First off I’m really sorry for your losses. That’s got to be incredibly tough.

I don’t have any great solutions, but I am in the same situation and I wanted to say that you are not alone! It is really hard to make friends when you’re no longer in school.

I feel your pain the idea of talking to strangers face to face fills me with terror.

Ugh, that conversation instant made me think about that dinner scene from Titanic and the snobbery that I imagine probably happens within that kind of social circle. I sometimes find it difficult to think ppl like that actually exist. They just don’t seem real to me.

I’ve had the opposite experience— I recently overheard a couple of well-toned, tastefully-ombred-hair mommies bitching in Whole Foods [!] about how they resent that their children will be financially burdened by having to pay taxes to support programs for people [like me] who don’t have children when they age, and…

Why do you think so many people retire to FL? No state income tax.

People who bitch about funding “other people’s” education are the same people who will complain that all their doctors are Indian.

Isn’t it amazing that people don’t realize you pay for schools so all kids get a good education. Clearly these are people who don’t think past what Fox News tells them

Sure, but then you’re stuck in Arizona.

By that logic, those people owe me a check because I never had kids but always pay taxes.

My point was that tax money doesn’t just benefit kids; it heavily benefits old people, like the ones complaining about paying taxes now that their kids are grown.

I hope the enjoy their Social Security, Medicare, and the roads between their current home and Arizona.

It’s the same mindset that the old male lawmakers have when they bitch about having to include prenatal care on insurance... “I’m never going to be pregnant why should I pay for it?!?” They have no concept of the greater good.

This! Mr. Claws and I owe taxes every year. Federal and state. It’s usually under $1000, and yeah it sucks having to come up with a large, unknown amount of money on kinda short notice, but we do it. We write the checks and move on. Because it’s our fair share and we get so much in return. I get insurance from the…

I don’t know how many of them genuinely believe the trickle down nonsense, and how many just fake it while secretly thinking ‘fuck the poors’. Mnuchin knows exactly what he’s doing though.

I didn’t. I stayed inside at my fucking job and watched it on TV.

Can’t say I did. I put the glasses on, then looked up. Perhaps you did, but a lot of us wanted to protect our vision. Shit even with the glasses on, I only glanced at the thing.

Ugh, I had the unfortunate task of listening to a friend of a distant friend that was a big time Trump supporter. He thinks the rest of congress is holding him back and “Trump needs to keep draining the swamp”. McTurtle and Ryan need to go because they are holding Trump back. He also told me that it was the girl in…

I didn’t. I used a solar projector.

He did it because people told him not to. The man is not a mystery. He’s just an asshole.