A country of desperate people is weak.
This is me. Trump took my job. I don’t have time to help the world because nobody will help me.
If you are still unemployed., getting involved in mutual aid can actually be a great thing to do with your time. I started a Really Really Free Market during a tough time in my life and it has given me way more back than what I’ve invested into in terms of time energy and resources.
i started busking. don’t make much, but make enough.
That feel when you’re disabled and know it’s happening but can’t do anything about it. You try to find time to at least do something, but it feels like you’ve dumped one bucket of water out of a boat and in the time it took you to do that two buckets worth of water have leaked into the boat.
SNAFU
Things are going exactly as planned, don’t worry- because you don’t have time to worry anymore
SNAFU
You acronym people have gone too far :P
For anyone else wondering: situation normal all fucked up
That one has been around for literally decades.
This has got me dizzy, where did you hear this?
It’s from the Vietnam era, it means
Situation Normal All Fucked Up
It predates that. There were US army training films made in WWII called Private Snafu
This is amazing; thank you!
Starving people in Palestine run at Israeli tanks with salvaged explosives they built from Israeli bombs while wearing flipflops.
I find it really puts things in perspective when you look at real resistance in the real world.
Ngl, fighting thoughts of either escaping to a forest, or just straight up murdering people every day (when I’m not thinking of just offing myself somewhere away from eyes).
That may really backfire for them. I have seen Nepal, I have seen Luigi, and I have seen the whole Charlie Kirk thing.
Ngl, fighting thoughts of either escaping to a forest
Someone owns the forest and you are trespassing.
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Luckily, I do have a Grandparent that owns a forest, and he would not mind.
Eh, that’s why I plan to make a Lemmy community centered around basically food/water/energy self-sufficiency, to cockblock exploitation like this.
Once I rehabilitate myself first, and adopt that lifestyle myself fully.
Pretty much exactly the opposite of the way out of it but I wish you luck.
So long as you NEED other’s services, you are exploitable. They can blackmail you to do downright immoral things, just to survive.
Now imagine trying to shut off the electricity of someone who has solar panels, or starve someone who has their own food. You have say, 500.000 people who need a lot less money, and have a lot more time on their hands, who using violence and cohersion against, would be ineffective, and you have a problem.
Is this an Aussie infographic?
The ordering of the character chances in each row and it bothers me. In makes it hard to connect the struggles to the effects they have on their job choices and political stance. See for example the one with medical bills. I’d expect to be able to read a single column top to bottom. And for one of the two characters that doesn’t change their place from first row to second row, it makes no sense the young person with large student debt would work for no money. Swapping the first and second characters in the second row would make more sense.
This is just my pedantry. The point made in the graphic is very valid, I just found it a bit difficult to read.
Do we have a source? All I can tell it is from Australia before the Libs (the conservatives, for international readers) changed the name of Newstart to “Job Seeker”.
They also renamed the Department of Human Services to Services Australia.
Every time they’re in power, they’re trying to remove all the welfare we’ve built up. They just can’t because we love it.
If it weren’t for Centrelink, I probably wouldn’t have finished university, and I probably wouldn’t be an engineer now.
Fuck austerity. And long may the LNP (the conservative coalition) be in complete shambles, ans hopefully push the Labor party back to its more left wing roots.
I don’t have a source, I’m afraid. I screenshot this off Tumblr and didn’t save the original link, but I know that it was a repost and that this image had been circulating for quite a while.
Predictably 50% of them are irreverent, readers digest shit or super duper 'merica. This is the internet in 2025 not a print magazine for 1995.
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Cool. So glad you’re shitting on us. Good job, you fucking piece of shit. You did it. Fuck you.
Are you a rich company owner exploiting people for your own luxury? Or a crooked politician? Otherwise I don’t think this is shitting on you.
To say it clearly: The exploited person is not to blame. This image does not blame the tired worker. This image points out that the desperate worker is the victim.
