Yep, pretty much the game I played. You’re doing it right.

You’ll be fine. You got this, brother!

As long as Trump doesn’t decide to suddenly end pension plans! I mean, i don’t really think that will happen, but he’s so batshit crazy, who knows. So I figure I should take the jump now and maybe any law changes that would happen would go towards people who aren’t collecting the pension yet.

My pension plan is for state workers. So we can retire at 55 if we have at least 20 years service in. I turned 55 this year, and hit my 20th year this year.

Of course, the longer I keep working, the bigger my pension would be. I took my current job with the plan to work for 3 more years, then retire.

And I like my current job enough, but every single morning after I turned 55, when I wake up, I think to myself, “Shit if I were retired, I wouldn’t have to go anywhere.”

My job is a 10-minute walk away. So I really have no right to bitch about it at all. But just “having” to be somewhere, gets on my nerves so much now! lol

So since I don’t owe anybody shit, and I can live off of potatoes and beans, I’ll get by just fine. I don’t give a shit what people think of me, so no keeping up appearances. That right there, makes my lifestyle sustainable on low income.

That’s awesome, it seems really far away, but trust me, it goes by quick. I’m 55 and I retire in a few months. And I remember thinking it seemed so far away. And fuck, now I’m here. Crazy.

Yep! I retire in 5 months. 55 years old. With full pension.

My house is paid off and I have no debt. Since I have no bills, my pension will cover my needs just fine. It’s not a huge pension or anything, but I’ve worked for my state for most of my adult life, and whittled down my bills to almost nothing. So I’ll get by just fine.

I plan to just spend my time in retirement doing exactly what I want. I’ve recently started a local branch of my favorite socialist party, so I’ll devote more time to that.

Plus, I’ll do a lot of writing, a lot of Lemmy posting, garden more so I can grow most of my meals, and doing DIY solar projects so that I can cut back on my bills even farther. Because fuck the capitalist power infrastructure in my state. My state’s BS laws won’t let me go completely off-grid while here in the city, but I plan on reducing how much I have to pay as far down as I can go

Fair point! I def hear it about Tesla more because of the hype.

They chose not to, and instead made a death-trap on purpose

I don’t think it’s a death-trap “on purpose,” but it’s def a death-trap by negligence. Which is still bad. Very very bad.

I actually like Musk, and when the Tesla came out, I def wanted one. But man, stories like this make me sooo happy I was way to poor ever to afford one!

I love Lemmy and the concept of the Fediverse because it allows us to decentralize and avoid relying on the influence of a single instance. If one instance tries to silence dissenting voices, we can always move to another.

Multiple usernames, multiple instances—this ensures our voices aren’t silenced.

That’s why I’m contributing content: to help make the Fediverse stronger and more sustainable.

And you’re here reading my posts, is this all you have going on in your life? lol

She definitely didn’t receive enough to change the election!

Democrats spent so much money to stop her and make her seem like the big bad evil one, and even if every single person who voted for Jill Stein would have voted for Harris, Harris *still" would have lost! lmao

This should be fun to watch. I notice that Democrats are already blaming everyone but themselves right now. lmao

I love Lemmy and the concept of the Fediverse because it allows us to decentralize and avoid relying on the influence of a single instance. If one instance tries to silence dissenting voices, we can always move to another.

Multiple usernames, multiple instances—this ensures our voices aren’t silenced.

That’s why I’m contributing content: to help make the Fediverse stronger and more sustainable.

And you’re here reading my posts, is this all you have going on in your life? lol

Yes, thank you! Finally someone called him out! Check his comments. That last 20 or so are him saying the same thing to me over and over. Of course, I just reply with the same thing too. lol

The guy legit follows me around to different instances and communities to downvote me. All because he’s mad that I support the concept of third parties.

Guess he still hasn’t realized that the Democrats betrayed him. They even lost the popular vote! LMAO

Yeah, I think it’s pretty telling that he wouldn’t tell anyone who he would vote for. Which is his right of course, but most former politicians are pretty proud to say they are voting with their traditional political lines.

Hopefully this will start to change now that someone new will be in office.

Well said.

And I would have voted for him!

Yep, I agree. Even tho I skew socialist (I’m a Conservative Socialist), you are right about Americans being loathe to adopt it or even accept the name. Most people, even here on Lemmy, see the term “socialist” as a pejorative.

Though since the election I am seeing more and more people being pissed about how the democratic party screwed them over and they are more open to third parties. So maybe the socialist parties here in the US may see an uptick.

Which is hilarious to me, because I got banned from .world (and other instances) because I proudly said I voted Socialist instead of Democrat or Republican. lol

Yeah, but I’m still here. Thanks! :)

I like Bernie, but to your point, I wasn’t happy about how he accepted the Dems steamrolling him over.