You Know I Hate Tumblrs “i Hope They Do Something Problematic” Shit So Much? Its Not Only With People

I think part of what makes the McElroys so lovable for millennials and gen z is that they’re a REAL underdog success story. All the ones about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs starting Apple and Microsoft from sheds and Jeff Bezos starting Amazon from a shed are wrong. They all came from well-off backgrounds with upper-class privilege coming out their goddamn ears, but the brothers didn’t.

They really were just three ordinary boys from West Virginia, and if you listen to Griffin’s Florida State lecture (the whole thing’s on youtube) he talks about how rough things were for them when they started their podcast. He mentions how they were in mourning over their mother, fighting all the time, and ready to separate forever, but held on and decided not to abandon each other in the thick of it. And things were still rough, because their father had to work stupid hours at the radio station to support himself, and the brothers were trying to make it in game journalism.

And then they started MBMBaM, a goofy bad advice podcast full of improvised bits and comedy segments, and it blew up. They started TAZ, a fun D&D podcast where they played with their dad, and were able to bond together and let him retire comfortably on the revenue it generated, and now Clint oversees the TAZ graphic novel series that’s still releasing issues and spends boatloads of quality time with his three sons. Monster Factory is just a funny game stream where Justin and Griffin try to destroy character creators as much as possible, but it’s one of their biggest IPs. Their TV show was short-lived but explosively popular among their fanbase.

They sell out entire stadiums and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays them We Didn’t Start the Fire parodies as they walk on and people lose their collective minds. Tom Holland fanboys over them at SDCC. People come from all over the place to hear them perform, and that performance never got less authentic. It’s just three brothers and their dad being goofy together and trying to make each other laugh. And the laughter and love they carried for each other was so contagious that it made an entire world of people love them, too. 

Maybe they’re a bit weird, and their jokes don’t always land, but they’re not always supposed to, because it really is just a tight-knit family living in the moment. And in this world where our two generations may be close to each other but horribly disadvantaged socio-economically, the idea that these three boys carved out a way for themselves through the sheer force of their own happiness out of such a dark place is more hopeful than any “millennials are killing the mayo industry” article ever written.

Riz getting a job as a part time rogue TA at Agueforts after college. Like, Eugenia isnt going anywhere she's still the main teacher but he's there to help the kids with hands-on work maybe twice a week.

He's still got his detective agency going on the side, and sometimes disappears for a couple weeks for LPRTF stuff (Agueforts for sure has quest leave so its fine), but he's mostly hanging around to keep an eye on kids and other teachers just in case some go evil again.

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Stop dating abusive women 2018

Nobody on the left ever wants to hear this, but a large part of the reason we keep losing elections is that we have chased away moderates and constantly act like their very presence is poison. There’s a persistent delusion on the left that we’re some kind of silent majority and it’s just not true. We’re not a large group, and we do need to loop someone else in if we ever want to form any kind of government at all. Elections are not protest movements for a reason. They are in fact a terrible time for such a thing. Especially in a multi-party system where there is always another potential choice just around the corner and nobody is obligated to buy what you’re selling, no matter how convinced you are the only moral option is what you believe. If you want to convert someone to the cause it has to happen long before that. And if you can’t, but they are willing to stand with you this time? Then that’s gonna have to be good enough. They don’t have to be your best friend. They don’t have to be your comrade.

I saw a woman on twitter who’d just joined the Democratic Socialists of America talking about how if she hadn’t gone to an in person meeting she never, ever would have done it because their online presence fucking sucks, filled with frothing keyboard warriors constantly screaming about guillotines and violence and brutal revolution. And then she went to a meeting and it was all sensible, helpful people doing things like paying off parking tickets for those in need or arranging for necessities like food or rent to be covered. I think about this a lot, how bad the left’s advertising is. We can’t spit contempt in everyone’s face and then expect their help when the time comes. That’s not how human nature works. And yes, the internet has definitely made this phenomenon worse.

I don’t care about the revolution. The revolution does not exist. I care about getting useful politicians into a position where they might help somebody. I care about practicality. All these glorious and correct ideas mean dick shit if nobody ever gets to actually use them.

Jewish people: Never Again means now Jewish people: When we say Never Again we don’t mean just us Jewish people: This is the same exact way this started for us last time Jewish people: We’re being arrested for trying to do something and they aren’t letting people know what’s happening or how many have died Jewish people: These are concentration camps, start calling them that. Goy, repeatedly: Uhhh, calling them that diminishes the suffering of The Jews, so you shouldn’t make those comparisons!!

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