but is actually a loan, then they say you don't have to pay if you work for non-profits for 10 years and make minimum required payments, but of you don't make enough for minimum payments then you get it Deferred until you make enough money... but if you never make enough because pay is too low at non-profits, then interest gets rolled into the loan and you get interest on your interest, and end up with a financial monster that destroys credit scores and keeps you from owning anything.
Load More Replies... Manana Man 1 year ago
This is one place where inflation can work for the little guy. Inflation benefits debtors. So don't pay those bills off. Make tiny payments for a long time. Inflation will make the balance waste away.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Trying to outsmart the system instead of changing it is exactly how we ended up here.
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Monopoly Power
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
But, but, but the market needs to regulate itself! Everything else is communism! /s
Atero 1 year ago
It already did. That's why you have monopolies which are an apex of enterprise development.
Load More Replies... rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
Oh, is your country welcoming American migrants? We'll charter a boat!!
Jayeff Vee 1 year ago
And those 12 companies have a number of senators and congressmen in their pocket.
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
How much time would it take before they are back? Capitalism breeds monopoly.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Or could it be that the world dragged out a global pandemic for years? All the governments of the world took on massive debt increases as a result, and banks and creditors, in order to discourage the creation of more debt, raised interest rates on loans....but many companies operate by taking on short term loans, which raises prices, which caused workers to demand pay increases, which makes every step of the production and distribution channel....more expensive! Which further raises prices. It's not one thing, it's many things aligning to assemble the voltron of hatefucking.
#37
Ha Ha Ha Ha Sports
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
At least sportsmen, while horribly overpaid, still have to put some effort into their source of income. The real problem are those who make 100x as much money without lifting a finger.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Many financial experts make millions with a single mouse click.
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Moses' Classmate Wants To Give Me Tips On How To Live Today
Papa 1 year ago (edited)
This may not be a popular opinion, but one of the biggest reasons tuition is unaffordable is because Congress initiated government guaranteed student loans so "everyone can go to college." Now the colleges can charge whatever they want because they know they'll get their money. Before that, someone who wasn't from a rich family COULD pay their own way by working while going to classes.
Mike Ray 1 year ago
Popular or not it's the truth... the root cause of universities/colleges/books/housing/etc. being so exorbitant these days is Government in their 'infinite wisdom' gave our educational institutions a blank check to charge what the market would bear. Then the collateral damage became no one could afford college WITHOUT a student loan
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
When I attended a Big Ten school, tuition was $195 a semester. At that same school, it is now $5,895 a semester, thirty times as much. Lady, tell me a part-time job where the pay has increased thirty-fold.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
In-state tuition at my big ten alma mater is now up to $9,814/semester!!
Load More Replies... Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
Unless you want a specific degree (medicine, law, teaching), college is an expensive waste of time. Go to a trade school. People will always need tradespeople. Also, a good paralegal is worth their weight in gold too. Imagine my shock and anger when I entered college as a freshman and found out I had to re-take all the same classes I'd just finished in high school for the first 2 years b/f I could delve into my major. I was furious. History again. Spanish again. Math again. English again. Don't bother.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
That's a popular myth, but unemployment is significantly lower among the educated in every developed country. Also, as technology evolves, we will need fewer tradespeople. More importantly, something many Americans don't understand is that the purpose of education goes far beyond finding jobs. The more educated a society is, the better they can control their own rights and create a healthy, safe and happy society.
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H Wiley 1 year ago
I had scholarship and work/ study. Total cost of student loan for 4 years: 16,000. Interest rate: 3 percent. Tuition was 16,000 year. Same school, tuition is now 68,000 ( a year ) and studnts with si ilar package as i had can expect 38,000 a year in loans. With no cap on interest rates. Totally crazy.
anon panda 1 year ago
state college used to be free, then the government said you have to allow non white people, then they started charging everyone
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Do you have a problem with the "allow non-white people" or the "started charging everyone" part?
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#40
“I Feared For My Life!!”
