King of fabricating Bad People anecdotes!

This song came to my head out of the blue yesterday, so I put it on. What a coincidence. RIP to one of the greats

who are these emails to/from?

I can't fathom accruing additional debt to go back to school--how would I even pay for it while there?--but I see no other way to escape this current cycle. I don't know, the future is bleak, man.

It's somewhat reassuring that many Americans of all ages are struggling right now, but it's less reassuring because that just makes more evident that it's very hard to escape this position.

treating it as ordinary allows them to put in zero effort. acknowledging this is a legitimate crisis would mean either having to actually put in work or admitting they're useless in the face of said crisis. unfortunately for them, we all see that they're useless anyway

To their credit, I think OP is making the (false) observation that prior to 2025, America was affordable, so unaffordability=Trump. Sure, Trump's policies have made it worse, but, in NYC at least, it's been incredibly difficult to live comfortably for a long time

but the lesson is that campaigning on that is not enough, or else 2024 would not have gone the way it did

and what a waste of Kate Berlant as a dominatrix.

imagine how many women he could beat if he were actually this jacked

I think a key distinction that is made here is that much of this subculture sprung up in the wake of COVID isolation, whereas at its inception jerking off with other people on cam was more about making a solitary activity more fun and maybe a little less empty feeling