I must be weird because I grew up in the 80s, in the heyday of marketing this shit to kids, I had all the violent action figures, and I was skeptical of the military to the point it caused a rift in my family.
And I grew up to be an anarchist. 🤷♂️
Did I learn the wrong lessons from G.I. Joe?
There’s a lot of debate over how we “ought” to view these people. Man, feel how you wanna feel. You have a right to be angry with them. Fuck, they are stupid assholes. You can also feel pity and have a desire to find common ground. It’s normal to celebrate a redemption arc.
But one thing you can’t argue, is that the signs weren’t there. That those folks had no way of knowing that Trump was a grifting, lying, narcissistic, rapist idiot criminal. All these dumb fucks on tv acting surprised, not doing themselves any favors right now. Look inward, realize you’re an imbecile or a bigoted shitheel for buying into his bullshit, and then start over. Get on tv and say “holy fuck I am a bad person” and that redemption arc gets realistic.
It’s not about accepting phsycal labor as life’s purpose, although I can easily imagine some profit-driven CEO twisting the philosophy into something soul-crushing.
We wait for employees to quit, get injured, or transfer to a another location so we don’t have to fire them and look like a business trying to downsize. We just fail to hire replacements and offload the work to the poor suckers who are stuck by circumstances. 🤡
Good because you’re first
I mean it’s not like my parents were gonna teach me anything useful either, so why not
And typically it’s advice that coincidentally benefits their interests
Wat