This happens BECAUSE it’s the wealthiest country on earth.
We live in a time of larger wealth disparity than the times of peasants and kings.
The royals were also really wealthy as they said in ignorance “let them eat cake”.
Except that statement wasn’t said by royalty, it’s a misattributed mistranslation of a snippet from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions.
It was written 9 years before Marie Antoinette became queen and while she was still a child and had not yet traveled to France.
This is a classic case of the victors writing history. This quote has been used countless times to try to illustrate that the royalty was out of touch (which I’m neither arguing for nor against here,) however there’s no evidence it was ever spoken by the Queen - indeed it wasn’t attributed to her at all for many years after her death.Marie Antoinette abducted children from peasant families.
Maybe she did. Doesn’t change the fact that using misattributed quotes tends to diminish the perception of the preceding opinion in the eyes of readers.
I think in this case the quote actually paints her in a better light the reality. You can forgive someone for being sheltered and naive, but you have to be a monster to abduct children from their families.
There was no mention of child abduction in the comment I was replying to. I was trying to underscore the point that including demonstrably false information in an opinion piece weakens the piece as a whole.
And I’m just saying, the reality is worse than the quote. It’s ok. I was just adding context.
Same thing now.
Some individuals are the wealthiest on earth.
The US shithole has the biggest (unpayable) debt and is the poorest country on earth.
Wealthiest country on earth
🤣 It’s like putting one leg in boiling hot water, the other one in liquid nitrogen and calling it room temperature.
The US is a third world country with some very rich people.
I’d like to say im surprised but im not the yanks really have lost the bloody plot
Responsible Americans blow their brains out at 75. How dare she.
I figure that if I get to my 80’s or thereabouts, it will be time to end my life. I don’t have the wealth, friendship, or health to enjoy my life at the age of deterioration. Hopefully, society will accept my choice, and offer a painless way to leave this coil.
That said, I would prefer this lady and all other people to have their twilight years to be enjoyable.
80s is too damn long. My retirement plan, same one, will be around 70 if I make it that long. Just judging by how shit it feels to be in my 40s, and I’m in pretty decent shape.
Why are we so worried about this woman when nobody seems to be worried about the 93 year old billionaire shareholder who won’t be able to manipulate global geopolitical events in their final few years? They should be allowed to extract every ounce of value from our society that they bought fair and square . If you don’t like the way things are then go buy your own society. Sheesh.
I feel weird submitting this knowing that even extream sarcasm isn’t as obvious as it should be here in 2025
Being Heartless is the de-facto standard in capitalism.
Kinda sounds like a win-win for her when you think about it. The state isn’t gonna stick her in high security prison, more like minimum security, so it’s basically just a retirement home but this time she doesn’t have to pay rent, and under the 8th amendment, prisons in the US are required to provide medical care to inmates (it’s not always the best care, but they do get it), which isn’t actually the case with poorly funded or greedy retirement homes.
There comes a point when you’re old enough that going to prison is actually a better alternative to retirement homes, because a retirement home will actually take your assets so you have no wealth to pass down to your kids, but a prison doesn’t do that. if you go into prison as an elderly person, your house is still yours, your bank accounts are still yours, you just can’t access them while you’re in prison.
if prisons weren’t so inhumane and degrading
Imagine a country where going to jail is a good thing
Norway?
medieval monastery
Minimum/Open prisons probably aren’t so bad, or at least are about the same as retirement homes. Abusive prison guards hitting you? You get that from ‘care’ workers every day anyway, except this time you don’t have to pay for it.
National Retirement Plan: Prison Industrial Complex
Why not gas her? It worked for the nazis.
And waste good gas? Just throw her alive into the mass grave, and stack bodies on top like
wethey did in Bosnia.Worked for Churchill, nobody knew.
The nazis got some backlash and we’ll never hear the end of it.
Unfortunately as an excuse to to much more horrible war crimes.
Expect a lot more of this with the BBB bill cutting 800billion from medicade. Most seniors 62% in these homes are paid for by Medicaid after all of their assets have been liquidated. These places cost 10k a month or more.
This is why it’s better to die and become a ghost and haunt a place.
Who needs to be 93? Especially in THIS timeline.
My grandad was told he’d have to give back his electric wheelchair due to some change in insurance.
He was like “let me know what day, so I can have the news here as your tip a 100 year old ww2 veteran out of his wheelchair”
They let him keep the chair.
i don’t know even what insult i wanna use for those people. those are horrible people
Horrible “people”.
