Release the Epstein files.
forwardsfromgrandpa
I had a rule for family emails setup to filter out anything from them with FW: or FWD: straight into the trash. It was never once an issue with anyone asking if I saw their comment or question.
My folks voted in my favor but I don’t hesitate to remind them that their cohort is the actual worst of all fucking time.
It can be painful how good at math my dad is and still parrots “well, the interest rates were worse in the early 80s,” to which I don’t hesitate, "oh? What was that sky high mortgage you and mom had in 1982? $650/mo?
My car payment is more and minimum wage is the fucking same.
Arguably it’s more of a deterrent, you really want to spend your last few years in prison?
Generally it’s not a deterrent at all.
Health care in prison is not good, but neither is health care outside of prison if poor.
Don’t piss off old people
We might die
As the German band Lumpenpack („Riffraff“) once sang in their song Kruppstahl Baby:
„Noch steht ihr und schwenkt eure Fahnen
^You may still be standing and waving your flags^
Anachronismen aus Fleisch
^Anachronisms of flesh^
Euch gehör‘n die Uhren,
^You may own the watches,^
aber uns gehört die Zeit!“
^but time is on our side!^
The people that share memes like this never had a hard day’s work in thier miserable life
idk it’s pretty reflective of the octogenarians around me. it just resonates. this valley has been fucked over by our colonial society like clockwork and people are sick of this shit. the retirees especially find this admin offensive because they’re watching all the hard work they did to make sure their grandchildren didn’t have to fight to the death for their basic dignities the way their parents did get undone.
i don’t think this meme comes from not being familiar with work. i think it comes from knowing exactly how fucking hard work is and how much is being stolen from us right now
I really wish I knew that when I was in my teens and 20s holding down 2 jobs to barely make ends meet with 40% of my income going to my share of a shitty illegal basement suite’s rent and another 25% going to students loan payments at 12% & 15%, that I was a “have”. Eventually things started to pay off in my 30s and at 60 I might be able to retire at 65. It has felt like 45 years of continuous slog so it feels really off that some kid is complaining that after going to their ‘dream university’ and ‘travelling the world on cheap flights’, and ‘door dashing every meal’ with a ‘continuous supply of Amazon or Temu’ being delivered, is the hard done by one. Or maybe, not everyone in every generation is in the same predicament. I know plenty of people older and younger who have done exceptionally well and plenty who have scraped by their whole lives. If you buy into everyone older than me had it easy, you will never be happy in life. Every generation has it’s own struggles. Every generation has people who never struggled.
