Horrible "people".

They’re people with a job they need to feed their families. The person who made the call wasn’t the one who made the decision.

I was a GM for a few dollar trees and had to have people kicked out for stealing toothache medicine. I know how bad toothaches can be, I understand they are homeless, but I had a job that needed to feed my family.

The world sucks not the people in it. We are all just slaves to this system we’ve built.

He was a tough old man. He had all the patience in the world for us kids but none for adults who should know better.

His mom died in the dust bowl… from dust inhalation. Then he went to Italy to fight facists. Then came home and joined the board of health and helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.

Try he think they’re going to take his wheelchair? Come and take it!

Oh he also had his name legally changed so he wouldn’t be named after Robert E Lee anymore. He wasn’t a fan of slavery. He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation “

Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. He had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”

My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.

I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.

Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. We had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”

My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.

I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.

guess the freedom in america is the "works makes you free" variety

Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.

Yeah it is. It's going to cost between 20 and 30k a year to keep her in a prison, and tax payers will have to pay for her medical treatment as well

It's a whole thing https://mcmansionhell.com/

No one made it up explicitly, it just follows the formula for the rest of the decade age words like octagenarian

You got a problem with it? What are you, some kind of trenagenarian?

The Romans did or at least they created the base word structures. Primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, et cetera could all be compounded with the suffix genarian to create an age bracket specific word. For example I am a secundagenarian.

Completely off topic, but had to look up what a teenager is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "in their teens"

"Who decided" – like most word constructions, it probably wasn't consciously decided upon by a single person but rather evolved out of existing phrases.

In this case, the Latin root nona- for ninth was extended with the -gin- / -gen- infix used for multiples of ten (viginti = 20, triginta = 30 and so on) to form the root nonaginti / nonageni for ninety / "per ninety". The infix -ari- indicates an adjective/description (nonagenarius = "having ninety"), with the suffix -an indicating a representative noun.

Together, nonagenarian refers to "someone with ninety of something" as a logical composition of existing language elements, all of which you'll find elsewhere too. It will probably have evolved naturally by people slapping on parts to describe something and others picking it up because it made sense. From there, it made its way into English as Latin words tend to.

If anything, we ought to appreciate that the "years" part of that composition is omitted, lest we would need to include something related to anni, maybe nonagenanniarian which would be even longer and more complex.

As to why people use it: Sometimes, a single descriptive noun or adjective is less ambiguous that multi-word structures. Sometimes, people want to mix up how they refer to things and use different words. Sometimes, people just want to sound erudite.

And sometimes, people pick up speech habits without much thinking about it, because they're used to people understanding it. You didn't, but congratulations: you learned a new word!

Yes, my mother has advanced Parkinson’s and I was her primary caretaker for years before we finally had to move her into assisted living. I know very well how ill-equipped our society is for elder care.

People always talk about how it takes a village to raise a child, but we rarely talk about the village required to care for our elders.

Personally, I would rather kill myself than end up in a facility like my mom is in.

Oh, I don't disagree with you on that. She did apparently find permanent housing and I looked all over the place for later news on her like an obit or anything, actually.. so I can only assume she's still kicking somewhere and is now 100.

This is the part I twigged on: "Fitzgerald denied that claim, telling News 6 that she tried to pay October rent but was denied.." the entire thing is fishy. I was witness to an almost identical event involving a relative who was nearly as old and was a passive-aggressive manipulator right up until the end. Not saying that the woman in the article was manipulative, as none of us really knows, other than the nursing home and because of HIPAA rules they can not say the real situation.

Generally, nursing homes will keep residents for as long as they can. If she was saying afterwards that she did not need donations, it speaks to the fact that she might not have been poor. This could have been, like in my own relative's situation, that the nursing home staff was at their wit's end with the resident. That she's saying she had money and they STILL wanted her out.. That's a HUGE red flag that the resident is problematic.

My own relative was caught lying repeatedly to the point where the home had to double up staff when they interacted with her because she would claim her property was being stolen or things didn't show in the mail that she claimed had arrived..(Had to call the person who was sending the item and in fact, it was still on his kitchen table waiting to be mailed..)

