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  • arrow74@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTips
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    5 hours ago

    Yes this is true, but in a world where people are struggling more and more to buy basic necessities like groceries and pay their bills it’s a bit tone deaf.

    Yes some people overspend frivolously, but many are just broke after inflation and tariffs








  • I once had a recruiter try to recruiter me while I was on the job as a cashier. Just checking out his stuff and he just says “do you like working here”.

    I said “yeah it’s fine”. Then he began questioning me on if i thought this was a good career path or where I wanted to go in life etc. I told him I was in college. Then this man’s eyes just lit up and he thought he had me. He said “and who’s paying for that?”

    He was so very disappointed when I told him the government was paying for it. I explained I recieved a decent Pell grant that covered all my school costs. He looked immediately defeated. The second he knew I want struggling for money or deep in debt he knew he didn’t have a chance and gave up.

    Pretty disturbing how excited he got when he thought I was in crippling debt. I guess they’re trained to exploit desperation. I’m also still annoyed he did this to me on the job where I couldn’t tell him to leave me the hell alone



  • Weird metric, 16 years ago was 2010. Since then democrats have held the presidency for 11 of those years.

    Measuring how many people were deported by each administration is a better metric. The most accurate would be to further break that down per year.

    Also, while I don’t agree with how we handle undocumented immigrants deportation has been the law for well over 80 years.

    Today’s issue is how the president is going about immigration enforcement. Mass deployment and mass deportation ignoring basic rights and due process. Deporting people to 3rd party nations to be placed in camps. These things are new and have made a bad situation significantly worse.

    That’s even still ignoring the rapid increase in murders being committed by federal officials and all the people that have simply disappeared








  • My issues with the state executing people is two fold. The first being if you allow the state to have that right it can change the laws and begin executing people for less severe offenses. The second and more crucial, is there are always mistakes made and you should not put an innocent person to death. Vigilante killings or those outside the system only make that worse. Truthfully you’ve described a very cruel punishment when life in prison works fine