It should come NATURALLY for a man to want to have fun with you, take you out, feed you, do nice things for you, and compliment you. You should never have to teach someone to do that.

The Ariana stuff is so sad to see. She’s at a point where I don’t know how she’s physically doing a tour. They have to be giving her IV drips for nutrients because there’s zero way her food intake could provide her with the energy she needs. Karen Carpenter died at 32 from anorexia and wasn’t even as small as Ariana is now. It just raises the alarm bells that she is quite literally on borrowed time if she doesn’t get help soon. It’s dystopian to see so many of her fans deny what’s going on and encourage her behavior. The last thing a person who’s going through something like this needs is an echo chamber validating their mental illness. She 100% needs help and not just words of encouragement. She needs treatment and I just hope she will make the decision to get that before it’s too late. Her recent photos are devastating to see. Her muscle mass is completely deteriorated. There’s a reason this tour is only 90 minutes and has a small stage with limited shows. She physically cannot do a big tour anymore. I don’t understand why people are still trying to deny what’s happening. She is clearly suffering from anorexia and she needs help.

It’s crazy how some people work from a laptop and make $1,500 a day, while others break their bodies for $30 an hour.

I’ve been saying this for years. There should be 10 major infrastructure projects going on in your town at any given day. You should be able to show up to a bridge project with your drivers license and have a government job for the length of the project

This isn’t a “vibecession”. This is 95% of Americans seeing their money and earnings become worth less and less year over year as they burden the costs of inflation and our deficit spending while the rich get richer. Americans are seeing their quality of living decline despite them working harder and being more productive. We have less job security, fewer benefits, fewer protections, and significantly less purchasing power proportional to our work productivity. That wealth is being siphoned to the top, while it’s becoming increasingly harder for working class Americans to accumulate assets. No, I did not say impossible. No, not everyone is feeling the pressure yet. But fewer and fewer people are insulated by their bubbles of success. We’re seeing the power of the working class stolen from us decade by decade. Opportunity is harder to come by. Hard work and budgeting isn’t enough for everyone. The game is becoming more difficult. People are becoming visibly strained. They’re not bitter humans, they’re genuinely overwhelmed. Developing autoimmune diseases from chronic stress. There’s not as much leisure time. People are being worked to death, and forced to work more each year to keep up with the rising costs. You think people got raises when the gas prices went up? Tariffs? No, they shoulder the cost, pick more work, just to have the same purchasing power they did before. 2 jobs for each partner in a household to make rent is not unheard of. People are nearing their breaking points. This doesn’t mean this is my experience. This doesn’t mean it’s everyone’s. But go out in the world and talk to people. Go work these jobs. This experience is being more and more shared. There are people working themselves into the ground just to stay alive. There are people having anxiety attacks on the clock from the shear stress. All we do is work, work, work, and it’s yielding less and less results. Not everyone is spending $28 on lunch everyday. I personally skip lunch and breakfast, and eat a ham and craft cheese sandwich when I become home. That’s just become “normal”. Lunch is a luxury at a lot of these workplaces. The part time low wage jobs and contract work (I.e DoorDash) skew the unemployment rates.

I think most people’s experience of the Trump economy is one of precariousness: the things they disliked about the Biden economy (high inflation, affordability crisis) are getting worse due to deliberate Trump admin policies. Most Americans don’t own stocks; the fact that the very rich getting a lot richer while they are not is significantly more visible. And the big change from the Biden years is that the job market outside of healthcare is contracting in most sectors. Young people especially are absolutely feeling this. It’s not that difficult to understand.

I think people are generally Not Okay because you used to see a hot photo of a college girl in a bikini with the caption "she's so hot" and now the caption is like "just imagine all the guys she's stringing along while some disgusting old oligarch flies her to Miami."

can’t afford lunch? bring your food. Can’t afford college? Skip it. Can’t afford a house? Move across country. Can’t afford gas? Drive less. Living on the streets? Get a job. have a job? Get a better one. Americans will do anything but empathize with each other

This is actually such a wild blindspot for so many people it's unreal. If a society is so intense in its demands that only a tiny minority can have a decent stable life in it then that society is fundamentally a broken one.

in the same way that there's "quiet quitting" at work i think Americans are "quiet quitting" at life in general you don't see them going off the deep end or snapping but life wears them down little by little, until they are a shell of their former selves

We need to go back.

anyone else feel constant shame since they were a kid? Shame of ur behavior, shame of your appearance, of your style, of your hobbies? Like your existence isn’t right and u must hide it. I constantly need to remind myself that I have the right to exist like everyone else

Everyone turned the learned helplessness response into an insult instead of being kinder to people that unwillingly built barricades in their minds because they only experienced pain no matter what they did for most of their lives/for their early lives

RT @phxsunz25: they cut to a draftkings ad in the middle of a moment of silence for a player who just died. you cannot overstate the deprav…

It pains me to watch society get less and less empathetic towards each other. This toxic hyper individualism is threatening our survival. "I don't need to worry about anyone." Actually, living in a society means your actions affect those around you. We all need to care.

This is how I thought working a corporate job would be like when I was a kid

the amount of creativity and talent buried under poverty is heartbreaking. imagine how many geniuses never got the chance to even try.

You can’t out-grind a collapsing economy