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all u niggas losers

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing the president of the US is so corrupt that he openly admits he and his family are making money with insider trading

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump: "Almost anything my kids do -- if they buy a truck -- they have inside information"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People DO NOT understand how much society depends on the labour of the least appreciated professions. Let the sewage technicians and sanitation workers disappear today, cities would quickly become unlivable.

We underestimate how fast diseases can destroy a community.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

My sister in law got a “great” job offer last week. Salary: $72,000 Benefits: Standard.

She sat down and ran the numbers before accepting.

Rent for a 1 bedroom in the metro she’d be moving to: $2,100/month.

Her take home after tax: roughly $4,650/month. Rent alone: 45% of that.

Then healthcare insurance premium, car payment, gas, groceries, student loan payment.

She had $340 left over. A month. For a “great” job.

She took it anyway. Because the alternative was worse.

That’s not a success story. that’s the bar being so low it’s underground, and we’re all clapping when someone clears it.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

The ultimate middle-class trap is realizing that corporate America doesn't reward hard work, it just taxes it at a higher bracket.

If you grind your way from a $55k salary up to $100k, you think you’ve finally made it.

But after the federal government takes its 22% cut, your state takes up to 5%, and FICA takes another 7.65%, you realize you didn't actually double your lifestyle.

You just paid for a larger portion of the federal budget while your rent went up 15%.

The system isn't designed to let you build wealth; it's designed to keep you on the treadmill just high enough to pay the bills, but never high enough to buy your freedom.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Just curious but why do actual human jobs like baker, teacher, and childcare worker barely pay a livable wage while fake jobs like AI specialist bootlicker, marketing campaign parasite, and synergy consultant are pulling 6 figures??

[CRG @Cantrushit]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive?

And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Owen @Owennfa]

BOOMER: "Healthcare isn't that expensive. Stop complaining."

ME: "An ambulance ride costs $1,200."

BOOMER: "That's for emergencies."

ME: "A doctor's visit is $300. Urgent care is $500. An ER visit is $2,000 minimum."

BOOMER: "Well you need insurance."

ME: "Insurance costs $400 a month with a $6,000 deductible. So I'm paying $4,800 a year before they pay anything."

BOOMER: "Just go to your company doctor."

ME: "Companies don't do that anymore. They outsourced it."

BOOMER: "I never had these problems."

ME: "Your company covered 80% of your healthcare. Mine covers 60% and raises my deductible every year."

BOOMER: "You're just unhealthy."

ME: "A single antibiotic is $300. Insulin is $400 a month. You can't ration health."

BOOMER: "Stop being dramatic."

ME: "Medical debt is the #1 reason Americans file for bankruptcy."

BOOMER: *silent*

You didn't have cheap healthcare. You had employers who actually paid for it.

We have employers who shifted the cost entirely to us.

That's not a difference in behavior. That's a system that changed.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

We successfully moved into an era where a dual-income household bringing in a combined six figures is no longer a marker of middle-class luxury, but the absolute bare minimum required just to stave off financial suffocation.

Two university-educated professionals can work full forty-hour weeks, share a modest rental apartment, share a single vehicle, and still spend every Sunday evening looking at their banking apps wondering exactly where the leakage is.

You are forced to run at an absolute high-performance sprint just to remain in the exact same spot, while economic institutions tell you that the crushing pressure you feel is simply a personal budgeting problem.

It is not a budgeting issue when the raw, unavoidable costs of putting food on the table, paying a basic landlord, and keeping the lights on require two corporate salaries just to clear the baseline.

They didn't expand the workforce to double our household prosperity. They adjusted the cost of baseline survival to ensure it extracts every single drop of surplus value from our collective labor.

[ms @thisisnew_me1]

Your parents’ mortgage: 4% on a $100,000 house. Monthly payment: ~$480.

Today’s mortgage: 7% on a $420,000 house. Monthly payment: ~$2,800.

That’s not “buy less avocado toast.”

That’s a 6x increase dressed up as a lifestyle choice.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Criticizing your government is not un-American.

It’s literally how this country started.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

This was always the end goal

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Democrats wore masks so their neighbors wouldn’t get sick.

Republicans wear masks so their neighbors don’t know they are a racist.

[Bibliophile 🎀 @CodingIncloud_]

The United States is about 250 years old, yet Black American history extends over 400 years. The math alone reveals a deeper historical truth.

[CRG @Cantrushit]

I refuse to accept the idea that wanting more of our tax dollars returned to us through healthcare, education, and infrastructure is “socialism.” It’s called investing in the people who paid the bill. Who’s with me?

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

This July 4th a family will skip the fireworks.

Because gas is $4.24 a gallon and the drive is not worth it.

Another family will skip the cookout.

Because ground beef is $10 a pound and hot dogs went up again.

Another will spend the holiday applying for jobs.

Because the layoff came last month and rent is due.

America is worth fighting for.

But first we have to be honest about what we are fighting.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

I’ll say it again.

The United States has not raised the federal minimum wage since 2009.

That’s 16 years.

In that same time Congress has given itself 4 pay raises.

Passed 3 bank bailouts.

Approved $800 billion in annual defense spending.

And held 9 hearings about TikTok.

The minimum wage didn’t stall because they forgot.

It stalled because the people voting on it don’t need it to go up

[Don Snow 🥶 @Cant_Be_Rated]

Racists have become so afraid of black people that they have to make fake accounts in order to call us niggers lol. Yall great grandfathers who used to hang black people are looking up from hell ashamed that they nutted out such bitch made offspring.

[TDHBXG @TDHBXG]

People like this who immediately divert to what white people think whenever we try to solve problems need to be either silenced or eliminated in order for us to be a competitive race. They are still on the plantation. "White ppl not gon like us so we shouldn't improve".

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

The absolute wildest illusion of the modern economy is how we normalized needing a 100,000 dollar income just to achieve the exact same baseline lifestyle that a single 35,000 dollar salary easily secured a generation ago.

We didn't stop working hard, and we didn't stop productivity. The system simply adjusted the baseline entry fee of survival to make sure regular working people can never easily hold onto their surplus wealth.