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So the thread on american poverty had a good idea but the thread itself turned into utter loving poo poo. Let's start again without the lovely drama. The United States of America (death come to it swiftly) is the richest country in the world and may be the richest entity the human race has ever seen. Despite this: 30K people die from lack of health insurance, 1/6 of american children will go without a meal today, 12% of all americans will experience "food insecurity", 25% of americans don't have dental insurance (much less can afford to go to a dentist), and over a half million people are estimated to be homeless. These are loving stark numbers for a country that gives 8 yachts to the woman who's supposed to run the federal education department. Poverty exists in every nation, and some nations do experience things worse than in america. But what makes the scale in america so terrible is how the resources easily exist to fix all of these issues within a year or two of community actions. This doesn't happen because that would be communist so people need to die to learn a lesson about being born poor. Here's some poo poo about the situation: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E quote:4. I have seen and heard a lot over the past two weeks. I met with many people barely surviving on Skid Row in Los Angeles, I witnessed a San Francisco police officer telling a group of homeless people to move on but having no answer when asked where they could move to, I heard how thousands of poor people get minor infraction notices which seem to be intentionally designed to quickly explode into unpayable debt, incarceration, and the replenishment of municipal coffers, I saw sewage filled yards in states where governments don’t consider sanitation facilities to be their responsibility, I saw people who had lost all of their teeth because adult dental care is not covered by the vast majority of programs available to the very poor, I heard about soaring death rates and family and community destruction wrought by prescription and other drug addiction, and I met with people in the South of Puerto Rico living next to a mountain of completely unprotected coal ash which rains down upon them bringing illness, disability and death. talk about your own experiences, post pictures (of which there's so goddamn much), and otherwise talk about how we got here (capitalism) and how we get out of this situation ().
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 02:58 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:19 |
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dolla dolla bills y'all
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 03:34 |
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I would appreciate it if the derail from this thread's predecessor did not recur.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 03:38 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGh1Su7-ok
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 03:40 |
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Its poo poo to be poor (sung to the tune of "Hip to be Square" by huey louis and the news)
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:13 |
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Everyone should go watch Parasite, then stab their landlord and move into their house That's my solution to American poverty
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:18 |
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What if my landlord is a nebulous "property management company" with no discernable employees
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:24 |
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Blockade posted:What if my landlord is a nebulous "property management company" with no discernable employees Stop paying rent and then stab whoever they send to collect.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:25 |
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Blockade posted:What if my landlord is a nebulous "property management company" with no discernable employees Stab your boss and take their house instead
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:29 |
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It is OP
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 04:42 |
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this is making the rounds, and aside from a bit of women bashing it could be indicative of future problems. i know in japan some surveys have shown women's expectations for marriage partner income tend to be way above what the average person man makes, and you can see how well that (and many other factors, mostly patriarchal) is working out for their birthrates. higher numbers of sexless/lacking (and research shows most loving is done under wedlock) men is not gonna be great for suppressing populism. thanks late-stage capitalism! https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/broke-men-are-hurting-american-womens-marriage-prospects/
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 05:04 |
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i dunno i like to be poor
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 05:25 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:Its poo poo to be poor (sung to the tune of "Hip to be Square" by huey louis and the news) poo poo, poor forevermore....
