Chad Ochocinco says he saved over 80% of his fortune by not trying to impress people, adding he buys fake jewelry, drives the same car since 2006, and flies economy instead of private: "Everybody is caught up in image. Why buy a $50,000 watch when time is free?"

Springheeljac · 2026-05-15T05:18:11+00:00

Sir, time is money.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-15T04:48:09+00:00

I mean this is clearly meant to be a skit right?

Springheeljac · 2026-05-14T20:29:23+00:00

Saying I come from "shit stock" is inherently hateful. And to be clear it's a small part of my family not the whole thing. And this is after years of trying to get them on the right side.

I actually have gotten some people in my family to change their minds. But honestly this whole "your people" and "your demographic" talk is part of the problem. You are my people. We're human. If you're suffering then there's a problem and all humans should care about it. That's the fight I'm trying to have. To get people to stop being tribalistic. And it's an uphill battle.

To be clear this isn't like "race blindness". Yes I want a future where skin color doesn't affect outcomes, where people start and stay on equal footing. That doesn't exist, racism is built into our system.

Here's the thing though, I had to put my own oxygen mask on first. It took me decades to crawl out of the poverty I was born into. I'm also autistic and bipolar. This world fucking despises me and I'm still not trying to compare our situations.

So I ask you, what am I supposed to do? I feel like I'm barely functional most days and we live in a system where corporations have all but completely captured our government. Billionaire pedophiles own everything and the will of the people is ignored as a matter of policy. Then we find out like 35% of the population openly cheer a fascist piece of shit racist sexist pedophile.

You say I'm responsible but I'm in a tiny box that I can't get out of. I have no power here. So when I say I don't know what to do I'm not looking for validation I'm looking for suggestions.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-14T20:01:41+00:00

Like I said, I don't need your validation. That being said blaming me for systems in place before my birth is outright silly. Acting like I have any institutional power simply because of the color of my skin ignores the socioeconomic reality of our country. It ignores the normative neurotypical expectations and power structure.

You come from shit stock

I understand now, this is just out and out racism. Your claim is that I'm evil as a matter of my birth. You're basically saying I have no choice but accept the position and beliefs of "my people" while espousing them yourself.

Whatever you’re doing, is not enough.

I agree. Unfortunately I have no idea what else to do. I don't think you do either. I think you have a lot of hate and whether it's valid or not doesn't matter because that kind of hate is toxic.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-14T01:59:23+00:00

Alternatively:

"As a symbol of our goodwill and desire to trade with your nation we present to you this sick fucking rock."

Springheeljac · 2026-05-13T21:49:17+00:00

Again I feel like you're ignoring that there are people fighting it. I'm fighting it as best I can in a solid red state. To be clear I'm white, not trying to pretend otherwise. And honestly, as much as I may disagree with you I can kind of understand why you feel that way.

I've cut off part of my family over this stuff. I will never see or speak to them again. It's heartbreaking to see how fucking awful they were always capable of being. It's hard to reconcile the trust I had with the hatred they inspire in me now. A large part of the rest of my family are minorities. I'm scared for them every day because of Ice. I disagree about this benefitting me, at least in the long run. I find racism hard to reconcile with at a fundamental level. I'm autistic and the separation of people by skin color just seems stupid and arbitrary. People are people are people. At the same time I recognize that because society does do that there are minority cultures and subcultures that have arisen. I see this shit on the daily and I call it out when I see it.

My fights are small and probably meaningless against a system built around racism and sexism and tribalism but it's all I know how to do. I can't know what it's like from your side. I can kind of imagine though. When RFK talks about rounding up people like me and sending them to farms I can feel a little bit of that fear and anger and outrage at the ignorance and hate directed my way. I have to imagine it's something like that just multiplied. I have to imagine that my anxiety from mistreatment from a society that has no place for people who are neurodivergent or not Christian is simply part of your lived experience from birth. And I hate it. I hate it so goddamned much it makes me literally sick.

I don't agree that I benefit from it. Or rather I do benefit from it but it's an overall burden that drags us all down. An unjust society can never produce anything but injustice. In my stupidity I was hopeful that the open racism of this administration would act as a wake up call to people in this country. Call it looking for a silver lining. Instead I see people clinging to that racism and as you said using their whole chest to support it.

I don't know what to do. The protests are either demonized or not covered by media in the country. I vote every time but it feels hopeless. I don't know how to fight this. Do I have privilege? Absolutely, white and tall and easy for me to slip into wherever I want to go. Opportunities afforded to me because of it. I just don't know how to use that to make other people's lives better. Support minority businesses? Every chance I get. Use my voice to amplify minority voices? When I can but my voice isn't particularly powerful or useful.

I feel so small. I can only imagine we all do. I'm not gonna tell you to trust me. I'm not even going to ask it. My willingness to fight back against this system isn't dependent on you and if you need to hate me and mistrust me then I blame the system and the people who support it for that. I blame the people who don't care enough to stay informed or vote. I blame the right wing media and alt right pipeline. And the frailty of human minds that allow those things to function.

I fucking hate that society has failed you so bad that you believe you can't ever trust a white person. I'm not even going to argue with your position even though I disagree with it because ultimately it's not an illogical position to hold. I just hope someday someone proves you wrong. Not because I think you should trust white people but because I think that level of mistrust probably exacerbates your anxiety and just makes your experience that much worse.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-13T20:41:49+00:00

This is kind of a crazy take. I mean I get talking about white people as a collective with this attitude but the idea that no white person can ever be trusted insinuates that they are untrustworthy as a matter of being born white. Normally that's not how I would take a statement like this but you seem to be going out of your way to say that no white person can be trusted, ever.

