Yes I know that the person who played Hulk Hogan was an awful human being.

You know…I’ve never heard of a wrestler being refered to as “the person who played (character)”, but it makes sense.

Jim Carry is not Ace Ventura. Jim Carry PLAYED Ace Ventura. Terry Bologna isn’t Hulk Hogan, but he did play Hulk Hogan.

Unclear if trans, or diabetes from all the pancake syrup.

Holy shit. Was not expecting Mr Hero on Lemmy.

Now if only we could get that reddit guy that had that Mr Hero gimmick on here.

In this day and age, I’m genuinely unsure if this screen cap is a person making a joke, or an anti-vaxxer being oblivious and stupid.

It really could be either one.

Am I the only one who never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was killed?

I’m still not sure why he was any bigger of a deal than any other racist.

Ok, a racist got shot.

And?

Not sure why we should suddenly make him into a big deal. If anything, I’d rather have seen more racists get shot.

I fear too many Americans will have this reaction.

Who wants to bet he pulled that number out of his ass, without checking with anyone, or looking into if they even can?

Slowly? Uhhhhhhh, been like that since day 1.

The thing that angers me the most is that I said to my mom “I’m never going to have a retirement…”

I’m 42, no house, no retirement savings, no 401k, and no way to save for those things. Some weeks I don’t have enough money to buy food.

My moms response was “Oh you’ll be fine! I struggled when I was in my 20s, with both of your sisters, and I turned out ok!”

Yes, it’s true that for about 5 years my mom had it as hard, maybe harder than I do. The difference is, then she met my dad, moved in with him, her money problems disappeared. She then got a better job, with retirement options, and a 401k, and benefits.

Then she bought her own house in the 90s. The seller wasn’t sure if he wanted to sell to her as a single woman. So she said “you can either sell to me, or sell to someone else. The price is the same either way. You may as well just sell now, rather than waiting for the next buyer.”

THATS the speech that got her the house.

Today, you’d get laughed at.

My biggest problem with boomers isn’t their selfish nature, or the fact that they’ve had an easy life. My biggest problem is that they refuse to admit that times have changed. I CAN’T live life the way boomers did. I’d LOVE to wear a suit, walk into a business, demand to see the manager before I even fill out an application and talk myself into a job. I’d LOVE to do that…but thats not how it works anymore! Now you fill an application out online, submit it to an AI crawler that steals your data, be in competition with 500 other applicants, and most of the time never hear back.

I asked my brother in law 10 years ago if he could get me a job at his fortune 500 company. He works there, he’s not the owner, but I was asking him to put in a good word, get my application even looked at.

He’s my age, and this was said right in front of my mom. He said “I couldn’t do that. That would be nepotism”. I said “Yeah. I’m fine with nepotism if it means I canpay my bills.”

And my mom asked if I wanted her to storm the corporate offices of Progressive Insurance, and hunt down the CEO for an interview.

So I just said yes. Not because I think it would work, but because I knew she’d fail spectacularly. Maybe even get arrested on a light charge. Then maybe she’d realize how times change.

But she just said “I can’t always fight your battles for you. This is something YOU need to do.”

God dammit.

Not going to read the article. I’m just going to say that we live in the dumbest timeline.