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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • What a dishonest argument.

    There’s a world of difference from someone barely getting by, living paycheck to paycheck, versus a middle class worker well into their career, able to afford minor luxuries and still squirrel away money for savings and retirement.

    I am middle class. I am 20 years into my career. I make comparatively good money.

    But due to not prioritizing buying property, I’ve pretty much missed my window. I can qualify for a mortgage, have the 20% down-payment, but the monthly payment would pretty much wipe me out, costing around $3k more per month than renting.

    If I were at this point in my career 20 years ago, I could have easily afforded a house comfortably.

    That is what we’re talking about when we talk about the housing crisis for specifically the middle class.













  • Man. You guys really can’t read the bold subtext or what?

    This is literally the very next reply by the same user from the 2nd link:

    Instead of voting for war criminals, how about not?

    You don’t fill in a hole by taking a lesser amount of dirt out. Likewise you don’t fix the system by voting for the lesser evil.

    They are not being subtle. They do this all the time here. They intentionally avoid specifically saying “don’t vote, both sides are bad”, but their intent is abundantly obvious.

    I’m honestly amazed at how many people here are falling for this crap. They are all over lemmy making the same kind of tongue in cheek “both sides” layups. How the hell aren’t you catching on?



  • That’s the point of linking comment threads, so you can see the context and read between the lines. One of those threads, their own replies remove any ambiguity of their meanings.

    And the reason those linked to the parent is simply how lemmy (vanilla, at least) works when copying a comment link. At least without fuss. And I’m on mobile.

    But whatever, there’s plenty of context just from the original links I sent. I really don’t give a shit if it’s not wrapped up nicely enough for you. I quickly provided counter examples from comments older than his without even trying to find them.



  • Apparently people here aren’t smart enough to scroll down to see the comments, so I’ll quote.

    Going into survival mode forever, where either party can do whatever the frick they want, because they others mustn’t win! Nice system you got there, where it’s like 50\50 every time!

    They present you a Trump and therefore they can even kill your kids, as long as Trump doesn’t win. It’s a scam… both parties are in it. But they divided you all so perfectly fine, you stopped thinking a long time ago.

    Looking forward to your comments, telling me about NO BOth SIdeS!

    And Biden enables genocide, among a lifetime history of right wing views such as fighting for segregation.

    Trump and Biden are not good options.

    People should be furious the Dems allowed him to be in this position today, not sucking it up and pushing harder for it.