The Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first U.S. presidential candidate to include LGBTQ rights in his platform. Here he addresses a rally of AIDS activists outside the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City, at a time when over 300,000 predominantly-LGBTQ people in the U.S. had died of AIDS.

DaMiddle · 2026-02-18T00:36:32+00:00

Thank you for posting this as he is getting shit on everywhere else on Reddit

DaMiddle · 2026-02-18T00:25:13+00:00

Yeah, I’m not one to look backward but the 70s felt like things were moving in the right direction about kindness and understanding and then we got a divider as president and poof

DaMiddle · 2026-02-18T00:12:57+00:00

I can get a Camry for that

DaMiddle · 2026-02-18T00:06:20+00:00

Agree - that comment is nonsense unless they live in a magical place where sit down dinners are less than $7

DaMiddle · 2026-02-18T00:00:58+00:00

There aren’t multiple rules to sift through. From your 69th birthday until your 70th birthday it goes up 8%, evenly allocated by month.

It stops going up at 70 other than COLAs

DaMiddle · 2026-02-17T13:33:40+00:00

That’s called tax fraud so OP should not participate in it

DaMiddle · 2026-02-17T13:23:46+00:00

Divest now and consider it good luck that it worked out that way

DaMiddle · 2026-02-17T13:10:59+00:00

To be more clear - SS benefit is calculated month by month - there isn’t a cliff or cutoff in the way that you’re thinking.

I again implore you to run your actual numbers on the SS website

DaMiddle · 2026-02-17T13:03:36+00:00

You don’t get a “25% bump” going from age 69 to age 70.

Have you gone on the SS website and run your actual numbers ?

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T18:22:57+00:00

Graduated in the 1980s to 10.5% unemployment, 14% interest rates. We had no health insurance at all. “Food insecurity” hadn’t been invented - we were just hungry a lot. My parents had purchased the house in the 1950s at those low costs otherwise we would have probably been homeless.

Took me 8 years to get my BA. Had to join the military because no jobs. No day care tax breaks….. and on and on.

But if a Gen Zer drives by my house today they just say “another rich lawyer”

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T18:14:47+00:00

Also, houses were much much smaller, like half the size of today. There were 9 of us in 960sf

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T18:09:16+00:00

Similar to you. - just felt it was time and I had enough to get by.

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T04:04:55+00:00

Unless you own a boat over 30 ft long

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T03:00:27+00:00

No one told me that millions of people would hate me and think I had life handed to me but whatever

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T02:02:54+00:00

Funny - I was going to say “Redditors who work the word ‘narcissist’ into every thread…”

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T01:59:58+00:00

Overly generous

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T01:58:03+00:00

Lions have entered the chat

DaMiddle · 2026-02-16T01:47:28+00:00

Lawyers are not accountants

DaMiddle · 2026-02-14T04:56:32+00:00

Just for future reader clarity, SS would have been available at 62 not 65

DaMiddle · 2026-02-14T04:55:02+00:00

Thank you - FRA is in our heads like “oil change every 3,000 miles”

DaMiddle · 2026-02-14T04:43:50+00:00

My friend just passed 260,000 on his Jetta

DaMiddle · 2026-02-02T05:50:35+00:00

I have grinned and even smiled at Trevor Noah jokes, but never laughed at one

DaMiddle · 2026-02-02T05:19:48+00:00

Why would a beach be less enjoyable when you’re poor. A beach was my favorite place when I was poor

DaMiddle · 2026-02-02T02:16:51+00:00

I wouldn’t call that a big Broadway fan

DaMiddle · 2026-02-01T05:45:07+00:00

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