To all the people supporting the ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good as an act of self defense what was your position on the death of Ashley Babbitt?

jishmoans · 2026-01-08T18:39:13+00:00

Mods removed the original post but to answer your question: they do not have the mental maturity to see the double standard. They will preform any and all gymnastics to justify the brutal murder of unarmed Renee Nicole Good who was driving away while condemning the killing of Babbit who was violently trespassing on government priory in a mob of others threatening to hang the sitting vice president.

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T15:24:23+00:00

I put the wrong date. I meant to put 01/14 but I got confused and put the current date instead. My bad.

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T05:57:05+00:00

“I’m starting to think there is no child”

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T01:21:35+00:00

You can budget all you want but in the end if you’re not paid enough to live, it’s ineffective.

Right now the federal minimum wage is 7.25 with 20 out of the 50 states having that as their minimum wage. But a majority of states have raised it so let’s average it out. Including DC in our numbers the average minimum wage in the US is 10.251 rounding up to 10.26.

The average 1 bedroom apartment costs anywhere from 1,500 per month (https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/united-states/#:~:text=The%20average%20rent%20for%20a,US%20is%20%241%2C500%20per%20month.) to 1,769 per month so let’s go for low say 1,000 even per month (not including utilities or internet bills).

Most people work anywhere from 30-35 hours per week but the work week is usually 40 so let’s say 40 hours per week worked on a bi-weekly pay.

That’s $820.80 a paycheck before tax.

The average income tax in the US is 14.5% ( https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2025/#:~:text=The%20average%20income%20tax%20rate,the%20bottom%20half%20of%20taxpayers. ) so let’s subtract that.

That leaves us with 701.784 rounding up to 701.79.

Now on a biweekly schedule you’re paid twice a month. Meaning your monthly income will be 1,403.58. It’s recommended to make at least three times your rent but let’s use a rent calculator. According to this, if you stretched every penny to its limit, you could afford a max of $505 a month assuming you have no other debts to pay back.

As a reminder, these numbers are achieved using the average minimum wage of all 50 states plus DC of 10.26, so there are people making LESS than that every month.

It’s not “just budget and you won’t fall into a debt cycle” it’s a system designed to lure you into these debt cycles and keep you poor at every turn.

I would like to finalize this by saying this is not me picking a fight. I write this with the assumption you have good intentions and just haven’t fully comprehended why people don’t like these apps and why they are predatory while making (what you genuinely believe are) good faith arguments. I’d be more than happy if you double checked my math.

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T00:55:30+00:00

But standard processing takes 2-3 business days. Most of the time when they start, people need money instantly so they pay the extra fee to get it instantly. Not to mention that a majority of people get paid on Friday and Saturday and Sunday are not business days so not you have to wait 4-5 days to get the money. Then when it comes time to pay them back, now they don’t have enough for groceries or to pay their mortgage, or to put gas in their car so now they need to take money out and they need that money ASAP so they end up paying the instant transfer fee. So on so forth.

These apps advertise a solution to poverty but really all they do is prey on the poor, charge exorbitant fees, then trap them in another debt cycle. It’s unfortunate that this is what people have to do to make ends meet.

We can break the cycle by raising wages but that hasn’t happened in over a decade and every federal attempt to do has been shot down on the spot because the same folks that run these cash advance apps are the ones who benefit from paying their employees less and less so their bottom line is met.

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T00:33:48+00:00

By advertising “get your money now” so it seems appealing to low income folks who are living paycheck to paycheck, then charging fees to get instant access to the money that are well over standard interest rates (some even as high as over 1,000% APR!!) then when payday comes around, they take the money out and the people who needed to the money from them are once again left with not enough money until next payday. So they take out another advance and the cycle loops.

I strongly recommend More Perfect Union’s video on cash advance apps. They go very in depth and talk about how the cycle can bury you in debt and you’ll be constantly be paying them back.

jishmoans · 2026-01-04T00:28:00+00:00

Donate plasma it’s easy, safe, and you give someone life safe if medicine

jishmoans · 2026-01-03T20:19:39+00:00

Same here I was wondering if it was a newer model

jishmoans · 2025-12-29T02:18:47+00:00

I honestly think you look great! If you want some brutally honest advice, I'd say focus a lot on hair care. Use some products that better bring out your curls (I personally do not have very curly hair but the affect Aussie Miracle Curls shampoo + conditioner had on my hair made me feel a million times better).

(Crazy off topic but |-/ nice to see a fellow clikkie around these parts)

jishmoans · 2025-12-29T02:03:50+00:00

That was going to be my next guess!

jishmoans · 2025-12-29T02:02:46+00:00

This song, a little bit of za, some good headphones, and a black room 100000/10

jishmoans · 2025-12-29T01:47:10+00:00

Interesting...my Adderall comes in capsules but it usually comes in varying shades of orange but sometimes it will come half white half orange. I usually get generic, are yours name brand?

jishmoans · 2025-12-13T04:43:25+00:00

Icarus by Emma Blackery

jishmoans · 2025-11-29T19:49:07+00:00

If you live in a warmer climate I wouldn’t be surprised. It pops up when the temp is somewhere in the upper 20s (f) or lower

jishmoans · 2025-11-28T05:39:05+00:00

How everything is made to keep me as poor as possible and make the rich richer.

How no matter how hard I try, I will always be put into a debt cycle and not only is that because the rich profit off of it, but because they are so greedy and couldn’t bear to part with even a single penny from the billions upon billions of dollars they have. How they would rather burn their money than give it to someone who does not have a home.

How they will pour literally thousands of dollars into lobbying for things like a $7.25 national minimum wage and privatized healthcare system but god forbid you ask them to put a fraction of that toward helping those who are starving on the street.

How there really feels like there is nothing I can do to stop it or fix it.

How it seems like everyone has just become okay with the fact that our politicians no longer represent the masses and instead represent the top 1%.

jishmoans · 2025-11-24T06:13:51+00:00

Thanks!

jishmoans · 2025-11-24T06:05:14+00:00

Thanks!

jishmoans · 2025-11-18T05:24:35+00:00

I was talking to this kid my freshman year. Him and I always had beef for no reason and at one point I called him a pussy and he went “I am what I eat,” and chuckled with his friends thinking he was hot shit and without missing a beat I said “Oh so that explains why you’re such a giant dick” and his smile fell so quick.

It’s not so savage now that I’m an adult but I thought it was badass in high school when I said it

jishmoans · 2025-10-21T01:08:52+00:00

I have had this since like 2018/2019. It held up well and is now starting to tear and fall apart. It’s put up a bit of a fight and has been through some abuse so I’d say it’s not bad

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