Can you not make that point without the ableism?

Exactly…

Victimhood is like an accessory to them, put it on when they need a little pity party, or to socialise some financial losses, but quickly take it off again the rest of the time and be free to enjoy their vast privilege.
Which is how they think actual oppression works, which explains shit like the idea of a “race card” and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps - they’ve genuinely convinced themselves that since their problems are mostly superficial and easily resolved (or buy your way out of), so are everyone else’s.

Anything to avoid addressing the actual cause of the issue… 🙄

Let me just get out my worlds tiniest violin for these exploitative hoarding motherfuckers.

It’s either that, or the guillotine…

Or they could, you know, just give up their wealth if their suffering is so great?
Nah?
Didn’t think so… 🙄

That, or they have a vested interest in continuing to perpetuate it and keep it “alive”, like the owners of this publication clearly do.

Anyone who still believes in, never mind promotes the lie that is (and always has been) the “American dream” should be categorically ignored, if not publicly chastised.

Or one can aim to abolish the entire system instead of applying band aids to the cancer that it is and and pin all of your hopes on them sticking (not even fixing anything, just… sticking)…

If only they hadn’t criminalised abortion, and consistently cut funding to sex education and instead funded shit like “Crisis pregnancy centers”.

Get your head out of your ass.

And before anyone even tries - I have no kids and want no kids, but to answer this bullshit with “don’t have kids” is unhelpful at the very least, and actively licking boot at worst. These problems are not the fault of the people having kids.

Unfortunately this affects many more than just zoomer, fucking depressing either way…

Just finished watching Praying for Armaggedon and my mind went straight back to my comment here about the crusades never ending. I know they probably won’t, but all the people here who see no issue with OP really need to watch this film. Everyone does.

Thanks for letting me know, I’m glad someone found it helpful!

And yeah, they absolutely would…

Silly me, I assumed all people, those in the working class at least, genuinely fear becoming homeless…

Seriously though, what an odd way to frame it, but I guess when you look at the source, it makes a bit more sense that a financial publication will be spreading this kind of out of touch divisive crap, it’s not like they’re going to be honest about capitalism and the fact that people of all ages are finding it harder and harder to survive under it…

Image ID: on the left is a red button with the label “I don’t want the government telling me what to do”, on the right is a red button with the label “If he did what the cop told him to, he’d still be alive”, bellow is a sweaty Gadsden flag faced man struggling to choose.

Honestly, that’s shockingly low, depressingly even.

As long as people, of all ages, continue to have any faith in the status quo (or in the possibility that “reforming” or regulating it is all we need), even though it is clear (once you look) that they should have none, they will not revolt, or even support a revolt, against it.

I hate to think how much worse things are going to have to get before enough people realise the system was never there to serve them, even if it makes them feel it does sometimes (because they’re a man and/or white and/or abled and/or cis and/or hetero and so on…).

According to these comments there exists some fairy lands untouched by inflation and food deserts don’t exist, it’s just those damn millennials and their avocados again… 🙄🤦‍♀️

The kind of privilege that enables for that level of detachment (within the working class) is already obscene, but then using it to literally claim other peoples’ reality simply doesn’t exist is just so fucking gross…

Maybe people should just be thankful they’ve magically managed to escape the global inflation and all the rest of the bullshit companies are pulling to charge more for less, instead of calling people less fortunate than them, liars.

Meanwhile
Billionaires’ wealth has risen more since COVID-19 began than it has in the last 14 years. At $5 trillion dollars, this is the biggest surge in billionaire wealth since records began

The ‘victim card’ is the conservative ‘race card’.

Except only one of those is real, while the other is made up by those trying to use the first…

The crusades never actually ended…

This reminded me of those msn messenger nudges from back in the day… I’m definitely not the target audience this time around… 😂

If it won’t let me untick all but the essential cookies easily - close tab, move on.

Recently I realised that some “reject all” options still don’t reject the “legitimate” bullshit, so I now avoid those sites too (and no, I don’t trust that extensions that claim to reject all for me will actually reject all).

I’ve got better things to do with my time than scrutinise these cookie pop ups and/or go through lengthy lists individually unticking options. Fuck that noise - don’t have minimal respect for users? Then I’m definitely not providing you any of my data (the sites that make it the hardest rarely hold information you can’t easily find elsewhere)…