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Elmo wrote a simple tweet that revealed widespread existential dread. Now, the president has weighed in. (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ask for help? This country is built around avoiding meaningful help for others because of “freedom”. You are free to live in a box under a bridge. Free to lack upward mobility. Free to be jailed because of homelessness, drug addiction or mental health problems. Free to lose your home because of a health problem. Help is “socialism” in this country. Can’t have that. Gotta have those freedoms instead.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In America, you are not free to live under a bridge. People get run off of that situation all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The bridges around here all have no trespassing signs. In English and Spanish despite this being Indiana.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

You'd think they'd at least have it written in Indian.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You’re free to go find another bridge to live under.