nyah nyah

A very dear friend of mine post­ed about an in­ci­dent where she was in an es­tab­lish­ment and sev­er­al em­ploy­ees and most of the cus­tomers were not wear­ing masks. 

Some­one sug­gest­ed she re­port them and an­oth­er per­son replied, 

“Lets not let this pan­dem­ic turn us into tat­tle tales. Just don’t go back to that es­tab­lish­ment. I have al­ways taught my kid not to be a tat­tle tale. It’s ludicrous.”

I haven’t thought about the con­cept of be­ing a “tat­tle tale” in a very long time be­cause I am 38 years old and I don’t have chil­dren of my own, nor do I spend much time at all around them.

P A R E N T S

is this re­al­ly still a thing? It seems like such an an­ti­quat­ed, tox­ic thing to teach a child, right up there with “he’s mean to you be­cause he likes you.”

Ob­vi­ous­ly it’s im­por­tant for chil­dren to un­der­stand the dif­fer­ence be­tween harm­less be­hav­ior they sim­ply may just not like or be able to re­late to, and ac­tu­al wrong­do­ing and harm. But in the case of the lat­ter, I would think the child would need to know it’s cru­cial for them to no­ti­fy an adult.

Turn­ing a blind eye and sim­ply walk­ing away so the cul­prit can do more dam­age and hurt the next per­son who comes along with their bad be­hav­ior is not the right thing to do.

Re­port it for sure. I get not re­port­ing be­nign be­hav­ior, but this isn’t that.

Not to men­tion, these peo­ple are like­ly en­gag­ing in that be­hav­ior re­peat­ed­ly there­by putting many oth­ers at risk.

My in­dus­try just had a #meToo reck­on­ing and af­ter every­one was like “oh yeah I knew that guy sucked.”

If those peo­ple had ac­tu­al­ly snitched and let oth­er peo­ple know they’d seen that be­hav­ior, the amount of harm that would’ve re­sult­ed in would be monumental.

R I G H T  N O W

alll over the coun­try, ass­holes are pulling guns on min­i­mum-wage paid em­ploy­ees be­cause they asked them to wear a mask.

There is no such thing as a “good guy” with a gun.

The “good guy” with a gun is nowhere to be seen when a “bad guy” has a gun. Most of the time, he is run­ning in the op­po­site di­rec­tion. More tod­dlers mis­han­dling a glock from with­in their mom’s purse have shot her dead than “good guys” with guns have ever stopped “bad guys” with guns.

The Venn di­a­gram of peo­ple who think they’re the “good guys” with guns and the ass­holes pulling guns on peo­ple when they’re asked to wear a mask is prob­a­bly al­most a sin­gle circle.

It’s re­al­ly un­for­tu­nate that Covid-19 isn’t some­how mag­i­cal­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry about who it in­fects and it doesn’t just tar­get self­ish, ob­nox­ious, stub­born ass­holes who refuse to do their part to help us all get out of this.

What a stu­pid ugly fucked up coun­try we live in.

I’ve been wear­ing an un­der­wire bra since I was twelve you can wear a mask

— Jen­nifer McAu­li­ffe (@JenniferJokes) July 12, 2020

A L S O

it would be disin­gen­u­ous if I said that De­moc­rats nev­er dis­ap­point­ed or an­noyed me.

Of­ten it seems like they’re in­ca­pable of slap­ping their ass with both hands, and if they had a theme song it would cer­tain­ly be Yakki­ty Sax.

That be­ing said, there is no such thing as “both sides” in this coun­try. De­moc­rats have been the ones try­ing to stop this thing, and Re­pub­li­cans are noth­ing but evil, de­gen­er­ate, greedy pieces of shit who are play­ing pol­i­tics with peo­ples’ lives and livelihoods.

Nor­mal­ly I am not so black and white, but this is one exception.

There is ab­solute­ly no ben­e­fi­cial rea­son for these schools of thought to ex­ist in a civ­i­lized, mod­ern so­ci­ety. Re­pub­li­can fis­cal ide­ol­o­gy has been de­bunked us­ing his­to­ry and facts, and it’s all lies any­way to main­tain sys­temic pover­ty and in­car­cer­a­tion to make the rich richer.

Re­pub­li­can so­cial ide­ol­o­gy is tox­ic garbage that means noth­ing to the ul­tra-wealthy but works like a charm on ei­ther the text­book ig­no­rant or the will­ful­ly ignorant.

It is all de­signed to keep peo­ple stu­pid and make the rich rich­er, and trick peo­ple into think­ing they, too, can be­come rich and pow­er­ful if they just “work hard” and pray to the Amer­i­can Jesus.

Re­pub­li­cans and con­ser­v­a­tives are garbage

A N D

our coun­try will not re­cov­er or move for­ward into the mod­el of those where qual­i­ty of life con­sis­tent­ly ranks high­er than our own un­til we per­ma­nent­ly rel­e­gate Re­pub­li­cans and con­ser­v­a­tives to the dust­bin of history.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2020 Emi­ly Duchaine. Fo­tos: source, source, source.

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