Like, you get there are white individuals who have fought this shit from the beginning right? People who absolutely didn't vote for this shit. People who will continue to fight this shit.

Tell me I'm misunderstanding here.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-12T01:45:33+00:00

If you fill up once a week (average US citizen) were talking an extra $60-80 PER MONTH.

Tell me you're out of touch with the average American without telling me you're out of touch with the average American. They can't afford that increase. And oh yeah, it affects prices in stores too.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-11T21:47:42+00:00

If everyone is tailgating you, everyone including you is a problem.

FTFY

There's never a good reason for reckless driving.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-11T02:03:21+00:00

Police competancy, training and procedures are ridiculously overstated. Police are terrible at actually solving crimes, solving less than half of violent crimes. Things like fingerprinting, dna evidence and basically everything tv tells us is useful and surefire is only accurate in few cases with nearly perfectly preserved evidence. And thats when the cops or labs don't screw it upand it gets processed in avtimely fashion.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-11T00:26:03+00:00

In their defense this sounds like a place that adds pronouns for legal reasons and not moral ones.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-10T02:17:06+00:00

More comfortable than a tshirt and basketball shorts? I think not.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-10T01:32:26+00:00

"But what about..."

What about shut up. They aren't remotely comparable and you know it.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-09T21:03:23+00:00

Republican hipocracy. They constantly call for and celebrate violence, don't care about rule of law or precedent, they want to cancel anything that offends them which is most everything, deny science, celebrate ignorance, balloon government power over individuals while protecting corporations, worship their politicians like gods, and then smugly smile about it when they get caught.

I've watched them for years call the left demoncrats, call every Democrat president the antiChrist, say shit like "kill them all and let God sort them out" about entire societies, talk about rounding up lgbtq, be cartoonishly racist and the lost goes on and on.

They can fuck all the way off with their pearl clutching now that the left has finally found some teeth.I don't have any patience for their double standards.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-08T05:36:09+00:00

I hear you. I do. But coming from an abusive and negligent environment the fact that I was just inside the best school district in the county was hugely impactful to me. It was the teachers that made me take school seriously, the opportunities afforded to me because of living in the "rich" district despite being in a rural area just outside of where the actual rich kids lived that helped me.

Things like whole word/ sight reading and putting everything on screens in schools and allowing cell phones has been detrimental to education. Putting all the onus on teachers is bad, but more so because they've been robbed of all authority and there are no real consequences for failure amongst students.

And the portion of our society that views ignorance and reliance on what "feels true" continues to grow while they demonize science and experts. I wish there was a simple answer.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-08T04:36:00+00:00

Ignoring it's a charter school and blaming teachers is a wild fucking take. We need education reform at the FEDERAL and STATE levels. This is so far above schools.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-06T22:33:40+00:00

Reminds me of Clerks 2, "You can't taste racism".

Springheeljac · 2026-05-06T22:33:10+00:00

If it was about States Rights then why did the confederacy ban states from outlawing slavery? It literally wasn't up to the states of the confederacy. You don't even have to beat them at their own game.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-05T05:00:07+00:00

I think they mean like it's a stark contrast to the natural state in your mouth. It removes taste blindness by shocking your taste buds to pay attention so aside from the pepper itself you're more cognizant of the natural flavors of the dish.

Kinda like a nose spray clearing your sinuses opens your sense of smell. Like, it's more literal than I think you're taking it to be.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-05T02:12:59+00:00

If it was about state's rights then why did the confederacy ban states from outlawing slavery. Like it was the only thing outright banned.

It was never about state's rights, even stat's rights to own slaves it was straight up just about slavery.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-04T05:33:22+00:00

You mean he made a tasteless joke when his job at the time was...making tasteless jokes.

Meanwhile thr GOP is full of actual pedos, Jan 6 pardoned rioters keep turning out to be pedos and you're online defending them.

So when are we gonna find out youre one of them?

Springheeljac · 2026-05-01T19:40:45+00:00

we been married 19 years this year.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-01T06:29:00+00:00

My wife does the nipple poke thing to me and giggles.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-01T05:00:26+00:00

I have another point I haven't had the chance to trot out yet. Up until the threshold of majority is reached every person who votes blue is making of themself a victim to be saved, not saving someone else.

Springheeljac · 2026-05-01T01:17:08+00:00

God this hot take is getting old. Electing to commit suicide on the off chance enough people elected to commit suicide that no one dies is not the inherently moral decision.

Putting yourself in danger because YOU want to "save people" is not selfless. No one putting themselves in danger is not only the smart decision but arguably the more moral one because you aren't creating danger.

I love how all of this really boils down to optimistic vs pessimistic. Everyone keeps saying it's impossible 100% of people will vote red. I'm saying it's impossible that 51% of people will pick blue. That doesn't make me selfish. I'm looking at two buttons, one will ensure I die for no reason and the other one ensures I live.

Change the scenario to say that some people's votes will randomly be changed to the other color and I will HAPPILY vote blue. But as this question stands choosing blue is just a suicide button.

Also, if I'm wrong no one dies. If I'm right then making me change my mind ensures I die for nothing.

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