• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    There are more important things to spend money on, like a new ugly ballroom, or giving $40 billion to bail out Argentina -again, a fat settlement over the FBI investigating his criminal activities, bombs to blow up Venezuelan fishermen, renovations to his Qatari airplane bribe, the 30,000 inmate concentration camp being built in Guantanamo Bay (oh yeah, Google it), etc.

    All this stuff costs massive amounts of money, and you’d rather spend it to feed poor kids? It’s not like they are going to grow up to be rich and important, so who cares?

  • Catma@lemmy.world
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    But we are getting a yuge new golden ballroom at the white house that not a single one of us will ever set foot in.

    So like? Fuck them kids

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        They LOWERED the age of gun ownership in Florida to 18, and they’re shooting each other all over the place. Their aim isn’t too good, either. They keep hitting innocent bystanders, but hey, that’s the price you pay for the second amendment, right? Getting accidentally shot by some hood rat with a legal gun because DeSatan wants everyone to believe he’s packing more than 3 inches in his pants.

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          Only Republicans are fine with that. The majority of us are just as appalled

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    1600 rent. 1000 day care. 1500 car payments. 800 grocery. 200 gas (for cars). Bills 300.

    My fiance and I make around 6k a month and it’s not enough.

    This is insanity even with snap.

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      What is up with your car expenses. I literally don’t know of anywhere a family of three could get a 1600 apt (I can’t think of anywhere that gets you a 1bd), let alone anywhere day care is only 1k/mo, but you’re spending 1500 on car payments?

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      You have to move somewhere where you can afford to own property.

      It might not be “good enough” for you, but it’s the only choice you have if you seriously can’t afford living in a city.

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        I remember when I made $2400 post tax a month. My rent was $750 (literally unheard of cheap for a one bedroom in the middle of nowheresville). Easy, except childcare was $950/month for my one toddler. So rent and childcare alone ate 70% of my income. I don’t want to talk about my electric bill because I was drowning, but had no debt, cold showers, but no debt, I’d say to my self on those cold winter mornings.

        I had to steal from peter to pay paul, a lot. Mind you this was back pre pandemic, you could get a beater car for $500-$1000, and I did. Each car I had lasted about a year or two with repairs I could afford before they died.

        I was late on my rent two months in a row, and my slumlord (you ever wake up next to a puddle?) told me, sarcastically, “well, maybe you should find a cheaper place to live”. He knew damn well he owned the cheapest, shittiest apartment in the area. He was a cunt.

        Living somewhere “undesirable” to save a buck is folly.

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          Even with a car payment being $750/month, that’s a pretty fancy car from my perspective - and represents the average car payment for a new car.

          I think that these folks could keep up with expenses much more easily if a few minor compromises were made (namely, a cheaper car).

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            Yeah, he’s definitely living a higher quality of life than people who actually need more money.

            My car was $5k and I’ve had it for over a decade.

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            I drive 35 to 40k miles a year for my job. I only get new because I’d rather pay and have a driving car than pay and have one in the shop for the same price.

            My car was 40 and full electric so I don’t have to buy gas and my fiance’s car was 25k. Those two car payments and and insurance we pay around 1500 a month.

            But it’s not the cars that’s a problem. I choose that luxury. Be it for practicality or showing off. What I don’t choose is to live ina 600 squarefoot Apartment for a thousand dollars more than it should be. Or daycare for 250 a WEEK!

            Even if I lowered the price of the card for 500 a month, 800 a months it wouldn’t help.

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              Class solidarity is vital, but I really just can’t sympathize with your poor financial choices. Money is not magic.

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                Thank you for holding him accountable for how he wastes his money.

                He’s part of a culture where those who have more, spend more. He would be doing the exact same shit as our oppressors if he was in their position.

                This is how we change our culture.

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                  Dude, you’re on lemmy and a total of two dozen people saw this. You aren’t “changing culture” this way.

                  Why are online people like this? Lol

  • Valentine Angell@lemmy.world
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    The GQP doesn’t give a fuck about kids; they only want to fuck kids. It’s well past time for all republicans to face the consequences.

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      As a way to control women they care that the kids are born. Then it’s survival of the fittest until the strongest reach military age, then they are sent to kill brown people and secure oil and resources.

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    Add the Epstein Files today for 1 additional payment of CALL YOIR FUCKING GOP REPRESENTATIVE + shipping + handling. Find out how YOUR President has been fucking children.

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    Can use funds for his little lego project, can’t use funds for the people?

    Elect a rapist con-man, get fucked and robbed.

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    I wonder if the GOP are going to use the snap funds as an attempt to win elections by blaming the Democrats.

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      Well, yeah. These guys wake up blaming their grogginess on the Democrats. Stubbed toe; why would the Democrats do this?

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          The party in charge of all three branches of government.

          Granted, one of them isn’t supposed to be partisan, but it certainly is.

          Granted, one of them is the office of a president who once said “If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States”.

          Granted, one of them is the only (legal, defined) pathway to fixing the other two. And they only have that because of a combination of Gerrymandering, campaigning on fear, voter suppression, and because we haven’t changed the size of the house since The Reapportionment Act of 1929 (almost 100 years ago), when the population was literally 1/3 what it is today…greatly weakening how much representation people in densely populated states (which tend to align closer with Democratic ideals).

          But yeah. It’s the Dems fault.