Kinda tangential, but the whole libertarian culture of “if you got lied to/propagandized it’s your own fault for not doing the research/evaluting the risks, etc” is fucking whack. I was talking with my mom about trauma I got from my time at school (as in middle/high school), and her response was “you should’ve known better/gotten over it”, as if a struggling mentally ill child is supposed to be in charge of his own destiny while also having all possible levers of control taken out of his hands because surely you can’t trust a removed with things like control over their own body or mind!
Also kinda tangential, but I used to think the word was “tangenital” because I never looked closely at it
God that's the fucking worst. I thought we're supposed to be more productive by being able to specialize? But you know what's mutually exclusive with specializing? Being a jack-of-all-trades and knowing when your health insurance company is ripping you off, when your boss is ripping you off, when your landlord is ripping you off, how to do your taxes, how deal with any of those things if they actually happen. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps! And these straps, gotta pull on these too! Oh don't forget those straps gotta give those a tug! Oh woops you didn't pull on these ones and now the whole thing has come undone! Keep fucking pulling and don't forget about that other set of straps! What's that? Another group of people is being paid to pull the straps in the other direction? That's your fault for not noticing! Keep pulling!
Kinda tangential, but the whole libertarian culture of “if you got lied to/propagandized it’s your own fault for not doing the research/evaluting the risks, etc” is fucking whack. I was talking with my mom about trauma I got from my time at school (as in middle/high school), and her response was “you should’ve known better/gotten over it”, as if a struggling mentally ill child is supposed to be in charge of his own destiny while also having all possible levers of control taken out of his hands because surely you can’t trust a removed with things like control over their own body or mind!
Also kinda tangential, but I used to think the word was “tangenital” because I never looked closely at it
God that's the fucking worst. I thought we're supposed to be more productive by being able to specialize? But you know what's mutually exclusive with specializing? Being a jack-of-all-trades and knowing when your health insurance company is ripping you off, when your boss is ripping you off, when your landlord is ripping you off, how to do your taxes, how deal with any of those things if they actually happen. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps! And these straps, gotta pull on these too! Oh don't forget those straps gotta give those a tug! Oh woops you didn't pull on these ones and now the whole thing has come undone! Keep fucking pulling and don't forget about that other set of straps! What's that? Another group of people is being paid to pull the straps in the other direction? That's your fault for not noticing! Keep pulling!
Always
:mao-aggro-shining:
*pedo culture
punch her in the face