• @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    How about when you left the house to live on your friend’s couch? You had savings then? Did you pay your friends rent? LMAO, How much was your savings, $10? Did you have it in a bank account at 15? So many questions that I think you’re having battles with your inner self answering. I normally don’t like to see this kind of struggle, but this time I’m enjoying it.

    • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      When I left the house? You mean when my parents drug habits caught up with them and we ended up homeless.

      I didn’t live on anyone’s couch. I spent a day or two at most at a friends house at a time.

      I had a few thousand saved up. And yes had a bank account where my pay was direct deposited or my parents would steal it.

      You can wallow in your self pity and tell yourself that everything is luck or some bullshit to get out of helping yourself. That’s fine. I’m doing more than well now lol.

      • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I spent a day or two at most at a friends house at a time.

        Welcome to living on someone’s couch, lmao.

        What’s super hilarious is that you think I’m poor. Just because I have compassion for people doesn’t mean I don’t have money. Your world view is fucked up if you think being shitty to people who are in a hard place, a place you’ve actually been, is a decent way to go.

        • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Why do you think that was one friend or something? That’s not living on someone’s couch.

          And I have plenty of compassion for people actually trying to make their lives better. I have zero compassion for people that sit there and just blame everyone else, thinking they should get everything handed to them.

          • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            Would you be this toxic if you had help when you were younger instead of left to fend for yourself? I honestly don’t get your world view, it’s honestly depressing. Lazy seeming to you may be someone in shock and not knowing what to do because they’re overwhelmed. Why would you not want help for others that you didn’t get? It didn’t make you stronger, it made you hard and judgemental for some reason. I’m glad you got out but damn if you’re not pulling up the ladder behind you.

            • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              I haven’t been toxic. Toxic is the prevailing attitude online, at least on Lemmy, that nobody should have to work for anything and everything should just be free, never mind that someone has to actually work to make that shit they want for free.

              Toxic is the attitude that anyone who isn’t working at a minimum wage job subsisting on ramen just lucked into it without any work at all

              I am all for helping people. I have personally helped a ton of people that have needed it. I’ve given my couch, my truck, money, food, stuck my neck out for people for jobs, clothes, you name it. I love lifting people I care about up. What I hate is trying to help someone that just leeches off of others and gets mad when you cut off the help. And I’ve been around enough to see that most people complaining online are that person.

              • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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                01 year ago

                And I’ve been around enough to see that most people complaining online are that person.

                How would you know that and who made you judge and jury? Wouldn’t you want to help a few too many people with some who may not need it, than not helping enough? Good luck man, you seem resentful that others aren’t having to suffer instead of being happy they got out. As far as complaining, all I see is people like you complaining that people don’t want to work. I think this is my last comment, have a good weekend.