• jtrek@startrek.website
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    This reminds me of that time when Fox news tried to say that poor people don’t have it bad because 82% of them have a microwave.

    Turns out if you’re a conservative shitbag you can just say stuff and for some reason you’re neither shunned from society nor beaten and left for dead!

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      A MAGA uncle once told me I was a “whiny unamerican wimp” for complaining about income inequality when he’s I had a television.

      Ah, yes, because it’s 1953, and a television costs a years salary, I forgot.

      This dude was born in the fucking 70s.

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        Nah, there is a segment of the American right that truly believes that the poor should live like a Gilded Age beggar. You own nothing, you sleep in a box, and maybe, if you’re lucky, the soup kitchen will have some bread that’s not moldy. I had a coworker tell me I couldn’t be poor because I wasn’t homeless, because “only homeless people are really poor”.

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          Meanwhile, vandwellers are out there counting up the cash they aren’t spending on rent.

          It’s a shame there’s a significant stigma to that lifestyle. The last time I was homeless, I was ready to go that route and save up the money I would’ve spent on rent. However, my girlfriend was terrified of the idea. She found me the place I’m staying in now, which I’m glad for; but the last time my bank account was this low, I was only working part-time. Rent is like a money-vacuum.

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      Because being a shitbag is the default and expected mode of operation for them. They betray no expectations and break no promises, the system is working as intended.