It's what happens when fascists roll through town and decide they can improve art.

Vehicles with thin blue line flags (and/or stickers of the same)

Businesses can discriminate based on sexual orientation again (303 Creative v. Elenis), Student Debt Relief killed (though we knew that would happen), and Required Affirmative Action for college admissions struck down. Those are the three big ones in the last week I remember.

Or hall effect sensors (Lenovo laptops use this, I have set them off a few times with magnetic watch band clasps)

Absolutely savage, love it.

Yep, for the capitalist class who wants to buy up new neo colonial territory, this is a feature, not a bug.

I don't blame you. I'm straight but I worry for the safety of my LGBTQ+ friends and family. The current and ongoing success of reactionary forces undoing decades of small victories is horrifying.

They missed the bigger point there. I don't want to be a fucking billionaire. I just want to be able to afford housing, food, clothing, and a fucking vacation once in awhile, without needing a drowning amount of debt to do any of that. Also, I'd like to have better transit options because I'm currently entirely car dependent.

From Dressed to Kill, arguably their best special.

I'm old enough to have played OG Star Craft, v1.0.3 v1.05 on CD ROM on an AMD K6-2 with 64MB of RAM...where'd my ibuprofen go?

Could always look for union labor work. Compared to IT you'll probably be staring down the barrel of a pay cut but you'd potentially have some nice benefits and exercise to go with it. I spent 5 years in insurance claims and a bit less than a year as the on site tech support for the same office, it absolutely wrecked my brain working there. Got a job as a custodian for the school district, only a $9/hr pay cut but the benefits are better at lower OOP, I will get a state pension to retire on, and I'm more active than I've been in I don't know how long which has had tons of health benefits.

Good luck either way.

Doctors may hate it, but I've heard that morticians love it!

In this order: Imperialism (Lenin), Wretched of the Earth (Fanon), Neo-colonialism (Nkruma). If you prefer audiobook with context, all three of those are featured in the Marx Madness podcast as well and all are great reads.

If you enjoy podcasts that break down theory Marx Madness is an excellent podcast. Not sure if you have already read books they're doing but if not it's a great podcast for digesting theory.

only 1-2 minutes

Cries in Nurburgring 24H layout.

You must watch this at least once. Of course, it's for the greater good.

Chumbawumba agrees with you and so do I.

You also forgot, the few things still owned by the state have now been privatized by western capital to try and fund this foolish endeavour. When the west pulls out, not only will they have lost their land, homes, and lives, they'll be in a worse financial position because the state won't have the means to provide and will be relying on western capital. In the end, what's left of Ukraine becomes another neo-colonial capitalist hellscape for the workers while western capital sits back and counts new stacks.

I can't help with everything, but I can provide you with some possible hope. I have lived more than one of your bullet points in my lifetime. One thing I can tell you is that if you do end up with the life crippling medical debt, it can actually become a sweet release (hear me out, it isn't all sunshine and roses but it can end well).

My youngest was conceived while I was uninsured and the state that I lived in heavily means tested medicaid so I couldn't qualify because my parents made too much (though my child's mother wouldn't qualify to be on their plan). Even with near perfect cesarean delivery, that was one hell of an expensive pile of bills that I couldn't come close to affording. I started to get hounded by bill collectors regularly until I finally told one of them threatening legal action to go for it and hung up. I figured it was another empty threat but it wasn't and I got served a month later.

I was able to get the money for the bankruptcy lawyer (this is the hard part) and suddenly a whole ton of bills were just not an issue anymore. My credit score actually improved, ever so slightly, from the discharge.

It did take me damn near a decade to fully recover in terms of credit score and finding better work but I was able to get a high interest auto loan to get a bigger car that fit the whole family and was more reliable than my previous vehicle afterwards and also eventually relocate to an area with better opportunities.

Hang in there comrade, maybe see if any mutual aid exists in your area. I know it is difficult, but it can get better if the cards happen to fall just right.

Also, I totally understand dealing with reactionaries and fascists within your family. I don't talk to the vast majority of my extended family because they're either neo fascists or pompous liberals. Find yourself a group of comrades and make them your new family.

Exactly. Also, if you ever hear saying "you won't have a say, the union speaks FOR you" (yes I've seen this framing before) you can always respond that you ARE the union! That's the entire point is that everyone in the union IS the union, it's right there in the word.