We gave out risky and predatory loans to people with bad credit and now they aren’t repaying them
Shocked pikachu
Live by the DoorDash bnpl die by the DoorDash bnpl
immutable
joined 2 years ago
Pretty hard form trump to physically kneel and kiss Xi’s ass over the phone.
Fart of the deal
Gru meme
- Gain power by being a reality tv star who denigrates immigrants
- make immigrants reality tv stars
- Make immigrants popular and relatable
- make immigrants popular and relatable
The best defense against hate is familiarity. Please go forward with your stupid plan, show hardworking dedicated immigrants, tell their inspiring backstories, put them on week after week for people to root for and cheer on, then deny all but one citizenship and see how people react.
It is easy to hate an abstract caricature of an immigrant. It’s a hell of a lot harder to hate Jose, who you’ve watched struggle and succeed for the last 8 weeks only to be shipped off to CECOT because he lost the immunity challenge.
I think the Simpsons summarized this best
Marge holding up a new baby on board sticker
Look what I got. Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car.
This second puddle is MUCH DEEPER!!
Look at cameraman who appears to be standing in roughly the same depth of water.
It’s a real shame we have no way to measure the depth of water beside la how much of a beast and tank something is.
I think there is something of a concerted effort to lionize these boring jobs that used to support a family.
It is amazing how many country / blue grass songs are about coal mining.
The thing the wealthy don’t seem to understand is that what made these jobs worth identifying with was that they could support a family. People were proud to provide a good life for their loved ones.
They are hoping they can get people to identify with the jobs, be proud of them, without having to hold up their end of the bargain.
The entire world right now seems to be the wealthiest people going “can’t I have a little bit more though?”
I wonder what kind of plane Syria gave him
Good thing we are saving so much money we can afford to hire 20,000 brown shirts.
The median annual salary for DHS personnel is $72k
That’s an annual expense of $1.4B in payroll alone. Billions of taxpayer dollars so trump can have his own little army.
Not to sound like a starry eyed idealist, but it’s both.
It sucks that it’s just a weird mandatory box, but if you don’t cheat your way through college you should better yourself in lots of ways. Learning how to independently organize tasks and time and research and challenging your preconceptions and struggling to really grasp complex ideas.
It should be all those things.
Growing up in America, at least back when I did, you get taught about America as this mythical thing.
- A shining city on a hill
- Manifest destiny
- Defenders of democracy
And when I was young we were also taught how these were our ideals and how we had failed to live up to them and done horrible things to get them.
I was always pretty happy with my public education, we learned about all the aspects, manifest destiny and the trail of tears and the overall genocide of our native Americans to get the land that god said we could have (he said it in secret to some white people doing the genociding). The blight of slavery, the birth out of compromise, etc.
The message I took away from my education was that America was an idea, one we have failed to live up to but one that we forever strive towards, making slow painful progress towards a more perfect union.
And maybe that was true, maybe that was propaganda. What I know now is that my fellow countrymen largely don’t want to consider the bad parts, wouldn’t it be easier if instead of having to do work to live up to our ideals we actually already had it all figured out. We actually aren’t shit, we are great, but we just let some bad stuff get in the way of our greatness. We don’t need to grow and struggle and grapple with how to solve these problems, we actually are already perfect and the most powerful and the bigliest and all we need to do is get rid of this damn scapegoat that ruined it.
And the scapegoat can be anything you like, trans people, Mexicans, an unfair trade deal with Canada. Don’t worry, no one is going to really think too hard about what these things are or how they ruined our perfect greatness, we can just say “hey it’s bad and if we get rid of it we will be great” and that’s just how it is now.
I always thought America’s true greatness, if it ever had any, came from our willingness to confront our problems and strive towards our ideals. All around me I see cowards now that are afraid of the real world and retreating into a fantasy. I loathe them.
Do not forgot this betrayal. My fellow countrymen, a large amount at least, are unmoored by reality, unbothered by reality, living out an infantile fantasy. People like that will hurt others to keep their make believe world going. You should not trust us, for your own sake you must not.
As an American that still has love in my heart for my Canadian neighbors, protect yourself from us. Protect your nation from becoming what we have become. The forces that broke our people will try to break yours too. Stay strong Canada, elbows up.
Being an American right now is so consistently embarrassing.
I worked hard my whole life, went to school, volunteered to help my fellow man, love my wife, support my family, voted against this fascist.
Now I have to listen to every moron that asked in school “teacher when will I ever use fractions in the real world!?” opine about their take on global economic theories.
Canada has been our stalwart ally, good neighbor, and economic partner since that little dust up when you burned the White House down a couple centuries back. And we are blowing it all up for fucking nothing.
We are a stupid nation, don’t bother trying to salvage this relationship. Take the time you have now to shift trade away from this fucking dumpster fire.
I’m sure after a crisis of that magnitude we put robust safeguards in place that have only been strengthened over time.
Right? panic right?!?!