Yes, yes and yes!!

sanity is the thing i lost this year and i'm gonna end up in a asylum at the end of this one or in the cemetery don't know which one i'll choose

That is nuts

Way too true!

I don't know whether to cry over this text or laugh at the stupid politicians!

This is how I was raised and how I lived my life. Now, my body is worn out and I can't afford to fix it.... What about the deal we had..... I work hard for you all my life, I never see my kids school activities because I'm away at sea on an oilrig, killing myself for my company and my family. Now, you just wiped your hands of me, I can only suffer from my damaged body and hope for a quick death. It's all a lie, America is a lie. Look at me, did everything you are supposed to do, but America turned its back on me as an old wounded warrior. Damn America to hell!

this is precisely what happened to peasants after the black death in europe when nobles realised they had to pay peasants better or lose them (also the black death killed a lot of peasants)

Yep. We also tell new parents that they're superheroes without offering any support, build more homeless shelters when most unhoused people fear the trauma that happens in large shelters, focus on correcting the narrative of Thanksgiving without backing any tribal nation's current struggles with treaties, and redesign Mrs. Butterworth instead of passing voting rights legislation. The common theme in all of these is that when people who are not directly impacted by a policy decide to make the policy, nine times out of ten, they miss the mark. The key to fixing this is to support people at the heart of an issue in deciding what they need, then throw your time, energy, and resources behind their leadership.

“It means it was weather and not a bunch of lunatics smearing their poos on the wall of a government building.”

Stop sneering at people for imperfectly navigating a system that is rigged against them.

Perfect analogy honestly (analogy? Metaphor?)

LOL

Me in 20 years at Thanksgiving

.....taught the colonists how to grow corn and they were BFF's forever and lived happy ever after. NO SIR THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. Lives were taken. Land was stolen.The colonists were brutal and violent.

And remember kids, be gay, do crime

Kiss a lot of ass or be born into a rich family. They're the only routes to success.

That's f****d

True. I don't know a single person who had something stolen and the police either found the items, or caught the person who did it. NOT ONE. As far as I'm concerned the only reason you ring the police after a burglary is to get an "incident reference number" from them so your insurance company will pay out.

This might be satire, but not a good one considering people were killed there because management refused to evacuate...

I get what you mean, but getting people back to work prevents them from becoming homeless. You may see this as dystopia, but it's also real life. People need money to provide for themselves and their loved ones.

I am 16. Currently, I work a part time job and make $14.00/hr. When I was in first grade, my mom worked a full time job at $12.00/hr, at night, driving for 1.5 hours over icy roads on very little sleep. This is capitalism. I think it's time for a change

It's a privilege not to be political. It means that everything is working for you well enough in your life that you don't feel the need to devote yourself to policy changes. It also means you're either very very sheltered and ignorant or that you're lacking empathy to not support people who have it worse than you in their political struggles either.

im 13 and scared to grow up for this reason. i want to be a psychologist, but college costs a lot of money...

some people learned the fact that keeping your head down while getting kicked just lead to getting kicked some more...for good or bad, they don't take all the shits

Again, as a Brit can someone explain this? If you're ill and can't work you phone in sick, and then it's the manager's job to cover your work, right? Is it standard practice in the US the the person that's ill has to find cover for their shift? What happens otherwise?

This is wrong. Of course you are entitled to your paid holidays, but we can not all take time off at the same time. In my company we all request our 25 to 30 days off at the beginning of the year and the bosses then check if it all works out or if some need to move some time off around. If that is the case, then we employees discuss this amongst ourselves and make sure that it is not always the same people who have to step down. That you can take all your time off is granted by law in my country, but not always when you want it, but it mostly works out in my company. This is why it is 'requesting' and not 'notifying' and a basic principle of teamwork.

Comparing things USA does to NK: https://www.instagram.com/p/CW1sS_6LYTD/