I'm shit of shitty people hiding behind *ism, or *phobia when they are abusive hypocritical assholes as individuals whose only interest in 'injustice' is when someone is trying to hold them to account for something they did individually.
but in internet land nothing is anyone's fault, everyone is a perpetual victim of forces of oppression beyond their control and that makes them 'a good person.' because apparently opinions are what matters.
and yeah i know that makes me a bitch and an asshole for holding that opinion.
this is why when your hobby/activity gets popular it goes from being cool people to being a bunch of assholes.
because assholes chase stuff for clout, they don't do stuff because they actually enjoy it.
Good news is once something else is popular, assholes will move on to the next big thing, but whether you can spend a few years dealing with assholes in your activity/hobby is another thing entirely.
if you want to get faster at running, you have practice running, a lot.
that's how everything in life is. if you want to improve something about yourself you have to practice that thing and learn it and gain skill and experience in it.
you can pretend that isn't true all you want, fine, but all you are doing is harming yourself and ensuring your failure at life. you can also make up absurd arguments, like why ever bother running at all if you aren't going to win a gold at the Olympics! which is PRECISELY the type of thinking every drugged out loser I ever known know makes.
nobody is working you to the bone who no change for advancement. that's a choice you are making yourself.
yeah i'm delusional. i live in Boston where everyone chokes on their own dick about how progressive they are, meanwhile being racist and sexist as fuck in their daily interactions.
it's well-known fact about this city. everyone has black lives matter signs on their lawns, but if a black man walks by their ring camera they call the cops. black lives only matter to folks here when they actually don't see any black people...
and if you tell them it's racist to call the cops on a black dude just minding his business... all the sudden you 'lack empathy' or something... always an excuse with rich white/asian people as to why they are the most oppressed by everything/everyone.
what is the point of sitting around feeling bad about problems over which you have no power or control? like, there is nothing you can do to change climate change as an individual. you can vote for green-energy pols, sure, but if they don't win they can't push it, and even if they do win, often they won't/don't push the agenda.
what you can do is contribute to your local community. join a garden, get some green, composts etc. but y'all here don't see to think that's 'doing something'. but i'd rather be outside off my phone contributing to the world than sitting in my bedroom doomscrolling feeling sorry for myself.
feeling sad about things also is not make you a moral or superior person to those who don't do that. that's ultimately a self-defeating weird flex that justifies your inaction and solipsism. because apparently laying in bed feeling feelings is like, so pround and deep and truth... and growing some tomatoes and hanging out with people is so horrible and bad...
almost like you all have psy oped yourselves into depression by deciding doing things is bad and sitting around doing nothing is good.
dunno where you live but nobody driver cybertrucks is taking loans out on them where I live. They buy them in cash and they are all old dudes or young tech bros. there are two on my block, one guy has paisley flowers all over his.
also three rivian R1s and a couple of Lucid Airs on my block.
dude, lucky you don't live where i live because... they act like that in person where i live. and yeah nobody punches them. they encourage them for being 'brave'. and if you be like 'yeah maybe it's not that bad' they scream in your face.
where i live there really isn't much of a barrier anymore between keyboard tantrums and real life ones... which is precisely why I don't go out less and less. at least once a week I have to watch someone have a tantrum or be really nasty to someone else and it's almost always the same types of comments and reactions as you see on the internet.
it's incredibly cringe. and nobody pushes back because... other people agree with the shitty awful insane entitled crap people pull.
Like i can't even go read a book in a cafe anymore without some insane weirdo being all offended at me. I used to do it like on an almost daily basis and nobody ever bothered me other than to maybe ask me if i liked the book... now they come up to me unprompted and tell me how what I'm reading is racist/sexist/evil because it's... classic lit from the 19th century and I am 'spreading' evil by reading these book sin public... it's strait up 'evil spirits' medieval type shit, except I'm the witch.
I used to have this... then the woke nutbags came along and decided all that mattered about you was your minor disagreements and you were a demonic evil person. I miss those days.
in real life. but i live in a 'progressive' city full of people who have very reactionary attitudes. 10 years ago nobody cared about these things, and now it's like all they razor focus on and they are super presumptive of.
i literally went out to a place last night i used to hang out at with some friends.... and the stereotypical woke person came up to me and told me I was 'being problematic by taking up the corner' or something, and I was like 'yeah I'm trying to just do my thing here and not bother anyone' and then they proceeded to tell me how i had to move because i was making them uncomfortable by doing my own thing and it bothered them. I rolled my eyes and they went away and I just decided to leave because it's like... I get it you don't want me to be here because I'm don't look like you and it upsets you, even if I am literally just chilling and being nice. but since I take care of myself and am comfortable being quiet and chilling, i'm a 'threat' now.
and way too many of my old friends have become that person... the 'concerned' person who thinks me eating a tuna fish sandwich means I'm now a 'bad person'. It's like, why bother interacting with you at all ever? all they live for is being miserable and whiny and blaming other people for their feelings.
Harvard is really intent on it's own self-destruction for like the past 20 years now.
Completely captured by techno facist bozos, and well that's most of the student body there now too, so.
Feels like I got out before the ship went down when I graduated in 2005, but damn those icebergs were obvious back then.
FYI this article is about the business school, not Harvard College.