When people say they don't like "small talk", by "small talk" they mean "the specific current structure of phatic expressions prescribed by the specific culture in which they live" which are by no means universal and when you assume they mean that they hate the general practice of talking to people casually at all, you might as well be loudly objecting to their accusations that you piss on the poor.
It's really fucking annoying that the secularization of the concept of redemption so often insists on keeping the part where the person who is supposedly being improved is treated as if they have no agency in the process and are merely the passive recipient of the goodness of a higher power.
It's even more annoying when it also keeps the idea that the person also didn't have agency in the harm they caused either.
If somebody isn't breaking into other people's houses to steal their stuff and stop them celebrating Christmas, they're not a Grinch. It's not called "How the Grinch Ditched the Whos' Christmas Party and Fucked Off to Go Eat Chinese Food on the Next Mountain Over" and not just because that would be a really fucking dull kids' book.
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
Cats, in the 1980s.
The next person who tries to tell me where something inconspicuous is based on line-of-sight from a highly-visible landmark in a place with defined walking paths and obstacles will be informed that I'm not a fucking bird and I can't fucking fly.
The conflation of not forgiving someone with wanting that person to suffer eternal conscious torment is an inherently Christian idea predicated on the assumption that the Christian God believes that everyone deserves eternal conscious torment for existing while imperfect. Without that assumption, the conflation is inherently nonsensical.
I really wish more people would remember that being badgered, guilted or shamed into doing it will strip all the fun out of literally any activity.
You absolutely can post about how much you personally enjoy your hobbies without implying that everyone has the time, energy and money to do the same and anyone who disagrees with you is deliberately choosing to make themselves unhappy. As a bonus, you will not convince people that your actual hobby is being a condescending asshole on the internet.
The idea that a gay couple kissing is as sexual as a straight couple fucking is inherently wrong and inherantly homophobic.
Addendum: the idea that a gay couple saying that they love each other or a gay couple kissing is just as overtly sexual as if they were fucking is also inherently wrong and inherently homophobic.
Hobbies, physical and otherwise, are a fine thing to have and often pleasant.
Persons claiming that hobbies are "better than drugs" specifically for depressed people or that lack of hobbies is the cause of depression can go sit on a cactus.
Pro-tip: if you find yourself saying that the people who do not read your book and follow its teachings lead hollow, empty, joyless lives obsessed with worldly things and the fact that your telling them this makes them angry proves that it's true and you are NOT a fundigelical Christian, please be advised that you sound like one.
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"This method is so effective at specifically predicting people's secret inner desires and future behavior that if the person whose behavior is being predicted disagrees they should be treated as if they are deliberately lying" is always an extraordinary fucking claim for which one better produce some extraordinary fucking evidence.
I really wish more people would remember that the US has literally built several multimillion dollar industries on people in authority literally treating the belongings of people under their authority like literal garbage.
I really wish that the idea that ignorance of a given experience equates to objectivity and lack of bias about that experience was even half as discredited as it deserves to be.
Pro tip: If you have had your workers come back to in-person work, have them so busy they regularly have to work long shifts and eat at their desks if they want to eat at all, have an "open plan" office, a shitty ancient HVAC, and a fucking "voluntary, one-way masking policy", please be advised that all of your workers who are not actively trying to catch several airborne pandemic diseases absolutely fucking hate your vile, plague-ridden guts.
Dear medical professionals: Despite what you may assume from there being a fucking pandemic for over two fucking years so far, no, most lay people do not, in fact, know what you mean by "close contact", so telling people to avoid "prolonged close contact" without explaining exactly what you mean is very unlikely to be helpful.
When people argue that "states' rights" somehow strengthen human rights, I want to slap them upside the head with an American History book.
