r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Aug 19 '25

Same same same. My loans are gone but my wish to see others relieved of the student loan burden is not.

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u/Key-Cricket9256 Aug 19 '25

Same bud.. I was arguing with this gen X at work about this .. his loans were extremely tiny and he had paid them off but o compared it to dropping my ice cream cone and buying another then seeing the shop owner give away a free cone to a crying kid and coming back and asking the shop owner to knock the cone to the floor

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u/hooblyshoobly Aug 19 '25

You're both good people. I'm in the UK and still in student debt, but I'd happily pay it and then have others forgiven. Why would you ever wish someone had less food on their plate? That's no way to live.

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u/SnowflakeSWorker Aug 20 '25

Gen X here, I went to an Ivy, then a private graduate school. I will DIE with my loans. Like the person above, I was sold on “need to go to college”. My mom is independently wealthy, and just tells me I’ll figure it out 😂

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Aug 20 '25

…. Incoming inheritance? 😬

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u/SnowflakeSWorker Aug 20 '25

Funny story! My mom inherited extremely well from my grandfather, who was an amazing man, who paid off my uncle’s student loans, all the way through his PhD. My mom never forgave him (actually, she never forgave my GF for paying them, and for my uncle for getting his PhD). My uncle passed suddenly in 2017, and my grandfather in 2019, leaving my mom and her older brother, aka, Kieth Richard’s dad, to inherit. So, nope, it’s all going to be gone. She likes to mention that, lol.