Comment on Anon tries to sleep

• UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  IMO you have the obligation to create the environment that allows what you have (an existence without worry for politics) for everyone.

  So what are you doing that’s creating that type of environment for me and others?

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  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m an active union organiser and volunteer emergency service worker.

    My day job is responsible for helping people with extremely disadvantaged backgrounds.

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    • UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And my day job until just a few months ago was special education teaching assistant in an elementary school in a disadvantaged neighborhood. I recently retired from working in the public sector for 20 years.

      Feel free to check my post history from the .world instance from months ago, when I was still teaching there. I spoke of my career often.

      Guess we are more alike than different, friend. Funny how that works, huh?

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• UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re basically saying ‘my life is secure; fuck everybody else that hasn’t got what I have’.

  Not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying that if an idiot like me, with very few work skills, made it, then you certainly can because you have more advantages than I have had.

  I also had a child to raise, so even if you count in costs of living differences between then and now, it’s negated by the fact that I had a kid to care for.

  Bruh, I live in a city of over 500,000 people. The majority of people I see are not “just struggling.” People are doing it. Are you saying all of them have had it easier than yourself?

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