I have a "real job" making almost $100k/year and things are still expensive. Should I also be sent to Cuba or Iran for stating the obvious?
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"yes", fascists, unironically, probably.
They can’t afford food because they were born with silver spoons in their mouths. K.
It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to make right wing boomers tut with disapproval as their biases are confirmed.
Oh, they'll go to war. Just not the one you think.
Yeah Gen Z just needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and find a 65 year old billionaire to marry
Said the same week as RFK once again floats the idea of insitutionalizing the disabled.
These are not off-the-cuff comments. Somewhere behind the veneer of stupidity, more and more members of the current government are pushing the need to imprison or conscript larger and larger swathes of the US population.
Legal slavery
I do get what Watters is talking about, though. I don't know how prevalent it is in stats / the real world, but (social) media has a lot of smart and talented people on it that have just picked a shitty career, i.e. "not a real job", and are writing like their economic difficulties are a problem with the system and not just their personal fault. If you're a journalist and your parents are accountants you are going to be poorer than your parents, and that's nobody else's fault than yours. Some jobs are more passion project than salaried work, and if you don't come from money you should stay far far away.
Before you come at me: Obviously basic health insurance (including teeth!) should be universal and we should build more housing and build more budget housing.
You’re right, if everyone was an accountant they’d be able to afford groceries! What are these young adults thinking going into jobs like groceries stores and fast food and expecting a wage that allows them to live a normal life! That’s totally on the workers and not at all on the greedy tyrants who perpetuate this prison they call capitalism.
like there is jobs everywhere and everyone is hiring....
but basically these conservatives are just assholes
like there is jobs everywhere and everyone is hiring…
Absolutely. And you can pay for a bachelor's degree working a minimum wage job in the summers and you can buy a house and support a wife and kids with an entry-level job.
Or, wait, was that 80 years ago?
Something something avocado toast
I saw avocado toast on a menu for $17 the other day! Wtf! Who pays that?!
I was about to correct you, but no, it really has been 80 years. Time is cruel.
I mean, it wasn't that long ago the the Simpsons represented the bottom of the middle class--a high-school educated father with a stable job (with dental plan) and a house, two cars, two kids, and a SAH wife.
Just a few years earlier Billy Joel was positively bitching "who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?" Like, yeah, that sounds pretty good relative to paying 60% of your income in rent, Anthony.
If you're having trouble finding a job, have you tried just going into the company directly and asking? I'm sure they'd take one look at you and immediately see what an intelligent and capable person you are and hire you right away. /s
I think you replied to the wrong comment, but yeah, this advice just keeps getting worse every decade.
Some conservatices can appear decent, but absolutly every last republican is a fucking asshole after too much taco bell.
I don't think any of these assholes have ever had to dumpster dive for groceries before.
Had to? no ... but I am certain that RFK Jr has done it for fun
Not much raccoon penis in dumpsters, is there?
I have to admit I was assuming dumpsters contained maybe more dead animals than was realistic