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Responsible Americans blow their brains out at 75. How dare she.
I figure that if I get to my 80’s or thereabouts, it will be time to end my life. I don’t have the wealth, friendship, or health to enjoy my life at the age of deterioration. Hopefully, society will accept my choice, and offer a painless way to leave this coil.
That said, I would prefer this lady and all other people to have their twilight years to be enjoyable.
80s is too damn long. My retirement plan, same one, will be around 70 if I make it that long. Just judging by how shit it feels to be in my 40s, and I’m in pretty decent shape.
Why are we so worried about this woman when nobody seems to be worried about the 93 year old billionaire shareholder who won’t be able to manipulate global geopolitical events in their final few years? They should be allowed to extract every ounce of value from our society that they bought fair and square . If you don’t like the way things are then go buy your own society. Sheesh.
I feel weird submitting this knowing that even extream sarcasm isn’t as obvious as it should be here in 2025
This happens BECAUSE it’s the wealthiest country on earth.
We live in a time of larger wealth disparity than the times of peasants and kings.
The royals were also really wealthy as they said in ignorance “let them eat cake”.
Except that statement wasn’t said by royalty, it’s a misattributed mistranslation of a snippet from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions.
It was written 9 years before Marie Antoinette became queen and while she was still a child and had not yet traveled to France.
This is a classic case of the victors writing history. This quote has been used countless times to try to illustrate that the royalty was out of touch (which I’m neither arguing for nor against here,) however there’s no evidence it was ever spoken by the Queen - indeed it wasn’t attributed to her at all for many years after her death.Marie Antoinette abducted children from peasant families.
Maybe she did. Doesn’t change the fact that using misattributed quotes tends to diminish the perception of the preceding opinion in the eyes of readers.
Same thing now.
Some individuals are the wealthiest on earth.
The US shithole has the biggest (unpayable) debt and is the poorest country on earth.
What makes anyone believe she’s capable of surviving eviction? Oh right, they don’t care if she dies.
If I were in that position I would do the same. Either they can’t evict me or I get sent to prison and I would be kept warm and fed, rather than the streets where I would probably starve or freeze to death.
They usually just release homeless people charged with petty crimes after the first hearing (24-48 hours) without bail. They can’t pay fines, for commissary, phone calls, and all that; or work, so they’re not profitable.
I’d like to say im surprised but im not the yanks really have lost the bloody plot
Checked my mother’s facebook and sure enough she’s concerned about it. If there’s one thing the elderly care about it’s their social security checks. She still doesn’t understand who is responsible though.
You can’t be 'the richest country in the world" if 40% of your citizens are in poverty. The US “gov” is corrupt and greedy. This place truly is a shithole…
Sire you can , it’s called inequality.
I wish GDP got the same amount of pushback from people that BMI does whenever anyone mentions it
That claim is ot course being made by the richest people in the country.
Being Heartless is the de-facto standard in capitalism.
This is what republicans seem to want. Thinking THEY will never be in such a situation so they have nothing to worry about.
Y’all should change the dollar bill line from “in God we trust” to “Got mine, fuck you”
Isn’t that what “in God we trust” means already?
Yeah and God is the rigged system they put in place
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America is insane.
Not insane, America is addicted to narcissism.
Every single assisted living facility in the United States would do the same thing. They are businesses designed to strip every last bit of wealth before we die, they do not give a shit about their
residentscustomers.Yeah but have you ever tried to care for aging parents outside of a retirement community, sucks all your time, money, and energy leaving nothing else for the rest of your family. End of life care is a great place to extract wealth if you’re heartless. People are their most scared and vulnerable, they’ll pay anything to feel normal for just a little while longer
Yes, my mother has advanced Parkinson’s and I was her primary caretaker for years before we finally had to move her into assisted living. I know very well how ill-equipped our society is for elder care.
People always talk about how it takes a village to raise a child, but we rarely talk about the village required to care for our elders.
Personally, I would rather kill myself than end up in a facility like my mom is in.
I think it says a lot when people remark they would rather be dead than in a assisted care facility. Something is clearly wrong with our system.
The sad part is, it’s one of the best facilities around in a very HCOL area. We pay $8000 per month just for room and board. When she needs more care that price will increase. You’d think with ~100 residents all paying at least that much that the place would be really good, right? But the staff is all paid minimum wage so they can’t hire people to provide the basic services they advertise, like transportation. The meals are all made from institutional wholesale ingredients like liquid “eggs”, frozen meat and vegetables, and red delicious apples.
My mom has been burgled by staff and ignored by caregivers while she was stuck on the toilet because the understaffing issue is so bad.
Most of the staff are great people, but the owners are making so much money that they could breed like rabbits and their great-great-grandchildren would never have to lift a finger in their lives.
Well like, what other options are there? Most retirement communities have been bought out by Atria or Life Care Services, stripped of anything that made them special and unique, then had their prices jacked way up. For elderly people they can either A) spend the money all the they could give as inheritance, and take on debt to live in the only places capable of supporting you, or B) kill yourself, give your children as much inheritance as possible and hope that you making that decision means your kids might not have to do the same when it’s their turn.
The best option is not to allow corporations to buy up and run assisted living centers to maximize profit. It is apparent that the US government should also be subsidizing and highly monitoring these facilities. They should have strict requirements for activities and care, no more laissez-faire regulating.
It’s the best option, and if you can figure out a way to do it I wish you all the luck in the universe. I won’t be holding my breath. No offense.
