New rule: if you have never endured crushing poverty you don't get to make pronouncements about the choices poor people make
@lipsticksocialist It's been 18 yrs or so. But I'll forever treasure the moment when a "progressive" feminist burbled at me that being a renter & bus rider w/student debt meant you were unqualified to hold political office. I mean, she was some rich a-hole in TX doing *~*consulting*~* while wed to some other even richer a-hole. But there's something about having such ugly, backwards ideas tossed out there so cheerily. I know it's cruel of me but to this day I hope her whole life went to shit.
@lipsticksocialist unfortunately, the people who have endured, but escaped, crushing poverty can be just as judgemental, if not more so, about the choices of those who haven't
my preferred rule is "you don't get to be judgemental until you know better than to be judgemental"
@lipsticksocialist I grew up in grinding poverty — sometimes approaching third world conditions.
I thank the Eternal God for free market capitalism.
@lipsticksocialist Even though I grew up, at times, having only an outhouse and walls you could see sunlight through, I don't try and interject my opinion on those matter unless someone asks.