Omfg. How do people in the workplace not realize that having someone share parts of their personal life with them is not an invitation to judge or one wishing to run their life choices past their personal panel?? I’m stupidly angry that this dude thought it was his place to compare some relatives’ shitty life with my good one.
In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven?
Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.
Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;
That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.
Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2 = $839.
Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.
But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work.
Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.
Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.
You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America.
And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month.
Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?
Can we also acknowledge that Bernie’s tweet says “one bedroom” and the responder came back with ‘cost of studio apartment.’ And the person after then calls him a liar?
Ummm… a studio apartment does not have a bedroom. That’s what makes it a studio apartment…
I will choose to do the same. OSC is not just a raging homophobe, he actively worked to enact legislation to oppress rights for lgbtq people. He said he would try to bring down the government if they disagreed.
Seriously, screw that guy. There are a thousand books I haven’t yet read that don’t have that guy attached.
this is exactly my position on this kinda thing by the way. I don’t need to separate an author from his work if the author’s a truly terrible human being. nobody’s perfect – I don’t ask anybody to be perfect; I just ask them not to be, you know, nazis, or virulent homophobes. But if they are, then I don’t care how good their work is purported to be. I don’t have to listen to Burzum; there’s no shortage of amazing black metal that isn’t written by racist murderers. the amount of tremendous black metal that meets the “not the work of an appalling horrible person” yardstick is sufficient to excuse me from having to listen to the stuff made by assholes. so when people go into the “I separate the art from the artist” thing, I’m like – why? if we live several lifetimes, we should all be so lucky, we won’t read all the great books or hear all the great music. we can allow artists to be human and make mistakes, even big huge everybody-has-their-personal-lows mistakes, while still saying “artists who are just worthless garbage as people, who actively and unapologetically campaign to make others’ lives worse, don’t deserve to have their work read.” we will not actually miss much; we can put our attention elsewhere. there’s just no shortage of amazing books to read, incredible music to hear. unless one wants to claim “no no, these terrible-people artists are actually the best artists,” in which case I think one might want to more closely examine one’s aesthetics.
Especially timely for me having recently discovered Brandon Sanderson is a big old fucking homophobe. Like can we please just stop letting Mormons write?
Kinda fucked up how cis women are allowed to abandon feminity in the name of feminism but trans women are forced to adopt it just to be recognized as women
even worse is when cis feminists accuse trans women who overperform femininity for safety of being tools of the patriarchy, and trans women who underperform femininity for ANY reason (including abandoning it in the name of feminism) fakers.
Honestly I hate that I can go to the store in pajamas and socks and still be treated like a lady but my trans sister can’t browse through women’s underwear without security being called unless she’s dolled up to the nines.
The idea that the shooter must be gay because he was scoping out his target makes me so fucking angry. I came home last night from the Boston vigil and my mom was saying how it now seems like he was gay because he was at the club, and I’m like no, he was scoping it out. That answer was blatantly obvious to me, but now I know straight people are going to convince themselves he was because the self loathing gay person is a story they would much rather have. “It wasn’t us, it was one of your own” and absolves themselves of the homophobia they are complicit in, of the homophobia that created the atmosphere for this horrible shooting to happen, of the homophobia from straight people that leads some gay people to be in fact self hating and campaign against equal rights. Like even if the shooter was gay, though I do not believe it for a second, he would be a product of the homophobia started and perpetuated by straight people.
This is a huge problem in battling homophobia. Too often I see straight people mock homophobes as if they must be secretly gay, because being gay is a punishment rather than an identity to take pride in. I see them wish they have a gay child, because punishing a homophobe at the expense of an lgbt child is so awesome! I see straight people claiming that the real homophobes are the closeted gay people, because it helps them absolve themselves of homophobia and it is disgusting.
Straight people are the culprits here, straight people and their homophobia are to blame. A man doesn’t get enraged at seeing two men kissing because he is secretly gay. And considering how many people he was able to kill on his own, it’s no surprise he scoped out the place before hand.
The whole “homophobes are all secretly gay" thing seems like a way to say that only gay people really care about being gay. That if someone is making a big deal about gay people they’re either a self-hating closet case, or an out person who is ~excessively in-your-face~ about their sexuality. (I’m thinking of that comment someone made about how their reaction to a person coming out to them was to ask if the gay person was flirting with them, because ~why else would it matter that you’re gay~.)
And then straight people get to say that ~nobody cares if you’re gay anymore~ and pretend homophobia among straight people isn’t a concern. Or they position themselves as tolerant and "not hateful" toward gay people, even if they are openly "against homosexuality.” Because ~of course their stance is just a neutral, dispassionate opinion, it’s not like they would ever ‘get in anyone’s face’ about it.
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