this isnt a hot take just a story about me being 10 and having just discovered fandom content and i thought to myself “oh i wonder if there is fandom content for my favorite movie the lorax!” and you know what. there was
not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”
Why does being in your early 20s feel so much like only having 5 years of your life left in which you need to achieve as much as possible? why do I feel like I have an approaching deadline for success?
Late last month, Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] “invited” Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the coal miners in his Appalachian
district, by way of rebuttal to her brilliant response to the charge that the Green New Deal was a rich, city-person’s luxury, taking no account of working, poor and rural people.
AOC took him up on the invitation, saying “It’s a complete injustice the
cancer levels that a lot of these communities are confronting. We have
to plan a future for all of our communities, no matter what. Failure to
plan is planning to fail and I feel like we’ve been failing Appalachian
communities for a very long time and it’s time to turn that ship
around.”
Now, Barr has rescinded the invitation, blaming it on her defense of Rep
Ilhan Omar, who has been smeared by Republicans and establishment
Democrats with the racist slur that she supports Islamic terror. Barr
said he was dismayed by her “lack of civility.”
In response, AOC tweeted:
“GOP’s getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize
I’m fighting harder for their healthcare than their own Reps .”
The one detail that seems to be left out of all these headlines, which is perhaps the most important in understanding Barr’s decision, is that there are no coal miners in his district. He made up complaints from people that don’t exist, then panicked when AOC agreed to meet them.
I just. I don’t like this view of “millennials vs Gen Z”. This is NOT supposed to be a competition of who got fucked over the most and who’s “actually fighting back”.
Millennials are fighting back just by surviving in a job market where the minimum wage doesn’t cover the living cost. Millennials are awesome at “killing” the diamond, golfing and napkins industries. Millennials are using the internet to make sure things that corporations want to keep in the dark are exposed. They’re open LGBTQIA-friendly business, they’re supporting each other with online donations so everyone can survive this shitty economy.
And the Gen Z kids? The Gen Z kids are rad. I remember a post about something like the millennials making a collective promise to never become a disenchanted generation that only criticizes the next one and I want to point out that this “millennials vs gen z” trend is trying to do exactly that: split us apart. Prevent millennials from being the older siblings that teach the younger siblings to throw a good punch and turn them into the annoyed adult complaining about “those kids” on their lawn. We are the two groups that grew in a connected world of information. We are two very unique generations.
I think that it’s our duty for us millennials, as a disrespected, underpaid, very angry generation to stand up by our younger siblings, and fight together the oppressive systems that brought us all to this point.
They’re trying very hard to pit Millennials and Gen Z against each other because I honestly think they’re terrified of what the two will accomplish together.
it is so strange to me when people tell me they never had an ancient egyptian phase…like, what did you even do during your childhood?
this is oddly specific?? and over 3000 people relate???
That egyptology book was too golden and shiny to resist
Children, collectively: crow brain says shiny and full of secrets. Gotta know.
THAT’S THE ONE
If you didn’t have an ancient Egyptian phase, you had an Ancient Greek phase. That’s the law. You had to have one of the two. And sometimes you had both.
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