Bevendre
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“You can’t just change the race of cultural icons like Captain America! It’s an important part of their identity and message!”
Jesus: Ah yes.
Jesus: Can’t imagine who would do that.
Jesus: What a shame.
A-FUCKING-MEN.
(via alonelyshadowgirl-blog)
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Have a 10 minute background from a patreon comic
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My friend and I saw that opening weekend. It was wonderful. Except for the crying fucking baby in the audience.
Yeah, crying babies tend to spoil the experience a bit. Still, it is a fantastic movie that I would recommend to anyone and everyone.
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Obama on gay adoption
yeah totally ruining this country what a horrible guy
Fun fact: Obama has attempted to fix almost everything that he promised to fix, but the republicans have voted almost all of his bills out of congress. He’s not the problem.
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Ape does not kill Abe
That too. If you haven’t seen them, watch “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and go and see “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”. I put a review up of the latter a few days ago if you’re curious.
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Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.
Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.
“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!”
“But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”"But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”
I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!
The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.
reblogging for more top commentary
They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.
But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.
The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, that’s what I’m reblogging for.
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When there’s something weird in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?
Winchesters!
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Things the social justice warriors of tumblr have taught me
1. It’s absolutely, 100% fine, even encouraged, to judge people and discriminate against them entirely based on something outside of their control, like skin color, sexuality, gender, etc. It’s encouraged to promote hatred of people for these things, because it’s a healthy way to let out pent-up emotion and frustration.
2. People with privilege, especially white cishet males, can not suffer in any way (because of their privilege, they are exempt from difficulties in life). Obviously only minorities can suffer from lack of money, mental illness, loss, or other hardships.
3. There’s no need for you to educate yourself and read up on the subject that you’re speaking for. Relevant books are only written by white male cishets who are terrified to experience the fall of patriarchy and therefore should be ignored and referred to as an unreliable source when used in the opposing argument to show a point. Personal experience and stories you’ve heard (obviously true, regardless of where you’ve heard them from) are the only reliable references you use in your arguments.
4. If anyone opposes you, regardless of their argument, just tell them they a) are bigoted able-bodied white cishet males trying to oppress you or b) if they’re part of a minority group, tell them they have unfortunately internalized the patriarchy, poor souls. If they object, scour their argument for anything that could give them away for being ableist (do they suggest you actually go out and do something to further your cause? do they call you out for using improper grammar? do they use the word st*pid or d*mb?), ageist (do they say you’re immature? do they say you have no experience or that you’re too young to argue these things?), etc.
5. One person can speak for the entire group. Even if they are not part of that group. In fact, especially if they aren’t part of that group. As long as they are pointing out oppression, it must be true. For example, white people calling out others for cultural appropriation for getting henna tattoos. However, this does not apply if a single person says a group is not oppressed, regardless if they are part of that group, because they’ve probably just internalized the patriarchy anyway.
6. It’s okay—nay, encouraged!—to make up your own definitions to suit your argument. If someone tries to argue against you (for example, if you say racism against white people doesn’t exist) by copying and pasting the dictionary definition, say that the dictionary is wrong. Brownie points if you say that the dictionary is a result of the patriarchy and its definitions are just a way of systemic oppression.
7. What happens on your public blog is private. Forget that your blog is part of an enormous web of blogs on tumblr and that it’s surprisingly easy to find your way to an obscure post. If somebody finds your post complaining about cishets and whines about it, they obviously were intruding on a private conversation and should be told to mind their own business.
8. Evidence to back up claims should only come from Tumblr. Anecdotes, statistics, facts, definitions, opinions…. All of it should come from that post you saw one time on Tumblr but have now lost. Somebody uses outside sources against you? Don’t bother checking it out because what you saw was the truth. Why would something you read one time not be true?
9. Contradict yourself as much as possible. Ignore anyone who tries to point out your hypocrisy, because they are just white cishet male scum.
10. Be angry. For God’s sake, if nothing else, be angry. You’ve been wronged. You are still being wronged. You will be wronged for eternity and there’s nothing you can do about it but hate nearly everyone around you for things outside their control and your control. Anger will solve everything if it’s powerful enough.
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ace:
YELLOWSTONE ANIMALS FLEEING PARK. SUPERVOLCANO ERUPTION IMMINENT?
“At Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, there is a mass animal exodus underway. Miles of buffalo can be seen running frantically from the Northwest end of the park. They are even running down roads. Elk are also evacuating at an astounding rate. Smaller animals such as rabbits and squirrels are also fleeing Yellowstone. According to one expert, Thomas Lupshu, the only possible explanation is that the seismic activity in Yellowstone which has been increasing over the past month could mean that an eruption is on the way. "
I’m pretty scared right now
Fuck
Ah hahahaha!! Suck it losers! Cali is in the free zone
Bear in mind, as the map says, the zones are estimated without factoring in wind and weather, and the map does not bring up the climate change that tends to follow supervolcanic eruptions. There is no free zone.
Take into consideration Yellowstone is some 20 years overdue to have a massive eruption.
Also take into consideration that, should Yellowstone explode, it wont be the lava/magma and initial explosion that kills everything, it will be the enormous black smoke clouds that will cover at least 80% of the Earth and block the sun entirely and is predicted to last decades, that will slowly but surely kill majority of life. Should this happen, Earth will enter a new Ice Age. And to top it all off, the shockwave and volcanic activity may very well cause other seismic activity including earthquakes and other volcanic eruptions.
There have also been reports of major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, in the past, that have caused seismic activity on the other side of the planet at or around the same time.
2012 was a ridiculous exaggeration of ‘doomsday’…. but the Yellowstone Eruption may not be far from what may actually happen.
Least to say if Yellowstone erupts we’re all fucked eventually.
-information sourced from various scientific findings and reports of Yellowstone’s last major eruption, my own knowledge of volcanic + other seismic activity and reports of various other eruptions including Mount St Helens and the following aftermath. Some is theorized some has been all but proven true- and the only way to prove this kind of thing true, is to wait for it to happen.
^^^^^^AS I SAID: THERE IS NO FREE ZONE^^^^^^
