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Defense attorneys being portrayed as knowingly lying and trying to get their client to lie to the police? Constantly shown as willfully preventing murderers from being convicted and just all around making everything needlessly difficult for those brave police officers? How someone calling for a lawyer in a show or movie is a clear sign they’re guilty? How a lawyer telling their client not to be forced into saying anything or not to say anything without them there is portrayed as the lawyer trying to stop the repentant person from telling the truth? It’s all just bull painting anyone who “gets in the way” of what the police want to do or try to defend the rights of people the police don’t like as being criminals themselves.

And the idea of these “blood-sucking lawyers” descending on these poor innocent multi-billion dollar companies when they make an “honest mistake” like knowingly creating dangerous conditions for their workers or customers and engaging in shady business practices? It’s all tied up in the smear campaigns against people who try to keep these corporations in check by creating the fiction of there being all these pointless and frivolous lawsuits made up by greedy lawyers and entitled, lazy people looking to scam these poor innocent companies. 

Hi guys, I need to write a PSA about this specific doll. She might look like your standard creepy child sized doll but hear me out.

A year ago I was at a flea market and saw someone selling this doll. No big, right? Standard creepy doll. I thought nothing of it and kept walking.

Cut to January of this year. I go to my local Salvation Army- and there she is. Pink dress and everything. I do not buy her, but quickly exit the store.

Cut to LAST MONTH and I go to my local Savers. Suprise! There she is! And she’s still there, as of last Monday. (This drama is all taking place in Southern New Hampshire, in case anyone is wondering.)

There are two possible explinations for these sightings. One: people are buying the doll, something is happening with her, and she is being “donated” to end her reign of terror. or Two: This doll is sentient and is traveling from thrift store to thrift store, waiting for some unsuspecting person to bring her home, where she will then….do what? I’m not sure.

Whatever the case I can’t expect her to remain at my Savers for too long. I don’t know where she’s going, what her motives are, whether she’s killed anyone, or why the guy who was selling her the first time was dressed like Elvis (did he start this?) I dont know if this is her third stop or her three hundreth. But if you see her at your local thrift store, DO NOT BUY HER! There is a very good chance she is legitimately haunted!

We get it. Really, we do.

But have y'all considered why this struck a chord, especially as quickly as it did? Because this is one of the fastest inception-to-mainstream velocities I've ever seen from a meme.

Think for even a second about the literal decade of the older generation blaming Millennials for literally every single problem. We couldn't go a week with us being accused of killing an industry or being whiny snowflakes. Of being told we can't afford healthcare because we're too lazy to earn it and houses because we eat too much avocado toast. That we're entitled because we want try to prevent the world from metaphorically catching on fire. That we're too sensitive and can't take a joke because we don't like when comedians shout racial slurs.

It got so bad websites were making listicles of all the industries and societal norms we supposedly killed. From Applebee's to diamonds, dinner dates to marriage. They would've blamed us for tornadoes if they could.

Do you think boomers were having these long discussions and Twitter threads about "well the entitled millennials are just the rich, spoiled ones and most of them aren't in that group something something class warfare"? I'm sure a few did, but very, very few.

We've withstood this shit for years, YEARS, and the one time we punch back in a large scale way, we get this? Like, let people even the slightest amount of cathartic fun.

We've been the go to punching bag since I wasn't even out of highschool, and I'm in my late 20's.

Yes, it's reductive. Yes, it's not a replacement for class analysis. Yes, ageism is a real thing and a large number of 55+ year olds (typically poc and/or working class) are treated poorly and are subject to the same shitty class system we are, too.

But also, yes, sometimes it's nice to it's have a fun joke that finally turns the tables and see how terribly they react to the ridicule we've put up with since we were preteens.

So maybe just save the thinkpieces for just a little bit. Or, in summary:

I started getting shit for being entitled when I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL. The Millennial bit came along in high school, but as early as 7th grade I remember hearing people complain about my generation for things like phones and games and computers, how we were ruined and spoiled by the participation trophies that we got for sports. I remember my uncle ranting about how “all those kids think that they’re so special” when I mentioned that a teacher had gotten in trouble for using a slur and had been fired. 

I have been told that I am the bane of society for as long as I can remember- being that I am one of the youngest possible Millennials (the generation ended with those of us born in 1995, if the internet is to be believed, although I have heard 1996 as a cutoff as well), I have been hearing this shit basically all my life. I was ALSO promised all kinds of things when I was a kid. And then everything went to shit, the planet is LITERALLY on fire because of things that began before I was born and got worse when I was a child...

