sorry, my implication wasn’t that Ukrainian aid was causing or affecting poverty but merely that the money could’ve gone towards Americans here. billions are needed here so every dollar truly counts. also, “fighting to the last Ukrainian” is their people’s right. they can resist by any means necessary.

i know it’s common to hate on Zelensky and our ungodly amount of funding of Ukraine but the Ukranian people are being invaded, killed, and forced to assimilate by an authoritarian fascist dictator. they should have our financial support. honestly, they should have it from the world as a whole. but it has become clear that this is a pet issue for the US with ulterior motives and is done at the expense of suffering Americans. we spend billions to provide Ukraine protection against their aggressor, yet we won’t spend a dime to protect Americans from domestic aggressors like predatory health insurance companies, real estate giants, and corporate oligarchs. we could be investing in universal healthcare, free housing, and ensuring of strong labor rights with jobs that pay above a minimum living. nahhh… here, Ukraine, take all of our money instead!!!

i’m fucking tired of it. it is unethical to continue to fund Ukraine with all we’ve provided thus far when we are unwilling to take care of our own people as well. additionally, very few Americans are aware of the struggles of people living in countries with abhorrent conditions plagued by wars and sexual violence and poverty. it’s only the countries that America has put a spotlight on. it just makes everything regarding our funding of Ukraine feel gross and shitty.

idk, i hate this. it’s conflicting and depressing lol.

publications love doing that shit lol. the whole concept of a carbon footprint was invented to make individual people feel personally responsible for climate change even though corporations pollute 100x more.

Severance is an incredible show. One of the best ever made tbh and it’s only on its second season.

i’m interested in seeing how people who voted for him are going to rationalize their support when the tariffs are pushed to consumers to cover. goods and services are going to increase in price and instead of it being due to a series of complicated events that the president is of course involved in it’ll be directly Trump’s fault. explain that away, please.

she had a two or three week period of support and then she completely ruined it by promising to capitulate to the right and reaffirmed America’s prepardness for war. i saw leftists of all types say they were willing to vote for her as a means to reject fascism if she listened to their concerns. there were tons of jokes about “letting liberals have this one” and the discomfort of having to align with liberals on something. it wasn’t every leftist, of course, but… i’ll speak as myself i wasn’t expecting Biden to drop out so him actually fucking off gave me the smallest twinkle of hope lol. then it was obliterated. she campaigned with Liz Cheney. Liz. Cheney. great job. very smart of you.

it’s already been mentioned in a comment but recycling isn’t nearly as helpful as it was intended to be and often acts like a bandage on a festering wound. we just move non-recyclable plastic from one area to another. there’s no real regulation over the labels used to indicate how to recycle something, so your guidelines are often wrong. idk it just seems like we pushed for Americans to recycle and then did absolutely no follow-up on how that was going and whether it was working or not.

i’m convinced the majority of Americans simply don’t care but feel compelled to answer considering cultural morals, so they choose to express some level of disapproval. not caring here is a symptom of political apathy which is itself a symptom of a exhaustion from living under an oppressive and failed ideology. they don’t care that he died, whatever. worse things to focus on. but they “know that’s wrong” and respond to these questions in the perceived expected way.

so in my mind, the people who don’t care and the people who sympathize with the shooter likely make up more than anyone who criticizes them. i haven’t met a single person who hasn’t had a terrible experience with health insurance. we have all suffered in the health care industry. brian thompson was a social murderer and a fucking parasite.

why the hell would anyone willingly live in Florida

yup! one of the things i was thinking of when i left my comment. Americans are not told of their options because an educated population is dangerous. those in power would rather keep us exhausted and fighting with each other.

the constitution doesn’t matter anymore. i mean, honestly, i think the document is irrelevant and should be disregarded in favor of genuine progress, but members of the oligarchy are ignoring these laws to supplement their own terrible version of reality. they are making their own precedents at the expense of the American people. Trump has shown the country that if someone is powerful enough they can do whatever the fuck they want with the influence they’ve accrued.

i’ve been waiting for this strain of bird flu to reach human-to-human transmission. once that happens we are truly fucked. we didn’t handle COVID and the pandemic is still ongoing. people complained about “shut downs” in the US and there was no such thing lol. name a single state that shut down. name a small town! nobody was prevented from traveling, there were merely recommendations and advisories. anyway, bird flu is gonna be bad. i’m very worried.

i don’t understand how it isn’t a massive problem to the public that people will often run campaigns on lies and abandon their supposed principles once in office. Fetterman is probably the biggest recent example of this bullshit except he is even worse because he is not shying away from people pointing out how he has “changed.” he hasn’t changed lol he merely lied. he should be followed everywhere he goes with a crowd of jeers and boos and tomatoes being flung at him.

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.

sounds very interesting. i loved ISTTG. excited for whatever else she does.

i have ADHD and i’m certain there’s a connection.

if anything i smarten up. text allows me to organize my thoughts and analyze my word choices. i can say much more and provide more detail over text. when i talk i feel stupid lol.

i was rather obsessed with this band as a teenager. amanda palmer was such an influence on me she inspired me to teach myself piano. i wouldn’t be a musician if it weren’t for her. they keep teasing another album but it seems doubtful. i love their current two. the compilation is decent.

just make Israel the 51st state already