Emsa mit grünen Haaren

BLM or GTFO.
A Neurodivergent (H)angry Smart Black Woman.
Gamer.
Kaiju podcaster (?)
Radical & Unhinged Academic.

PhD History (IP)
MA German Studies 2021

[Emsa mit grünen Haaren @mpickett517]

When this all goes to hell, at least I'll know I didn't do anything at all to cause it, but at least I helped nobody and stopped nothing, so I feel great guilt and shame for my part.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”–James Baldwin

[Collins🦋 @collinstimbela_]

I need people to understand that when millions of hardworking people are struggling at the same time, that is not millions of individual failures. That is a system.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I hope the next global trend is critical thinking

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

When it comes to MENTAL ILLNESS, capitalism has always been the elephant in the room . Living paycheck to paycheck causes anxiety. Not being able to see a doctor is stressful. Choosing between paying rent or having heat or electricity feels hopeless. Working multiple jobs and never being able to see our loved ones is depressing. Laboring for a wage is alienating. It's no wonder we're all sick.

[darius. @_dariussimpson]

i received a warning…

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[DJ Pain 1 @djpain1]

“Ai is here. Why fight it?” Is what I hear from the pro-Ai contingent all day, every day.

Cancer is here. Discrimination is here.
Knee injuries are here. Roaches are here. Being human = fighting wrongs.

Saying, ‘it’s here, just accept it,’ is a coward’s motto.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

What an odd way of saying, “nearly half of American adults under 30 do not earn enough to afford housing.”

This isn’t “financial savvy.”
It’s a sign that there are limits to how far people can be exploited for housing.

[Emsa mit grünen Haaren @mpickett517]

These "bootstrap mentality" people believe we are morally better poor, hungry, and silent than poor, hungry, and complaining.

[Emsa mit grünen Haaren @mpickett517]

One of the discourses surrounding the working poor is that we spend our money stupidly. The advice is always "pack your lunch instead of eating out!" But if you can't afford groceries? They have no advice. Just silence. Shrugs. Sighs. The translation? "Starve."

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is how much the rich hate you.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Is it just me or do you ever really get overwhelmed by how our current reality is a genuine dystopian nightmare YET everyone still acts like it is completely normal??

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

You’re not poor because you bought coffee and avocados. You’re poor because billionaires bought Congress and the Presidency.

[Emsa mit grünen Haaren @mpickett517]

@Favwontmiss I am so neurodivergent I need ~special~ therapy, which kinda means I am on the neurodivergent honor roll. The anxious, grade-motivated child in me is terrified and pleased.

[Emsa mit grünen Haaren @mpickett517]

I quit my decent-paying, soul-crushing full-time job to focus on finishing my PhD and support my kid, and then this [gestures vaguely at world] happens and now my family can't afford groceries or gas. You do the right thing you get fucked. You do the wrong thing you get fucked.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. so the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

We can’t have nice things because the white folks in this country are too racist to share with people who don’t look like them. They would rather burn it ALL DOWN than share! Reagan created the “welfare queen” myth to use racism to dismantle the social safety net for everyone

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Bro spittin'