A neurodivergent person posted in my local community group that they desperately needed food, and even posted a picture of an empty fridge with nothing but a tub of butter and some baking soda in it. There were plenty of people posting links to outreaches that could help, but there were also a few 50-65 year old white dudes saying, "Everywhere is hiring! How about you fill out some job applications instead of asking for handouts?"
I called one of the dudes out and told him that even if they got hired tomorrow, that won't put food in their fridge today. He said, "if they had been working, their fridge wouldn't be empty," and proceeded to call me a clueless millennial.
What the fuck do we do with these people? I hate sharing a world with fucks like these that don't carry a shred of empathy.
Neoliberalism has been incredibly effective at training people to be enormous pieces of shit. I hope it's ability to indoctrinate has eroded over time, but I guess we won't know for a while.
I feel like empathy and ethics should be taught in school. Like, as a major focus over everything else.
Neoliberalism has been incredibly effective at training people to be enormous pieces of shit.
For almost two decades almost any atrocity of late stage capitalism was almost universally dismissed online by internet strangers as "that's just good business" or some other ghoul take like that.
My high school taught "character." A whole six weeks of "Don't cheat, kids!" Today they'd probably add a whole module on "Don't ask for handouts!"
They're the last demographic who was able to sleep their way to success, so they feel the impending collapse of neoliberalism growing close. Pointing out to them that they'll be the next sacrifice distresses them greatly, because deep down they know that they have no real skills, no ability to learn or adapt, and no real wealth (only speculative assets like real estate, stock, and monkey jpegs).
Bullying them doesn't change things materially, but we can take a bit of catharsis in knowing that reading our posts is the worst thing that happened to them today.
EDIT: removed original comment, but I'll still stand by PMC jobs not requiring much actual skill after passing through the gatekeeping phase and getting "in."
That isnt the write emoji to use for this I dont think, theyre nonbinary and a lib not a chud
Not if many of them retired with pensions and good health insurance. We could have another 30 years left with them.
capitalism reproduces the conditions under which people become like this. Sorry to say, this type of person won't age out of society.
They'll become an ever shrinking minority though especially as ethnic demographics shift (something the full blown racist midwest NIMBYS piss themselves over)
hard disagree. whiteness can be expanding to include more people. Petite bourgeois ideology doesn't really care about race.
Truth I've met plenty gusanos and other peeps that claim their folks fled Vietnam/Cuba/wherever else a coup was attempted/done cuss "my grandparents helped out the army" or some other lowkey horrid shit
What the fuck do we do with these people?
Reeducation in the gulag after the revolution is really the only viable solution. So I'm waiting for now.
My friends (mostly late 30s) who own their homes aren't quite this bad yet but I'm already wary of them. They're becoming more Tandenized every year.
Tandenized
Can you help me understand what this means? Search engines don't return any results
what would make these dipshits unreasonably mad is if you swim around the harbor at night and untie all the mooring lines
summertime tomfoolery of course
Having all of your material needs met for very little work irreparably destroys your brain. Tsar Nicholas II genuinely had the mind of a child. People who got jobs because they managed to get a college degree for $3 when that meant something are effectively aristocrats. They're Hungry Ghosts.
After three days without food, these people would become deranged. They have been entitled to comfort their entire lives, and unfortunately they will live and die without ever having to know what that means.
My folks have legit become more stressed and angry over the inflation period and having to reduce the red meat they eat, mfers would die if faced with the economic horrors most people born after the 1980s have faced.
What the fuck do we do with these people?
Sorry folks, the gulag's full.
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