Yeah. The problem is that the goalposts keep getting pushed away faster than income is keeping up. Someone might have what is considered a good paying job, but the buying power for major purchases like cars and homes keeps taking hits. On top of that the bills get steeper and steeper. Six figures should be a fortune.
Middle class didn’t mean a big McMansion or desirable area. It meant a modest house in a small lot in a boring suburb of someplace like Detroit where you’d work for Ford or something.
Our ideas of what kind of house we should have is really distorted. It’s like pickup trucks. What was considered an everyday pickup 40 years ago was 1/3rd the size of the behemoths available today, and of course today’s trucks cost $80,000 compared to the $6,500 of something like a ‘85 Toyota Pickup ($20k in today dollars).
Looks like they paid off the big debts with the Big Tech salary first, then took the lower pay job. So yeah, if you grind out the big bills first it’s absolutely possible.
Lower 6 figures today is middle class. Or at least what middle class buying power was 40 years ago.
Crazy attracts crazy.
Extreme isn’t extreme enough for some people.
I do not understand why people cannot see him for what he is. He’s shown everyone over and over again exactly what he is. Yet somehow they tell themselves this time he’ll actually do something right.
Maybe if someone enlisted long enough to get the GI bill for education and used it things would be different, but if one only does short military time and leaves with no further self-improvement the odds of being better off financially probably aren’t great.
Fuck this.
Yeah. Don’t even know what to add to that. Maybe some boomer culture as well, how they had whatever issues that the modern generation doesn’t have and point that out as some kind of hardship while simultaneously being likely to have had the most stable career, technological, and economic progress of any generation in history.
Meanwhile they busily edit anything a Democrat says to indicate something other than what the context of the statement was.
Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.
Deeply /s
TIL hebophile and ephebophile, two words I didn’t want to know existed.
Brutha I didn’t change the subject and argue points my opponent wasn’t trying to make in order to make myself right about something. You are literally an example of what I was talking about.
Argument by hyperbole.
Trying an argumentative fallacy yourself? A little red herring or straw manning? Nobody said anything about a classroom.
In no way did I suggest the opponent should know what fallacy they are using or that there are rules for the rabble online, the fallacies are mentioned so that you, the reader, would know what people do in an argument that make it not worthwhile, and that the opponent is using them to avoid conceding anything.
One can also infer that using those techniques, even unknowingly, are still common bullshit arguments by an opponent that isn’t discussing in good faith when presented with objective facts. Again, why it’s a lost cause to argue online.
Trump wasn’t a client. He was a partner.
99% of all arguments on the internet. Someone is almost always going to engage in some kind of pedantry, butwhatabout, technicality, argumentative fallacy, etc. to try to make themselves right and/or imply the OP was wrong in some way. They are not open to having their mind changed. Especially when it comes to politics, and there’s essentially no hope for religion at all. This generally applies to IRL discussions, too. At least the internet argument you can just walk away, block, or unsubscribe to any replies to the thread.
In the same vein…expecting anyone to change. People have to change themselves, and it’s not up to you. You can’t make it happen except maybe in the most extreme situations, and even then it might be iffy.
And I hate to say it, apologizing on the internet. Once the downvote train starts and shitting on the offender’s posts there’s almost no way out and any apology isn’t worth the effort. I find this kinda hypocritical seeing as there are numerous internet posts about the value of admitting you don’t know something or might have it wrong, and how we shouldn’t shame people for admitting that, yet if someone screws up and apologizes they’re usually hosed. Just reinforces not apologizing.
AI making up stupid, factually incorrect, or absurd responses: Ignore those issues. Copy/paste as a source without checking. More AI!
AI making factually correct but inconvenient responses: Let’s put lots of effort into making sure that doesn’t happen.
That’s not how that works. There are no separate residential lines for police.
The rest, that’s not how that works, either.
Shouldn’t be. A pardon means you were guilty. Hence the pardon. So the search was legal.