I get it now. Dark Brandon is gonna cancel all student debt likely in the next two weeks to a month… Delivering it with ICBM nukes! 🤣 Cant collect a debt if all the borrowers are dead.
Kherson and the dam situatiom is getting scary.
Edit: I dont know if anyone has been keeping up to date with the conflict, but forgive me for being hysterical and paranoid, but we could be looking at a nuclear event soon.
Both Russia and NATO and Ukraine is accusing each other of being guilty of a nuclear attack that hasnt happened yet. And they’re telling the same story, drawing the same conclusions, and blaming each other. Some are speculating this can happen as soon as two weeks. Im trying to be light hearted and jovial and just shit posting about student debt and all this ridiculousness. But my god… We could literally all be dead in two weeks.
Maybe I should log off. Spend the next couple weeks focusing on things that bring me joy. If Im wrong; then I havent wasted my time. If Im right; then I haven’t wasted my time.
And… Student debt relief was just frozen by the courts.
Im pretty sure nuclear fire can melt just about any ice they put relief on. LOL
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Feel bad for my USian Comrades, the systems is eating you guys up every damn day no rest.
I’m pretty nervous, too. Maybe not hysterical but certainly worried.
And we all just keep living as normal in America. It’s so bizarre.
One of the most disturbing things to me is having to deal with utterly petty and ultimately meaningless shit at work day to day while everyone just seemingly ignores everything that’s happening… it felt similarly during the absolute worst of covid, and I work in the healthcare field so you’d think people would be treating things more seriously or more understanding of the burden placed on workers’ shoulders, but nah. Capitalist realism baby, there can be no future beyond the ever-increasingly dangerous status quo.
One of the residents under my care died from covid because of a lack of proper precaution that all the workers had been calling for for months. A month later I got called into a meeting w/ supervisors because my work ethic was lacking. I started bawling, despite trying to hold it in, and got told “if you’re gonna be like this, maybe you should take a break.” No empathy. No humanity. Just quit crying, crybaby, it’s the world we live in now.
I feel you on this one. I work with indebted people and I keep shouting against the debt collectors about how the inflation and the energycrisis is going to absolutely wreck the country. Before all this 1 in 5 people had risks of falling into poverty and I don´t even want to see the statistics right now. But so far I feel like I´m shouting into an empty void.
No one is willing to take action it seems. And when winter hits, everyone will be fucked. It’s not an if, it’s a when in this situation. But who cares. We have numbers to please right now, so fuck your yelling.
There’s just no empathy. Zero. No one seems willing to think: ‘what the fuck are we doing, really?’.
I hope you can get through this tough times, comrade. Vent if you need to.
I started bawling, despite trying to hold it in, and got told “if you’re gonna be like this, maybe you should take a break.” No empathy. No humanity. Just quit crying, crybaby, it’s the world we live in now.
Shit like this makes me wish we still had some vestige of the kind of organization we did this time a century ago; somebody deserves to get their front door kicked in five after midnight, and their windows strewn with bricks for a response like that to the distress of one of their workers.
I wholeheartedly understand what you’re saying, that shit is the worst. Being talked to by older people talking about my retirement gets me going, too, lol. No concept of what is happening in the world or how things will change.
Wow, that is some seriously fucked up stuff. It seems like everyone is just used to it. I’m sorry you had to experience that, how are you doing now?
I feel this. Back in spring, when Putin announced moving our nuclear response forces to “heightened readiness” I decided to see if there’s a map of predicted US nuclear strikes. Apparently my city has at least three direct strike targets. I wouldn’t have time to say goodbye to my wife or parents.
Not a fun thing to be thinking about.
That sucks. The city I live in, together with the country, is apparently high up the list for a (Russian) nuclear strike as well. Mostly because of important infrastructure and because of being the HQ of NATO. Scary thoughts.
hugs, 😭😭😭 Be safe.
You too
how the fuck did Americans let their government get away with putting interest on their student loans
Because the Soviet Union dissolved buying the US time to build a generation of anti asian hatred to get westeeners to ignore the advancements of China.
If we werent raised on a healthy dose of sinophobia; we would be looking at China and asking questions as to why the west isnt even close despite all our wealth.
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What’s up with the dam? Bit out of the loop on that one.
Basically there is a dangerous potential that deatroying the dam can be catastrophic enough to kill a whole city that the Ukrainians can pin the blame on Russia and some crazy how, this can very likely pull the UK and US directly in to the conflict.
If that dam goes, we may be two weeks from WW3. And the implication isnt just some terrible proxy war.
So if I understand correctly, there is a dam that can potentially be blown up, and therefore we have to be scared?
And Russia says it’s Ukraine, and Ukraine says it will be Russia.
Any reason to believe this is actually a threatening situation rather than a clickbait news story? If I remember correctly there were stories about this dam in the beginning of the war as well.
It’s a domino action, if the dam is blown, it will flood a city, potentially killing thousands of civilians as well as damaging, potentially catastrophically, the nuclear power plant down river, both sides would accuse the other, NATO and RF will both likely ramp up the war potentially increasing risk for use of nuclear weapons.
Though I think the use of nukes is much lower than many of the folks watching this intently, I understand their fears when bith sides are openly discussing use of nukes like it’s a guaranteed thing to happen
This is the terrifying part. BOTH SIDES are trying to paint the situation as the other side responsible for triggering a nuclear event if the plant goes which gives EITHER SIDE hypothetically the go ahead to use nuclear retaliation. Doesnt matter who does it. Each side will blame the other and “retaliate” “aproppriately”
If the dam goes, Zaporozhye nuclear power plant goes.
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This is the last winter. Meanwhile my department at school is shoving white supremacy down my throat like it’s a normal Tuesday.
Yo… i go to Prague soon… am i hiding in a bunker for my vacation? How much sunscreen do I need for a nuclear event?
All I can say (for myself) is this: Living in the Netherlands, on the first Monday of each month at 12:00 noon there is a test of the air raid sirens. At this point if I hear those sirens on any other day/time, I’m walking to the nearest park and sitting on a bench with a fat joint to wait for the inevitable. The rising action and constant suspense is killing me as it is and I can hardly take it anymore.
