“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
Griffin: Here, let’s play a game. Guess how many unread emails– Rachel: Ohhh my god, Griffin… Griffin: –I have in my email box right now. Griffin: [singing] Guess how many emails, guess how bad a correspondent I am! Online, on the internet where nothing even matters at all. Rachel: [in the background] This is horrifying… Rachel: Uh, I’m gonna say 4,000. Griffin: Oh, more than that, babe. Rachel: Oh my god… Griffin: Oh noooo Griffin: [singing]
13,368 unread emails people worked on and sent me and I said ‘no
thanks, I’m good’, without even clicking the email you worked on.
macaulay culkin was forced into his career by his father through manipulation, gaslighting and humiliation as well as physical abuse. at fourteen, instead of hitting him back like his father demanded, macaulay called the police and put a stop to the suffering that he and his family were facing. when his parents went bankrupt, macaulay offered up his own money to his mother and siblings and stepped up as the father figure to his five younger siblings. he’s publicly supported lgbt and pro-black charities for decades (x, x) and dedicated a good two pages of his book to naming conservatives and abusers that he hates. he risked his own reputation to defend michael jackson in court and treats michael’s daughter, paris, like his own. macaulay culkin is an amazing person whose made all of us happy over the years, and 2018 WILL be the year we repay him by supporting his hipster lifestyle website.
PSA: the main reason that Britain never had a European-style mass fascist movement in the 1930s is because socialists, Jews, trade unionists, black folk and queer people physically dismantled the Blackshirt movement in its infancy by disrupting meetings, toppling stages and assaulting prominent fascists. This meant it never reached critical mass as a street gang capable of controlling public space and providing a pole of attraction for white, working-class youth - a fundamental precondition for the exercise of political power independent of the state by fascist Parties.
my maternal grandfather grew up in a south london working class jewish community and has told me so many stories about this! <3
DIRECT ACTION WORKS
ATTACKING NAZIS WORKS
All the pathetic fools who say that “Punching Nazis isn’t the answer”…history says otherwise
Violence is ABSOLUTELY the answer to the problem of Nazi terrorists infesting a country
Beating the living shit out of every single Nazi or gathering of Nazis that dares to slither out from beneath its rock IS the answer
MAKE NAZIS AFRAID AGAIN
A lot of Nazi rallies in the US were cancelled last year because those cowards feared for their safety, so beating the shit out of these assholes actually works
It is absolutely an effective tactic at destroying the efforts of these nazi scum to spread their filth
When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen.
too much
My previous incarnations throwing popcorn at the screen and booing: thisbitch is fucking stupid!!!
