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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • No, you’re making things up entirely based on imaginary ideas. A studio for just a week’s worth of work a minimum wage? Even in the early 2000s that was practically a myth. No american I have ever known has paid less than half their wages for rent; including myself when I still lived in that shit hole.

    Maybe the rich lived differently, and from your naive idealism it’s clear you did, but christ I would have loved to not pay nearly all my income for housing.




  • Their profession obligated them to do something dangerous in exchange for money and financial security; this person does not receive that in exchange. Changing jobs is also not something you do lightly when you have kids, unless you’re already well off enough to retire or will be homeless anyway.

    Her family disapproves of her choice, that alone explains the situation as this adult acting as a petulant child that ran away. Her family wanted her in their lives, she didn’t want them in her life. That is the situation being reported on in this and other articles.

    There is no reasonable moral dilemma. For example, why the fuck didn’t she go off to Niger? Why not volunteer for myanmar’s resistance? Maybe be a un peace keeper in haiti? Shit you think ukraine is bad, why didn’t she volunteer for palestine and join any of the hundreds of resistance groups?

    There are hundreds of wars and conflicts going on right now. Is she going to go full mercenary and volunteer to be superwoman and intervene in all of them? Or did she pick a relatively safe conflict that would give her the most attention with the least amount of danger that would net her an easy path to leaving her family forever?


  • No, you do. The lowest level of legal living is almost infinitely more expensive as a proportion of work hours now than ever before in history. If you’re in the us, a weekly rate motel is likely your cheapest option, and that’s still going to cost more than the federal minimum wage per month assuming full time work. In even industrial age cities a room at an inn cost about half a days wage for hard labor; and for the medieval ages land rent was basically a joke in comparison.



  • Just to highlight, she left a two year old, a seven year old, and a ten year old in one of the highest cost of living countries in order to go play soldier in a country she has never been to and has no connections to that cannot possibly pay her more than canadian minimum wage.

    There’s no justifiable reason, russia isn’t going to invade canada next, ukraine doesn’t pay their mercenaries particularly well, her kids aren’t grown and her family isn’t well off enough to not have either a homemaker or second income. Everyone involved’s life is worse for this, except her’s… She thinks she found a new family and is happy.







  • No I also hate all zionist israelis. Nazi germany would’ve ended overnight had just a large plurality of workers stopped supporting the military. But it was the 1940s, there was no way they could know the horrors of the holocaust.

    Israel would end within a week of a national strike by israeli citizens, and they can’t even claim ignorance like nazi civilians could have. The truth is a majority of israelis support zionism and support the regime despite having all information available.

    Hating the people is okay too. As long as you’re hating them for the content of their character, not their nationality or other immutable characteristic.