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    SHE was raised with a silver spoon in her mouth. Most of Gen Z and Alpha still grew up struggling

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    I have a “real job” making almost $100k/year and things are still expensive. Should I also be sent to Cuba or Iran for stating the obvious?

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    Define ‘real job’, Jesse. Does that include sitting on your arse in front of a camera spewing lies to idiots?

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      Right? I would consider reporting, i.e putting a bit of yourself and putting your real opinions/demeanour into the role, to be a real job - but what these people do is just act as mouthpieces for the regime. Everything from their appearance too, to what they say, to how they say it (above tweet is a great example) is suppose to re-inforce the beliefs of our regime. Regime is the right word, btw - it simply means organised power.

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        Yeah. Watters isn’t a reporter. He’s a glove puppet, and an unconvincing one at that. Same goes for Leavitt.

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    like the conservatives on WELFARE. or ms leavitt marries someone more twice her senior and supporting her. and then theres womans dating in red states, they were shocked that so many of them are living at home still with thier parents(from many accounts other platforms)

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    Said the same week as RFK once again floats the idea of institutionalizing the disabled.

    These are not off-the-cuff comments. Somewhere behind the veneer of stupidity, more and more members of the current government are pushing the need to imprison or conscript larger and larger swathes of the US population.

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      like there is jobs everywhere and everyone is hiring…

      Absolutely. And you can pay for a bachelor’s degree working a minimum wage job in the summers and you can buy a house and support a wife and kids with an entry-level job.

      Or, wait, was that 80 years ago?

      Something something avocado toast

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          I just was at a hotel and the horrible ‘Continental’ breakfast with powdered eggs was 40 fucking dollars. It was included with my stay, but the food was too disgusting to eat. I don’t know why you would pay for it.

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            I think hotels like that are just banking on enough business travelers coming through who can expense any food to their company.

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          I mean, it wasn’t that long ago the the Simpsons represented the bottom of the middle class–a high-school educated father with a stable job (with dental plan) and a house, two cars, two kids, and a SAH wife.

          Just a few years earlier Billy Joel was positively bitching “who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?” Like, yeah, that sounds pretty good relative to paying 60% of your income in rent, Anthony.

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          If you’re having trouble finding a job, have you tried just going into the company directly and asking? I’m sure they’d take one look at you and immediately see what an intelligent and capable person you are and hire you right away. /s

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      as if those jobs are truley hiring or just posting the listing there, or the fact the jobs are designed to take advantage of people.

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      Some conservatices can appear decent, but absolutly every last republican is a fucking asshole after too much taco bell.

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      Ive never in my life made more than 50k/yr and i have a good union job. I would probably literally kill for 200k/yr

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          same here. and rent pretty matches the hcol area too. ive only know a handful of people living in or outlying area in the city that had <1k/month rent, but that was 10 years ago and likely from knowing the landlords personally(before all the bs renting sites existed)

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        likely a tech job, and in a HCOL area, which most people are in tech anyways. or multi generational family home. bio jobs if you are lucky earn slighty more than you at the most(entry level) but with significant experience and schooling too, otherwise theres very little of these jobs out there without you having xyears of experience. health-bio fares better(depending on which industry you are going to that isnt nursing or MD, likely you wan to be a NURSE if you want that level of income in a hcol.

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      sounds like HCOL, my bros who are in tech, when they had job before the layoffs had around if not more than 200k, and they couldnt justifying renting out. im nowhere near that income, too expensive to leave too. plus we also have the annoying property tax that the west coast is obsessed with adding to the expenses, they think they can indefinitely extract prop tax out of non-corporate landowners indefinitely. they should be targeting the BILLIONAIRES, hundred millionaires residing here. getting rid of nimbyism is a first step.

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    Yeah Gen Z just needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and find a 65 year old billionaire to marry

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    Bro reads lies from a teleprompter and calls it a real job. Is it comodity fetishism yet when you equate income with reality?