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Melanie's avatar

"It’s hard not to be bitter, less about this specific situation or a lifetime of ā€œthese situations,ā€ but that so many of you like I suffer and have our lives ruined because of financial precarity, because of our economic realities pressing us down with no option to breathe, to just be."

I couldn't have said it better, Kyle. I empathize completely. We are definitely not alone.

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

we are doing what we can with what we got!!!!!!!!!! the lord was TESTING me this week i stg thank you for reading melanie!!!!

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Melanie's avatar

You're fun to read! Even for an oldster like me lol! Hang in there, we're on a marathon, not a sprint, and progress is not always linear lolol!

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

this is true and this is true: always good to have such reminders!!! thank you again, melanie!!!!!! iconic!!!!!

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Alex's avatar

ā€œAnother product built off of our future being taken from us, as we abandon self-awareness to adore the rich from our slums, to add another view count to the reality show that is their lifeā€ ~ oh my good god, this whole piece. Pitch perfect. I do feel a shift coming. I think we’re collectively (earth included) sick of this shit. That’s why the rich riching has ramped up, they’re trying frantically to maintain control and dominance, because they can feel it slipping.

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

😭😭😭😭😭 thank you alex!!

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Dejaih Smith's avatar

Thank you for highlighting the statue topic!

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

of COURSE and thank you for reading dejaih!!!!!!!!!

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Ken Kovar's avatar

It’s crazy all the push back about that statue. It’s 2025 people šŸ˜Ž

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

it really feels like a psyop but here we are ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ

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Mo_Diggs's avatar

I like the dehumanization piece. As I recently wrote, all this dehumanization (or as I say, all this indifference of humans being trampled by Big Tech) makes sense when communal love is not a fundamental pillar of society anymore and has not been since at least the '90s, maybe earlier.

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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's avatar

*sighing* ding ding ding

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