• Armok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I am on the brink of being unable to fulfill my basic survival needs because of the way this country is run. I’m at the point where I would have more hope in life if someone with a halfway-decent plan to fix the things I outlined above told me to do literally anything that would pull us away from the status quo. I’ll worry about being morally-superior when this is not the case. Until then, this is the truth I have arrived at.

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      5 months ago

      …but you are aware that there is plenty of room for things to get even worse, right? I mean, if you already have absolutely nothing to lose…ok…I think I understand.

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        I’m at the point where one run of bad luck would leave me out on the street with 6 months to live. I have very few people in my life that are close to me, and none with the capacity to help me. I took tens of thousands of dollars of student debt and haven’t been able to get a job for months. None of the retail jobs here pay enough to make rent, let alone buy food. Social services are all but non-existent.

        The society that currently exists seems to want me to die. Fuck all that.