@WallStreetApes So that would be like 50 to 60k now. You can do that today with family of 4 on 60k
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Frederick
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American says both his grandparents were school teachers. One of them stopped working to raised their kids, so their income was only about $20,000 per year
On $20,000 in a year, he was able to buy a house, support a family of four, buy 2 cars, send my father to private school. He was even able to retire 10 years early
He says this kind of life is now impossible and that’s why young people feel “hopeless”
“But in 2026, our government, our society is geared solely towards maintaining the wealth and comfort of the boomer generation. Every year without fail, proposals that help young people, proposals that help poor people, first time home buyers, yada, yada, yada fail in Congress. — But every year, hundreds of billions of dollars in Social Security increases sail through the chambers of Congress without a second thought. There is really no support system for the younger generation at this point.”
“Most people are trying to come to grips with the fact that they are never going to be able to retire at all, let alone retire 10 years early. It's just not the same world that it was, not even close.”
- Roughly 80% of Boomers were able to buy homes
- High estimates of Gen Z say only around 20-27% will be able to buy a home (this seems very generous)
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@KimKatieUSA If I could handle flying that long. Japan is my top destination since I was a kid.
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If you have never been to Japan I highly recommend taking a vacation there sometime soon.
I have said it before, but it really does feel like you stepped into another world. The sights are beautiful, the food is incredible, the service is next level, and the culture has this deep respect for other people that you do not see everywhere.
It is not perfect and nothing will ever top America for me but visiting Japan is genuinely something special. I would not recommend actually living or working there long term unless it has always been your dream. Visiting and living there are two very different things.
I am just really glad they are our strong allies in the Indo Pacific. It is wild to think that 80 years ago we were at war with them and now we are working together against common threats. Crazy how history works sometimes.
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@ItsTragik @WallStreetApes Yet here you are on an American website lol
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I love how Americans are finally realizing that their country is dog shit on every measurable level other than maybe military.
Education, healthcare, happiness, unity, technology, manufacturing, family, quality of life etc.
They are all like, "Oh no, China and Russia and Iran want to hurt us because of our freedom and quality of life!"
Sure bro, your skies are poison, your country is divided, your food is poison and trash, you will live to 65 and die of obesity and diabetes, you have no universal healthcare, you are over taxed, over worked by far, consumed by porn, political divide, don't produce or export a damn thing other than war, make shit movies and music etc. Like wtf does anyone in the world want with America? Trust me, no one wants what you got, I promise on God lol 🤣.
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This post has a quarter of a million “Likes” in 48 hours
Americans are losing it realizing they work more than peasants used to work
“I've actually f*cking had it with the United States of America — I gotta go to work 40 sometimes 50 hours a week only to get 2 weeks of paid vacation — peasants used to get 154 days off. I'm not even treated like a f*cking peasant”
“I can't f*cking do this shit anymore. And all while this shit is happening, they're f*cking constantly attacking your psychological — y'all just kicking me when I'm f*cking down. I can't go anywhere because they f*cking hate us — while a ruling class of Satan-worshipping, baby-eating pedophiles comes for my f*cking kids every way, or form
B*tch. Taxes, fees, fees, taxes, tolls, taxes, check engine light, taxes, tickets, taxes, pedophiles, taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes. B*tch, I'm done”
For reference:
2500 B.C.
The Pharaoh took 20% of the slaves’ harvest.
2025 A.D.
The government takes 35–60% of your income through income tax, FICA, sales tax, property tax, gas tax, inflation, and fees.
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@avidseries Why are you talking about blacks constantly. I get it you insecure and you want to push the lie of blacks being less intelligent. You seem to have a mental disorder.
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Any elite school that has a black share above 2% is likely still engaged in racial preferences in favor of blacks.
If elite universities want to reduce their population-disproportionate Asian student body percentages they will have to change what their academic mission is all about — it needs to be less about valuing academic performance and intelligence in their students, and more about valuing other things. (Which, thank goodness, is not going to happen.)
Because, let me tell you, the far-right tail of the IQ distribution curve is brutal (almost no blacks and fewer whites than Asians), and as long as Asians dominate it the way they do, the elites are going to have Asian-heavy student bodies.
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"After the 2023 ban on affirmative action, the share of Black students in Hopkins’ first-year class nosedived. The year before the ban, Black students made up 10% of the first-year class. The year after, they amounted to just 3%....'It feels like everyone is Asian now.'”
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@SaltyFrederick @RoofeDodger @vali_nasr Let me guess, you are going bring in antimissile batteries to shot down anything fired from Iran shores towards the ships and you are going to strong arm insurers to cover for ships passing through the strait while under fire.
Good luck with that?
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Saudi Arabia is voicing a broader international concern that U.S. blockade is a dangerous escalation. It further closes all trade in the Persian Gulf, could lead to more violent conflict there but also lead to disruption of trade in the Red Sea. It could bring the global economy to its knees before it does Iran, especially since Trump is still asking for surrender rather than a deal.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Saudi Arabia is pressing the U.S. to drop its blockade of Hormuz, fearing President Trump’s move to close it off could lead Iran to escalate and disrupt other important shipping routes on.wsj.com/4efSCxe
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Americans are learning that tariffs are actually taxes on THEM.
