Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

FlameHeart · 2020-04-27T16:02:36.983Z

I had a huge setback around July-November 2016, but I have since grown from it. I’m now more mature than I was.

Yet, at the same time, my study habits have gone to heck. So I guess I’m more academically immature, but it might be due to burnout.

People are always changing. I’ve had ups and I’ve had downs, but the good times outweigh the bad. Just have to keep marching forward.

FlameHeart · 2020-04-27T16:05:41.421Z

I was a freshman in college during the spring of 2016, when I first joined this site. Now, my education has been delayed at least two years due to surgeries and trauma (medical and otherwise).

Now, I’m supposed to be out of college, and in my first year of graduate school, but I’m still a Junior. I’ll be a Junior again this upcoming Fall, when I take my Intro to Research course. It is only then will I progress academically. (I’m just embarrassed that I’m still in college I guess. Don’t mind me).

Roxiebelle · 2020-04-27T16:06:45.061Z

The pandemic aside, heck yeah I’m better off, the whole country is better off.

conan · 2020-04-27T16:09:41.768Z

Yes. I’m able to pick and chose my small jobs better. Well until this stupid Chinese flu started going around.

SixFoot · 2020-04-27T16:12:16.996Z

Looking sharp there, @Mountain_Soldier!

H_Arendt · 2020-04-27T17:06:06.201Z

Roxiebelle:

The pandemic aside, heck yeah I’m better off, the whole country is better off.

I love your argument.

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

If Donald Trump had been Captain of the Titanic no doubt you would have been telling us to ignore the ship tilting and the shortage of lifeboats and focus on how well the band is playing “Nearer My God to Thee”.

Guvnah · 2020-04-27T17:28:10.824Z

FlameHeart:

(I’m just embarrassed that I’m still in college I guess. Don’t mind me).

Societal and parental expectations don’t define who you are. Or your worth. Or your success.

If you give up, then THAT will be a part of defining you!

Succeeding “in spite of…” will be your mark.

occu · 2020-04-27T17:35:10.117Z

Things have continued to improve every year for my wife and I since 2009. Dramatic improvement in 2018 with her promotion.

WuWei · 2020-04-27T17:54:45.804Z

gooddad409:

peek-a-boo:

I’m now retired, living the good life!

Congratulations! Retirement is the best job i ever had.

Y’all shut it.

WuWei · 2020-04-27T17:57:23.451Z

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

H_Arendt:

Donald Trump

And there we have it.

WuWei · 2020-04-27T17:58:26.828Z

Guvnah:

Societal and parental expectations don’t define who you are.

They do if you’re a lib.

Ben_Natuf · 2020-04-27T18:02:52.502Z

how silly it is for the same people arguing to stay shut down to be blaming trump for the economic hardship caused by it.

we’re handling the pandemic just fine.

H_Arendt · 2020-04-27T18:31:22.590Z

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

H_Arendt:

Donald Trump

And there we have it.

Why don’t you disagree with what I said rather than creating a quote out of whole cloth?

WuWei · 2020-04-27T18:39:31.391Z

H_Arendt:

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

H_Arendt:

Donald Trump

And there we have it.

Why don’t you disagree with what I said rather than creating a quote out of whole cloth?

It’s your cloth. And two quotes. And TDS.

gooddad409 · 2020-04-27T18:44:05.966Z

WuWei:

gooddad409:

peek-a-boo:

I’m now retired, living the good life!

Congratulations! Retirement is the best job i ever had.

Y’all shut it.

Sorry.

conan · 2020-04-27T18:51:56.724Z

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation,

And yet Europe 5 most advance countries has twice he many dead.

SixFoot · 2020-04-27T19:18:09.593Z

WuWei:

gooddad409:

peek-a-boo:

I’m now retired, living the good life!

Congratulations! Retirement is the best job i ever had.

Y’all shut it.

raiden

H_Arendt · 2020-04-27T19:39:34.010Z

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

H_Arendt:

Donald Trump

And there we have it.

Why don’t you disagree with what I said rather than creating a quote out of whole cloth?

It’s your cloth. And two quotes. And TDS.

Putting two quotes together – and one was not a quote — it was just two words – is fake news. No reason to associate one with the other.

The first quote was a reflection on the unfortunate state of affairs in our country. Is that part of assessing where we are today or not?

H_Arendt · 2020-04-27T19:41:43.330Z

conan:

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation,

And yet Europe 5 most advance countries has twice he many dead.

What bearing does that have on the question of whether we in the United States are better off than we were four years ago?

WuWei · 2020-04-27T19:43:21.600Z

H_Arendt:

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

WuWei:

H_Arendt:

If we forgot that 50,000 Americans are dead in a pandemic than we are controlling worse than any advanced nation, 20% unemployment and climbing and the economy in a shambles, then we are all better off.

H_Arendt:

Donald Trump

And there we have it.

Why don’t you disagree with what I said rather than creating a quote out of whole cloth?

It’s your cloth. And two quotes. And TDS.

Putting two quotes together – and one was not a quote — it was just two words – is fake news. No reason to associate one with the other.

The first quote was a reflection on the unfortunate state of affairs in our country. Is that part of assessing where we are today or not?

I didn’t “put them together” they are still separate. And it is a quote. There’s links and everything. The reason to associate them is you said them both. In the same post even.

Did I change the meaning?