Thoughts from a strange place.

Part of a long tradition of movies in which, in order to demonstrate that the underdog EveryMan can succeed, he displaces a woman with much more talent and training and we’re not meant to think too hard about the implications of that

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

talk to your coworkers about this. remember that the "taking advice from everyone except the experts" thing cuts both ways. you can be the non-expert guy at work who isnt an expert and gives someone advice they decide to follow based on vibes, but your advice can be the right advice instead. this is something we can all do.

We got:

Suicide victim #1 (pushed to suicide via being ignored and gaslit by The Rabbit)

Suicide victim #2 (pushed to suicide via being isolated by The Rabbit and gaslit when she tried to confront her. All because she told them that she killed her mom)

Nonbinary person who tries to call out the abuser but always gets shut down, and is barely allowed to have any scenes to aerself, and mostly just exists for the development of an ironically also ignored character. The finale has them exclusively speak like an AI therapist.

Bubble canonicaly likes scaring children and semi-canonically would say slurs if he was allowed! Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? Isn't that

The Rabbit (serial abuser who pushed two people to suicide, almost pushed two MORE people to suicide [Ragatha and Gangle], harasses non-men for fun, fantasizes about killing and sexually harassing people, and doesn't get any repercussions until she commits suicide. Though even then she feels no guilt towards abusing anyone other than her friends, plus potentially killing her mom)

Main character that we somehow know next to nothing about (except that she likes Jax) (she'd do anything for Jax) (she tolerates the others but she'd DIIIIIEEEE for Jax)

Plural system in which the host lobotomizes himself to remove his traumatized (because he ate them/forced them to fuse) misanthropic sibling. The sibling gets no personality besides being misanthropic and isn't allowed to say anything once the host forces them out.

Silly Old Guy that has memory issues and possibly Fantasy Dementia but who cares, he's a Silly Old Guy! Except for when he's useful, of course. It's really nice when he's useful, otherwise the only good he does is be funny.

Abuse victim that was forced into a vow of silence by The Rabbit and thus not allowed to grieve a person she cared about. She was also abused by her mother but that's only relevant because The Rabbit was ALSO abused by HIS mother. Also don't let her get mad at The Rabbit it's not allowed

Fish

Abuse victim that gets very little help from the people around her that actively witness her abuse. The best she gets is a relationship with the extremely underdeveloped non-binary person. To be fair, they're a good partner, albeit still weirdly passive about the abuser that keeps harassing xyr girlfriend for the most part. Also she's bipolar coded but who cares about that, right?

Suicide victim #3 (technically #4 thanks to The Rabbit). We know nothing about her except that she's an entomologist and the Silly Old Man's dead(n't) wife.

The only unproblematic man in the entire show. He debuts and dies in episode 2, gets brought back in episode 4 with questionable amnesia, then is dropped. He deals with a lot of existentialism but we're not gonna think about that too hard because that's BOOOORINGG

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

Thanks to this post I now stretch and lift small weights every morning

I haven't been doing it long enough to feel any long-term effects but it sure does feel good short-term and get me going for the day!

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