Do you guys notice how when Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, started planning a general strike, he did it by a) targeting his messaging towards unions with the ability to safely and effectively strike in large numbers, b) laid out a clear, actionable plan for those unions to follow (setting contracts to all expire at the same time, since many unions cannot strike while under contract), c) is using union contracts to set clear, actionable demands that can be met in order to gauge success and provide an end goal, and d) started organizing FOUR YEARS before the proposed strike date to give people the chance to plan accordingly, because it takes a really freaking long time to get tens of millions of people organized?
You notice how he didn't do it by slapping a message on Twitter saying 'hey nobody go to work on Monday, that'll really show 'em'?
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noah kahan really said growing up in a small, bitter hometown is about the rage and the hatred that's been sung about many times before but it's also about love and devotion and the 'all three of us were drowning and we didn't know how to save each other but there was an understanding that we were all drowning together' of it all and knowing people so intimately yet not being able to help anyone and he's morally grey at best in a lot of his songs and objectively the bad guy in others and that's just how it is and it's about substance abuse and normalised crime and teen suicide and country roads and failed exams and leaving and being left and love and hate and love and hate and love and
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Hawow I wanna say you something
(poked at Wally's nonexistent nose)
Hahaha!
You have poked the baby
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Here are some thoughts on Julien because I was thinking about him this morning 🥰
Good singer, great performer, not a huge vocal range
Ran away from home when he was pretty young, which is why he's a bit of a swindler now
He makes friends pretty easily, he knows how to connect with people quickly without it feeling forced
Plays the guitar
Julien and Morris have a kind of friends with benefits relationship going on (after Julien and John's separation); Morris has feelings for Julien and feels bad for him, Julien is very lonely and Morris is nice to him
Very stubborn, one reason why he doesn't talk to his family is because they haven't reached out to him first
Alcoholic before and after his time with JD
Friends with Patty and Jackie because Morris is Patty's brother
He hangs out with them a lot so they can keep an eye on him and so he's not quite so lonely
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Everything else notwithstanding, I firmly think that SJ's rage towards YQY - regardless of how you feel about the degree to which he acted out towards him - was reasonable given that he believes (with justification given the little info he has) that his one childhood friend, who knew very well the vicious abuse he was experiencing, just fucked off to live the good life he found and left him to suffer. Like completely separate from anything else, I don't see how hating someone who to your knowledge abandoned you to die, even if they're sorry/guilty once they saw you survived, is wrongheaded or misguided. I honestly saw their whole relationship as emblematic of the prominent themes of miscommunication in SVSSS, on YQY's side due to a mixture of feeling like he's sparing the other party and his own trauma. A direct parallel (and later a foil) to SY and LBH at the abyss.
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did you know that in ancient greece tattoos were typically used as marks of punishment and shame, typically inflicted on criminals and prisoners of war that were allowed to live?
did you know that kratos had deimos' birthmark tattooed onto his own body, when deimos' kidnapping by the gods is something he very clearly feels severe guilt over?
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i was thinking about that Xavi was not only the coach but the idol to many of our youngsters (especially la masia kids). like imagine playing at the club of your dreams and that your idol trust you enough to give you minutes, defend you everytime someone from the media says something bad about you or the way you play, learn from him and understand his tactics and dream about achieving the same success that he had when he was at the club. but then also see how this club tear him down, how the media attacks him, how the passion and loving the club with his soul isn’t enough for some people… yeah i feel heartsick
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ok i get the desire to push back against annoying dominant christian interpretations of the torah/old testament. i really do. however i also wish that people would stop being like “actually, the jewish perspective on this is--” before listing off one (1) jewish perspective, usually either reform or humanistic, that also happens to be the most politically convenient and moral according to the standards of tumblr. like y’all if anyone tells you that there is only one jewish interpretation of something you should know that they are probably wrong, there’s at least one jew out there who would vehemently disagree with them, and also judaism is a complex living culture that you really should not put on a pedestal
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that was one emotionally agonising finale. I would like to thank everyone who enjoyed my liveblog of this series! my final verdict is uhhhh the dragon did nothing wrong he was just doing dragon things
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