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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Accidentally replied to main thread:

    During Obama, i was making $97.5K per year in web development. Bought a house, car, solar panels, (my) American dream.

    Three months into the first trump fuckup, 10% of the staff was laid off, myself included.

    Spent about 6 months burning through savings, before landing $7.stupid per hour job at Michael’s. Still burning through savings to pay the mortgage, mental health declining because fucking retail.

    Pandemic happened, lost job, another 5 ish months doing low paid contract work, savings are gone and I have to go to my parents for help. My parents raised me that asking for help meant you’ve failed. You’re a failure.

    Spent a year and three days unemployed. Now working at Target picking online orders. Nothing i do has a purpose, and it’s especially heartbreaking when you see items that you’ve picked getting cancelled and returned to the shelf.

    My parents pay my full mortgage and car insurance. I work 40 hours a week, and target is strict on overtime, and i can still only afford to eat 2 out of every 3 days.

    There’s more, but it’s a trauma dump with no solutions, unless i can get about $1500 more a month for the next 5 years to get my year long unemployment debt taken care of…

    That’s just financial problems. My upbringing turned me into a shy anxiety ridden recluse, i can’t look a cute dude in the eyes, let alone ask anyone out. Last “date” (Grindr hookup) i had, there was a black guy in the white house …














  • Short answer: I bite back now.

    Long answer: My parents are hard-R Republicans. Every time they start getting all “demoncrats r bad” i just ask them, “Why do you want me dead so fucking bad? I know from being raised by you that you fucking hated me growing up, but to vote for “gays should be executed”? This is exactly why you didn’t have grandkids, the thought of putting more of your hate in the world is abhorrent to me…”

    I’ve only had to pull that one out twice, so far, but it hits them hard when they still (I’m a few months away from 40) insist I “give them grandkids”.