whenever you stop and listen to self advocacy by people w cognitive disabilities we're always saying things like "i want to choose what clothes to wear" "i want to date without someone supervising me" "i want to have input into what medication and surgeries i get" and like that's really fucking sad and nobody seems to consider how fucking miserable it is for any class in society to be pleading for these things as a group
the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.
having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.
i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.
every welfare and assistance program in america teaches you that holding onto money is a thing you will be punished for and then when you finally get lucky and get a good job and spend your paycheck as fast as possible to keep the wrath of god away it's proof that you were only ever poor because you were bad with money
i appreciate what you think you're doing here but the hypothetical puritan in my mind did not declare me ineligible for medicaid or heat assistance when i had too much money in the bank
i mean maybe the tagger meant a more general 'you', a sort of culture-at-large 'you', but it's weird how many people do treat this like a brain problem and not. idk. a perfectly rational learned behavior. saving too much money is not currently a risk to my well being, but i am one very bad day from it being a very real concern for the entire rest of my life.
when help is only available once you're in a crisis situation, you learn to always be on the brink of a crisis situation. when you're poor you get shit on for spending money on things you don't need to survive, but like. you can get help with surviving.
you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it
I get how we need records of who's in the country for like census or tax purposes, yk boring logistical stuff. but you know what we could do with people who don't have the paperwork? send them to the courthouse to fill out their paperwork. boom problem solved and you didn't have to spend 80 thousand dollars detaining and deporting them
but in all seriousness, asserting a filmmaker 'hasn't read the book' because the plot of their film doesn't follow the book plot beat for beat but still captures the themes of the original while saying something unique with it really just gives 'i also didn't read the book but the google ai synopsis tells me i should be incensed'
whenever I confess to people that i feel like I am just roleplaying as a normal person they're always like noooo you don't strike me as someone who's roleplaying as a normal person at all!!! :) and every time internally im like well yes that's because I am excellent at it
funny thing about the 30-50 feral hogs guy is that an ar-15 is arguably woefully inadequate to deal with that many hogs, therere videos of guys driving around in jeeps lighting up fleeing hogswarms with belt fed machine guns and m4s and they only get like 20 at most. 30-50 feral hogs vs one guy with a semi automatic rifle and a few unarmed children is an unwinnable situation. all this to say, artillery barrages are the only viable home defense equipment when dealing with the hogtide
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