Riley Clarke

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@smallmouse467954 · Jan 12, 2026 12:37 am

My mother is the backbone of my family while im nothing but a burden

Idk if it matters or is relevant, but my family is Asian with my parents being the first of their family to move and start a life outside their home country. They have worked extremely hard to be able to provide for me, my siblings, and their own families. They send money back home whenever they can and are even helping to support my dads side of the family who live here but aren't doing as well as us. Both my parents work every day to sustain my comfortable lifestyle, my mom especially.
Getting up at 4-5am for work, coming back home around 2pm, cooking for the house (8 people rn, parents, me, 2 siblings, grandma, cousin, uncle) and then going to work again from 7 to 10. Even if the second job is with my dad, cousin and uncle, My mom never has a chance to take a break, and I have no way to help her.
The plan for me originally was that I would go to college and work after finishing my program. Last semester I had failed one of my classes and failed basically all of my finals which has now put me on academic probation. I'm not going to continue the program because I'm not interested in it (wasn't originally) and it seems like more money would be wasted if I did continue. My mom doesn

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@blackgoose598384 · Jan 11, 2026 6:48 pm

CMV: The American empire has come home, democracy here is dead.

It’s impossible to sustain democracy at home and empire abroad. Recent events show that the American empire has come home, with the bloated military budget now being used to arrest and murder citizens. There is no real political representation for most people, just two parties with overlapping donors as their constituents. The press is entirely captured by powerful corporations and the rich. Corporate rule has been in place since at least the Citizens United ruling, and our democracy, which barely existed during this time, has finally died. It’s one-man government, congress doesn’t exist. It’s the emperor Trump show now, with American citizens facing the same military terrorism as we are used to seeing abroad. You can’t allow CIA black sites, torture and suspension of human rights abroad and not expect it to eventually come home to roost.
Edit: I'm going to stop checking responses to this thread because I have to go to work. Thank you to all who responded, and no hard feelings. I awarded one delta for forcibly demonstrating substantive outcomes between the two major parties based on policy differences. However, my mind has not been changed from my original viewpoint. I am tempted t