Too bad Jake Tapper died when Trump took office.
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Every time I think by now every shitty person will have unmasked themselves about SOMETHING horrible in the world I'll post something and someone I thought was moderately okay will just blurt out a truly horrible take and then I gotta like, stop talking to them cos life's too short. I was complaining about this 50 year mortgage thing and out of NOWHERE an old friend of a friend whom I haven't spoken to in a solid five or eight years just jumps in, uninvited, to say "I don't think everyone deserves to buy a home." Mind, I don't think everyone even WANTS to buy a home. I'm just out here saying "predatory lending is bad and if you can't live long enough to pay off a loan that's not a loan that's something worse."
What got me is this woman has said NOTHING to me for years, online or in person. Just out of nowhere, a strongly held belief that not everyone deserves a shot at buying a house. WTF, lady.
I swear it's a Northeast suburb thing. It's so progressive and liberal up here that people get super good at keeping their shit buckled down and then once in a while the mask slips and it's like oh, how long have you been holding onto that one, Carol?
At least when the neighbor revealed himself as being anti-free speech a few months back I knew he was a dickhead on account of having a blue lives matter sticker on his BMW.
What got me is this woman has said NOTHING to me for years, online or in person. Just out of nowhere, a strongly held belief that not everyone deserves a shot at buying a house. WTF, lady.
I swear it's a Northeast suburb thing. It's so progressive and liberal up here that people get super good at keeping their shit buckled down and then once in a while the mask slips and it's like oh, how long have you been holding onto that one, Carol?
At least when the neighbor revealed himself as being anti-free speech a few months back I knew he was a dickhead on account of having a blue lives matter sticker on his BMW.
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My grandparents used to be the 'not everyone deserves' kind of people. I grew up on the Brockton/Whitman line where my grandparents owned a home and they VERY much bought into the 'black people ruined Brockton' narrative that helped make Whitman what it was, as well as the 'the best way to keep out undesirables in your neighborhood is to price them out' narrative. They've walked most of that back in their old age, surprisingly. And I believe they've always voted Democrat, so it's not like they just have generally awful opinions.
But they really believed owning a home was something you had to -deserve-. It really does go right along with narratives like 'drug-users shouldn't have any assistance directed at them and should clean up on their own.' It's the bottom rung of the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' position.
But they really believed owning a home was something you had to -deserve-. It really does go right along with narratives like 'drug-users shouldn't have any assistance directed at them and should clean up on their own.' It's the bottom rung of the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' position.