@Slatzism Shared your exact sentiment about my experience growing up with a DS sibling and immediately got a comment that my “family didn’t do it right”.
@KILLTOPARTY@signulll Every time I see this sentiment, I have to believe it's just cope.
You're telling me you only see your kids every other weekend and Wednesday nights, vice every day of their lives, and that makes you a *better* dad?
No way.
“An American is an idea, not a race” was ok to say when it was a shared idea that was understood by all, and unchanged, undiluted.
Now that the idea is different, subjective, and “whatever your experience” based on native in-groups,
there’s true Americans, and there’s nons.
I love the Soviet shit hole experience.
Young women are becoming prostitutes, and a car costs 5x as much as it does in capitalist China. It doesn’t get much better than this.
@Mid30sManhattan I’ve fallen asleep and woken up in the middle of a 24 yo doing the work, after staying out til 3 a couple nights in a row.
Not passed out, not blacked out. Fallen asleep.
I think I’m still tired from her. I wasn’t even over 35 yet.
@Richard_Vixen Women think occasionally keeping *their* house that *they* live in clean and liveable,
in the spare time between waking up at 9, coffee/target runs, mid morning relaxing gym sesh, and play dates for the kids (where moms socialize more and sip wine),
makes them “servants”.
The “promise” boomers made, was that they would pay for the people who were receiving SSI checks at the time they were paying in.
What they got in return was a pay-it-forward-esque hope that we would make and keep the same promise (under threat of law). For many reasons, we don’t want to.
Property taxes aside (they shouldn't exist)... They did in fact "suddenly get richer because....the house is worth more". An unrealized gain is nonetheless, a gain. A gain that shouldn't be taxed to be clear, but they are still functionally "richer".
Homes are investment vehicles, or they aren't. It's disingenuous to argue that they are simultaneously both though. Yet that is what we are seeing these days, when "they didn't get richer, it's their HOME" is presented alongside "Hey young buyers, this house is now worth 1.5m, even though I bought it 20 years ago for 80k, because houses are investments and that's how investments work!".
Whenever I see an immigrant posting about how successful and smart they are, or how America “needs them”, I think about how the only kid from my flyover town to go to an Ivy was a daughter of immigrants from Ghana who got a 22 on the ACT.
They are all lying
Liberal Jewish scientist gets into genetics for medical research to help African-Americans and Latinos but ends up proving the Aryan race is real. Kind of mind-blowing.