I'd rather have no more stranger things than to watch season 5 and know the writers of my favorite show can't even live on the paychecks they receive to help create the show. ruins it completely for me
Because there should be public transit and trains. It is a ridiculously short flight that is just polluting the world unnecessarily but a lot of people don’t have a better option. There’s so many major cities in that small area that they should have train lines between them all
I get given scraps by government budgets because I am expected by conservatives to become profitable which is an impossible goal. This forces prices on the services that are used to be raised
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but Amtrak has to share the track with freight trains which take priority, so when there's a frieght train stopped on the route, Amtrak is also stuck waiting due to the fact that there is not a separate track for commuter rail.
This is like one of those romance novels where people bond over accidentally writing each other emails but better.
Like Pride and Prejudice but instead of the love interest getting dissed for his toxicity and then reforming, it’s just two people bonding over dissing a dead toxic asshole.
Does being told that I'm either an "egg" in denial or a cis woman trying to feel special and invading trans spaces count as exorsexism?
Absolutely. The idea that NB/GQ identity is either a stepping stone to being binary trans before you can let yourself realize it, or just cis people with wacky presentations that has nothing to do with your gender, is a very old exorsexist idea in trans spaces.
also, it brings to mind something I've noticed with regards to non-traditional surgery, especially bottom surgery: the idea that, when people get bottom surgery outside of what is expected (a binary trans person aiming to have entirely cisperisex-passing genitalia), its often seen not as a move to try and have a body that makes you happy or alleviates dysphoria, but like. A ~crazy~ new form of Extreme Body Modification for sick freaks!!
Like Mao Sugiyama, who got gender nullification & had a banquet where they* served their genitalia. Not only are there people who for some reason decided that, because one person did this, it means that cannibalism is a trend within people who seek gender nullification. But I have seen this story reported so many times as "this Guy did this Crazy Thing for Fun!!" which completely erases both their gender-related motives for surgery and that the banquet was meant to help raise awareness for gender/sexual minorities. People who were assigned male who seek nonbinary transitions are depicted as "freaky cis guys" and people who were assigned female who seek transition are not mentioned or slaves to internet trends. Gender desires that aren't coherent to binary people just entirely ignored when they aren't being used as proof of insanity.
Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).
Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).
Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included 78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)
Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.
Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations
This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.
Eddie being happy because of his other even though he lives in a rat hole and or is homeless or living underground and his live is a freaking mess. Plus only calling themselves venom when their together.
Eddie Brock is an emotional mess and that's why we love him. Flash Thomson isn't perefect and that's why we love him. Seeing string make charicters break down and cry isn't about showing weakness it's about proving their human and true fleshed out charicters. Guilt and fear and happiness and genuine contentedness, these are my favorite things to see in charicters diverse emotions. Not just anger and power all the time.
The venom movie was great honest, but the best thing about it is the attention it's brought to previously in my opinion criminally underapeeciated charicters in Marvel. Both Eddie Brock and flash Thomson. I loved the comics and now other people are starting to see what I love about them.
I'm so freaking salty that flash isn't a part of Eddie and his others lives it's disgusting. Their needs to be more flash and Eddie getting along for the sake of the symbiote.
People aren’t trying to take away my guns. They are trying to inject some freaking common sense into the equation.
“I’m a gun owner. I have two pistols, a rifle, a shotgun…and a (now-expired) concealed carry permit. I’ve been shooting since I was a kid.
I also support every single gun control measure out there.
Why? Well, because of a number of logical reasons:
1. I go to gun shows, and I’ve witnessed more illegal cash sales than I can count. People bring guns to sell to dealers at the show and end up selling them to buyers in the parking lot who are willing to pay cash. No background check, no bill of sale, no formal transfer of ownership. Yes, this is happening, people! It is a regular occurrence and illegal in many states.
