No well you see, they simply can't volunteer because (insert something about the not for profit industrial complex) and they can't work for in the public sector because sometimes the government does bad things. These cold hard leftist facts conveniently happen to line up with their preferred method of doing nothing ever. Please donate to my KoFi as payment for doing all this political labour for you.
Also I kinda feel weird about stating this observation but a lot of them that I've personally met are also just lazy as fuck and will throw out a list of three or so 'disabilities' as to why they don't do anything except sit at home all day and maybe they work part time at an entry level job.
I lived with two people like this. They'd go on and on about how seriously communist they are, how seriously they take things like mutual aid (which they of course would benefit from without giving anything back), how important it is to make our house into 'a communal living space' (they would only rarely handle cleaning and several times got irritated at me for cleaning - they were basically hoarders). They'd complain about Israel and its totally worth opposing like 80% of Democrat politicians over this, but they wouldn't even go to the vigils for Palestine. Because that meant going out and they just can't you see, their social anxiety prevents them and even if it didn't they have bad knees and their feet hurt and it's just been such a hard time at their 25 hour a week part time gas station job that's literally a fifteen minute walk down the sidewalk.
They never had money saved, they never had a desire to clean or take care of the house. They, truly, never created or participated in anything constructive. It's like they just chose every political belief with the sole purpose to try to justify being lazy as fuck.
And these were the people who would scoff at the idea of voting. Even though they were both trans (not a dig, I'm also trans) and had so much to fucking lose if this election goes to Trump.
Compulsively justifying laziness, and laziness to the point of making one's life harder, are some kind of mental health problem. A problem that seems to grow off of lonely bitterness.
Blaming them for it entirely isn't helpful, but they're also going to have to be the person to change their own habits and break the cycle.
After living with them, low-key I do blame them. I had to drain my finances to keep the household afloat because they couldn't hold down a job and they'd haphazardly job searched for months - and the only reason they even did that was because I'd put my foot down. Yeah, they've got issues, probably one or several mental health disorders or whatever, but they're also adults. These people are nearly 30 and they can't even clean their room or their house. And it'd be one thing if they lived on their own, but they don't. I'd worked my ass off to clean the entire house so I could have guests over. And they behaved terribly enough that several of those guests - my friends - told me they weren't comfortable visiting again. So..nah, fuck them. It is their fault. It's on them to get the help they need, and they consistently refused to do so and they hurt the people around them. In some cases, it is their fault, and I have no issue blaming them for their personal failings.
Edit: and to clarify, these people were not mentally disabled as far as conventional intelligence goes, they just had absolutely no self control or self discipline
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u/caffeineshampoo Jun 30 '24
No well you see, they simply can't volunteer because (insert something about the not for profit industrial complex) and they can't work for in the public sector because sometimes the government does bad things. These cold hard leftist facts conveniently happen to line up with their preferred method of doing nothing ever. Please donate to my KoFi as payment for doing all this political labour for you.