The final line she crossed was that she had a Medtronic pump for her pain meds and she refused to give up the bolus that she'd dose herself with. They had their own scheduling for medications and of course with that, timing is everything so there was no control.. She was put into a police car against her will and sent to her home. Was so aggro with the cops they threatened to book her for disruptive behavior. Bounced right back into a different facility that had a bit more robust drug control policy and within a few short months got busted for smoking in her room.. with a roommate in the bed next to her that was on oxygen.

That was a fiasco of spectacular proportions. The temper tantrum she had after they turfed her room and took all the cigarette lighters and matches was thermonuclear and involved no less than half a dozen policemen trying to get her sorted.

When you deal with seniors that are really old, you CAN sometimes be dealing with someone that isn't going to play nice.

The guy you responded too was misleading, the full quote in his own article paints a completely different story.

It means the disaster was self imposed, not forced by the system.

People who aren’t around 90 year olds expect they are as keen as the 90 year olds on TV.

At 90 there is always some dementia. He is treating this like it is some thought out plan instead of confusion.

She said "Bible" so she's religious, ergo bad.

Throw her to the wolves!

I'm still working and things are getting more expensive faster than I'm getting raises. I don't own a home and doubt I ever will be able to afford it so my only retirement option is a shotgun.

Isn't that what "in God we trust" means already?

That isn't why. That's the excuse.

I would be most interested in talking to the 93 year old woman that can successfully grab the officer's gun.

I'd imagine she makes amazing blueberry muffins.

Absolutely agreed. But the arms industries are worth more and have more influence than American lives. Including children. We live in the cyberpunk 2077 prequel.

But no, repression, inequality, suffering and violence are preferred because their dads said that was the right way. "My dad worked in the coal mines from the time he was 18 until he died of black lung at 52. If it was good enough for him it's good enough for me"

You're missing the point. If everyone had a place to live comfortably, there wouldn't be the hopelessness that leads to such things. But logically as hopelessness goes up, as does crime, including major crimes. I think you came into this wanting to be mad about what I wrote, and got mad about it despite agreeing with me.

Edit: or you're a troll and intentionally taking the message wrong to start shit.

Edit 2: God damnit. I didn't consider option 3. You're either AI or too stupid to read. Because that response doesn't actually make any sense in context to what I wrote. I hope it's 1 or 2 because 3 is embarassing to me, but seemingly more likely.

Marie Antoinette abducted children from peasant families.

I do not think the person you are talking to did it.

And this is why corporations can continue doing the thing they do because they can absolve responsibility through individuals.

Quit being a corporate shill, there's no way anyone is this dense unless they're doing it on purpose.

It's a nice viewpoint but it doesn't actually do anything to affect the reality of this, which is that corporations corrupt and change people to do their bidding, and distribute responsibility such that it's often not just any one person who is doing this.

For example, a corporation getting you evicted from your housing for dubious reasons. There are many many people involved in that chain, most of which are not knowingly doing direct harm, including your own government who will enforce that eviction. You have to be beyond blind to not realize this.

This 1000 times. People commit evil. Corporations are just the buildings they work inside of.

America has been doing mass graves frequently and for a long time.

Besides the genocide of indigenous people, there was the mishandling of COVID and the off-shored mass graves at the a Salvadorian mega-prison that Trump pays so many millions of dollars to use.

I’m not familiar with that particular scheme. In general, I’m against that kind of tax because you can have people with low incomes on highly valuable land, and that’s something you’d want to avoid. But maybe this is addressed by the details of the theory? I’ll check it out though.

Nope!

80s is too damn long. My retirement plan, same one, will be around 70 if I make it that long. Just judging by how shit it feels to be in my 40s, and I'm in pretty decent shape.

Minimum/Open prisons probably aren't so bad, or at least are about the same as retirement homes. Abusive prison guards hitting you? You get that from 'care' workers every day anyway, except this time you don't have to pay for it.

I’m not defending them. But I’m just informing. She received HUD payments for her rent but used them for fun. To the tune of like 60,000$. She committed fraud with the government assistance she received. It wasn’t money in her bank account.

MAGAs ascribe to the Two Wrongs Make A Right philosophy, but only when the second wrong is by a MAGA. EVERYTHING is wrong if it's a Democrat.

It's impossible to make a moral argument with so little information. Again, we're presented here with a screenshot of a tweet. We have no idea what actually transpired here

You're a piece of shit