@user2333xs@Clav0Updates This mindset is why social standards are completely broken. If someone with his features is labeled "never that good looking," you are essentially saying that anyone dealing with normal human variables: acne, dark circles, or a bad hair day, doesn't deserve basic human respect.
@Clavicular0 Takes maturity to look back and admit some situations weren't handled the way you'd do them today. Hope you get a fair resolution and come out of it wiser and stronger.
@theDanielJLewis@MattWalshBlog Musk's wealth did not come from wages or savings but from equity ownership and capital markets. So "learn from Musk" is unclear as advice unless the lesson is access to ownership, venture capital, and high growth equity conditions most SNAP recipients do not realistically have.
@MattWalshBlog You are framing human existence as a corporate leaderboard where your value is tied strictly to a billionaire's profit margin.
Even if Elon contributed enormously, that doesn't justify measuring everyone else's worth against him.
@MattWalshBlog Who is on SNAP? Not the people benefiting most from the system, but many of the people it failed to adequately support: low-wage workers, seniors who worked for decades, people with disabilities, and families struggling to survive in an increasingly expensive economy.
@MAGAMAHACindy The way you're defending Elon, you'd think he put you in his will. In your world, criticism of Musk isn't criticism of a billionaire; it's an attack on your personal vision board.
@prolifefrenchie Love the "hot take" trapdoor. It's a brilliant intellectual exit strategy that lets you drop a moral nuke without defending the radiation. You get all the attention with zero burden of proof. Peak engagement baiting.
@AlixG_2 Are you pissed at the politician? Good. Now ask yourself who bought them. They aren’t two separate problems; they are the same transaction.
I'm not "pissed" at a man for having money; I am identifying a failed structure.
/2 I am not "nothing." I am not "no one." I am the person keeping the lights on in a building that has forgotten I exist. I'm done being the glue for a structure that doesn't value my life.
I am the "essential" labor. I am the stability that allows the "geniuses" to innovate. And yet, in the eyes of this "greatest system," I am a rounding error. I am "stagnant variance."
@carolmswain@ewarren /2 I worked, stayed loyal, and remained productive. If those things no longer lead to meaningful improvement in my life, then the failure isn't mine. It's the system's failure to deliver on its promise.
@Sassafrass_84 You can't judge a case precisely from a headline, but one takeaway is that people can be volatile and unstable. If you get in their face, you might trigger a wildly disproportionate response.
@thewriterme Christianity isn't easy? Try being a high-functioning empath in a world that drains you dry then shames you. My hardest parts aren't visible or rewarded. I deal with constant emotional strain that nobody sees, and I'm expected to function like it's effortless.