This is it. Make friends first. Relationships might come later.

Otherwise its like trying to kayak without having a paddle.

Exactly this.

The news loves this kind of stuff.

[Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill]

And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.

Terrible person gets replaced by the devil incarnate. Love this timeline /s.

Especially if Cowbee’s in atrocity denial essay spam mode

Ehhh when you’re an officially neutral nation with immense financial power surrounded by West Germany, France, Austria (also neutral), and Italy. And you’re on good terms and deeply financially intertwined with NATO.

I feel like having people in your population be homeless and die of lack of medical treatment is a bigger priority than inflating the already massive military budget and capability.

Yeah cold war logic was paranoid. Nuclear bunkers in essentially every building built during the cold war, highway segements were built with fighter jet landing capabilities. And yeah I believe many bridges have explosive “capabilities”.

I love that slut is being reclaimed.

But a word can be both partially reclaimed and deeply insulting depending on who uses it and the context of its use. See the N-word.

This is not just because of public education gutting. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, even in places with the highest ranked public schools on earth.

the simple truth is bombarding someone with a certain way of seeing the world makes them more likely to see the world that way. It’s propaganda, plain and simple.

Sad thing is it works on a lot of naive young people.

Personally I usually vote. Because I usually have welfare that if I didn’t have I wouldn’t be here much longer. So like for me voting feels life and death.

Even if I don’t see myself getting emancipated by vote. Hence I’m an anarchist. For me it’s more just survival. While 99% my political energy goes into prefiguration/direct action etc.

But I definitely also can understand people who won’t vote for the “less worse candidate”. If the less worse candidate has been bombing your family yeah no. No vote. Obviously.

But I do want to say, unless you philosophically reject all electoralism under the current system which is an arguable position I guess. Unless you do that, do at least vote primaries. That’s where we sometimes get better choices.

Don’t mistake them for emancipation. But it makes a hell of a lot of difference in, for example, many homeless people’s lives if buses are free and social housing is fast tracked and kitchens are well funded and police doesn’t harass for existing. It doesn’t save homeless people. The system put them where they are and the system must be dismantled. But it lets many of them survive a little longer.

Yes. That’s the easier solution.

The harder solution is maybe we shouldn’t have 9 people appointed by the most powerful person in the country for life have that much power. It’s not very democratic.

The worst part is this “tradition” came out of a medieval flex by aristocrats.

Look here, I have fertile soil I don’t grow anything on near my manor (aka lawn). That’s how well I’m doing. My peasents are only barely starving.