When I was in college I had a cohort and one of my colleagues was from an Eastern European country. He was married and had a few kids. He was trying to find a good daycare and came to me very confused.
He said that daycare where he was from was free and very high quality. They had set curriculum, good food, and the government checked in weekly to make sure the facilities were run correctly. He asked why all the US daycares were run down, no curriculum, poor food, poor worker pay, and also extremely expensive.
Here is a guy from a country we would probably look down upon just flabbergasted by our shitty daycare system. It was a real eye opener for me. Needless to say it is entirely possible to improve these facilities.
I think you are right though, unless we start trying to fix these problems holding our breathe is not going to help.
The most disturbing part of this is, she made it to 93, and wasn’t able to pay rent. Does America have no way to pay their retired and elderly people a living wage at the end of their life?
Like, she’s not even just retired, she’s elderly. The “Golden years” of wearing a diaper and needing a walker, kind of elderly.
Even if the charges were dropped and she was allowed to go home, the fact that it got to the point where she was hauled off to jail in an orange jumpsuit and cuffs should not have happened. Someone should have stopped and said, “are we really going to try to send a 93 year old to jail?” And that should have been where it stopped. Because that’s not something you do to a 93 year old for missing a few rent payments.
America is cracked man. Should not have gotten there. What the actual fuck.
Does America have no way to pay their retired and elderly people a living wage at the end of their life?
No. Everytime there is, conservatives cry antichrist and pull Usain Bolt shit trying to get it repealed.
They’re about as close as you get to being the literal Sith… outside of North Korea, I guess.
Yup.
American here.
As far as I can tell we are totally fucked. As in, if I was smart, I’d be finding a way to get citizenship elsewhere before I get too old.
Social Security was supposed to float them after the time they could make a living. That’s drying up faster than water in a desert Nestle is siphoning from.
Man, I only retired 3 years ago, for medical reasons, and with only just enough money. In that 3 years, essentially everything has doubled in cost. In another 3 years it will probably double again. So, it’s pretty easy to see me being in a similar situation eventually, although at least I do own my home. Many retired people on fixed incomes are feeling the squeeze…
I’m still working and things are getting more expensive faster than I’m getting raises. I don’t own a home and doubt I ever will be able to afford it so my only retirement option is a shotgun.
Even if the charges were dropped and she was allowed to go home
They had her shit on the curb by the time the squad car rolled off.
The people living in America exist solely to serve the needs and wants of the oligarchy. If you’re not working to make them more entrenched, you are useless and they would really prefer you just die.
Trigger Warning: Now before anybody comments that I’m evil for this, I’m not saying I would do it, or that I condone it but that I would understand why someone would, and could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such.
That being said I could totally see people getting to the point of hopelessness and going out by suicide by cop, either directly going after police, or whatever mega-corp, or landlord or whatever they perceive to put them in that position. Obviously a 93 year old woman likely doesn’t have the strength to pull a trigger but as this inequality issue continues to rise and more and more people are losing hope due to issues outside their control dangerous and scary things are likely to happen. Just like we never solved bullying and it led to school shootings, if we don’t solve inequality, I’m afraid that mass shootings are going to go up.
What you’re describing is basically how active shooters are born, including school shooters. And this is also why there are more active shooters in the US than in the next 50+ countries combined.
Inequality leads to crime. A system that exploits citizens at every step leads to active shooters. These phenomena are so well known and documented, it’s physically impossible for the current and previous 10 American governments not to be and have been aware of the issue. They must have simply deemed it an acceptable cost.
Absolutely agreed. But the arms industries are worth more and have more influence than American lives. Including children. We live in the cyberpunk 2077 prequel.
could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such
What exactly would be the “issue”, even if there were “copycats”, with everyone having a place to live?
You’re missing the point. If everyone had a place to live comfortably, there wouldn’t be the hopelessness that leads to such things. But logically as hopelessness goes up, as does crime, including major crimes. I think you came into this wanting to be mad about what I wrote, and got mad about it despite agreeing with me.
Edit: or you’re a troll and intentionally taking the message wrong to start shit.
Edit 2: God damnit. I didn’t consider option 3. You’re either AI or too stupid to read. Because that response doesn’t actually make any sense in context to what I wrote. I hope it’s 1 or 2 because 3 is embarassing to me, but seemingly more likely.
Hey, I’ve never been accused of being AI before, neat! Let’s go with too dumb to read ;)
Well at least your username would be accurate.
Instead of adventurism and solitary acts a few people have written a manual and described a way of thinking that can fix this
But no, repression, inequality, suffering and violence are preferred because their dads said that was the right way. “My dad worked in the coal mines from the time he was 18 until he died of black lung at 52. If it was good enough for him it’s good enough for me”
The MAGAts yearn for the mines.
I dont understand why you handcuff people who clearly are not a danger to anyone.
Because acab
Because knives are easy to hide, and it only takes one free hand to grab an officers gun.
That isn’t why. That’s the excuse.
That is in fact why. It only takes a moment of inattention. Even if they are 90 it’s not like they move in slow motion or something. Sure, they can slow down with age, but that’s not universal.
Ok, so what’s the problem if a 93 year old stabs a cop that’s come to kill her?
Seems incredibly hyperbolic to say he’s there to kill her, but you do you.
Few people can discern the difference.
I would be most interested in talking to the 93 year old woman that can successfully grab the officer’s gun.
I’d imagine she makes amazing blueberry muffins.
