@megan_lassi The American middle class was allowed to exist as a PR stunt against the soviets. Now that the USSR is gone, we are being pushed back into peasantry. Call it neofeudalism I guess but the object is to regress the masses as far as I can tell
@_iamblakeley They say this like said country doesn’t spend tens of millions on american political campaigns for candidates that actively make all of our lives worse worldwide
shoot me but I don’t think 55+ communities should exist.
55+ buildings, fine. nursing/retirement homes, sure. but boomers have cordoned off entire gated villages on some of the best real estate in the world where they just trade houses with each other at insane discounts.
I’ve seen 2 bed-2 bath waterfront homes for under $100,000. 2% financing. $5000 down payments. And you’re not allowed to have any of it because you’re not old.
Boomers created these spaces to escape the consequences of the world they helped create. We are left to fight for their hyperinflated scraps on the outside while they live in curated microcosms of the 1980s.
I’m not saying these communities HOA’s can’t be extremely selective about who they let in, but I don’t think a young professional with good references should be shut out simply because of their age.
Seize the 55+ neighborhoods.
@megan_lassi Lots of people can’t conceptualize the idea that things can and will get way way worse under further republican rule
As if the shit yourself disease wasn’t enough contemporary prescient evidence of that fact
Having a conversation with a friend the other day talking about Chinese infrastructure and he goes “yeah but they have whole ass ghost towns”
I mean yeah? And? I’d rather have towns nobody lived in and 90% homeownership vs whatever the fuck a “BlackRock” is
capitalism is just cramming as many middlemen between production and consumer until it all collapses in on itself. and then trying to beat the high score the next time
me: dear mr google, i was writing to you today to ask if a poorly fitted N95 is adequate for asbestos removal
google: would you like some AI hallucinated scat p*rn
There’s worms in the beef and there is poop on the lettuce and tomato. Cheese isn’t real and the ketchup gives you cancer. They’ve ruined the burger. And we just watched.
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that RFK Je. directed the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now my county courthouse is flying the Confederate flag again.