6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.
this doesn’t apply to jobs like childcare
If i worked in childcare and my 6 hours were up i would start putting babies in ziploc bags and shipping them to Turkmenistan listed as endangered fruits and vegetables
everyone loves talking abt jews or comparing themselves to jews but they hate actually listening to us.
we notice when y’all use us to demonstrate how oppressed you are to other gentiles (usually by invoking the holocaust bc y’all r insufferable) but when it comes to actually addressing jews and the antisemitism we face suddenly ur tripping over urselves to argue that Actually Jews Are Privileged Bc Ur All Rich And White. so which is it? are we a tragedy you can co-opt whenever you feel like it? or are we greedy, entitled crybabies who couldn’t possibly understand oppression?
The fact that Tankies went from Soviet (Communist) apologists to Putin (Fascist) apologists should tell us a lot about their guiding values.
the fact that you are yet another dumbass using “tankie” as a strawman that you can use to describe anyone vaguely to the left of you should tell us a lot about your guiding values.
Care to define Tankie for us, then?
the entire point of that post was that “tankie” is now so meaningless its just a perjorative for any group of people who seem vaguely socialist. that was the post. do you know how to read?
also, a big factor in this route to meaninglessness was propaganda that places tankies as fascist conservative pieces of shit in order to stir infighting.
They probably don’t even know why it’s tankie
i mean thats a given with libs
Let me help: in 1956, Hungary tried to break free of Soviet control, and bring self rule back to their nation.
Khrushchef- the leader of the Soviet Union- was not happy about this, and so sent in Soviet tanks to crush the uprising.
A bunch of British Communists believed that the USSR was right to hold Hungary as an imperial possession. Other communists were horrified by the disconnect between Communist ideals and Soviet reality.
This second group named the first group “Tankies”, after the Soviet tool that killed thousands of Hungarian civilians.
Modern self-described Tankies are cheering on Putin’s Russia as that nation attempts to bring Ukraine back into Russian vassalage.
Compare the reaction of the Warsaw Pact to Hungary with the reaction of NATO to France.
Similarly, one should compare the reaction of Russia to the Ukrainian election of 2014 with the reaction of the EU to Brexit in 2016.
So a thing that always bothers me when I see people on Tumblr mention CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for all you fellow perverts out there - is that if you were told that CBT is about “thinking will make your problem go away” then you either had a shitty therapist (which is entirely likely) or you weren’t listening closely enough (which is also likely for all of us with different flavors of neurodivergence).
I say this as someone who did CBT to only middling success - it wasn’t a cure-all, but it DID give me some tools that help in very specific aspects of my life. No, stopping and naming my sudden burst of rage or sadness or hopelessness as PMDD or a depressive episode does not make that burst go away. But after doing it for a while, it makes it easier to DEAL with that burst. Reminding myself of that makes it easier to not take it out on someone else, to successfully tell myself “this isn’t someone else’s problem, it will pass soon, it always does, being an asshole about it only makes it worse.” I still feel absolutely shitty, but thanks to that self-training I feel less shitty on the back end than I otherwise would.
When my brain tells me I’m worthless, CBT taught me to immediately follow up by asking “would anyone I care about say that about me?” Does it mean the worthlessness completely disappears? No, but it can function like a rope tying me to reality so I can ride the shitty terrible thoughts out to the other side without doing anything stupid. Sometimes the rope is sturdy. Sometimes it’s embroidery floss. But any tether is better than none at all.
Does it always work? No. But it works often enough that learning some CBT methods was worth it for me. Knowing what the problem is doesn’t negate the problem. It just reminds me that controlling how I behave when it occurs will make life better for me in the long run. I still need the drugs. I still have other coping mechanisms. That’s just one of them.
That’s why Behavioral is in the title. CBT isn’t for everyone, and it’s not going to work on every issue. But it can be useful tool in your “deal with my mental illness and/or neurodivergence” toolbox. It’s not a scam. It’s not just pseudo-science bullshit. It’s just training yourself to remember that even if you can’t control the pain, you can control how you react to it, and that control can be a gift to yourself.
