Be Nice....Or Else!!!! - Mental Hellth
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Compulsory positivity allows the elite to get away with murder...or just bad TV
By Nat Cohen Nat Cohen is a Los Angeles based attorney and writer with a background in indigent criminal defense and eviction prevention. Ted Lasso asking you to be happy. If you’ve spent time on the internet since 2016, you’ve probably seen the meme: it’s a drawing of two people, with one holding the other’s mouth shut and saying “shhh… let people enjoy things.” The image, drawn by Adam Ellis from a webcomic skewering a sanctimonious nerd who doesn’t like football, has since been deprived of context and embraced by sanctimonious nerds everywhere. The meme is old in internet years, and…
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