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If you want 2016 to be your year, don’t sit on the couch and wait for it. Go out. Fucking make a change. Smile more. Be excited. Do new things. Clean your room. Throw away what you’ve been cluttering. Unfollow negative people on social media. Go to bed early. Wake up early. Kick ass. Every damn day

My opinion on 2016 (via umibenome)

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At Texas A&M there was a dead cockroach in the Anthropology building’s stairwell for at least two weeks. Some enterprising person made her a little shrine that quickly escalated.

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Holy shit, this experiment is so exploitative of low-income children.

But ultimately this is hardly a positive lesson, tearjerker though it may be, nor is it some grand insight into children’s decision making processes. It’s an advertisement with a very pointed, clear message. As Becca Day-Preston wrote at The Debrief, where she called the video “Christmas poverty clickbait,” it’s cruel to impart such a choice on children in the name of exploiting their supposed kindheartedness. As Day-Preston put it, “…it doesn’t matter that the kids got to keep both gifts in the end. In the second that they thought they wouldn’t, when they were made to make a Santa’s Choice, they would have felt a combination of emotions I wouldn’t wish on anyone. All for the sake of going viral with a heartwarming tale of Christmas spirit.

@salon‘s story, which you can read here.

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what the actual fuck

I’m so angry about this

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it’s made even more upsetting by the fact that poor kids learn at such a young age that that can’t have nice things, that they shouldn’t even ask because the family can’t afford it, that things like that are for Other People and not for Us.