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@IrishNinja1981 @WallStreetApes Just an fyi. From the covid unvaxxed community. You are not forgiven
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@WallStreetApes Not for nothing, but as a nurse for 20 years, she’s got a lot of energy for someone on deaths door… just sayin
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Artificial intelligence automatically denies an American’s life saving heart surgery
She has a complete breakdown over our healthcare system
She pays $10,000 per year for her health insurance and needs heart surgery to save her life. She’s been denied the surgery and told she must pay out of pocket
“I have been paying for this insurance for 4 years now. I've never had a problem with it before — I can't have the f*cking heart surgery I need to have in order to literally live — So guess I'll just f*cking die”
Her surgery was automatically denied because of artificial intelligence (she posted an update, I was able to confirm)
This is a major problem, companies like UnitedHealthcare have been caught using “bad ai” intentionally to automatically deny coverage. This is real and widely reported
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@WallStreetApes Yeah, well this is what Republicans and capitalism brings America…
Fuck you if you’re not rich
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Black People really make White People look special and superior. This mindset of looting it is quite embarrassing.
A clear indicator of what happened, when a Black government took over since 1994.
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@BasedJT95 @mattvanswol @joslyne_raquel What about this? Should we keep far away from white people also?
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Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: The 18-year-old who died on a Carnival Cruise ship was s*xually assaulted by her 16-year-old stepbrother before he murdered her, according to the DOJ. Anna Kepner died from mechanical asphyxiation and was found under a bed in her cabin. On November 6, Kepner told her family on the cruise that she didn't feel well and went to her cabin after dinner. The following day, when her dad and stepmother gathered the family for breakfast, they noticed she was missing. Her body was found around 11 am by a maid, stuffed under a bed in a blanket, and covered with life jackets. The stepbrother, only identified as 'T.H.' has been indicted for first-degree murder and aggravated s*xual assault as an adult. He faces life in prison.
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🚨#BREAKING: A HORRIFYING story is currently unfolding in DeKalb County GA where a Black man has allegedly just sh*t a woman in the face 6-7 times and st*bbed her multiple times while she was just walking her dog in her neighborhood.
He was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her, when interrupted by neighbors who called the police.
The man is believed to be targeting women and has allegedly sh*t AT LEAST two women today.
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@mattvanswol Never lower your guard around blacks. Sad reality but it is a reality
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🚨#BREAKING: The woman who was randomly shot in the face 6 times and st*bbed to de*th while she was walking her dog in Atlanta GA has been identified as 40-year-old Lauren Bullis.
The suspect, “Olaolukitan Adon Abel” was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her before neighbors came to the scene.
Olaolukitan is charged with 3 other "completely random" shootings and the de*th of another woman.
We do not have to live like this.
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1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon
400,000 children
And @AP still won’t say who displaced them
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@GreatBlueGreen @jeremyscahill I sure hope he isnt on with a name like that.
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@jeremyscahill He’s an American citizen right? Asking to know if calling reps is appropriate (not that it will help but we gotta do something)
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🚨 Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Has Been in Jail for Six Weeks in Kuwait, Faces Trial in Special Tribunal
dropsitenews.com/p/kuwait-ahmed…
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@_AbdiAli @RoofeDodger @vali_nasr We are talking about 3 miles of water. Usa just needs to station a boat every 3 hundred yards and escorted every single ship that comes through.
We can easily do it.
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@RoofeDodger @vali_nasr So you expect Iran will allow ships through while its oil is being blocked from leaving?Entire 25% of global oil will be removed from the equation. All the gulf nations economy will go down with them as they are dependent on strait as much as Iran.
So smart ass, care to explain?
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@Jennifrrrrr @iamIanMunro @Jacob__Siegel @CityJournal That's the dirty little secret. Our gas prices went up a lot due to us selling our oil to other countries.
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@iamIanMunro @Jacob__Siegel @CityJournal I remain baffled that the barometer so many voters use is one that is not really something Presidents can impact. So many people mistakenly think domestic oil production means we’re buying and consuming it all.
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I argue in the new @CityJournal that the right-wing civil war is largely a media fantasy that substitutes an illusion of Trump's base for the real thing.
city-journal.org/article/right-…
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@LarrySabato RFK Jr.'s reckless anti-vax delusions are straight-up child endangerment. 😡
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“Pure stupidity” will be the epitaph of the Trump presidency.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
We will read histories of today’s US in a few decades and wonder how something like this could happen. Slowly allowing Polio and Measles to celebrate comebacks is pure stupidity.
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@YPersisted @DeanBaker13 That hardly makes sense as the unvaccinated rates come from vaccine sceptics rather than imported populations. But you do you…
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We will read histories of today’s US in a few decades and wonder how something like this could happen. Slowly allowing Polio and Measles to celebrate comebacks is pure stupidity.
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@Oamar_garo @mehdirhasan Settle down muslim. Your false pedo prophet isn't going to help you
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@mehdirhasan All I pray is that May Allah show the day that these demons will get what they truly deserve for the Genocide in Gaza, Invasion of Lebanon and destabilizing the Global economy
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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu aren’t just killing thousands and displacing millions in the Middle East. They’re now plunging tens of millions of people into poverty across the world.
Daniel Denvir@DanielDenvir
It’s outrageous that a tiny number of absolutely revolting trash human beings can impose this upon tens of millions of people.
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@_Jasmine___1 @g_rockets @mehdirhasan Technically this waterway isn't very important to usa. But it is to the rest of the world and has been held hostage by Muslim terrorist for decades. Usa is the only superpower that can easily with all their ships control that waterway. The Muslim terrorists days are over
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@g_rockets @mehdirhasan Why did the American president go to war for a foreign country? We literally attacked Iran for Israel, massacred dozens of schoolchildren. What did you expect them to do. Sit back and accept the bombings
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