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    Harley Quin r34 is generally pretty good quality honestly, and other than the fact fetish stuff it’s fairly normal as far as r34 goes. So don’t be so hard on yourself there are much more degenerate things you could be jorkin it to.

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    People don’t understand soldiers. You get discipline, confidence, structure, and community, but it is just a job done by normal people. I know door kickers that are just chill normal folks and one that refuses to own a gun. I know a Ranger that worked against governments and trained people to rise up against their oppressors, that fell for trump (and I miss that dude a lot, he is genuinely a good guy and was a hero of mine until he went MAGA…he fell for the deception and I couldn’t pull him out. I get real bad “left a man behind” in the pit of my stomach when I bring him up…fuck.). I know an MP woman, that was in and active for 10 years, that is an adorable little goth chick that works at the local hippy co-op store.

    If you work around people, especially a factory or blue collar job, look around, those are soldiers. Dumb ones, lazy ones, ones that should be doing something great but aren’t. it is a little less equivalent when it comes to combat roles, but you still have a spread, it isn’t like the fantasy portrays.

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      Its just a regular job where you are trained to kill other people.

      If it wasn’t condoned by the government, they would be considered trained murderers.

      Oh, but it is to fight the trained murderers of other nations!

      So they are the solution to a problem they cause themselves.

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        That’s humanity, going strong for thousands of years off the backs of soldiers.

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      “I can’t believe someone would be so stupid as to fall for trump”

      “Everyone who works in a factory is dumb and lazy and should be doing something better”

      Wonder why he got elected.

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        “I can’t believe someone would be so stupid as to fall for trump”

        “Everyone who works in a factory is dumb and lazy and should be doing something better”

        Wonder why he got elected.

        That isn’t how quotation works. Reading comprehension failed you on the second point.

        I very much can believe people are stupid enough to fall for trump’s scams. Our education system is in shambles. For example, imagine an adult that doesn’t understand quotations.

        As for the second “quotation”, I said nothing about “Everyone who works in a factory”. I could have also included some positive examples, as those parallels exist as well. I assumed that was incredibly obvious to the point of not having to be stated outright, and would be excess verbage that didn’t directly communicate my point. My comment was more of an indictment of SOME soldiers. People ignorantly put them all up on pedestals, but if you look around your workplace, you are going to see a few of those shitty people, you get the same among the enlisted. It isn’t “everyone” by any stretch, just like in a factory. They should be judged by their merits and qualities not their job title. Some, maybe even a lot, do earn it, but not all and not by default. Idolatry isn’t healthy, look at those maga fools for an example why.

        To your last point; again, imagine an adult that can’t parse information, makes only negative assumptions, doesn’t know how to use quotations. That level of ignorance, persecution fetishism, and lack of critical thinking is a product of a poor education system and the poorly educated and fact-inoculated is how we have so many trump supporters.

        Hope that helps clear things up. Have a great day.

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    My neighbour is almost 60 and she still lives with her mum! (And when she married the husband moved with them.)

    I think that it’s fine to still live with family. As long as nobody is a leech or a control freak.

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      I think the only reason this is a thing is because houses are prohibitively expensive for about 60% of the population right now. So your options are

      1. rent
      2. wait until your parents are gone and take their house

      Most people are much better off with a house from their parents than paying some rich douches mortgage for them.

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        I forgot to mention, this is in South America. As far as I know, cross-gen households used to be the norm here, and mortgaging your home isn’t common, because there’s simply less social pressure to leave your parents’ home if you can’t afford a house.

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          And historically, that was expected and normal, and having your own place was unusual. The oldest usually took care of the parents and the rest moved out. That’s SL still very much a thing in Korea, a very developed country where people could probably afford to live separately.

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        2 doesn’t work in aggregate, because your parents will functionally sell off their house to generate funds to pay for an assisted living facility, or all the medical debts they incur in old age.

        You may technically still inherit the house, but you’ll also inherit all the reverse mortgage payments.

        Sure, there will be exceptions to this, but in general?

        Poor millenials and zoomers are going to stay poor and get poorer.

        They largely will not be getting a generational inheritance or wealth transfer.

        Every article you read about a generational inheritance also neglects to mention that half of the wealth that is supposedly set to be inherited by millenials/zoomers, from boomers, is concentrated in the hands of about 1% of boomers.

        Oh right, not to mention that by the time your parents are dead, it’ll be impossible to get homeowners insurance for something like 1/3 to 1/2 of most houses, as climate change intensifies, disasters become more and more common, and home insurers just give up, as they currently are in Florida and California.

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          Oh shit, never thought of it like that. So like basically everyone who doesn’t have rich parents is truly fucked

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            Welcome to the shitty, less cool cyberpunk dystopia, aka, techno or neo-feudalism.

            EDIT:

            There may be some cool gadgets and tech, but only the hyper wealthy and/or criminal gangs will have access to them, the vast, vast majority of people are either destitute, or corpo wage slaves… or both.

            ‘Good’ news is that that will only last for about 20 years, after that its full on civilization collapse for the majority of humans, as we’ve expended so many easy to reach, non renewable resources, that its more costly to extract the harder to reach ones than they’re worth… but also, their continuing extraction is required to keep the lights on, keep industrial agriculture working, keep cars and trucks moving.