thank you for commiserating. i am sorry you can relate. it seems a lot of us can. yes, budgeting is our next step actually. we are doing it together with my first paycheck.

edit: i already posted on mutualaid a few days ago lol i would feel scummy and abusive if i posted again so soon, but i appreciate the tip

i appreciate your encouragement to rest but i simply cannot. i am the one with money, i have a job now and need to play the game once again. nobody is allowing me to “rest,” it’s all about doing what is necessary to live and not be homeless or without medication. i can’t even handle that. my phone and my car are gone. who knows when i’ll be able to afford payments for either.

wow lol. this doesn’t surprise me at all. i had a gut feeling about Honey but couldn’t have guessed it was this insane.

i would reject a communist group with that kind of mindset. we are in no position to be so focused on strict application of “what communism really is” at the expense of educating others against capitalism. we need to help deprogram and depropagandize the masses. especially in America, the proletariat are largely ignorant and kept that way. someone who is willing to apply leftist politics to their personal belief system should be seen as a potential ally. encourage those people to continue to think and expand their knowledge. class consciousness is not going to form if we means test the collective.

i can’t see if they suspect where she caught it from or not. anyone know?

it really is little more than utter exploitation in the long term even if an obscenely wealthy person started off “honestly.” you don’t become a massively successful businessman in a capitalist society without playing their game, so eventually you will be the same as the scum who you sucked up to and worked for. they all abandon any principles they once had in favor of profit and power. it’s an endless game for them, always moving ahead.