

GOD DAMNIT
I saw “Trump, 79…” And my heart thought that was an obituary and it knew joy. For one minor fleeting second.
GOD DAMNIT
I saw “Trump, 79…” And my heart thought that was an obituary and it knew joy. For one minor fleeting second.
The thing is, even the IgNobel prizes are for actual contribution. Trump doesn’t even deserve THAT.
Why am I seeing so many comments with the word removed? Is there some filter in this instance tagging very specific words?
I honestly have no problem with that. I think housing is actually more critical than student loan forgiveness. A debt driven payment to every American under a certain income threshold would go a long way towards repairing the dwindling middle class, and 99% of that money would go towards big businesses anyway.
That said, your individual experience is based on your socioeconomic upbringing and yours alone. You had opportunities others did not, even if they don’t feel like opportunities to you. Student loans were sold on a lie to every American high school age child, that the money would work itself out after college. Something no reasonable adult could actually believe to be true but no high school age child had the worldly awareness to doubt.
You buy a house knowing what your monthly payments are going to be. You buy a house on credit you spent a decade or more building. Multiple people have to sign off on you being able to repay that debt and even those are thrown around like candy. Giving 100,000 dollars to a teenager with no credit history who’s probably never had a job is irresponsible and crazy. It should fall on the debtors to write that money off because they were crazy ignorant or stupid to expect it to be repaid in the first place.
To be clear, I don’t just want debt forgiveness. I want the college lending system rewritten entirely. I want debt forgiveness to those that need it even if that means my debts aren’t wiped out.
To be extra clear, I should not have been given that loan, 90% of the literal children signing for those loans should not be able to access them. But there is no other path to college for almost all of those kids, because college has become so unreasonably expensive.
What a horrible, uninformed and ignorant hot take.
It’s one thing to demand justice for those who cannot obtain it themselves. That is noble, and just.
It’s quite another to lament all day about the guy who absent mindedly stole your place in the self checkout lane. To lay in accusations of malice when ignorance would otherwise do.
I’ll grant you that the way things should be is very often at odds with the way things are. But no person I’ve met who I would describe as an obsessively negative person could ever be labeled an optimist. Their view of the world is always one of conflict. No grace given for innocent mistakes, no breath taken when the weight of the world comes down upon their shoulders in a way that simply cannot be changed. These people are ever the victim of their own mentality.
I wonder if they can experience joy because they seem hard wired to find the fault in every bit of happiness. To seek out sour grapes and bitter apples in every bowl of sweet fruit.
I always wonder if obsessively negative people ever feel joy. Or are they just wired to carry around rage boners all the time. If it isn’t exhausting I just can’t see how they can be happy
He’s actually the next space on my bingo card.
Timmy would go on to run for Congress on an anti killbot policy. He would lose to a bigoted blowhard who insisted on the right for all people to own killbots to make them pancakes.
This strongly worded letter is going to do it this time guys I swear
I quit and went to trade school. One of the best decisions of my life. “What do I do? Sit the fuck down motherfucker I’m about to get technical. No no, don’t look at Jim, Jim can’t help you now. Alright, SO. You ever use a plastic fork?..”