Prelude 1: "Was it worth it Hamas? Now what? Whats your plan?" -Extreme_Attention_99
Prelude 2: "The plan is to blame Israel for the destruction of civilian infrastructure and have a bunch of idiot leftist college kids to echo it on their behalf when not demanding student loan forgiveness." - TheRealAuthorSarge
The Absolute Banger: "As a leftist who supports military action in Gaza (and who paid off my student loans early), I agree. Not so often these days we have issues that don't split neatly down party lines, but this is one of them. My entire circle is fairly progressive, and there is a ton of support for Israel." -citori421
I had to dig a little further into the profile of citori421. Here's his "progressive circle" btw:
And the COUP DE GRACE, an amazing anti-Trump post that both proves how "progressive" this guy is while also being incredibly classist AND using an anti-neurodivergent slur:
Trump belongs in jail, because he's a criminal. There's a mountain of evidence and literal court decisions and the only thing saving him at the moment is politics. He'll eventually die in prison, and you'll switch to beating yourself off to the next right wing wannabe dictator that makes you feel safe by lying about the world and pretending to be able to do things for sure white trash to pull themselves out of the hole they dug themselves into. Also, lmaooooooo at your "source". This comment should be in a textbook chapter 200 years from now about the extent of r-t-rdation trump worshippers engaged in. [my censorship] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmTheMainCharacter/comments/18qnx8d/no_words/key7kag/?context=3
I love it when people call themselves a "as left as they come progressive, but not like those crazy far-left" or something like that, and then proceed to be:
Pro Israel
A rich shithead that doesn't realize how easy they have it while preaching bootstrap mentality.
Hate even the most lukewarm leftist campaigns, like student loan forgiveness. (actual leftist policy would be guillotining the debt companies so be grateful, asshole)
An entrepreneur because he has no real skills outside of grifting money
I wish there was a big rubber hammer that would strike Americans in the face every time they think "left" means "not openly hating minorities and thinking weed is ok."
I wish there was a big rubber hammer that would strike Americans in the face every time they think "left" means "not openly hating minorities and thinking weed is ok."
I think it's important to make the distinction between a fed (who is actively employed to disrupt) and some asshole working for the Bureau of Land Management and posting on the job
/r/ImTheMainCharacter looks like one of those bullying subs that surged in popularity a few years back, like /r/cringe and /r/fatpeoplehate. This poster sounds like the type of person who'd revel in that kind of pure spite.
As a leftist who supports military action in Gaza (and who paid off my student loans early), I agree. Not so often these days we have issues that don't split neatly down party lines, but this is one of them. My entire circle is fairly progressive, and there is a ton of support for Israel.
Yea because the one thing both Republicans and Dems have always agreed on is funding for its military base in the Middle East.
I'm aware that there are rich, comfy people I'm communicating with online. That should be obvious. But I get so much whiplash when they just admit to it and are also the worst people imaginable. People who make six figures or above are completely foreign to me, yet here they are posting in forums like they're anyone else. It's like getting mind reading powers and then hearing Cthulhu's thoughts.
Depending on where you live 6 figures may still qualify as poverty, as ridiculous as that sounds.
I moved from the midwest to the SF Bay Area with my partner many years ago because she got a job paying $100,000.
We thought we hit the lottery and we were rich. We actually thought that.
Then we loaded up the moving truck and did the 3 day drive and stayed at motel 6 while we searched for a place to live.
Then we found out just how far $100k will go in the Bay Area. We could not find a single apartment within driving distance of her new job where $100k was enough income to qualify for a 1 bedroom apartment. Not one.
We had to beg my old job to write a letter stating that I was still employed with them, working remotely, for $50k a year so that we could qualify to get a 600sqft 1 bedroom apartment. Luckily they were willing to do that because it wasn't entirely false.. i was technically still "advising" my replacement but I definitely wasn't making $50k a year from them, but 150k combined income was JUST enough to allow us to get the apartment.
Now someone making $100k somewhere in Ohio or Missouri is living pretty damn well.
What you're describing is still entirely foreign to me, sorry. Even getting hired for a six figure job is such an alien concept I can't fathom what kind of life that is or what kind of people your partner works with. Having enough money to move to a different state is by itself something that sounds impossible.