ABACOT

look at unimportant things. (I am the lord and creator of these memes unfortunately)

[depsidase]

[squishyproductions]

No, if that were the case then Trump wouldn't have won the nomination for his first term. He was up against a plethora of perfectly safe, normal, traditional bigots who WEREN'T caught on tape bragging that they go around grabbing women by the crotch.

What fascism offers is power. The kind of power that lets you go around grabbing women by the crotch.

It promises they'll be part of the in group who gets to benefit from that power. No, they're not part of the in group. None of them are billionaires. But they create the illusion through campaigns of nonsensical performative cruelty against the people they hate so that they'll feel powerful for not being the victims of their own bull shit.

And, honestly, not even that is true. They catch strays all the time. It's why they're fed a constant drip feed of misinformation to keep them so petty and hateful that they don't care how much they're personally hurt by these campaigns as long as they think the people they hate are hurt more.

[abacot]

Sometimes i go to add my 2 cents and there is already a comment that just covers it all. No notes.

[abacot]

Are we all coming back here after tiktok goes?

[nerdy-as-heck]

I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too

[ankle-beez]

POINT AND LAUGH

[normal-horoscopes]

LMAO

[abacot]

It's not Like she needs the money. I'm sure she doesn't care what happens to the franchise. But now we don't get to see it because she is dick.

[goosewithajob]

“Can One Punch Man beat-”

Yes. Always. Good lord. I never understand why people can turn this into a big serious discussion. Yes, One Punch Man would beat Thanos. He would beat Luke Skywalker, Superman, every single character from Dragon Ball Z, and every ninja from Naruto. He would beat Thor and Wolverine and the Hulk in a tag team match. 

Because he plays by different rules. One Punch Man is a PARODY character. His skill set is defined by comedy, not power levels or physical strength. One Punch Man not Superman facing off against an ever-more powerful lineup of villains. He’s the Roadrunner against Wil E. Coyote’s ever more convoluted plans. Deadpool is the only other super hero type character who comes close to living in the same realm of parody, but frankly, Deadpool repeatedly getting the crap beat out of him would be funnier than Deadpool winning, so One Punch Man would win that fight too, even if he can’t actually kill Deadpool in one punch. Because parody.

If I see another Youtube video recommended to me like “Could One Punch Man beat-” really, truly, I do not care. 

[riotlion]

I saw somebody also make this point once in another great post, I’m paraphrasing from what I remember; how strong is Saitama? However strong he needs to be in order for it to be funny.

[ckret2]

The only possible matchups that Saitama might lose are ones where:

1) it’s conceivable that, due to the rules the other character is operating on (as in, whatever rules of comedy govern the other character’s universe), he might not be able to get in one punch.

AND

2) A compelling argument could be made as to whether it would be funnier for Saitama to lose that fight.

Canon example where both came into play: he lost the fight against that one mosquito, because it was tiny, fast, and flying, and because it was hilarious. Rule #1 alone isn’t enough, because if it isn’t funny for him to lose, he’ll find a way to punch through whatever restrictions are preventing him from punching the target.

So “could One Punch Man beat Superman/Thanos/Unicron/the Death Star?” will always go to OPM.

But you could have a compelling debate over “could One Punch Man beat the Animaniacs?”

[abacot]

The last sentence is all you need to read.

[wrender]

[abacot]

Imagine having all that money and prestige and spending your free time being a bigot.

[iwt-v]

Betty White and a bear stop what you’re doing and reblog

Betty White: First Lady of Television (Netflix)

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[tendergothic]

@sho-minyamimoto @taru-kaja @dartfrogs

[abacot]

[chemsexholmes]

say what you will about the British they went off with fish and chips.

[chemsexholmes]

Never mind fuck the British up the arse!! shoutout to 19th century Jewish immigrants....

[abacot]

There is nothing more British than getting excited about literally the most boring food.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Leave me alone, Google, I wanna see arguments in SUPPORT of the Earth being flat!

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Guys read this it’s a riot:

https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_-_Frequently_Asked_Questions

[edgar-allan-possum]

Oh my gosh

[museofmelody]

[metalcatholic-deactivated202202]

I  can’t believe you didn’t include the gif

[edgar-allan-possum]

This must be seen by everyone

[transmetropolitan]

This must not be seen by anyone

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Anyone else immediately notice the sun’s path of light is curved and how the moon SHOULDN’T be going the opposite direction of the sun because then you’d never be able to explain lunar cycles?

[unadulteratedpiratepizza]

My favorite thing about flat earth theory is that they have an answer to everything that says the earth isn’t flat, but if you put more than three of those answers together, they cancel each other out

[abacot]

It's hilarious because the light is clearly hitting a sphere

[slipping-into-madness]

[abacot]

An excerpt from the book

"ADHD Does Not Exist":

For my patients who are (suffering from adhd symptoms), I recommend that they eat right, exercise more often, get eight hours of quality sleep a night, minimize caffeine intake in the afternoon, monitor their cell-phone use while they’re working and, most important, do something they’re passionate about. Like many children who act out because they are not challenged enough in the classroom, adults whose jobs or class work are not personally fulfilling or who don’t engage in a meaningful hobby will understandably become bored, depressed and distracted. In addition, today’s rising standards are pressuring children and adults to perform better and longer at school and at work. I too often see patients who hope to excel on four hours of sleep a night with help from stimulants, but this is a dangerous, unhealthy and unsustainable way of living over the long term.

