I am just gobsmacked by this. It really is reprehensible. Each time I have tried to do this I have given up because it has triggered anxiety.
The @nytimes has literally profited from my mental ill health.
Today I finally had it in me to persist but now I am exhausted.
Why the fuck should anyone have to dedicate half an hour to
something like this.
Just stop taking my money cos I don’t want you to and we don’t have a time-based contract?????
You just took 30 minutes of my life and I will not be able to use my brain for the rest of the day. Give it back??
“wonderful day”
And the kicker?
No, you *can’t* submit a complaint via the ‘help’ chat they force you to use if you want to unsubscribe + can’t call because an international call costs a lot of money.
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Look, almost everything you need is right there on p1 @JessSchremmer!
Are the ppl complaining in positions of power, do they want something? ✅
Will they get what they want by creating the false impression that unemployed ppl are lazy? ✅
Did they fail to provide evidence? ✅
Had it occurred to you to simply ask workers at some of these farms about their views on this @JessSchremmer ... or literally anyone at all who had a different view to these #cropaganda artists?
A thread about how our 'welfare' system dehumanises, divides and gaslights us so that only the most desperate seek help, and then are punished for doing so. It’s about why the government thinks they can ignore disabled people in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic.
Yesterday I spoke to @lauramoates about the social security horror show, COVID19 and why we need to #RaiseTheDSP. I spoke *a lot* so not everything made the cut. I want to share some of the things that couldn't be included in the story. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Politicians and lots of other people in the community have made the choice for a long time to be happy for people to starve or not be able to pay rent and to be homeless. And now, when all of a sudden a lot more of us are going to be in that situation, the government realises: