Sending lots of good vibes and internet hugs your way. Please take care and there is always hope. From someone who’s independence streak can result in weeks of not talking to loved ones your story touches my heart deeply.

I keep the cards for the crisis call center in my wallet because you never ever know.

Big hugs to you, internet stranger.

While I think real job training could be helpful, I think that our society needs to take a long hard look at whether we even have enough jobs to do so everyone has one. I don’t think we do. That’s why Universal Basic Income is so vital, there is absolutely nothing keeping the number of jobs needing to be done and…

This internet stranger just figured out his account credentials to say: Hang in there Floppy Moppet! I want you around.

Thank you, love <3 Music is the only thing that has gotten me through life, so I appreciate the suggestion and your kindness. I will check it out! :::hugs:::

I read this and I’ve now spent about 30 minutes wondering about the lives of the respective parties involved given what we know from the obit. Take what we know about Kathleen Dehmlow: Married at 18-19 (so young), two kids and pregnant with a third by 24 (still really young). Moves to California, abandoning two kids…

SHE’S USELESS. I just want to smash my head on a table every time I view one of these hearings, cause I just can’t believe what I just watched.

Yeah, they think poor people just lack the motivation and hard work required to get out of poverty, as if wages haven’t been stagnant for the last 30+ years and poor people are some of the hardest working in the country.

What the fuck? Why are you making fun of this?

^^ Needs more emphasis! She’s evil on MANY levels— being a dedicated anti-woman savage as well as an economic terrorist.

Exactly, I was already feeling bad and trying to get support from a close friend, and instead she made me feel even worse. Eventually I had to stop spending much time with her because I really needed to focus on getting better, and knew that I couldn’t do that around her.

Kindness is everything.

Which actually ends up making you feel WORSE because, in addition to the other toxic thought processes that you have to deal with, you now have to contend with feeling like you’re overly sensitive, a burden, and self-absorbed for feeling what you feel. And these thoughts in particular are especially hard to…

Note: Hartzler is one of the leading anti-choicers in Congress, she has spent years pushing to allow employers to opt-out of providing birth control coverage in their insurance plans and yet she speaks about “breaking the cycle of poverty”......

One of my supposed best friends (sort of an ex-BF now, we just haven’t talked in a while because of this), when I was going through a really tough period a few years ago, would also respond with some line that basically amounted to “well at least you don’t have student loans” or “your family has more money than mine…

am i the only one thinking ol Scotty boy wanted to buy that used mattress (USED!!!) to get rid of certain... evidence?

One thing is for certain: we all lost.

I came here to say this! dammit.