@ReviewsPossum I went back to school for a second mf engineering degree because of this exact scenario. I wound up working a helpdesk in a high school with my CE degree... the same as I did when I was literally in high school.
The problem is soo much worse than most realize.
Rack up a hundred thousand dollars worth of student loan debt, then compete for jobs with H-1Bs who lie about their credentials and get away with it because they can just ask ChatGPT for the solution to any problem and their managers are too stupid or apathetic to notice.
You know how PepsiCo lowered the price of Lays products after RFK Jr. decided you can't use SNAP to buy them? The prices weren't high because it just costs so much to slice up and fry a potato. It was because they didn't care whether or not you could afford it because the people eating them were those getting it paid for by your tax dollars. When that was no longer a viable business model, they had to start pricing competitively again. You know, the way a free market is supposed to work.
The same logic applies to healthcare and universities. These corporations get their money from the government via people who are subsidized by the government. That's why college tuition has increased at three times the rate of inflation since the 1970s, and prescription drugs somehow cost less when you don't use insurance to pay for them (even private insurers get money from the government).
If you've ever wondered why TVs are among the only things that have gotten cheaper over the past ten years, that's why. The government doesn't buy TVs for people, so TV manufacturers actually have to care if consumers can afford them and must compete with each other on price.
So what will happen when everyone loses their jobs to AI and no one has any money? Don't worry, Big Daddy Government will give them your tax dollars. And when those run out, they'll just print money and devalue what little you still have. But as far as they're concerned, that's your problem.
What happened to my bank account? Absolutely nothing.
You believed a lie.
You believed a lie that was told to you by your political class, and your news media, to keep you from asking uncomfortable questions about how much you are paying in tax, where that money is going, and what quality of care you actually receive for the portion of it they didn't steal.
Don't believe me? Look at the pictures.
Look.
At.
Them.
That's my wife, @acrobatichobbit. Before and after.
That's a five centimeter mass. Stage 4 metastatic melanoma. The worst kind of cancer, the most vicious form of assassin your own body can betray you with. That bright area? Blood.
Ten years ago, anywhere in the world, the scan on the left is a death sentence... an endless gauntlet of painful surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, hair loss, uncontrolled vomiting, wasting away to nothing, death.
In America, today, it's not.
We have things here. Genetic therapies. Tailored viruses that attack tumor cells. Drugs that highlight cancers for your immune system, drag them kicking and screaming into the spotlight to be killed.
I won't tell you about her exact course of treatment, because that's none of your goddamned business, but I will tell you that it cost American drug companies and medical researchers a fortune to discover.
A fortune that your nation cannot afford because you chose socialism instead of progress. And socialism, however fine-sounding in theory, simply does not work.
Were she and I British, living in Britain, relying on the National Health Service, I would be a widower now.
Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?
Yes. This technology was expensive to create, and the people who did so deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids. So do the oncologists and surgeons.
Many of the men who cared for her were old men, experienced men, long past retirement age, still working because when your profession is clawing souls back from the void, sitting on a beach with a pina colada instead just doesn't hit the same.
They deserve every cent.
Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?
Yes.
Did I pay it?
No.
Because believe it or not, when things are ruinously expensive, but vitally necessary, we here in America come up with ways to deal with that.
Ways that don't involve creating a big pot of money and entrusting it to corrupt slimeballs.
We have insurance. And sometimes insurance isn't cheap, but the bite it takes is a hell of a lot less of what we have than the tax man takes from you.
And insurance companies sometimes have to make hard decisions about which spending choices will save the most people. I know about this in detail, because that is my wife's profession. She creates the mathematical models that pay for all this stuff.
The insurance that saved her is the exact same plan that she provides to others.
And at the end of an awful year and a half of treatment, awful because cancer medicines make you far sicker than the cancer itself...
We were left whole.
Battered and wounded in spirit, but financially whole, at least.
The only loss we took was the blow to my career as a novelist, because it turns out you can't write stories while your wife is dying, and you don't automatically recover that ability afterwards. Not right away.
I wondered every day if she was going to live or die. I wondered every day what the hell I was going to with myself without her.
But I never wondered, not for a moment, how the hell we were going to pay for all this.
Your government doesn't solve the problem. It is the problem.
They lie to you.
🙄Stop. Making. Shltty. Movies.
This post, below, in the first picture, is yet another example of "fan baiting" (or just fan-blaming) - it's a strategy now honed and perfected for the modern era and executed in decentralized fashion via social media. It's a way to blame fans and critics for studios, actors, and marketers for making a movie that suck ass.
Let me tell you about a movie that came out in 2022 - during the pandemic era no less, called "Everything Everywhere all at Once."
While not a superhero film per se, it featured a strong female (and Chinese American) lead who travelled through time, fought and kicked ass with martial arts action, and was heroic.
It is a science fiction, action, and adventure film. It was kinetic, inventive, & I personally greatly enjoyed it. It featured a female led cast and protagonist, the Mom who was the lead was a business owner and had a lesbian daughter who also was the major supporting character (excellent character development).
