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   Ali (grissallia@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 08:21:28 JST Ali

   What’ll really bake your noodle is when you realise how much DARVO is not just weaponised by angry men, but it’s been built into the structure of society.

   It’s not that corporations spent decades colluding to bury the evidence of climate change, it’s that you don’t recycle enough.

   It’s not that companies have repeatedly cut corners & staff to increase profits, and C-suite salaries, it’s that you don’t work hard enough to justify a salary increase.

   It’s not that governments have collectively and consistently preferenced the wealthy landlord “investor” class in their policies, and made housing precarious and unaffordable, it’s that you ate too much avocado toast.

   It’s not that the economy is structured around having a permanently unemployed pool of people, it’s that people are lazy and just don’t want to work.

   • Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Ali (grissallia@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 08:21:28 JST Ali

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     It’s not that dental care is unaffordable, it’s just that I prioritised keeping a roof over my family’s head, and food on the table, in a single income household, over getting dental work done. I brought it on myself.

     Edit: I did not expect either of these posts to “do numbers”. I would have been a little more careful with typos, and my sarcasm about dental care. It’s ridiculously expensive, and as I said to Ewen earlier today, I’ve spent thousands on my teeth, but the necessary “finalisation” work was always unaffordable. I couldn’t afford one crown, let alone several.

     The dentist who crushed the back of my 1-7 & 2-7 while removing my wisdom teeth denied the damage I could *feel* - to my face. Declared that he was the professional, and who was I to question his work?

     He left town suddenly a few months later. What was I to do? /le sigh