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My whole life tbh, I was treated horrible and everyone just basically gaslit me into believing I Just Don't Like random things especially schoolwork and cleaning.

Yeah bitch I really Don't Like schoolwork so much I do homework on the way home. I'm so eager to do something I Don't Like™™™™™. Yeah I Don't Like cleaning either, that's why I do chores as early as possible so they're done because I don't like cleaning.

Surely it's not because I was an overworked kid who was so drained I couldn't focus on homework at home where Happy Happy Family antagonize me and bully me. Surely I don't clean as soon as possible because if I don't do it now I won't have time to do it later and it'll pile up for next week. And not because I would rather fucking relax on days off instead of keeping myself awake to do chores at the very end of the day when I'm ready to just sleep. Fuck childhood

2024 Presidential Election in the United States of America.

I've never seen any gaslighting, what are you taking about

Say something that will definitely be taken as an insult.

"What? I was just joking!"

The Darvaza gas crater of course.

Someone farting on a candle after eating eggs, cabbage and bread through the whole day.

Sorry, not the sort of gas lighting that you wanted, right?

It seem like all of America, left and right, has fallen for the myth of working class prosperity during the post war boom. You've heard the mantra: a single earner could afford a house, car, and college for a family of four. This was never true for the majority of Americans. And for those few who did enjoy this lifestyle, it was achieved not by the owners sharing more of the wealth, but by excluding women and PoC from mainstream economic life.

Furthermore, most of this prosperity from housing, transportation, and education was made possible through government largess. Examples include the Interstate highway system and the GI bill. And all these government loans, grants, and scholarships were exclusive to real citizens: white men. Sometimes this was explicit in the law, sometimes it was enforced through sneaky regulations like 'red lining'. Even when the law included minorities, there were still barriers for PoC and women to collect what they were entitled to. These barriers ranged from Kafkaesque bureaucracy to murderous terrorism.

You ok?