“Money doesn’t buy happiness” ok and poverty buys what exactly
where is the lie
Out of poverty creates strength and compassion. It’s weird how that works.
i sure wasn’t feeling the strength when i was skipping class because i was too weak to walk there after going 2-3 days without food, and i definitely wasn’t compassionate when i was checking every time i walked home to see if there was an eviction notice on the door. stop trying to fucking make it seem like a good thing.
Poverty is not a virtue. It doesn’t make you a better person. Poverty doesn’t make you “strong and compassionate” it makes you insecure and stressed the fuck out. Poverty makes it so you can’t live your life without the everything being undercut by fear. It makes you hard and angry. We need to do away with the bullshit myth that being poor is somehow better for you as a person. You know who wants you to believe that? Rich people, so you don’t question them.
“poverty creates strength and compassion” is a lie perpetuated by the financially privileged to encourage the poor to accept their economic disadvantage and all of the trouble it comes with.
lack of access to affordable medical care, affordable education, shelter, electricity, and food do not build character. literally kill that myth right now
Say what you want, but imo, Ozai getting his bending taken away, being mocked by a group of teens, and then being imprisoned in a dark cell, wearing rags, and being forced to see the son he abused and abandoned take the throne and do a damn good job at leading is INFINITELY more satisfying then him just dying and quite likely being turned into a martyr figure by his supporters. “THE FIRELORD DIED FIGHTING THE AVATAR” is something that would have let him go into the history books almost gloriously. “He got beat by a teenager and died alone and powerless in a cell” ? Now that’s the kind of pathetic ending a piece of shit like him deserves.
History books in the atla world be like
“And after Ozai’s bending was taken away, Toph Bei Fong, later Chief of Police, appropriately called him the ‘Phoenix king of getting his butt whooped.’”
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
Easter has a different date every year
because it’s based on the moon phases.
In 325 CE, Constantine I led a council
of Christian bishops who decided that
Easter must always be a Sunday to
honor the resurrection of Jesus. They
also said it would immediately follow,
but not land on, the first full moon
after the Spring Equinox, which is why
the date can fall anywhere between
March 22 and April 25. SourceSource 2
April Fool’s Day is in a few days, and I just wanted to make this clear.
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