every person working a full time job should be paid enough to live without the fear of losing a home, not having enough food, or not being able to provide for their children.
To the parents of neurodivergent kids who say, “I don’t want to label them because I don’t want to limit them”:
Before I knew I was neurodivergent, my labels were:
Stubborn. Lazy. Rebellious. Difficult. Flaky. Stupid. Dumb.
Now I have two labels that actually explain what I was experiencing:
Autistic. ADHD.
I’d take understanding over shame any day.
every time you watch Zohran being a generational political talent, just remember that the entire Democratic establishment opposed his candidacy and his policy platform and did everything they could do to prevent him from becoming mayor
When one level of government spends my property tax dollars installing bike lanes and another level of government spends my income and sales tax dollars uninstalling them, I experience a unique, unnameable kind of rage.
@MTW2478@fordnation Do people actually still think he’s just incompetent? He’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing because he gets his instructions from the PC party and conservative donors. This is what they want him to be doing.
This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
Men are in my comments crying because I said period products should be free since menstruation isn’t a choice
And they keep replying with:
“Food should be free too, hunger isn’t a choice.”
Like… yes? infact
I actually agree.
My boomer mom told me this weekend she’s worried about her 90yo mother not getting enough nutrition but also was viscerally opposed to paying for a meal service for her 🙃
THERE ARE TOO MANY wealthy boomers that would rather die with $3 million in the bank than watch their kids use $50,000 of it to drastically improve their life.
So Mamdani got landlords to fix their properties, balanced the city budget, lowered crime, froze rent, taxed the rich, and launched a free day care program and y’all still saying socialism will fail.
Ignorance.