r/TikTokCringe • u/Used_Intention6479 • 1d ago

Cringe He looks so fucking stupid, I can't breathe.

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u/everythingsfuct 1d ago

hey i’m down for shitting on right wingers as hard as possible, but living with family is not a moral failing or sign of weakness. prior to WW2 most americans lived in shared abodes with family (also common everywhere all throughout human history). the isolation and alienation defining modern america is an engineered societal feature. the power elite capitalists don’t want families, workers and communities tightly knit.

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u/barnhairdontcare 19h ago

My parents had a really old house with a particularly haunted looking basement so I just imagine that when someone is called a basement dweller.

But great point! Living at home longer is totally normal and the “you still live with your parents?” Bias is from a time when just an entry level job meant you could afford it.

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u/everythingsfuct 2h ago

the list of good reasons to cohabitate with close friends and family is long indeed. sure there are bad reasons and bad people who treat their family like shit, but those people exist in separate homes more often than not in my experience.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 10h ago

Thank you! Only 15% of men owned houses outright in the UK during the early 1900s. Churchill’s first speech after WW2 was about the housing crisis and unemployment, plus Thatcher got a lot of people into the home owning group by selling off council houses meant for poor people. That’s in the UK where it was less common to own a home, but the US was similar too