imagine spending your life dreaming of becoming a lawyer/judge, just to spend your career deporting children who have no lawyers to advocate on their behalf.
There's a special place in hell for people who abandon their pets.
To leave behind an animal that spent its whole life believing you were home is a level of cruelty I will never understand.
FRIENDLY REMINDER: your taxes are supposed to fund programs that boost collective health and well-being, not the vanity, ego, and greed of a billionnaire.
The worst place to be in America isn't poor. It's middle class with no savings.
Open enrollment texted me, so I went down a Medicaid rabbit hole, and I need everyone to understand how broken this is.
If you qualify for Medicaid, a procedure that costs thousands barely costs you anything. Doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, basically covered.
Make $45k a year with "good" employer insurance? Congrats, you're paying hundreds a month in premiums just to hit a $5,000 deductible before anything kicks in. One ambulance ride and your emergency fund is gone. You don't have an emergency fund? Even better, now it's medical debt.
And here's the part that breaks my brain: the system is designed so climbing out is a trap too. Get a raise that pushes you just over the line and you lose coverage overnight. Try to save money while on disability and they cap you at about $2,000 in assets. Poor people are locked in. Middle class people are bleeding out. The only people winning are the ones rich enough to never think about any of this.
We work full time to be one bad diagnosis away from ruin. This country isn't failing the poor or the middle class. It's farming both.
We are so cooked.
@gc22gc We thought we were getting convenience when everything went from in-person to online. We didn’t realize what we were losing along the way.
I’m not sure the gain was worth the sacrafice.
hey so I feel like it should be illegal for your electric company to raise your rates 50–60% when you literally have no other company to switch to
like what are you supposed to do, just stop using electricity??
They are never going to give you $9,000 to stay home with your kids. Just like you never got your DOGE check, tariff refund, cheaper groceries, $2 gas, a healthcare plan, or 600% off prescriptions.
At some point, being this gullible becomes a fucking choice.
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