SwagliacciTheBadClown [comrade/them, null/void]

https://redsails.org/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/

At the heart of these incredulous statements about the poor decisions poor people make is a belief that we would never be like them. We would know better. We would know to save our money, eschew status symbols, cut coupons, practice puritanical sacrifice to amass a million dollars. There is a regular news story of a lunch lady who, unbeknownst to all who knew her, died rich and leaves it all to a cat or a charity or some such. Books about the modest lives of the rich like to tell us how they drive Buicks instead of BMWs. [8] What we forget, if we ever know, is that what we know now about status and wealth creation and sacrifice are predicated on who we are, i.e. not poor. If you change the conditions of your not-poor status, you change everything you know as a result of being a not-poor. You have no idea what you would do if you were poor until you are poor. And not intermittently poor or formerly not-poor, but born poor, expected to be poor and treated by bureaucracies, gatekeepers and well-meaning respectability authorities as inherently poor. Then, and only then, will you understand the relative value of a ridiculous status symbol to someone who intuits that they cannot afford to not have it.

Was anyone else emotionally scarred by the strip about the baby raccoon dying? Remember reading that growing up- being in the middle of nowhere I’d had similar experiences - and I’m still getting sad just thinking about it

lol good luck identifying me, Adam Friedland, host of the Adam Friedland show podcast show, from my online posting - or my wife Nicole Mullen- former abortion addiction advocate

1. not the “costs” people are even talking about- more of the “cost” of destroying the biosphere for useless shittech
2. lol okay give us your home addresses then so we can come recoup costs as needed

Quite the wretched boy though unfortunately for all

Shut the fuck up- there’s absolutely no chance this guys actually named Jack Horner. As in THE Jack Horner? Who sat in a corner???

Huh. I hated all of that. Thanks for sharing!

That’s awesome! Yeah there aren’t enough protest songs that haven’t been co-opted to hell and back, and this one always hits for me. Fuck imperialism

Been trying to teach it to the next generation - fun reminder that time is a flat circle and you’re always disposable to porky!

Well come on mothers throughout the land

Pack your boys off to Vietnam Iran (again!)

Come on fathers don’t hesitate

Send them off before it’s too late

Be the first one on your block

To have your boy come home in a box

AHHHHHHHH. fuuuuck! I just want one day of my life where this bloodthirsty fucking country isn’t involved in a goddamned forever war. Fucking pedophile ruling class deciding that your aunties, uncles, cousins, siblings, niblings, parents need to be fucking blown to bits or destroy every remaining shred of their humanity in order to boost the cursed MIC, fossil fuels, and insatiable imperialist bloodlust. I hope for nothing but the worst things in life for the architects of this destruction. They deserve nothing short of their remaining days being beaten in the streets and spat upon. They deserve nothing but the contempt and cruelty they bring into the world to be returned to them tenfold. God damn Amerikkka, Allah damn amerikkka, Yahweh damn amerikkka - all nations colors and creeds should denounce and damn this cursed nation and its rabid dogs. How many need to die? And for what? May this spawn a million luigis upon the parasitic ruling class

Op have you seen this follow up video? https://hexbear.net/PPB

US State Department ignoring sovereignty

Good time to buy stock in “fell for it” awards as well, apparently

Jk this was a hoax

The Old Yeller rpg ending was … oof…

Made me think of futurama too lol

Who could have ever seen absolute power corrupting absolutely?