"A woman living under the crawl space of an Airbnb that she cleaned... At what point can we say the American dream has become a nightmare?"
"It’s mathematically impossible to pull yourself out of homelessness without help... It’s not the moral failing of the people who are unhoused; it’s the moral failing of this country."
Julie Akins, senior housing director at AllCare Health, journalist, and former mayor of Ashland, #Oregon
@caffetiel@Toastie I'm not convinced you're actually asking in good faith nor am I going to doxx myself by going into detail. The jist of it is that I started by selling candy bars, saved up enough money to obtain and rent a storage unit, slept in that shithole for months on end while I worked shitty fast food and telemarketing jobs, and built enough work experience to get a quote-unquote "real" job, wherein I was able to rent a room. It is possible, depending on where you are.
Do you ever wonder if this country is ever going to be able to find consensus about anything again? It sure doesn’t look that way. And gifted writers and social analysts are so few and far between, I think the best of our civilization is slipping away without much significant comment.
@shoq If we're lucky, we'll split up into two separate countries and move on from each other. What's more likely is one side will attempt genocide against the other, and the resulting population drop will allow consensus to be achieved by the dominant faction.
@flexghost They're learning the language of sexual assault victims and are exploiting it to get their way like any salesgoon worth their salt. And I used to do salesgoon work, so I know how they are.
@inquiline The rest of the world, including she, is figuring out what the right already believed back when covid first started: that life can't just stop because of some disaster.
At least that's what I want to say. The truth is that the husband is the one who stands to lose the most because of this, and for the wife to get what she wants, his rights would have to be violated.
@hotdogsladies The fact that you care so much about how others think of you that it is dictating your word choice makes you look insecure and childish. #sorrynotsorry
@hotdogsladies Good, you do have some pride and self-worth. Now take a fifth of a third of the quarter of the anger and hurt you feel toward me and channel it into actually writing what you want without worrying of what others think of you.
Or you can keep proving my point that you are a passive aggressive coward by arguing with me and blaming me, the messenger, so you can capitulate to your masters and not have to feel bad about it. 🤷 Your choice.
@hotdogsladies I do so try. And I am being serious, even if you're too offended and hurt to take me seriously. Catering your writing to others will destroy you.
It took me several years to understand what I was seeing.
At first, I thought the problem was Twitter algorithms. I thought that was the explanation for why what I was calling rage-inducing simplifications spread like wildfire.
@Teri_Kanefield Have you ever asked those mouth-breathers "Why don't we try... IMPOSING consequences on them... so they can't lie?" Say it slowly to them like they are four
Covid's great lesson was demonstrating that "patriots" who favor government with unshakeable support as long as it is harming people will also deploy impenetrable skepticism and violent opposition as soon as that government seems it might ask them to engage in even tiny acts of harm reduction.
LISTEN: Don’t lose the plot. Today’s #SCOTUS decision in the Sec 3 case is not just about Trump, it’s also insulates congressional insurrectionists. More alarming is that the concurring justices are telling us in stark terms what is going on with the conservatives on the Court. And it may be worse than we thought.
I know I've been pushing this GoFundMe for a while but I'm really going to need for everyone to try and push this one. The mother with the GoFundMe planned on burying her child this weekend, but the charity which promised to assist her said that they don't have anything for her at the moment and put her on a waiting list. Please give what you can and share.