Orysha 1 year ago
If there is any real danger, cops won't be there. If they are, they are the dangerous ones.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
This is specifically about the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Load More Replies... Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I had my baby in one hip, holding my toddlers hand on the other side when a cop pulled his weapon and drew down on us. If not for the neighbor stepping outside at that moment, I don't know what might have happened next. That fear for my children is something I can never forget.
john doe 1 year ago
I know 2 cops personally, old college roommates, they were they type to act super tough and get on someones case if it was like one guy just hanging out by our house in the alley or something, but once there was a homeless guy who was rummaging around our 3 season porch and they both got super scared hid in their rooms and called the cops while I just asked the guy what's up and if he needed some help. They of course made the situation way worse by calling the cops and were too scared to confront the guy. They are both cops with badges and guns now, straight up cowards. Way more examples than that but I think of that one frequently.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
you just have to say " a gay socialist is shooting good christian kids " , and you'll see the schutz abteilung do his job
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
The cops are told what to do. If they pull a gun on you in the car that is entirely their decision and it's not right but in a school shooting they have to wait for commands.
#41
Fastest Way To Increase Your Salary
Rodney Boathand 1 year ago
Also, changing contracts on household contracts bc there are give-aways for new memberships.
#42
Life Imitates Art
keyboardtek 1 year ago
70 years old and I now realize the forces maintaining capitalistic predatory authoritarianism is much more organized and powerful than the forces of compassion. Republicans only want to destroy any government agencies that protect the average person from the predatory rich. But when Democrats got any kind of power, they failed to use it much for the good of the people. We really could use a multi party system to have more choices.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
" multi party system " thats a start ...... next the funding system, lobbys etc. Because multi partism only works if every one has the same monetary chance, otherwise, this circus will continue. Bernie Sanders is nowhere to be found, and he's the most clever politician in america. He has no money, so he can't participate in the same race as the others with same equal chances
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#43
Those Days Never Comes Again
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
My first car (1987 ford) in 2009 took $30 to fill up 🥹 plus my rent for the basement suite (bedroom, living room, bathroom, electricity, internet and laundry included) was $400. Those were the days! I can’t believe it’s only 15 years later and now I’m paying $200/tank and my apartment rents for $1,600
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Gonna have to go back a long way to fill my 25 gallon tank for $20. I love my 20 year old van and it still gets 27 mpg on the highway.
Alexa Saltz 1 year ago (edited)
It was 1999 I drove a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4X4. I could not get 20 bucks in the tank.
#44
Freefromwork
#45
3 Year Old Reminder That It Was Never About The Kids
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican. Protect the fetus, scr*w the post-born child.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Will they stop giving money to other countries,and open orphanages because they sure are going to have to pay for them one way or another
#46
Does This Belong Here
Isabella 1 year ago
As if there's any future worth saving for. Each time I changed a job and got a raise everything went to s**t, inflation swept up my raises and I am even more behind than before in the fight for affording home. Whatever, either I'll take fentanyl and end things at 65 or go homeless, they cannot fit us all in prisons for not affording homes.
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Saving? I'm sorry but how? I'm Gen X and disabled, my check if I am lucky lasts 2 weeks. Saving is my American Dream
driedgrapes 1 year ago
This. Sure, I will basically starve for the next 35 years to make sure I have a measly salary after 65 years old. Seriously? That's what we're supposed to do?
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
That coincides with the Evangelicals not wanting to do anything about global warming because they think the Rapture is imminent.
Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I am Gen X, not clairvoyant, and I looked ahead seeing no future over 40 years ago. Still, I believed my generation could change things, so I had children. I am so afraid for my grandchildren now.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
70s gen X is the first screwed up generation, at least in europe. What america is suffering now, is happening in france since late 80s (thank miss thatcher, thank you ronny)
#47
Wait, No, He’s Got A Point
Michael Largey 1 year ago
How about an alert to underaged girls when he's in their neighborhood?
Jerry Lane 1 year ago
I had to look to see if this was a fake ‘The Onion’ parody or something from The Borowitz Report’. Sadly, it’s not.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
yeah but thats part of the freedom to buy an ar-14 at walmart while shopping for fruit loops and diapers. You reap what you sow, matty
Cara Vinson 1 year ago
This thing used to look nearly human https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/gop-rep-matt-gaetzs-rnc-forehead-botox
#48
Student Loan Debt Is Still Our Country Problem
Kyra Noelle 1 year ago
I really wish they had a frown face or angry face instead of arrows. So many sad realities
Mariotevez 1 year ago
No, hear me out. What if you actually chose a career that was both profitable and you did not hate? Enough fancy degrees at the tune of 100K each to work at starbucks...