My grandfather taught me never to dehumanize people.
Once you start seeing people as “less than people” things go bad quick. People are people. There’s good, bad, and ugly. But they are people.
There are subhumans. It’s ok to treat monsters less than they deserve.
Just look at what is happening in the Middle East.
Which is a very human thing to be. Animals don’t operate on hatred.
We are both the best and the worst that this world has to offer.
You’ve clearly never met chihuahua. The are kept alive thru hatred alone.
That’s a joke btw. I actually agree with you.
They’re people with a job they need to feed their families. The person who made the call wasn’t the one who made the decision.
I was a GM for a few dollar trees and had to have people kicked out for stealing toothache medicine. I know how bad toothaches can be, I understand they are homeless, but I had a job that needed to feed my family.
The world sucks not the people in it. We are all just slaves to this system we’ve built.
“Just following orders.”
You can make the same argument for ICE, so I won’t buy it but I understand the pressure
I would just turn a blind eye if I saw someone stealing medicine
Well if it makes you feel any better I quit that job and got baker acted 4 times in a month for suicude attempts. So I guess we agree lol
My elbow will never bend right again because of that fight with the cops.
Before that I took in 6 homeless people to live with me while they got on their feet.
Have you ever held a man who drank himself to death because he was dieing of aids ? I cried the whole time to the hospital with him.
So… what exactly have you done to help the cause again? Aside from your chair sitting I mean?
Because ive helped so many people the universe won’t allow me to die. And boy howdy have I tried lots of ways. Life clings to me like a parasite.
You want to talk about ice? Have you ever sheltered an immigrant? I have.
I’m sorry for you but I don’t see how any of that has anything to do with turning a blind eye if I see someone stealing something from a dollar tree
I won’t virtue signal here, I can barely wake up every day to work while masking, let alone taking care of homeless people. So kudos to you for actually trying something
I just got a lot going on dude. I’m know for you’re perspective I just went off on you randomly… it isn’t you.
All I can say is “kudos to you” see how far that got me. I think I said before “how’d it work out for those saints in the Bible “
I’ve done a lot and it cost me a lot. So the best you can without losing yourself.
Sorry for my outburst. It really wasn’t personal at all. It was me.
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I bet the people were like “smart alec”
I’m like “you go grandpa show them who’s boss”
He was a tough old man. He had all the patience in the world for us kids but none for adults who should know better.
His mom died in the dust bowl… from dust inhalation. Then he went to Italy to fight facists. Then came home and joined the board of health and helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.
Try he think they’re going to take his wheelchair? Come and take it!
Oh he also had his name legally changed so he wouldn’t be named after Robert E Lee anymore. He wasn’t a fan of slavery. He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation “
He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation"
Haha, I feel like basically every generation besides Gen X has been called this by this point, nice to know where it started though.
Your granddad’s biography would be legendary!
helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.
We have lots of rabbis in America, someone should warn the Jewish population that there’s a vaccine for them! /s
(I’m pretty sure you mean “rabies” but yours is a hell of a lot funnier)
Oh shit… he had a hat that said Ww2 veteran we never asked “what side”!!! This changes everything!!! At least he was working on a cure tho… joke obviously.
Spelling isn’t my strong point. I’m a salesman and a great “talker” but spelling escapes me
Jokes aside rabies (that right) is a terrible way to go. It was a bigger deal back in the day. In some countries it’s still a big worry.
(So many edits) I’m imagining now my friend Zack who was Jewish walking thru the woods “is this free meat? Well can’t let it go to waste… wait why do I feel like god has left me all the sudden”
wait why do I feel like god has left me all the sudden
Big mood, ahahaha
Rabies is absolutely horrifying…fear of water and the awful death… your Grandfather sounds absolutely badass.
I wish I could be like him. I guess I’m the dollar tree brand of him.
We all start there, it’s up us to grow the beans from dollar tree to history…I made a rhyme
Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. He had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”
My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.
I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.
fuck trump supporters
DONT fuck trump supporters. It reminds me of the joke “if you go over to a persons house and don’t see any books… don’t fuck them”
Same with trump stuff. I’m asexual myself but I hear sex is a strong motivator for most men.
I just ment trump supporters suck
I know. I’m just being silly lol we live in dark times my friend. I force myself to find smiles whenever I can.
Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. We had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”
My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.
I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.
