• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    There are more important things to spend money on, like a new ugly ballroom, or giving $40 billion to bail out Argentina -again, a fat settlement over the FBI investigating his criminal activities, bombs to blow up Venezuelan fishermen, renovations to his Qatari airplane bribe, the 30,000 inmate concentration camp being built in Guantanamo Bay (oh yeah, Google it), etc.

    All this stuff costs massive amounts of money, and you’d rather spend it to feed poor kids? It’s not like they are going to grow up to be rich and important, so who cares?

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    This is the kind of thing that gets a whole lot of Confederates very hard. I mean they think empathy is something to be mocked. Their glorious demigod Charlie Kirk thought empathy was a made up, new age term.

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    But we are getting a yuge new golden ballroom at the white house that not a single one of us will ever set foot in.

    So like? Fuck them kids

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        They LOWERED the age of gun ownership in Florida to 18, and they’re shooting each other all over the place. Their aim isn’t too good, either. They keep hitting innocent bystanders, but hey, that’s the price you pay for the second amendment, right? Getting accidentally shot by some hood rat with a legal gun because DeSatan wants everyone to believe he’s packing more than 3 inches in his pants.

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          Gun ownership age has been 18 since there was a gun ownership age.

          21 only applies to handguns and certain specific other weapons like NFA items and unlassified “firearms” (guns that aren’t classified as pistols, rifles or shotguns - mostly firearm receivers or a few weird stockless “shotguns” that don’t actually fit the shotgun definition).

        • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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          actually, sadly here in toronto, youth gun crimes have been rising due to the flow of guns coming from the USA.

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    1600 rent. 1000 day care. 1500 car payments. 800 grocery. 200 gas (for cars). Bills 300.

    My fiance and I make around 6k a month and it’s not enough.

    This is insanity even with snap.

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      What is up with your car expenses. I literally don’t know of anywhere a family of three could get a 1600 apt (I can’t think of anywhere that gets you a 1bd), let alone anywhere day care is only 1k/mo, but you’re spending 1500 on car payments?

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        I remember when I made $2400 post tax a month. My rent was $750 (literally unheard of cheap for a one bedroom in the middle of nowheresville). Easy, except childcare was $950/month for my one toddler. So rent and childcare alone ate 70% of my income. I don’t want to talk about my electric bill because I was drowning, but had no debt, cold showers, but no debt, I’d say to my self on those cold winter mornings.

        I had to steal from peter to pay paul, a lot. Mind you this was back pre pandemic, you could get a beater car for $500-$1000, and I did. Each car I had lasted about a year or two with repairs I could afford before they died.

        I was late on my rent two months in a row, and my slumlord (you ever wake up next to a puddle?) told me, sarcastically, “well, maybe you should find a cheaper place to live”. He knew damn well he owned the cheapest, shittiest apartment in the area. He was a cunt.

        Living somewhere “undesirable” to save a buck is folly.

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          Even with a car payment being $750/month, that’s a pretty fancy car from my perspective - and represents the average car payment for a new car.

          I think that these folks could keep up with expenses much more easily if a few minor compromises were made (namely, a cheaper car).

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            I drive 35 to 40k miles a year for my job. I only get new because I’d rather pay and have a driving car than pay and have one in the shop for the same price.

            My car was 40 and full electric so I don’t have to buy gas and my fiance’s car was 25k. Those two car payments and and insurance we pay around 1500 a month.

            But it’s not the cars that’s a problem. I choose that luxury. Be it for practicality or showing off. What I don’t choose is to live ina 600 squarefoot Apartment for a thousand dollars more than it should be. Or daycare for 250 a WEEK!

            Even if I lowered the price of the card for 500 a month, 800 a months it wouldn’t help.

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              Class solidarity is vital, but I really just can’t sympathize with your poor financial choices. Money is not magic.

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    Can use funds for his little lego project, can’t use funds for the people?

    Elect a rapist con-man, get fucked and robbed.