• hrimfaxi_work
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    1565 months ago

    Every now and then, there’s an article about some dumb shit a person on The View says. My reaction is always surprise that The View is still even a thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      415 months ago

      I don’t really understand who their target audience is. They would’ve been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.

      • Ech
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        155 months ago

        A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it’s been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.

    • @Boozilla
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      235 months ago

      It’s a fossilized turd. My guess is, there’s so much fierce competition for eyeballs these days, if the advertisers think 200 people are actually watching it, they get pretty excited.

    • ArugulaZ
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      25 months ago

      “Get out now, Barbara! This show will sink you like a stone!” - SNL

  • TubeTalkerX
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    1215 months ago

    Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland, where jobs grow on jobbies!

  • @[email protected]
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    975 months ago

    Boomer with 30 million dollars earned by having uneducated conversations with uneducated women to entertain uneducated women tells young people to just “get a job”.

  • @TheDoctorDonna
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    I am a fucking insurance professional- educated and licensed -and I still can’t make ends meet and pay off my student loans.

    Tax the rich and enhance social programs. It’s not about the job, it’s about luck and generational wealth hoarding.

  • Hyperreality
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    765 months ago

    Many people would be surprised how many homeless people have (hard science) degrees or used to be very succesful. Bad luck, medical debt, (mental-)health issues, company goes bankrupt due to circumstances beyond your control, etc.

    The world isn’t fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.

    Of course, if you’re a relatively talentless hack who’s won the equivalent of the lottery despite not really deserving it that much, it’s nicer to think that you deserve it because of your inate talent. Vanity. It’s the Devil’s favourite sin.

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      5 months ago

      I know a couple homeless men who were programmers and burned out, got depressed and gave up

    • @SoleInvictus
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      235 months ago

      Master’s degree in microbiology with a serious disability here. If not for my wife, I’d have been on the streets since it took 23 doctors to get a diagnosis. This lady can get fucked.

    • Drusas
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      195 months ago

      Medical debt is so underappreciated and it is no joke. It can add up very, very high and very, very quickly.

      • @frunch
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        Also without any warning or planning – could be cancer, could be a freak accident. You never know if/when a medical emergency might happen, so you’re always in an odd state of financial limbo even though it may not appear that way. You could be doing just fine squirreling away a few hundred or thousand here and there and one trip to the ER will quickly take back most of that nest egg. Even with insurance, it’s absurd how much you can still be on the hook for. What’s the alternative though, forgo medical treatment?

    • @vaknin
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      85 months ago

      The world isn’t fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.

      oof.

  • @CultHero
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    625 months ago

    As an almost 50 year old gen x who is on disability I will never bad mouth the younger generations for having a hard time financially. I am right there with you. I’ll never own my own home, the only reason I can afford my rent is because I’ve been in the same apartment for 10 years. I’m paying less for a 2 bedroom apartment than it costs to rent a single room these days. I’m going to have to live here until I die because I’ll never be able to afford to move.

    Groceries have skyrocketed just since covid and they weren’t cheap to begin with either. Even before covid I was paying more for a week’s worth of groceries than I was for a months worth of groceries in the 90s.

    Times aren’t just tough, they’re fucking impossible.

  • southsamurai
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    595 months ago

    Fuck the view lol. Everyone that gets a job on that show turns into a jackass, braying their bullshit at top volume. It’s the worst side of television.

  • Wytch
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    545 months ago

    Nothing says “I’m old, rich, and out of touch” quite like “get a job, you lazy bums”

    • @mojofrododojo
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      75 months ago

      Oh no man, she’s had a rough life - started at Good Morning America as a receptionist and basically turned that into a comedy career, she’s a working stiff lol. Behar was born Josephine Victoria Occhiuto in 1942. Something tells me she’s a bit out of touch here in the 21st century.

  • @paddirn
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    535 months ago

    Says the person whose primary job for decades now has been to just sit around with other women and gossip. Oh please, get a real job.

    • @Red_October
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      155 months ago

      Now that’s just not accurate. Either way she’s a giant piece of shit, it’s only a question of how ignorant she is and whether or not she’s choosing to be that way.

  • @dopeshark
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    415 months ago

    Start from absolute zero like anyone else and you wouldn’t survive a year in today’s economy.

  • @captainlezbian
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    405 months ago

    I’m a fucking engineer, what more was I supposed to do? I should be getting ahead instead of treading water.

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    • @Thteven
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      315 months ago

      81 years of never shutting the fuck up, she must be exhausted.

    • @Tikiporch
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      115 months ago

      That’s insane. She’s insane, too. But I would have said mid 60s.