Despite it being released during the pandemic era of 2022, it nearly 6x'd its modest production budget of 20 million and is one of the most profitable independent films of the modern era.
Rotten Tomatoes has it at 95% average rating amongst viewers, and critics universally loved it.
Supergirl is a shltty movie.
I'M SICK TO DEATH OF CORPORATES AND THEIR TOADIES BLAMING THE POOR PERFORMANCE OF THEIR MEDIA PROJECTS ON "SEXISM" OR "RACISM" OR "MISOGYNY." I LIVED THROUGH THE 80s AND 90S. AMERICA DOESN'T CARE. YOU FUCKERS ARE MAKING THIS SHIT UP. FUCK YOU.
The American public is more than happy to accept strong female leads in action films. They just can't be shltty, and they need to stop treating half of their audience like they hate them and condescending the other half, and then lazily just cutting and pasting women into male roles and then calling that "feminist," because that's disinteresting and a turnoff to basically everyone.
The rhetorical well has been poisoned and I'm not sure how to un-poison it. There are reasonable people saying reasonable things but we are in an era where trying to be reasonable is a great path to losing your party primary.
One of the reasons that I don't accept the "nuking USAID killed millions of people" framing is because most of the people saying this never took the stance that the US was a tremendously good and heroic force for saving millions of people
“affirming” someone’s rejection of their own gender
is the most gaslighting manipulative abusive thing in our culture
women buy into it more often than men, and famous people support it for money.
now Kids question their own existence and grow up and mutilate themselves
*RIGGED / CORRUPT / VAMPIRE SOCIETY*
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RIZE UP ✊🏻
SPEAK OUT 🗣️
FIGHT BACK ⚡️
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TO SECURE OUR FUTURE EXISTENCE AND PROSPERITY , WE MUST COLLECTIVIZE AND RECLAIM OUR NATIONS / CULTURES / TRADITIONS / SOVEREIGNTY / INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM / PRIDE / FAITH
THERE IS A WAR ON WHITES [ ARYANS / CAUCASIANS / EUROPEANS ]
WAGED BY ( MOSTLY JEWISH ) GLOBALIST FORCES
THEY INFILTRATED + SUBVERTED OUR NATIONS / CULTURES / SOCIETIES AND ARE ( DECEPTIVELY ) DESTROYING US
THEY CAPTURED OUR MONETARY SYSTEMS AND ENSLAVE US WITH DEBT / USURY
I think a lot of folks take the “pride month” thing the wrong way.
For example, if your child asks you “what is pride month”, you get to explain to them that some people like to shove stuff up their asses like psychos and others psychos like to celebrate it.
Then when they ask why that’s something to celebrate at Disney, you get to explain because Disney is run by a Jew, and Jews naturally destroy and degrade everything beautiful and natural….
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
Neocons and jews like Ben Shapiro spent the last 10-20 years calling any conservative that bemoaned legal and illegal immigration a racist and would laugh at any claim that assimilation wouldn't happen.
"It's about culture not race" they would say.
Now, 20 years later, every major metro in America has been ethnically transformed into a lovecraftian ball of mystery meat mass only bound by their never ending resentment and hatred of Whites.
The irony of course is that this ball of meat that Jean Raspail could never come close to describing, isn't capable of the nuance to delineate Whites from jews.
The end result is the DSA taking footholds among the American left in those "minority majority" communities where campaigns are exclusively run on anti-White politics, and ironically anti-jew politics.
So what did jews and neocons like Ben Shapiro learn? Well nothing of course, that's why he defaults to blaming Whites when the reality is that these districts are less than 20% White and all the campaign material is anti-White grievance politics to satiate race-communism for the bottom 2% of humanity.
“I’m worried about the radicalization that of the youth”
Can you address the issues that are radicalizing them?
“No that’s dangerous, I just want them to stop being radical”
Can you at least take responsibility for the situation?
“No, it’s the young people who are wrong”
Do you think old women had this attitude when starvation loomed just around the turn of winter?
When half of babies died before they lost their first tooth, do you think grandmothers retired because they “put in their time”?
Such a way of thinking is a luxury of the mass affluence of the modern gerontocracy. The geriatrics who butter their bread with transfer payments are living in a different world. Their vision is clouded not just by cataracts but by a mirage of easy living.
But the illusion of modern abundance and safety is a thin veil for the mothers and fathers having babies and raising children.
For them, time runs differently. The luxuries of 21st-century living fade in and out of view as quickly as a toddler’s shifting mood.
There is no modernity for the laboring mother. Each contraction ratchets her backwards in time. The umbilical cord tethers her to a way of life that predates history.
There is no comfort for the mother whose baby won’t latch. She descends back to the Bronze Age, with visions of emaciated little bodies dancing in her mind’s eye. Death and starvation lie just behind the curtain, close enough to touch.
