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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I see your Homer Simpson and raise you Al Bundy, who works at a shoe store and raised a family of 4 on that salary

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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn't Homer meant to be an illustration of privilege? Like, he's pretty useless, but still gets essentially everything he wants.

[–] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, and that's still true even when he's made to face the consequences of his actions. We expect so very little of him that we let him get away with pretty much anything as long as he loves his family.

Hot damn if that's not the picture of straight-white-male-between-18-and-50-years-old privilege.

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago

If he wasn't, he is now. They made a musical episode about it called "Goodbye Middle Class" where they illustrate this with him.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Hedonism and Wealth should not be your metric for evaluating people, anon.

Homer sleeps at his job, is a habitual drinker, and is willfully ignorant.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But he did also win a nuclear power plant design contest.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It was a contest for children!!

And he whooped their butts!

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a nice simple life

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Also constantly abuses Bart

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, 2 kids? Which one died?

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Three! We have THREE kids Homer.

Three noisy kids. Fish heads, fish heads.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marge had a seventh trimester abortion this season.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, Maggie has been a baby for years. There was probably something wrong

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One's doing time for shooting someone.

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[–] remer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Nuclear plant salaries can be huge. Operators make $200k+ per year in the US.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Homer Simpson is why unions are important

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