Submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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could we maybe stop downvote bombing greentexts with takes we disagree with? 🙄
obviously the author has some toxic ass views but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an interesting/entertaining greentext to read
the only posts on this sublemmy that should get downvoted are irrelevant and/or boring greentexts
If you don’t want baffling, fucked up takes, then you don’t want green texts, go to a microblogging community. I feel like the entire point of being here is to see the insanity without engaging with or or condoning it.
Am I so out of touch?
I’ve heard this place described as a zoo. We’re just here to observe. Posts are not meant to endorse screeching, throwing poop, or whatever else anons might do.
my sentiment precisely
It’s the racism. You can be interested and entertained by it, but many people prefer not to condone it.
obviously the author has some toxic ass views…
but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an interesting/entertaining greentext to read
No, that’s exactly what that means, in fact. Stop the bullshit.
Next you’re going to want us to stop downvoting unpopular opinions in the unpopular opinion community
To champion the original and true purpose of the down vote has to be the most hopeless and nobel cause to pursue on the internet. You would almost have to start a communities uo899979⁹
My eternal gratitude for your community service, you are a stronger person then I ever will be.
This is some chud speak I can’t parse the meaning of
Maybe he married a latina rocket?
I also do love it when my imaginary wife cooks launch for me as well
“cooks me launch”
One of these days Anon [pulls out chancla]… Wam! Bam! Straight to the moon!
Fake and disgustingly straight
Maybe i’m weird, or mentally ill, but:
I just want a wife who makes her own lunch and wants to live in a 750K house and have 1 kid.
and apparently that’s asking ‘too much’ these days.
Just popping in to say it’s insane that a 750k house is positioned as reasonable in this scenario. The housing market is truly insane.
Before anyone else comments, I get it, the market varies depending on where you live. Around me, “reasonable houses”, that being 2 ish bedrooms, 1 ish bath, are somewhere between 250k and 500k. But that’s still disgusting. 10 or 15 years ago that would’ve been 60 to 150k, in my same area. I’m still kicking myself for not buying back then, not that I had the means, but I almost did. Now? Sheesh.
The crazy part is, renting isn’t even cheap!
Rent in my area is around 1.5k per month for 2 bedroom 1 bath… My rent has been lower than that thankfully, though climbing, but that’s the going rate.
With good credit, and 20k down, that could be a mortgage payment on an entire house twice the size. Still disgusting but at least then you’re building equity of some sort.
But who’s got that when 25% of Americans have no savings at all, and only 50% can cover 3 months expenses in an emergency?
Yet new housing is built all the time. Why? Because it’s lucrative for those with gobs of money, holding all the housing.
My landlord is no saint, but he has 2 buildings, 4 units each, with detached garages. They aren’t premium, slightly dated, but they’re miles better than slumlord stuff. Nice neighborhood too. I’d put my grandma in there. Yet he consistently keeps the rent at less than 60% of the local average.
Honestly he SHOULD charge more. But I’m not telling him that. He does it because he can’t stand the thought of gouging people to get rich. Though I’m sure he’s still making plenty, as his new truck would indicate. But still.
My neighbors complain about him, and one even left. Then begged to come back because other renters locally were more expensive, and less attentive. He let them back 🤷♂️
Yet new housing is built all the time. Why? Because it’s lucrative for those with gobs of money, holding all the housing.
It’s really not being built at the amounts needed (at least, not in the places that need it most) which is why there’s a housing crisis. Those who already own housing benefit more from preventing new housing from being built by anyone other than themselves. Ensuring scarcity of housing while demand is continuing to grow from the population rising and average household size shrinking makes the housing they hold skyrocket in value.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Two anons demonstrate two sides of the misogyny coin
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The first one isn’t misogyny. Minus the specifivity of the “$2 million” part, its the Jewish tradition of what is required for a man to be able to propose. “Having kids is too expensive” is just the straight-up truth for anyone who isn’t uncommonly comfortable relying on charity and/or society.
Like, are we going off the avatar, pretending a woman who says those things is crazy? Because she’s absolutely not, and neither are the men trying to live up to those items, at a minimum.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t know how Jewish it is, but it is part of a general trend of how society treats marriage.
Generations back, marriage was considered the beginning, a cornerstone for building an adult life on. Now, it’s shifted more towards a capstone, a thing that you can add to your life once you get your shit together. That has shifted expectations in dating, as well as expectations of how independent young adults need to be.
And it has pushed back expectations of what it means to be ready to have children. And once a higher percentage of parents have more money when they have kids, it also subtly shifts the expectations of parenting, as well:
What’s wrong with relying on society? Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids. My wife and I waited till we were rich before having kids, but we still heavily rely on our family, friends, and neighbors to enrich our children’s lives, while also being there for them and their children: rotating babysitting duties if some parents want to go on a date or even go out of town, rotating dinner hosting so only one family has to cook and clean, getting the kids together so that they can play and socialize, etc. We can’t do the parenting thing in isolation, but I don’t think society expects us to.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
expecting a 2 million dollar home, is legit crazy.