2. Every time I go to the gun range, I witness someone doing something extremely dangerous with a gun.
I’ve been swept more than 20 times — this means someone has unintentionally pointed a gun at me. I’ve seen the wrong ammo used (ask my husband about the time he almost lost an eye). I’ve watched people shooting guns that they lack experience with or ones that they can’t handle (take, for example, a child or a smaller adult shooting a Desert Eagle semiautomatic handgun), causing kickback that can injure them and cause them to flail their loaded gun in all directions. I’ve seen guns jam, and people continue to fire them to “clear the jam.” I’ve seen people continue to fire when the range is “cold.” All of these people consider themselves “responsible” gun owners. Nope. And these aren’t exceptions to the rule — every single time I go to the range, I see someone doing something reckless and potentially deadly.
3. I’ve seen people handle guns when they are drunk, tired, hungover, or angry. I would never think of doing these things. It is irresponsible, and again, potentially deadly.
4. A friend of my college boyfriend pointed a loaded gun in my face because he wanted to show me how cool his new toy was. I dropped to the ground. He forgot it was loaded. He’s a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy.
5. The class you take to get a concealed carry permit in North Carolina is easy to pass. You sit through a two-day class, take a simple written test, get a background check and fingerprints through the sheriff’s office, and basically just have to prove that you can hit the broad side of a barn. That’s it.
6. The “hero mentality” is misguided and dangerous. Unless you have combat training, the “good guy/gal with a gun” is more likely to kill another civilian or get mistaken by cops as the shooter. I’m a decent shot with a pistol. I’m a great shot with my rifle. But in a life or death situation, where people are literally being murdered in front of me, it’s completely unrealistic to think that, even with all my training, I could do anything but add to the chaos.
7. The NRA is a terrorist organization. Yup, I said it. I used to be a member because they gave discounts on shooting-range time. I quit after one year because I couldn’t stomach the thought that my money was funding them. Their magazine and mailers are filled with propaganda about people coming to take my guns when there is absolutely zero evidence at all to suggest that is ever going to happen. Their recent ads make me sick and ashamed that I ever supported them.
8. The home protection argument makes sense to me on some level. I had a friend who was killed during a home invasion, so I get it. But an AK-47 (and other assault weapons) is not an ideal weapon for personal defense, and it serves no purpose for “home protection.” It was designed for military use. A a 12-gauge shotgun is a better, more realistic choice for home defense. I’ve never seen any peer-reviewed study/expert/article anywhere that can refute this. Bottom line: Assault-style weapons should never be in the hands of civilians. Period. And going back to point No. 7, in a home-protection or self-defense situation, you’re still more likely to injure yourself or have your own gun used against you.
These are my thoughts on the subject as an experienced, licensed, and trained gun owner. I’m already a member of the Brady Campaign, Everytown for Gun Safety, and will be joining Moms Demand Action. I find it impossible to understand why other gun owners like myself don’t support these groups. They aren’t trying to take away my guns; they are trying to inject some freaking common sense into the equation — something we desperately need and that every gun owner should support.“
if you cannot argue these points you cant oppose gun control
the number one beef i have with people who flip out about gun control laws is they immediately say ‘responsible law abiding gun owners like me’ as being unjustly held accountable- well then you should have no trouble with laws you are already complying with, either you are responsible or not
its like if i as a parent am upset with new laws that require me to feed my children, bathe them, and not beat them- and then justify my anger in that ‘im a good parent’ well if i was a good parent i wouldnt be upset with a law saying they will check i feed my damned kids just like gun laws that just check you are competent enough to be trusted with the insta-death boomstick so many drunk hillbillies wave around like a little girl waving a plastic fairy wand
This, so perfectly this. The gun control laws we want are ones that just reinforce the ones that already exist. We want to ban guns whose only use is to cut human beings in half with multiple bullets, and nothing that is actually used for personal defense, small-arms military use, and hunting. NO ONE SANE needs a a submachine gun to goddamn HUNT. If you disagree with that–if you truly, completely, to the deepest parts of your being, believe that the only way you can bag that eight-point buck is with an AK-47…then you are a BAD HUNTER and you are PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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