you're generalizing. not everyone who needs help buys into the fuck bootstraps mentality.
it's an insight into the general decay of personal responsibility that so many people nowadays do. i'm ashamed to think i once did, knowing even then there were people around me who were just as bad or even worse off who (horrors!) just... well, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, just like that other anon in this thread. and they did it without relying on assistance (which isn't bad by itself, but it shouldn't be option a) or blaming the system, which are both frankly more than i was capable of doing.
sorry but "put your big girl panties on" is not actually the same as "pull yourself up by your bootstraps"
and "stop talking openly about innocuous things that are one of the cornerstones of human social interaction" is not actually just asking for a "small basic courtesy"
well done with derailing the thread though. people sure took this bait
i mean, yeah, that definitely implies you're really mad about this, idk how to brain this out for you. like something about this topic really set you off, it's super obvious in flatview.
idk anon, i think calling calorie counting a cornerstone of human social interaction is giving it, and this trainwreck of a thread that's mostly just trolling at this point, way too much credit.
holy shit how self-centered do you have to be to sit around bitching about having to "babysit" your mom after she opens up about being raped as a kid? I cannot believe I just read this
snape was a greasy shit, but i don't think he was ever "literally fully evil" beyond the part where he went undercover with the death eaters for dumbledore
so i think that one was already validated by canon, or at least validated as far as the author cared
i don't know what else you would call a person who would easily let a woman's husband and child die (and expect her to be okay with it!) as long as he could have her all to himself
not to mention his supremely petty tormenting of children he didn't like (not just harry), full embrace of voldemort's wizard supremacist bullshit (it's never said that he had any great chance about this, he just turned on voldemort cuz he killed lily) and willingness to let a man's soul get sucked out just because he didn't like him
i don't think snape is the most evil guy in a series where umbridge exists, mind, but people who insist he's a good guy are severely deluded
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