[saywhat-politics]

Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting

In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting three people, two fatally, during a racial justice protest in Kenosha.

[zeshuetoral]

So if I travel to where he lives, shoot him in the face when he walks out the front door and claim self defense because he's a known murderer, that's self defense, right?

[abacot]

No. You can point a gun at him, if he tries to stop you, then you can shoot him because he could use the gun you were pointing at him to shoot you. But be careful! If he DOES wrestle the gun away from you, he has the right to shoot you because you tried to take the gun he took from you! It all makes perfect sense.

[twitblr]

Y’all just setting Tony up to get his ass beat (x)

[fogwhisker]

the suit isn’t even made from iron, actually, but still…

[fogwhisker]

[imperatorkhaleesi]

Magneto, in arguably the best X-Men film in the series, used iron from a guard’s blood to break out of prison.

So……

[neshatriumphs]

I wish all Magneto a very Beat Tony Stark’s ass.

[ptsdpolaris]

MCU fan (derogatory)

[abacot]

Can magneto manipulate all metal or just magnetic metal?

[harmalite]

CLADISTICS ruined my life

[aquaticpaleo]

yall joke but this is actually a serious conundrun with cladistic-based classification

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The choice is this: 

Birds are reptiles 

Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT 

That’s it, that’s the choice 

[shadybacon]

What if Bird and reptiles are two different things that came from the same thing

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nope 

Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds) 

So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles 

birds are dinosaurs though, full stop. we’ve already defined what a dinosaur is and it includes birds. but reptiles isn’t really defined so much as thrown against a wall angrily. 

[shadybacon]

But don’t turtles and alligators have more in common with modern reptiles than modern birds have in common with modern reptiles? I’m not trying to contradict, I’m trying to understand. Mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor as well, but we do not make them the same group.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s not about having things in common. It’s about common ancestry, which is how we classify animals in light of extinct species, which defy trait-based classification. 

And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals. 

So, either we decide that Tuatara Lizards and Snakes are the only reptiles, or we include birds as reptiles. Or we just decide reptiles are no longer a thing. 

[anais-ninja-bitch]

don’t throw reptiles against the wall? please? some of them are small and delicate. you could hurt them.

[virovac]

Basically, unless we’re maybe talking massive horizontal gene transfer, everything is still part of the group that came before it. 

You are technically a fish.

[haltraveler]

IIRC the fish thing is so frustrating that scientists have decided fish is just not real cladistic grouping at all

[aethersea]

hey could we go back please to the bit where the closest relative of Birds is Crocodiles? bc I am alarmed

[haltraveler]

Well, technically they’re equally-closely related to crocodiles, alligators, gharials and tomistomas. As archosaurs, they’re all descended from small reptiles that looked something like this 

The two main groups of archosaurs are the Pseudosuchia, or crocodile-line archosaurs, and the Ornithodira, or bird-line archosaurs. Both groups were massively diverse in prehistory, with the Pseudosuchia dominating most land-based niches in the Triassic, and the Ornithodira, especially the dinosaurs, doing the same during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. However, most of them have been wiped out due to the Triassic and Cretaceous mass extinctions, leaving them each with only one surviving clade: Aves, the true birds, and Crocodylia, the semiaquatic, ambush predators like crocs and gators. 

[alexaloraetheris]

This entire post sums up everything we’re not allowed to mention in our Vertebrata classes because the last time someone started that argument they had to break up a fistfight.

[knitordeath]

I’m just hung up on the humans evolving from fish comment.

Like, we evolved from tiny tree-climbing squirrels. To the best of our knowledge.

[theclockworkjudas]

…which evolved from tiny tree-climbing reptiles

…which evolved from amphibians

…which evolved from fish.

[invisible-goats]

*runs in ten minutes late with a plucked chicken* BEHOLD A LIZARD

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

you could have left the feathers on this time tbh

[dee-the-red-witch]

It was already plucked. They just STOLE IT from philosophy 101.

[generouslyandrogynousdragon]

Every turn on this post has been a left, but somehow it hasn’t hit itself, and instead just spiralled outwards like some Ancient Greco-Roman floor design, enveloping taxonomy Tumblr in chaos.

[squided]

Birds being a reptile has the same feeling as when I found out dolphins are just sea wolves.

[abacot]

Foxes are dogs playing cat and hyenas are cats playing dog.

[abacot]

Parents: "critical race theory is teaching my kids that white people are bad!"

"No, it's teaching them that bad white people are bad. You would know the difference if you were taught critical race theory..."

[paxamericana]

my one superpower is that i can instantly tell when someone who doesn’t use the word “ya’ll” in their day-to-day speech starts using it to be sanctimonious and folksy on the internet

[sorrelchestnut]

i can tell you don’t either OP or you’d put the apostrophe in “y'all” where it fucking belongs

[abacot]

Yall don't got time to to say "you all" but have time to mess around with apostrophes???