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Can fucking confirm.

While I've always been on the poorer-side of the spectrum, I have been "comfortable" before.

Losing all my $$$, having to sell most of my valuables and now barely subsisting on SSI ($1,253/mo) and SNAP ($298/mo) for my entire existence has thrust me into TEN YEARS OF ABJECT POVERTY.

I have no "life" anymore. I just exist.

Having to worry about "where is it gonna come from?" has changed me. I'm anxious as a baseline. I'm worried as a baseline. Fear of being "kicked off" SSI/SNAP is a baseline. Fear of yet another userous rent increase is a baseline. Not being able to buy groceries at all for the last two weeks of every month is a baseline. Not being able to get my truck re-registered and legal is a baseline. Not being able to get it an oil change for the last nine years is a baseline.

Money would solve ALL of this.

Period.

Anyone who says it won't is a priveleged asswipe.

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unicornempire

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

theheroheart

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

jack-the-bear

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

lets-go-steal-an-ot3

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

gay-jesus-probably

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

mikkeneko

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

melyzard

Reblogging for the website.

nianeyna

yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.

bethanyactually

RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

mortalityplays

mary worth kicks ass

programaticallydelicious

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spadedfox-deactivated20230116

spreading these occasionally would be nice…

justawriterinprogress-deactivat

As someone with major anxiety who can’t fucking stop themself from scrolling, i appreciate posts like this

robertreich

Follow the money.

liberalsarecool

We are an occupied country. Isreal is running MAGA. You can't even criticize Israel.

roycohn

the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)

roycohn

so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized

cardassiangoodreads

You learn that the homeschool lobby is literally the reason the USA is one of a single-digit number of countries that never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and you just aren’t the same since

twistcmyk

no, i do not have cameras in your home (yet)

spankerella

@ perfectunion

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marq-winks1067

Today's new and improved slavery brought to you by the republican party that's been made up and basically controlled by the old Dixiecrats from 1964 when Johnson got the civil rights act passed. This improved version of slavery has the tax payers covering the upkeep costs of maintaining the slave population. This way the 'owners' can get good cheap labor without the worries of being murdered in their beds by uppity slaves or having to furnish room and board for them either. Almost free labor is a god send for these hypocrites as they thank the lord in church every Sunday.

animentality

depsidase

liberalsarecool

White supremacy and race were involved. Southern Representatives did not want blacks treated equally and certainly did not want to be treated at the same places.