breaks my heart how many people identify with this thread. we deserve a better world than this.

you will get through it, though. this moment will not last forever. burrow in like a cockroach, survive as long as you can. a moment will come when everything turns on its head.

we are going to win.

i'm so tired of seeing my friends and allies being forced to beg for scraps month after month just to barely make ends meet. it does not have to be this way. it cannot stay this way forever. something has to change.

there is simply no alternative. everything is rent-seeking and nobody in power wants to do anything about it because they all benefit from the rents. the profit motive is a cancer and there is no moderate treatment. we either excise it completely, or everyone who isn't rich fucking dies.

it just pisses me off how limited even the most progressive horizons for change are right now. a rent freeze wouldn't be enough. UBI wouldn't be enough (it'd just be another government subsidy to landlords). housing needs to be nationalized and treated as a human right.

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.