Somebody Just Asked People To Post Examples Of Double Standards, And 45 Responses Were Spot-On

I agree, that was a gross thing to say

Eww that mum is nasty

eeeewwww who does that? I hope people pointed out to the mother how gross that is & maybe used your example if it was a little girl

We already knew the mum would be bad when she let her kid eat PUDDING. IN THE CAR. WITH NO SPOON

oh man, as a mother myself, I was thinking: why should his future girlfriend be happy? So he doesn't need a spoon to eat pudding? cleaner home for everyone? it really took some effort to understand it. thank good. I really, really don't want to sexualise kids. way too gross.

This should be higher, like for me I'm far better at any work I have to do after eleven, it's not a bad thing or a good thing, imo it's just a thing lol and people shouldn't shame for it.

What time of the day or evening you are most energetic depends on your chronotype and it is largely determined genetically, so apart from fine-tuning, not much can be changed. Evening people have to adapt to the world of morning people and it is a complete lie that an evening person could become a morning person. It causes the same problems as, for example, switching to summer time/winter time. I'm an evening person and I can get out of bed in the morning, as long as nobody expects anything sensible from me before noon.

As a night shift worker, I completely understand this.

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I work a 10pm-7am shift and I get stared at funny for buying alcohol at 8am.

Worse! I work in IT and many of our tasks are best left until after business hours since they can impact workflow. Instead of having late shift staff, they pay us a bunch of overtime instead.

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This!

My brother was told he couldn’t be depressed because he turned up to the assessment. And in clean clothes, too! People making these assessments are usually not medically trained to do so, it’s a shîtshow.

The system certainly encourages worse health for better care. Madness.

Been there. I was on supervised release due to a manic episode that put me in jail. 3 years of probation, but the entire time I could not afford a doctor to get meds. I had a friend of the family who would supply samples that I lived off of, so I was not balanced. I was a ticking time bomb. You would think they would require someone help me, but living in Florida at the time I was in the coverage gap. I made too much for Medicaid and too little for Obamacare.

Seems to me that disability applications are automatically declined for years. By the time they are approved, the applicant has gone through their resources and probably their family's as well. They may be homeless, bad credit, and have other issues that keep them from being able to recover. It seems that if the benefits were granted at the beginning, not only would they be better off but society would benefit as well.

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Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Someone stole a really old twitter joke and claimed it as their own.

I know this is a joke, but I remember when Miley did that, and *nine* of the commenters thought it was artistic or edgy. She was subjected to a barrage of negativity and abuse.

She is so nasty.

LOL this one took me by surprise 😂

I've been in this position. I feel for ya, OP!

Welcome to my life! As a slightly north of middle aged queer couple with a 10yo son we adopted at birth, the bureaucratic hell we go through for the most basic things is practically a full-time job. However, it’s absolutely nothing compared to how suspicious we’re treated in public, from cashiers, Karens, other parents & even police. We’re constantly having to prove ourselves & justify being parents. We both carry copies of all his birth/adoption documents & his/our passports, because even cops haven’t normalized gay dads. Then there’s the assumption birth mother somehow failed. Even from the most well-meaning supporters. When I mention she was my closest female friend who died shortly after childbirth & had spent her final months focused on carrying a healthy baby & planning for his entire future without her, even at the expense of treatments to keep her here just a little longer & out of pain, they typically walk away with their entire foot in their mouths.

Not even in extreme cases were the mum's leave. I no so many could were the man is a mucho better parent.

Oh yes, and if you as a father are home alone with your child, you are 'babysitting', but if her mother is home alone with her, she is just home with mom.

And also arrested...

Big companies have lobbies that bribe,sorry give donations to politicians so they make the laws that allows them to pay less tax or sneak the money into shell companies.

Several years ago, Missouri did in in-depth audit of SNAP & welfare as a political move. They found less that 0.15% of the state money (over all, not per individual) was not used as intended. Of that percentage, the vast majority was unintentional (buying or trying to buy things not covered for example), with the next highest percentage being paperwork errors where things were reported incorrectly, and after that a tiny amount being actual fraud. They spent more money on the audit than they found in that fraud amount.

This is largely incorrect. The audits on poor people are rare. The IRS doesn't want to spend resources on low value audits, but they do randomly audit people and that will hit low income as well as high, because the random audits are based on having several high risk claims in your taxes, regardless of their value. For instance claiming a disabled child and a deduction for school housing are usually incompatible, but in some rare cases, can happen. This can trigger an audit on anyone, because 99% of the time it's wrong. Poor people often trip themselves up by claiming too many exemptions that are not intended to be stacked together.

This is close, but not technically true unless by "poor" you mean the middle class. The IRS manages most tax returns through a computer system that works decently enough for the vast majority of returns submitted. This computer system cannot efficiently process the crazy tax filings submitted by the truly wealthy, so their tax returns are much more frequently audited and processed by hand. Unfortunately, the IRS does not have adequate staffing to actually investigate many of these filings, so even though you're far more likely to be audited above a certain earning threshold, you're also far more likely to get away with tax fraud. That's of course completely ignoring the fact that the tax system is heavily weighted in favor of the wealthy to begin with. Yes, high income earners supply the majority of tax revenues in the US, but as a percentage of their worth (and impact to their wellbeing), the differences are stark. This is especially true in states that prioritize sales taxes.

Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect taxes in the form of higher prices which they then pass along to the gubment. Their customers pay all taxes

Imagine a sports event with 30K introverts attending. Dead quiet unless something happens worth commenting on