In our glorious abundance, we have removed survival from the modern consciousness for everyone except those tasked with keeping small children alive. The Reaper is kept away only by the daily labors and nightly toils of tired mothers and fathers. The sleep deprivation, choking hazards, bumps on heads, on and on the ratchet pulls them backwards in time.
When the visitors come, why do they not see the Reaper who lingers just outside the door? Are their eyes so clouded by cataracts that they cannot see? Has dementia stolen their memories of the sleepless nights?
The time travelers do not see nor care. They come to collect checks, attention and photo ops, not lift fingers. Soon, they will depart, back to the 21st century, leaving their children and grandchildren behind.
@rappergamertag@wokejucheism "People experiencing the thing champagne leftists pretend never happens makes them reassess their retarded opinions"
Wow thats absolutely mind blowing
No I was sucker punched in the back of the head by a black 17 year old, at 11am, randomly, in a convenience store
and in the immediate aftermath, while I was beating the brakes off of him with a metal camera, a black 24 year old stole my wallet off the counter
After I called the cops, they were arrested with my wallet, because they were going store to store trying to get cash back from my locked debit card.
The USAO declined to press charges.
This, combined with having a gun pointed at me on two separate occasions last summer (both by black people), and the fact that the share of murders in Washington DC committed by black people is without exaggeration LITERALLY 99% (johns hopkins school of public health study of crime data 2019-2022, as well as DC MPD homicide data) has made me less delicate when discussing the matter.
It hasn't made me hate black people.
But it has forced me to acknowledge that there is clearly a racial aspect to this, and tiptoeing around it is clearly not helping ANYBODY
Practically all modern Leftists think "Democracy" just means "vooting" and that the more vooting you do, the more democratic a system is.
But democracy has to mean more than just casting a ballot. You have to first answer the question of what these ballots are being cast for, and who gets to cast one?
Imagine if ancient Athens bought into all the modern Progressive libtard arguments about how "no human is illegal" and decided to grant universal suffrage to every resident of the Persian Empire.
The Persians would have conquered all of Greece without a single battle ever being fought. Why would they need to invade at all? They could have just elected Xerxes as the new Archon of Athens and subjugated the city without a struggle, all while claiming they were "defending democracy".
So, unless you want a system where democracy grants the masses the ability to dissolve itself, you have to draw hard boundaries between who is permitted to cast a ballot and who isn't.
But Leftists are unwilling to draw any distinctions at all between the in-group and the out-group, aside from declaring the "far Right" to be the out-group.
The Progressive is just going to inevitably respond with "Yeah, duh. We don't want Nazis, Fascists, and racists running our society. They're the outgroup. They shouldn't get a say. It's called the paradox of tolerance, chud. We want to tolerate immigrants and refugees and asylum seekers, and we don't want to tolerate racist scum like you."
But the moment they give this response (and they always will), they're just proving my point about how democracy must be more than just vooting. It HAS to draw a hard distinction between who is in and who is out.
Progressives might buy their own propaganda about how they're really just making a universal moral distinction, but would a monarchist or a Catholic integralist define enemies the same way? How about an Islamist or Confucianist? Would the ancient Athenians or Persians have thought about it this way? Would even the Founding Fathers have thought of this way 250 years ago?
Obviously not.
Which means the distinction Progressives are drawing isn't actually universalist at all. It's political. It always has been political.
There is no universalist political system, and every attempt to moralize about creating one is just a thinly veiled attempt to conceal one's own friend/enemy distinction under the guise of "just being a good heckerino person".
It's all fake. When these people say that no human is illegal and that they'd rather trade their "fascist" neighbor for an asylum seeker from Sudan, they're revealing that Progressivism isn't actually trying to expand some utopian vision of universal democracy at all.
They are trying to impose their ideological will on society in the name of a fantasy world that they claim gives them the moral justification to seek out power and wield it to disenfranchise their enemies, many of whom were their classmates, coworkers, neighbors, and even family members.
“We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government. We’re over here to breed, we are going to take over.”
That’s what one of the Dewsbury grooming gang rapists told his victim.
Not poverty. Not “cultural misunderstanding”. Not random crime by “Asians”.
This was muslim men operating with a clear religious and racial ideology.
White non-Muslim girls were “slags”, “trash”, and “kuffar whores”, fair game for grooming, gang rape, trafficking, and beatings.
Muslim girls were “pure”. White girls deserved it.
Some perpetrators quoted scripture and framed their actions as religiously justified superiority over infidels.
When the government repeatedly sides with the ideological rapists over its own children, when it betrays fathers and communities trying to protect their daughters, don’t act shocked when people lose faith in the system and take matters into their own hands.
This is demographic and cultural conquest.
An existential attack on Britain enabled by the very people sworn to defend it.
The absolutely filthy anti-white, anti-Christian racist Mehdi Hasan calls the Casey report and the whole push for truth “bullshit.”
The rapists’ own words in court and the girls they destroyed say otherwise.
Denial this loud only confirms who’s still protecting the narrative and why.