Success cannot exist without failure.

Before you succeed once, you might fail once, twice, a hundred times. But that's okay. As long as you learn from it, you can succeed next time.

[aphilosophershark]

Being shot in the face with a shotgun (and living), or being a republican voter, which is a more painful experience?

[aphilosophershark]

Full offense intended to anyone who does like Trump, but how tf can anyone like Trump?

[liberalsarecool]

How ICE Agents wake up every morning.

[aphilosophershark]

Capitalists aren't your friends. They aren't anyone's friends. The only people they care about enriching is themselves, and it is at the expense of their work force. Your needs, your rights, your freedoms are all inconveniences to them. Because they get in the way of making them more money.

Capitalists want to be slave drivers. They want you to be their slaves. And the less we fight, the easier that becomes for them to attain.

[aphilosophershark]

Everything you do has a consequence. Every action you take, every decision you make. Even when you decide not to do anything, that itself is its own decision and also comes with repercussions. That is why everyone who didn't vote in the election still impacted it.

[aphilosophershark]

Is SuperWhoLock still a thing?

[aphilosophershark]

Congrats to Mamdani winning his election, love to see it. Good work everyone in New York who went out and voted!

[aphilosophershark]

Nobody gets away with verbal abuse like a customer does.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I feel like a lot of Gen Z don't know that the ACA/Obamacare was the compromise.

The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say "hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too".

It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let's be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.

"Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man" isn't just a hypothetical. It's literally what happened when we tried to meet Republicans in the middle with healthcare.

[aphilosophershark]

Yes! By the way republicans are this way on purpose. Their end-game is to get it their way, no compromise, at the expense of absolutely every US citizen that isn't insanely wealthy. The republican party is a party by and for rich people that serves rich people interests. Everyone else, all of us, are just fodder to them.

There is no negotiating with fascists, because they refuse to negotiate. The republican party is a fascist party.

[aphilosophershark]

However much you hate republicans, you don't hate them enough.

They want to take money AWAY from YOUR healthcare and put it into the pockets of rich bastards. YOU won't be able to afford health insurance. YOU will die. And republicans DON'T CARE because it saves Jeff Bezos money that he won't even notice.

[menlove-archive]

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

[menlove-archive]

lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you're 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here

[aphilosophershark]

You can be 35 and like Goku, you also just need to have the basic life skills necessary to start and hold a conversation, for instance. I think a lot of it comes from people being brought up sheltered and having everything handed to them, so when it comes time that they have to act... they crumble. I see it a lot. And I work in customer service, in a role that works with people from all walks of life, so I see all kinds of varieties of it. A lot of people do not have skills needed to navigate their lives. I wonder every day how these mfs do anything.

[aphilosophershark]

I hope everyone on this website is remembering to stay woke in these hard times. I also hope that everyone remembers the cultural significance and meaning of what it means to stay woke. Stay hydrated, stay strong, stay safe, stay woke!

[tatiilange]

painting commission

[coywolfy]

Hot summer fun! ☁️🌟

[bug2go]

[commisson] 1hour for client via Twitter

[kobithedragon]

https://www.are.na/block/5491592

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[whatthewonder]

[theannoyingalien]

Bill Clinton straight up used to look like gibby from icarly

fUCK HE DID

I’m crying this is horrible