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 06:17 |
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im in debt lolll
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 08:20 |
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really queer Christmas posted:Poverty exists in every nation, except china soon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFr74zI1LBM
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 09:15 |
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R. Guyovich posted:except china soon! idk mate the property value to wage ratio in cities is pretty out of control imo
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 09:45 |
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I’ve been poor, I’ve been either housing insecure or straight up homeless most of my 20s. I’m only living decently now out of sheer luck, and even then, all the traumas and horrific experiences have left my brain super hosed up. it’s... incredibly cruel that we do this to people, that we have so many vulnerable people with no end in sight.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 09:52 |
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got any sevens posted:im in debt lolll like who the fk isn't? the average american has 40k in debt according to a 2 year old census only 23% are debt free. The next census in 2020 should be fun once Trump deports all the poors for not being sufficient patriots and the percentage of debt free americans somehow climb~ consumer debt and student loan debt is deepening, super awesome and latest total debt of the US is 14 trillion i practically only get 60 dollars to my name a month after paying bills and rationing food and paying off student loans, barely and that 60 dollars don't make it to the end of the month because of gas and other unforeseen things. Awesome. but hey, number go up. JOBS JOBS JOBS.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 10:47 |
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I'm at the job centrw right now to make sure I don't get sanctioned and can get my 300 a month unemployment benefit
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 11:27 |
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Jose posted:I'm at the job centrw right now to make sure I don't get sanctioned and can get my 300 a month unemployment benefit I feel u bro. I've been unemployed for 6 months, haven't even bothered to sign on because of all the loving bullshit. Do they still have that lovely software where you need to enter all your job search activity? Do they still do that thing where if you turn up ten minutes early, they tell you to wait and then don't call you and then, after waiting, when you dare to approach to suggest they have forgotten you, berate you for being late? gently caress all that.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 11:41 |
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its all online now and fairly easy to do but absolutely everything depends on who your appointment will be with. I've had people who have been really laid back the entire time so just needed a general diary of what I'd been doing rather than anything incredibly thorough. It helps that I do have a job lined up now. I've not had any problems with my appointments being too late. Might help that I'm in newcastle though if you live in a proper tory area rip
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 12:02 |
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Warren released a health care plan that punishes the poor for having sad brains when being poor is already a huge factor in having mental illness to begin with This is one of the most leftwing Democrats in this country. Reform won't save the poor
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:05 |
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Hm but have you considered that actually USA #1, you have a smartphone, and you're all just whiners? Works for me, a college student from a well off family.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:11 |
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according to business/tech twitter "being poor" is a mindset
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:13 |
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you can't even sell your piss these days
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:15 |
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Destroy My Sweater posted:according to business/tech twitter "being poor" is a mindset finance manager, on hearing that other people are in debt and miserable: works on my machine
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:18 |
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I dont have all my teeth because I couldnt get routine dental care for most of my 20s and a broken filling got infected so i had that poo poo yanked out
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:51 |
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Victory Position posted:you can't even sell your piss these days but you can sell your daughter into some billionaires sex slave ring! we’re #1 USA USA USA
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:52 |
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Over Easy posted:I dont have all my teeth because I couldnt get routine dental care for most of my 20s and a broken filling got infected so i had that poo poo yanked out my mom's currently in for oral surgery because she couldn't afford to get what she needed, so it's time for a bridge
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 19:53 |
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Taintrunner posted:but you can sell your daughter into some billionaires sex slave ring! we’re #1 USA USA USA i cant afford to date, let alone have a kid lolll
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 20:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8a4fGbkbSY
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 20:14 |
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I keep reading the title to the tune of "hip to be square" But for real tho, it sucks. The rent is too drat high.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 20:27 |
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Taintrunner posted:I’ve been poor, I’ve been either housing insecure or straight up homeless most of my 20s. I’m only living decently now out of sheer luck, and even then, all the traumas and horrific experiences have left my brain super hosed up. it’s... incredibly cruel that we do this to people, that we have so many vulnerable people with no end in sight.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 20:31 |
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The Homeless Are Dying in Record Numbers on the Streets of Los Angeles An average of three homeless people are dying per day in LA, on track to top 1000 this year. The article has some good graphs illustrating the problem, too. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-04-23/homeless-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-los-angeles quote:A record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 20:50 |
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Homelessness can be solved in America for a third of the amount we increased the military budget last year. Devil loving nation
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 22:08 |
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really queer Christmas posted:Homelessness can be solved in America for a third of the amount we increased the military budget last year. but that would be handouts and would disincentivize pulling yourself up by your bootstraps in other news my fixed bills now only take up 70% of my pay instead of drat near 90% 3 years ago. truly i am living the american dream
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 01:14 |
E sorry wrong thread
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 01:24 |
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luv 2 work 60-120 hours a week and still barely make ends meet
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 01:31 |
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What is this thread title? Huey Lewis and the Blues?
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 01:50 |
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tylersayten posted:Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population,
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