The rise of fascism
I was about to say we are all kinda having it.
Some saw it coming
Not really, the writing has been on the wall for quite a while…
If at all it’s the realisation that average people can’t really flee from it.
I saw the writing on the wall, but I believed that something would happen for us to change course before we got there. The reality check is that not only did we not change course, but we accelerated towards it
During the pandemic my wife was panicking about Long Covid. I said the chances of getting that are too low. And we got vaccinated and we masked up. Then the children went back to school, everyone got sick and now I can only lie in bed 24/7.
You weren’t wrong. Just unlucky.
Well that fucking sucks, mate. I hope you’re in a place where disabilities don’t mean you’re abandoned by society.
I’m so glad to be living in Germany. And that I’m a good German who insured himself against being unable to work.
I’m getting an early pension and my wife is paid by health insurance to care for me. Those together with the insurance mean that we can keep on living more or less like before.
20 years old, self employed manual worker who broke his leg whilst on a night out drinking. The only night’s drinking I’d ever been on before or since.
How quickly I ended up without any money and unable to pay rent was a real eye opener. The bank I’d used all my life denied me a very small loan, I had no friends I felt I could ask for money. Fortunately I live in a country where health care is free, and my sole client kept a place open for me to limp back into when the plaster came off. I managed to stay out of serious debt and kept a roof over my head, but skipped a lot of meals and went without heating for a few months. I’ve never forgotten the feeling of helplessness and that has been a driver for a lot of my life’s spending and saving habits. We take a lot of things for granted, but they can often be taken away so quickly.
Oh boy yes. It’s absolutely brutal how quickly everyone drops you once you hit hard times.
Just enjoy your life while there are good times. When bad times will arrive, only luck will save you.
I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I’m from that was a HUGE deal.
The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.
It’s absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you’ve gotten on “hard times”. All my friends, relatives, in-laws… EVERYONE drops you like you’re burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You’re out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you’re a “failure”.
And let me repeat once again that I haven’t gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It’s just the optics of “being in a bad place” and poof everyone’s gone! You’re on your own now.
Nobody knows you when you’re down and out
Idk, I went through some serious shit that really left me broken into pieces, and at that time yes, many of my friends just weren’t there for me. But some actually got closer and helped me weather my difficulties.
I’m glad for you that you were lucky to have such friends
I got involved in politics.
I quickly understood why only the worst people is able to rise to power .
Most of your friends aren’t even friends. Went through a breakup a couple years ago and when I needed friends they all abandoned me. Most people only interact with you for their own personal gain, not because they genuinely care about you.
It’s not just a metaphor, when people say things like “picture yourself in X”, or “just imagine the audience naked”.
Others can actually see things in their mind.
Which was very quickly followed by, “getting a song stick in your head” means you can actually hear a song over and over in your mind. How annoying.
This seems like some king of super power. I was 40…
I’ve listened to the same lineup of songs for weeks
Now I’ve heard one of these songs for about two weeks straight in my head. 24/7. I hear it in my dreams. It’s a pretty song, but fuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkkk I want it out
No country on Earth is really a democracy.
I got sidewalk slammed(on grass) by someone half my size.
the november 2024 presidential election.
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