“refusing to leave”
Where, specifically, did they expect her to go? Being thrown out on the streets at 93 is effectively a death sentence.
not being able to work is a death sentence in America
guess the freedom in america is the “works makes you free” variety
I saw that sentence somewhere in German.
Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.
i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation.
what’s the point in having exponential productivity increase if we are all still expected to work full time or starve.
we could probably just set up a 20 hour week maximum and the economy would still run. just with less profits for the 1%, but they can go fuck themselves with syphilitic cacti.
i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation
That’s up for debate, but my point was about work being a guaranteed universal right, not about it being forced at gunpoint.
It’s only up to debate if someone’s is a capitalist bootlicker.
I’m a communist, so no, the only way to debate this isn’t by being a capitalist bootlicker.
ok.
tankie bootlicker? if I’m off, please provide me a slur to use for you…
actually, besides pronouns, it would be polite to ask people for their slurs.
The cruelty is the point
State spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a nonagenarian out of her home over a four figure rent check.
All so some landlord can afford another wing on the McMansion
“Hundreds of thousands of dollars” dude, absurd exaggeration doesn’t help anyone. an eviction requires a single non-emergency callout, which in flordia costs around $2500 (evictions are usually categorized as property crime)
Legal filings are covered by the landlord and are significantly more expensive (numbers I am seeing for florida are hovering around $5000, but like all things legal it varies wildly). This was disgusting, but the state isn’t paying out orders of magnitude more than the loss just to protect some random landlord.
Yeah it is. It’s going to cost between 20 and 30k a year to keep her in a prison, and tax payers will have to pay for her medical treatment as well
She’s 90 years old, it’s a safe conclusion that the taxpayer was already paying for her medical care via medicare and she was already released (from jail) and the charges were dropped (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread). The original comment just made up the cost to farm outrage, and it’s fucking ridiculous they felt the need to do that on a post about a 90 year old being evicted.
I know it’s rough to see propaganda you agree with called out, but that’s what’s happening here. That people are reacting as though I’m devaluing or excusing this travesty, I’m not, is the reason I’m doing it - even propaganda you agree with poisons the discussion. Hell, to my eye the cost to throw an ancient woman out of her housing being so incredibly cheap should really make this story all the more disgusting, as it highlights how cheap human suffering really is.
mcmansion is crazy
It’s a whole thing https://mcmansionhell.com/
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a nonagenarian is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say “in their 90s”
No one made it up explicitly, it just follows the formula for the rest of the decade age words like octagenarian
Octagenarian, what a useless word. Let me know when you start looking at the sexagenarians. Oh baby!
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You got a problem with it? What are you, some kind of trenagenarian?
No! I’m a teenagemutantninjaterian thank you very much!
The Romans did or at least they created the base word structures. Primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, et cetera could all be compounded with the suffix genarian to create an age bracket specific word. For example I am a secundagenarian.
“Who decided” – like most word constructions, it probably wasn’t consciously decided upon by a single person but rather evolved out of existing phrases.
In this case, the Latin root nona- for ninth was extended with the -gin- / -gen- infix used for multiples of ten (viginti = 20, triginta = 30 and so on) to form the root nonaginti / nonageni for ninety / “per ninety”. The infix -ari- indicates an adjective/description (nonagenarius = “having ninety”), with the suffix -an indicating a representative noun.
Together, nonagenarian refers to “someone with ninety of something” as a logical composition of existing language elements, all of which you’ll find elsewhere too. It will probably have evolved naturally by people slapping on parts to describe something and others picking it up because it made sense. From there, it made its way into English as Latin words tend to.
If anything, we ought to appreciate that the “years” part of that composition is omitted, lest we would need to include something related to anni, maybe nonagenanniarian which would be even longer and more complex.
As to why people use it: Sometimes, a single descriptive noun or adjective is less ambiguous that multi-word structures. Sometimes, people want to mix up how they refer to things and use different words. Sometimes, people just want to sound erudite.
And sometimes, people pick up speech habits without much thinking about it, because they’re used to people understanding it. You didn’t, but congratulations: you learned a new word!
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a teenager is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say “in their teens”
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a typhoon is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say “ocean sky-fuckery”
who’s in their teens here don’t you have to be 18+??? (I don’t really think 18 or 19 year olds to be in their teens)
How do you even live with yourself if you’ve been a part of those proceedings?
I’d bet you hear a variation of, “just following orders.”
Delusion
How they live with themselves:
