It's amazing, I saw an interview about it on Fox. The kid's name is Evin and the mother works as a teacher, I believe. They had to leave their apartment because of the fathers heart surgery, because he had to get off work and the bills were mounting.
They lived at a friends, then in a hotel, and couldn't find a home because they were all expensive. No kid should have to suffer uncertainty like this. Glad they're doing much better now. Truly heartwarming, but also sad because thousands of other families are going through the same thing right now.
As a Dutch person, this whole story sound absurd to me. We have a right wing parlement for decades now. We know poverty here, people get unlucky and suffer from it, families can lose there home in the Netherlands as well. But getting in trouble like this because of a medical condition is unthinkable here, especially when there's kids involved
To me this isn't a heartwarming story, but a very sad one...
There is no part of American life that is protected from capitalism. Everything is a profit centre. There are even private for profit fire departments now.
Terrifying enough to think about when a country goes from supporting the unfortunate through the New Deal/New Society to doing everything in its power to destroy those same people’s lives since the decade of Reaganomics.
As long as people keep cheering for inane idiocy like that, he'll keep doing it. His need for adoration is among his least admirable traits and there are so many.
I just saw trump say that canda would get much better health care and more if only they joined and become the next us state I'm like what's he smoking 🚬 it would only get worse for Canadians and expensive
I honestly don’t get why not. I get the flag has 50 states but it evolved overtime anyways (granted, I wouldn’t want that to be on the table with this government, just keep it the same)
The amount of pride I see in Puerto Rico makes it deserving to be a state, it’s more than just a territory
Many other systems are clearly better for humans in some important ways, IMO. But Americans don't ALL hate each other. We are pit against each other to deflect attention away from the manipulation by many in power who benefit from making us think the problems and fears we face are caused by a specific group rather than looking at the real source of these intentional divisions--leadership (in corporations and government). It helps if the differences between groups are clearly visible.
It touches me to see this family get back onto their feet and the relief this little boy feels as a result. Far too many people in America are not only homeless for the rest of their lives but they will NEVER be in a position to BUY or LEASE a house. We don't all hate each other but it does seem that way because we are pit against each other to divert attention away from the actions of the small group of leaders always at the top of every pyramid in this country. The divide and conquer tactic is used for as long as people fall for it and fight each other and it's destroying our quality of life.
But, humans of all kinds are smart. We CAN use our big brains and conscious thought to figure out a better way for all of humanity. But, it's not likely that we'll get to a better path in the next few years--if ever (for reasons mentioned in the paragraph above this one). Still a touching video, with so much more beneath the surface.
A large percentage of American's are indoctrinated by their propaganda machine.
They're told they live in the land of the free, the greatest country in the world - that everyone wants to be American. I've spoken to a lot of American's in my time, and more than one of them said 'I bet you wish you were American'. FUCK NO.
There's like only two countries in the world that seem more dystopian than America. No one wants to be fucking American, you don't get good holiday pay, sick pay. You get too sick and you become bankrupt. I tell American friends that I get 36 days of Annual leave and they're baffled.
America is a late stage capitalism oligarchy shit hole, and a large percentage of it's people are indoctrinated by it's propaganda machine. America is closer to being Russia than it is to being a European democracy, and Europe has plenty of it's own fucking problems.
I think another large part of the "indoctrination" is the hyper independence we have culturally. It's VERY difficult to get people to work together for a common goal because everyone believes they deserve to be On Top and will step on everyone else to get there.
They also aren't willing to risk much for a bigger goal that benefits everyone. That's "communism" even if this refusal to band together hurts them. They're willing to hurt themselves just so others dont benefit.
To me it's completely baffling. So much of what we enjoy was fought for by the very Coal Unions they claim to support while their ideologies appear to be diametrically opposed to the goals the Unions have. I just don't get it.
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u/CapeCodJaybird Jan 25 '25
It's amazing, I saw an interview about it on Fox. The kid's name is Evin and the mother works as a teacher, I believe. They had to leave their apartment because of the fathers heart surgery, because he had to get off work and the bills were mounting.
They lived at a friends, then in a hotel, and couldn't find a home because they were all expensive. No kid should have to suffer uncertainty like this. Glad they're doing much better now. Truly heartwarming, but also sad because thousands of other families are going through the same thing right now.