#49
Rawdogging The Decline Of Man
Marla Singer 1 year ago
It's called alcohol. Which, btw, it's becoming nearly as expensive as medication
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I'm not on any anxiety or depression meds. But holy hell the use of those meds has exploded since Corona started and it hasn't stopped.
#50
Toast
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Why not donate them? Oops, that's right - giving food to the hungry is Communism.
#51
One Teacher Called Her In Tears. “She Said It: ‘I Can’t Even Let Them Read ‘The Diary Of Anne Frank.’”
Vicky Phenny 1 year ago
But a tween wrote down her feelings and that makes old men uncomfortable! Won't someone think of the old men?
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
All they're going to do is greatly increase interest in Anne Frank's diary. Remember the "Maus" incident?
Mia C 1 year ago
Ironic that this is coming from Texas which ranks on the bottom third in education
Vidas Zlioba 1 year ago
"Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a Texas school district banned Anne Frank's diary. A graphic adaptation of the book was temporarily removed for review but was subsequently returned to shelves, according to district officials. Other versions of the diary remained on shelves, and no version was ever banned." Source: USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/08/29/fact-check-anne-frankes-diary-available-texas-students/7903221001/
Load More Replies... René Sauer 1 year ago
god, did I hate reading that book. We were already learning WW2 in history class, did they have to spread it to reading class too?
#52
Biggest Crisis Of Our Generation And No One Talks About It
#53
Fuck Inflation
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
The IMF identified super profits by corporates and spending by the wealthy as the leading causes of inflation across the world. Meanwhile our governments pretend raising unemployment and mortgages will fix it instead of dealing with its causes.
#54
"Find A Nice Little Starter Home" - Everyone's Parents
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Gen X here, I know that I have never and will never be able to afford to own a house and saving money is a pipe dream ( I'm disabled)
antoinette maldari 1 year ago
I'm not disabled and I am in the same boat.
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Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
"Starter home" sounds like an extremely local (American) concept. Anybody saying that where I live would sound like they wanted to take the first step into landlordship. Here people rent until they can (or want to!) afford a to buy a place - and that one place stays their home pretty much for all foreseeable future (aka 30+ years or until one partner dies and the other moves to some senior residence). It's not uncommon to voluntarily keep on renting (occasionally even the same place) for life. Then again: we do have some renters' protection laws.
#55
Filed To Unionize, And This Happened. Sbux
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Not only shîtty coffee, also shîtty behaviour towards the employees...
Jayeff Vee 1 year ago
You want to unionize? We'll take away all the reasons you shouldn't do that!
#56
Our Purpose
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
Lol f*ck isn't this perfectly placed on this scene. Nails the whole thing so succinctly.
#57
Maybe Because People Can't Afford To?
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Gosh, it's almost as if people feel like we are heading for a Mad Max or Tank Girl style dystopian future and don't want their kids to roam the wastelands.
#58
Good Luck Forcing Millennials And Gen Z To Fight Your Wars
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
Saw something similar in Australian media. Fight for what? Greedy landlords and the tax rorts provide to the wealthy older generations? Or so we can defend criminal corporations profits?
keyboardtek 1 year ago (edited)
One thing I learned to not do is ask a military veteran how they felt risking their life to protect the oil companies investments in Iraq. They will get very defensive and angry because they have been programmed to believe they are fighting to protect democracy and freedom in America. Many of those same vets now support Trump, who called them losers, and seem to support the idea of having a dictator rule us.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
And if they bring back the draft - a) A lot of people who are draft age aren't physically fit enough to satisfy military requirements, and b) You'll see a stampede to Canada.
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
If there's a draft you'll see rioting like this country has never seen. They can't throw us ALL in prison. Besides, drafting soldiers is just about the same goddamned thing as slavery.
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Good luck finding them .... Most can't afford health care services so of course they aren't fit to serve. Other countries get most of the money that could help US citizens in poverty and homelessness and hunger is growing despite the fact that some homeless ppl actually DO work or have incomes but still can't afford a permanent place to live
#59
Believe Me, Many Americans Are Perfectly Aware That They Are Not Living Any Kind Of “Dream.”
Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
Has anyone tried to get a passport lately? I was born outside the US on a military base and I am a US citizen - or so I thought. 15 years now, and I still can not leave the 48 states. Yes, that is correct. I can not travel to Alaska or Hawaii either.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
If your parents are American, you are automatically a US citizen. Doesn't matter where you were born. If your parents aren't US citizens, being born on a US military base doesn't make you a US citizen.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 1 year ago
I get 6 weeks holiday, plus 8 bank/public holidays. I also get 20 sick days at full pay and 20 sick days at half pay, I'm also entitled to paid paternity leave if my partner were to fall pregnant (but not gonna happen), free* healthcare, standardised working hours, overtime must be agreed by both parties prior to working it, can't get "Fired" (it's a long process to dismiss someone unless there was evidence of gross negligence), And that's just for starters. I'm thinking of looking into the private sector to see if I can get a better deal.
Kris 1 year ago
I get 35 days paid holidays plus alternate bank holidays and my company gives 6 weeks full paid sick time (1-2 years service) and 6 months full pay for 2+ years service followed by 50% pay for another 6 months. (UK guy, in case you haven't guessed) They also give the option to buy another week for £38.00 a month (which I happily pay)
#60
Then Make Them Fillibuster. Make Them Stand There And Talk Their Wormy, Bloody Mouths Dry. If You’re Going To Be A Useless, Grandstanding Liberal, At Least Grandstand
Robert Sissco 1 year ago
"Then Make Them Fillibuster. Make Them Stand There And Talk Their Wormy, Bloody Mouths Dry." This was done away with, they no longer need to actively take up time to fillibuster, they can just call for a fillbuster and then move on.
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Aaron Parker 1 year ago
This stuff needs to be repeated over and over, whether people are sick of hearing about it or not. You're welcome to repost it a million times, BP
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Yank prisons are deliberately filled with the poor and Black people not to "stop crime" but to take away voting rights from a significant percentage of the population. Look at all the racist laws and deliberate targeting of non-white and poor people, imposed "plea deals" that result in prison sentences and loss of voting rights. Functioning democracies allow prisoners to vote; the yank policy of banning them from voting AFTER they leave prison is plutocracy, ensuring only the wealthy, white, and privileged can vote. Canada has less than 50,000 people in prisons (provincially and federally) and they are ALLOWED to vote in elections WHILE incarcerated (and they do, in percentages close to the national populace).
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
... wouldn't the 'lost' generation be the one that wasn't even mentioned in the intro paragraph? *ahem* Gen-X here... (Yeeah... boomers to Millenials to Gen-Z? Y'all realize where the term 'boomers' originated from, yeah? So... what... a bunch of 65+ year olds all birthed the Millenials?)
aubergine10003 1 year ago
LOL Gen X is the true forgotten generation... it's not even mentioned in the initial paragraphs, just skipped over as usual
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
The majority of them are painful truths, and we should all be aware - and talk - about them. Wherever in the world we are.
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
This stuff needs to be repeated over and over, whether people are sick of hearing about it or not. You're welcome to repost it a million times, BP
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Yank prisons are deliberately filled with the poor and Black people not to "stop crime" but to take away voting rights from a significant percentage of the population. Look at all the racist laws and deliberate targeting of non-white and poor people, imposed "plea deals" that result in prison sentences and loss of voting rights. Functioning democracies allow prisoners to vote; the yank policy of banning them from voting AFTER they leave prison is plutocracy, ensuring only the wealthy, white, and privileged can vote. Canada has less than 50,000 people in prisons (provincially and federally) and they are ALLOWED to vote in elections WHILE incarcerated (and they do, in percentages close to the national populace).
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
... wouldn't the 'lost' generation be the one that wasn't even mentioned in the intro paragraph? *ahem* Gen-X here... (Yeeah... boomers to Millenials to Gen-Z? Y'all realize where the term 'boomers' originated from, yeah? So... what... a bunch of 65+ year olds all birthed the Millenials?)
aubergine10003 1 year ago
LOL Gen X is the true forgotten generation... it's not even mentioned in the initial paragraphs, just skipped over as usual
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
The majority of them are painful truths, and we should all be aware - and talk - about them. Wherever in the world we are.
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