Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 11:09     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
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Anonymous wrote:The "$400k HHI is middle class!" DCUM-er


it's not?


For people who grew up MC, $400k in the DC area sure doesn’t feel that much different. Still just a cog in the machine.


We are all cogs in the machine on some level … maybe it is easier to accept that at lower income levels … but I can see how this might be insulting to some hard working families scraping by in DC area/DMV on much lower income than that. They still have to pay high rents/ mortgages and utility bills.

We all have agency whatever our income levels.


It's totally insulting, and I think it leads to poor political outcomes. If you make that much money and you think that your struggles are the same as somebody who is making 50K, you're going to have a really skewed picture of reality and you'll be a clueless voter.


Depending on how you define “middle class”, 50k isn’t really middle class for a family of four in the DC area.

From a few years ago (would be shifted higher today):
Based on the current median family income of $95,995, the range of middle-class family incomes in Washington is from $63,997 (two-thirds of the median) to $191,990 (double the median). Five years ago, those respective figures were $52,662 and $157,986.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthier-middle-class-emerging-washington-220318083.html


Totally, but I'm thinking more about national politics.


Ok. I was talking about DC (bolded) but ok. $50k is still very bottom of “middle class” for the US.

When you add in LMC and UMC the range of “middle class” gets even wider. Top of UMC for US is ~$370k; would be greater for the DC area.
https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/family-finance/articles/where-do-i-fall-in-the-american-economic-class-system

UMC feels more like MC than it feels like “wealthy”. Not just from an income perspective. Still working a job to pay the bills.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 11:05     Subject: Re:Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:The poster whose kids are not doing in person school and she loves to talk about what risky behavior the rest of us are engaging in because we end our kids to school.


People like YOU are the reason COVID hasn't gone away!!!!!
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 11:04     Subject: Re:Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
The poster whose kids are not doing in person school and she loves to talk about what risky behavior the rest of us are engaging in because we end our kids to school.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 11:01     Subject: Re:Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:The poster who thinks the answer is for everyone to go to therapy.


There are quite a few who make it obvious they are addicted to therapy. An expensive disorder.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:56     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
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Anonymous wrote:Men hating women posters. I didn't realize women hate men so much.


What's an example of this?


DP. I am not sure what the PP meant, but I'm a second wife and occasionally weigh on on issues related to step-children, blended families, etc. There are so many men-hating bullies who think that the dissolution of every marriage was entirely the fault of the man and that all men are terrible fathers.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:52     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Troll!!!
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:47     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:Men hating women posters. I didn't realize women hate men so much.


What's an example of this?
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:46     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The "$400k HHI is middle class!" DCUM-er


it's not?


For people who grew up MC, $400k in the DC area sure doesn’t feel that much different. Still just a cog in the machine.


We are all cogs in the machine on some level … maybe it is easier to accept that at lower income levels … but I can see how this might be insulting to some hard working families scraping by in DC area/DMV on much lower income than that. They still have to pay high rents/ mortgages and utility bills.

We all have agency whatever our income levels.


It's totally insulting, and I think it leads to poor political outcomes. If you make that much money and you think that your struggles are the same as somebody who is making 50K, you're going to have a really skewed picture of reality and you'll be a clueless voter.


Depending on how you define “middle class”, 50k isn’t really middle class for a family of four in the DC area.

From a few years ago (would be shifted higher today):
Based on the current median family income of $95,995, the range of middle-class family incomes in Washington is from $63,997 (two-thirds of the median) to $191,990 (double the median). Five years ago, those respective figures were $52,662 and $157,986.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthier-middle-class-emerging-washington-220318083.html


Totally, but I'm thinking more about national politics.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:45     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do think there's some false-flagging going on there -- men posting as women, aping the way they think women think and then getting riled up about it.

It can be really disheartening not to find good examples of what you just KNOW is going on, especially when you've based your identity on it.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:38     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Men hating women posters. I didn't realize women hate men so much.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:30     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The "$400k HHI is middle class!" DCUM-er


it's not?


For people who grew up MC, $400k in the DC area sure doesn’t feel that much different. Still just a cog in the machine.


We are all cogs in the machine on some level … maybe it is easier to accept that at lower income levels … but I can see how this might be insulting to some hard working families scraping by in DC area/DMV on much lower income than that. They still have to pay high rents/ mortgages and utility bills.

We all have agency whatever our income levels.


It's totally insulting, and I think it leads to poor political outcomes. If you make that much money and you think that your struggles are the same as somebody who is making 50K, you're going to have a really skewed picture of reality and you'll be a clueless voter.


Depending on how you define “middle class”, 50k isn’t really middle class for a family of four in the DC area.

From a few years ago (would be shifted higher today):
Based on the current median family income of $95,995, the range of middle-class family incomes in Washington is from $63,997 (two-thirds of the median) to $191,990 (double the median). Five years ago, those respective figures were $52,662 and $157,986.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthier-middle-class-emerging-washington-220318083.html
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:07     Subject: Re:Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lately it is the political leftist who keeps writing "Be specific" when making unclear demands for some form of "evidence" in political threads. We are probably on the same or similar political side but it is annoying af because that poster never actually accepts any responses. So they ask for specificity but don't do anything with it when provided other than derail conversation. It's frustrating and just stops conversation.


+1


NP
Agree that it is annoying to be asked for evidence when you make a claim. Super annoying, especially when you can't.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 10:00     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The "$400k HHI is middle class!" DCUM-er


it's not?


For people who grew up MC, $400k in the DC area sure doesn’t feel that much different. Still just a cog in the machine.


We are all cogs in the machine on some level … maybe it is easier to accept that at lower income levels … but I can see how this might be insulting to some hard working families scraping by in DC area/DMV on much lower income than that. They still have to pay high rents/ mortgages and utility bills.

We all have agency whatever our income levels.


It's totally insulting, and I think it leads to poor political outcomes. If you make that much money and you think that your struggles are the same as somebody who is making 50K, you're going to have a really skewed picture of reality and you'll be a clueless voter.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 09:58     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:all of the shameless man-haters that lurk and post prolifically in nearly all relationship threads


+1



Ha I like these posters.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2021 09:57     Subject: Most annoying DCUM posters... name yours.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The "$400k HHI is middle class!" DCUM-er


it's not?


For people who grew up MC, $400k in the DC area sure doesn’t feel that much different. Still just a cog in the machine.


We are all cogs in the machine on some level … maybe it is easier to accept that at lower income levels … but I can see how this might be insulting to some hard working families scraping by in DC area/DMV on much lower income than that. They still have to pay high rents/ mortgages and utility bills.

We all have agency whatever our income levels.