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  • Garbagio@lemmy.ziptoMental Health@lemmy.worldI am desperate
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    22 hours ago

    Ultimately its whatever you want, bro, I can only say what worked for me. Autoglass was backbreaking work, and seeing the kinds of money that changed hands showed me how much of a shitshow capitalism is. That being said, work was regular, full time outside of December to February (and a fuckton of of from may to September, there wasn’t a year I didn’t average over 40 a week is what I’m saying), paid well enough, and beyond showing up and jumping when they said to, I was on the road by myself all but maybe half an hour of the day. I could ride around, organize my thoughts, actually plan a next step in life. I’d never say it wasn’t backbreaking. There were many days, especially in the summer, where heat exhaustion was just a state of being for weeks at a time. It was not safe work, and while it could be rewarding, oftentimes it wasn’t. Oftentimes it was demeaning, being told to try to sell fucking wipers to people. But that is all true for most jobs in America, unfair or not. What safelite did give me was time and space to work through my issues, heal mentally as best anyone can under capitalism, and plan. That planning got me to go to trident for their 1 year free tuition and get my associates, which at least got me a job in the ac where I also wasn’t wondering who I gotta not pay to make rent. I’m not gonna pretend that this is the be-all end-all of security, but its nowhere near demeaning compared to jobs I had. And as much as I hate safelite, and I do fucking hate slavelite, I don’t know many jobs in that economic position where I would have been able to eventually move up and out of chs.

    And if that ain’t up your alley, see if you can make it to Clements ferry and get a job with Anheuser Bush. I know a guy who had a lot of luck with that, eventually becoming a delivery guy around town. Still shit work, but gave a lot of the same freedom. Plus they train you to drive, so they might help with a general license.


  • Sc, 2k a month, 14 an hour at a gas station, bro just say Charleston. I’ve been where you are. Honest advice, unless you have some skillset, get your license and find a way to Palmetto parkway and go work for safelite. I’m not defending that company: Safelite is a shit-fucking monopoly that will kill your fucking soul, and honestly open you up to realities of capitalism that you could only have nightmares about. But they pay decently well and give you a car to drive. From there you have a job, a way to get around (if you’re smart with how you do so), and enough money to maybe save something. Not enough to be safe or happy, but enough to plan for your next steps after that.


  • I want to see more discussion about his governments are pro-genocide, because ultimately I’m not sure which are pro-genocide, and which are just pro- western. Like on some level, yes, the US, UK, and German governments are historically so islamophobic that there are most assuredly elements that support the genocide of Palestinians as an ethnic group of the middle east. But ultimately, more perniciously I would argue, I feel that for the majority of western officials, they simply do not care beyond the benefits of supporting the genocide. Israel wants Palestinians dead. Period. But America? I think far more evilly, we have been happy to funnel trillions of dollars into the military industrial complex while giving them free-range to test their inventions en masse on the people of Palestine, and are more than happy to just let Israel close up our “lab” now that we’ve perfected shit like facial recognition powered turrets. The Israeli government, and a large portion of the west, see Palestinians as some great enemy worth nothing less than death and destruction. I would say worse, the ruling powers of the west never even saw them as human in the first place. And while the outcome is the same regardless, I feel that we need to maintain the distinction, because the latter are going to be the first to say they never meant it to go this far. And we need to remember when they do exactly how fucking evil they really are.



  • Yeah. Don’t get me wrong, fuck China, but their imperialism isn’t always like western imperialism. Here, we see an “enemy,” and they better get ready for some democracy. China seems more willing to engage with maintaining an oppressive opinion without necessarily acting on it. Personally I think it has more to do with the fact that western nations are still democracies; if someone offers to put nuts on the table for established propaganda, they’ll usually get into political office.




  • I mean but then that’s social media. Again, like this post, how many guys posting are posting made up bullshit for engagement? How many girls are giving “tips,” again for engagement? None of this is guaranteed to be real. The data stands, however: Per NBC polling, 44% of people think whoever makes more should pay, regardless of gender. 36% think it should be split, regardless of any factors. Only 20%, half of any other response, thinks it should be the one who asked (which is usually in straight relationships the man). I’m sorry, but all of this is at best a shitty date, and yet is at worst fuel for the fucking mgtow incel crowd.



  • This is what grinds my gears. At no point (if this is real) did she ask them to pay for the friend. But because of their own misogyny, they’re being an ass. And that’s not even getting into the probability that his is ALL ragebait to play off misogyny for engagement. People getting pissed off making shit up in their head, then making others suffer for it.