Ask Lemmy

I passed mine. I'm leaving, I already signed my ticket.

The breaking point for me is when I am truly stuck with where I'm living. I do not currently mind where I live, I plan to maybe stay where I am for another 2 years at most. But, I do worry of there being a time where I will not find a place that is affordable and not in a dumpy spot with insane tenants. I feel like I'm not even really living my life, I just feel like I'm living a life because everything around me right now is just always picking and testing my patience. The tenants here suck ass with loud barking dogs, occasional thumping music, loud kids, idiots running through hallways. The apartment management is a fucking joke, I've gotten my vehicle towed once and was given absolutely no heads up by management over it so I could prevent it. Where I live, predatory towing is a thing and there's no protection against it, it just happens and you have to eat the costs.

I've already accepted the reality that I do not think I'll ever come back to my home state, where I do actually prefer to live, as I am locked out because their affordability rates is stupid high for no reason even in shit-hole towns.

As for other things...

The day I walk into the grocery store and I see even canned soups standard price become $1.50. Now I know in some grocery stores, this is a thing, but you avoid them because they are just idiots. You knew where else to shop with better prices. But imagine that affordability has been ripped away. All of the cheap meals we've been able to craft and make for years, unchallenged by capitalism, now become premium luxuries that decide whether we starve or become fed. Rice, Vegetables, Fruits .etc

I thrift, I pirate, I budget and I live modestly. I sink or swim that is decided by my own choices and I much rather prefer that, than knowing a system will make it unbearable for me to even rebuild a life should I decide to move one place to another. I don't indulge a lot in what people would consider luxurious living, because I find it all overrated.

I don't make it loud about everything I stand for because I don't wish to upset what is currently going for me. I need something bigger and greater that calls upon me to get involved and it has to be a collective group effort. Right now, nothing is worth it to do that because everyone I see around me, are shuttering away from negativity, ignoring the bad to focus on the personal goods going on and just bracing what's already happening. The day someone leads a group of people who are unified, strong, informed, are many and have a great resolve to fight and take back what is ours - you count me in. Until then, I am with my circle and looking out for myself.

I don't know. I wish I was angrier

My breaking point was Sunday when seeing the exit polls in Germany. Every 2nd person voted for far right grifters and actual Nazis. I'm slowly planning to move abroad again while I'm also joining every protest in my area and I intend to be a lot less civil on top of that. Half the country declared war on minorities and people with low income. Since I'm LGBT, I'll fuck them up by any means necessary if they force me to do so.

There are so many breaking points:

• With software it was moving everything to subscriptions that made me switch to Linux and LibreOffice
• With hardware it was when Apple started soldering RAM in their computers so you couldn't replace it
• With healthcare it was having to negotiate with 11 different companies my 11 bills for a single ER visit
• With the Democrats it was the head of the DNC saying out loud that the reason for super delegates was to prevent popular grassroots candidates from winning

Capitalism doesn't just crush you once, it finds a new way to crush you every day.

Due to my natural temperament and a series of life events over the years, my breaking point was 15 years ago.

Since then I have shed a lot of professional aspirations because I just can’t even anymore. Nor do I want to. My health and friendships are about all I care about anymore. I work to live and choose jobs based mostly on the quality of the interpersonal environment and the type of daily activity (I cannot abide much sedentary work, it degrades my mental health very quickly).

I have been patiently waiting for many others to catch up. I am currently flabbergasted at the level of self censorship people are doing as they struggle to somehow let all this be normal.

But I also see the cracks showing in some facades as the contradictions are just too powerful to ignore.

There were many points in the past when The People should have flipped the fuck out, but this time it’s different. Mostly because it is now too late to prevent horrific damage to our civilization. Damage control is the order of the day now.

If the US invades Canada with a military presence I do not expect to survive.

Something along the lines of me no longer being able to afford to live alone while saving money, use of the military against U.S. citizens, or if they try to sell our national parks. Those are a few that would demand real retaliation, not just in the form of protest. Another would be the orange rapist going for a third term.

Right now I'm just comfortable enough, and with hopeful plans for the future, that I wouldn't want to do anything revolutionary... but if shit starts to turn, I have no qualms with tossing my comfort and future plans aside and going rogue. I'll live in a ditch and eat out of the trash before I let these fascist thugs steal my country.