drop the stigma around unemployment by not using it as an insult! not everyone is employable! I’m unemployed bc I’m a disabled stay at home stepdad. doesn’t mean I am socially inept enough to send someone anon hate.
instead let’s change the phrase to “hobbyless behavior”
1. doesn’t hinge someone’s worth on their employment or ability to make money, why drag capitalism into this when it sucks anyway
2. still implies a lack of anything better to do with their time without the ability to talk out of it bc hobbies are so diverse that there’s really no excuse not to have at least one
3. goes to show how miserable and spiteful someone becomes when they never have any kind of fun
4. how pathetic is it to have the kind of time on your hands to be hateful towards others and yet not have time to develop a personality or interests?
anyway stop using “unemployed” as an insult and instead roast them for not having a hobby
the clips i saw last night are already removed from tiktok (lol) but here’s the one i was talking abt. where elon is 1) listening to grimes while 2) dying on a tutorial of a game while 3) he’s trying to prove he’s a Gamer and 4) everyone in chat is bullying him lmao
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the “personal life” part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you’ll either find a major tragedy he didn’t recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she’s not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he’s done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn’t work in history, or, women aren’t auteurs, or, there just aren’t as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
it’s so fucking funny to see yankees talk about how they’re gonna bring a revolution and change their country and help each other because #community. you guys couldn’t even boycott mcdonalds.
I hate this post but it would take way too long to explain why.
It’s very easy to say Americans are stupid because we are but I think many people online have a completely unrealistic idea of the labor it would take to organize a COUNTRY WIDE CONSUMER BOYCOTT ARE YOU JOKING
folks pass around that garfield propaganda poster but really do think they are better than people who fall under the influence of propaganda.
People genuinely do not understand the amount of planning and effort that has to go into an effective boycott. Which is why people keep “declaring boycotts” that then accomplish nothing and get depressed about it.
The only thing less understood by online activists is strikes. So many people keep talking about a “national strike” as if it’s something you can organize on Facebook in a few weeks.
I wish I could kiss this post. If you actually sat down and read what went into the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, you’d realize how much effort the state had put into dismantling the networks and communities that made that happen.
The “loneliness epidemic” is not an accident—it is a by-product of the United States government’s deliberate effort to destroy labor unions and ethnic communities of all kinds so that a widespread consumer boycott can never happen ever again.
Also, boycotts are not the only tool in the toolbox, but we’ve seen that already. Colleges across the United States had campus demonstrations that led to the state sending in troops to dismantle them. It’s so easy to say we can’t boycott McDonald’s as if college students weren’t getting their skulls bashed in by agents of the state department. And on top of that many protestors who organized the protests are currently being targeted and fucking kidnapped off the streets.
Like @its-gita-time said, there was so much work in the time since the Montgomery Boycott to make sure something like that never happened again, and Americans broadly speaking don’t know how to organize. Add on the fact that nearly half of the states in the US have ANTI-BDS legislation , meaning if you participate in BDS in say, Texas, you’ll lose your job. And even still, when we try to organize, the State Department responds with overwhelming force and violence. Violence! They hurt college students protesting Israel! They hurt blsck people during the Ferguson uprising and BLM protests.
And people are still putting their bodies on the line. They’re trying to ban wearing masks in New York City, New York! Have a little bit of perspective. Why would the state put all that effort into suppression if we’re all just lazy sacks of shit. If your work doesn’t have compassion and understanding for all the things I mentioned then it’s performative. You’re wrong, stop shitting on Americans for your silly Internet points. Free Mahmoud Khalil, free Palestine.
if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going
“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”
Ron walks into the main area of the office like “Everyone, announcement! I notice that you have been referring to me with he/him pronouns for YEARS. As I do not think the government has any business knowing my personal information, this behavior may incline them to make conclusions that they have no business even thinking about. Therefore, I request that you switch it up from now on. Keep em guessing. That is all.”
He tries to turn around and walk back into his office, but Leslie starts crying and saying Supportive Things about how proud she is to see him exploring his gender and immediately switches to they/them; she instructs Ben and Ann to do the same. Donna and Chris go for she/her, for different reasons.
Tom assures Ron that he will use only the slickest, coolest, dopest designer pronouns; he sweeps in the next day and announces that he’s put together a powerpoint of the most stylish and fashionable neopronouns to come out of Milan this season. The powerpoint includes the scarf, cologne and sunglasses that pair best with each option. Jerry is the only one to attend this presentation, which leaves him even more Big Confused about the whole thing than he already was. In Jerry’s efforts to clumsily be an ally, he keeps accidentally “misgendering” Ron four different times in four different ways in every interaction and apologizing elaborately for every single mistake, thereby inadvertently doing the best job out of any of them at fulfilling the brief.
Andy does not know what a pronoun is, but in the spirit of himbo helpfulness, he’s made a list of Words that he knows Ron likes, such as “sandwich”, “woodworking”, and “bacon”. (Ron snatches it, tears it up, throws it in the trash, and sets the trash basket on fire, and firmly instructs Andy to never again mention anything that Ron likes while inside a government building.)
April, of course, keeps using he/him until Ron calls her into his office to re-explain the strategy of Operation: Muddy The Waters, whereupon she blinks owlishly at him and says, “I mean, isn’t that just what they’d expect you to do if you were trying to hide something from the government? If you exclude one pronoun, then they know that’s the one you care about. You have to double-bluff them.” Ron squints at her for a long moment and says flatly, “Hm. Go back to your desk.” The camera stays on Ron watching her through his window as his voiceover says, “April is a valuable employee. I look forward to one day when she leaves this hellhole and uses her strategic genius and insider knowledge to tear down the government.”
