#usa hellscape

[a-thing-for-pixels]

I guess there's a lot of things that your boss in the USA won't tell you.

F.e. that unions would fight their literal asses for better working conditions, monies, or other benefits.

I was today years old when i found out that i was allowed time off to vote. Something no boss has ever told me.

[nando161mando]

Everybody's a Republican now

[lilithism1848]

[troythecatfish]

[a-thing-for-pixels]

Hear me out, this is awful, and there shouldn't be a thing like billionaires.

But if you look closely to the Elon Musk picture... Is it just me or is there a certain similarity?

[blackflash9]

To any and all people who either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all in this election, I will promptly laugh and proceed to act with cold indifference when the leopard inevitably eats your face.

[raivos-world]

🎶Well, maybe I am the fa**ot, America

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

Now everybody do the propaganda

And sing along in the age of paranoia🎶

[art-for-a-reason]

"you live in a mugging" That's it in a nutshell you brilliant thing.

You should know that whenever I see one of your 'warm-ups' come across my dash I stop everything else and pay very close attention. Somehow you write smooth and raw and conversational and it just floors me every time. I adore you.

at the end of the day it's not that you hate your job - actually, you like working, you like routine, you like feeling like an adult - it's that any time you fuck anything up, you feel like you're fucking dying.

because you could be actually fucking dying. because if one day you wake up and you misunderstood something - you could lose your job, and nobody is hiring, and nobody is paying, and nobody takes people like you, and that job you want hasn't gotten back to you. and what exactly are you going to do without insurance? good luck with those meds. you should have thought of that before being a person.

so it's not just that you forgot to CC someone on an email, it's that if you don't have this job, you can't afford rent. it's not that you misread a comment, it's that if you get fired, you will be in massive amounts of unpayable debt. it's not that you are bad at your job, but here are the stakes as they have been decided for you: be perfect or fucking die. like, literally, die. that is how much safety net you have: none.

it's not burnout, technically. but you literally just had two typos in your work, and you're already picturing the ending. you want to throw up & curl up & make it all go away. it is two typos. if he decides he is mad at you, you lose literally everything.

your mom says that you seem stressed. the thing is that you have never known a job that isn't stressful. welcome to capitalism. there is no other road, only this one. what the fuck is a career. you come here, and we hold your life against the barrel of a gun, and somewhere someone is spinning the chamber and pulling. eventually the bullet will come.

you live in a mugging. your boss owns three cars and has four kids. you worry about having enough to feed your dog. good luck. beg for forgiveness. CC the right people next time and be grateful, kid. somebody has it worse than you. someone, probably, has it worse than you. so what if you can't sleep or eat or focus. your work chat sound literally makes you panic. you had to change the sounds of computer notifications so you'd stop having such an upset stomach.

welcome to the real world! the rat race! the dog eat dog circus!

your doctor studies the results and frowns at you. "it's bad for your heart," she says. "try to reduce your levels of stress."

[surgeonssturgeon]

Honestly America could explode and I wouldn’t be surprised, how are y’all fumbling THIS bad??? 😭

Hurricane, Trump, Project 2025??? Im sorry, unless that assassin guy gets his cataracts checked out yall are 100% SCREWED.

like… Trump? DONALD j. trump? THAT absolute idiot??? He's… winning? He’s winning for president??? You’re pulling my leg, right? Please tell me you’re joking.

[viktheviking1]

Been thinking about maybe living in a different country someday. I asked for my parents advice for how to move out of the United States safely and cheaply. They said that I should join the military. Bruh, I gotta sign a contract to potentially kill and be killed for the USA to leave the USA? Imma just wait til I got more money.

(I know a lot of places are less safe than America, but we all know it ain't all it's cracked up to be, to put it lightly.)

[mallgothchloe97]

America has no soul.

America has no moral compass.

America has no arc of human rights.

America is fascism.

America is anti blackness.

America is evil.

You can't save that.

You can't outvote that.

You can't redeem that.

[learningfromlosing]

Happy fourth of july its harder for me to say im american than to say im bisexual

[nando161mando]

This is about 0.2% of the military aid given to Israel in the last 1 week.

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Did a health assessment for my insurance because a high score can lower my monthly payment by like $25, and it's trying to say I'm not active enough. Like. Hello? I work 50 hours a week and I'm still more active than anyone else I know. I just walked 5 miles to get books and lunch. That's further than most people I know walk in a month. Why is the standard for "healthy" so much higher than the average American can attain? I'm forming a new conspiracy theory here..

[troythecatfish]

[quinnallerton]

Why is it nearly impossible to leave the United States to go on vacation anywhere?

Want to visit the Caribbean for a week? $2,000 plane ticket.

Want to visit the United Kingdom? $2,300 plane ticket.

Land of the free? Fuck that....

No one can afford to leave or stay. I hate it here.