And somehow it is MY fault? The world is shit because I, personally, killed Applebees and marriage and diamonds... But not because the economy, social systems, and fucking environment were trashed by the generations before us? The reason why Millennials suck is because we have “no sense of humor”, because we think racism, sexism, and homophobia aren’t fucking funny and never were? We’re entitled because we demand basic fucking respect and want to not be treated like shit at our jobs and by our families? 

Everything sucks and it is the fault of my generation, who are somehow both lazy adults and entitled children all in one, who are still patronized to, talked down to, treated like spoiled brats despite the fact that the youngest Millennials right now are like, 23? Most of us are working and we’ve worked MORE than the previous generation? Literally all of the serious issues we bring up because they impact us get ignored and we get treated like screaming babies... But no, it’s our fault that everything sucks now...

Y'all know he os a gay man with moneywho is actually a really cool dude in rl??

Why all this “sorry gay/bi ppl gotta deal with this” from the straights??

Plus his work outside of TBBT has mostly BEEN queer shit, including being in a movie about how shit the government was in regards to the AIDS crisis.

TBBT was his big break, he was a nobody before it. And unfortunately he got stuck with it for a while. Although he wasn’t afraid to use his newfound fame for a good purpose. And now that he’s free of it? We’re only gonna see more of his queer activism side.

!!! WARNING, EVERYONE !!!

IF YOU SEE THIS IN A YOUTUBE AD MUTE YOUR DEVICE AND SCROLL UNTIL YOU CAN’T SEE THE VIDEO SCREEN ANYMORE.

This is an ad about animal cruelty that has very loud screaming of dying animals. Also flashing, graphic pictures of said animals, like a dead chicken or a pig biting a wired fence.

It’s about thirty seconds, the screaming starts 10 seconds in and the ad isn’t skippable.

It can trigger panic attacks and cause your anxiety to skyrocket, and it’s just generally a very disturbing thing no one should see.

In other words, they layered turbine noises on TOP of the sound of pigs, so that you wouldn’t notice that it’s just the sounds of a lot of pigs together.

Ok actually, my cousin was playing with some other kids and he fell in a blackberry bush. Had some scrapes, but nothing too bad.

Few months later and he got this dark bump on his arm that was starting to hurt, and he didn't know why. His mom, thinking it was a zit, tried to pop it, but nothing happened no matter how much she messed with it.

Finally they went to the doctor and he numbed the area and cut in to figure out what it was. Totally normal procedure, right?

Well, the dark bump was something that kinda looked like a black cyst at first, but it was weirdly long. And it got longer.

And longer.

My mom’s parents said “We don’t care who you love.” At that point she’d only ever brought home white guys. She brought my dad home-her mother called her a nigger lover and damned the relationship as much as possible. Her father grew around his prejudices after I was born but never apologized, just wasn’t a blatant fuck.

The day she introduced my father to her family was the last time she spoke to her mother for over twenty years. When I was getting sick and she called and asked her mother and grandmother if anyone in the family had anything strange happen similar what I was going through they told her “it’s because you married a black man. You made your bed, you lie in it.”

Cops pulled them over all the time and asked my mom IF SHE WAS OKAY AND IF SHE NEEDED HELP BECAUSE MY FATHER-A BLACK MAN-WAS DRIVING A 100 POUND WHITE WOMAN AROUND. HE WAS HARRASSED AND THREATED WITH ARREST.

My father ended up getting into a fight in self defence because some entitled hick decided he didn’t like seeing a black man and white woman in the bar together. Thankfully other patrons helped my father but he still couldn’t go to the er for his injuries. My mom patched him up and they were terrified the cops would take him away.

THEIR BEST FRIEND GOT LICENSED TO MARRY THEM SO THEY COULD ACTUALLY TIE THE KNOT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD AND CITED JIM CROW ERA LAW AS TO WHY.

When shopping with just me my father wouldn’t hold my hand if there was a group around. Why? I’m far lighter than him and people had stopped and asked him “whose child is that?” Or “little girl where’s your parents?” and were stunned when I grinned and pointed at my dad and proudly proclaimed “my daddy’s right here.” You know where else mixed kids couldn’t hold their parents hands? Apartheid South Africa. We live in fucking FLORIDA.

why?

my mom has epilepsy, and in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, several states passed laws banning people with epilepsy- among other disabilities -from marrying

“There is one thing I’ve always wanted to know”

“Ok, ask away,” God said.

“Do vaccines cause autism?” she asked

“The truth is no, vaccines have nothing to do with autism”, admitted god.