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Taxation without Representation?

An interesting thing happened in class today.

We were talking about why 16-year-olds who are working part-time jobs, get taxed for federal and state taxes when they could not even vote yet.

The whole class had their minds blown by the fact.

#government #ap government #Taxation #without #representation #american revolution

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A GOD DAMN LOOK

#bts jin #bts #jin

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cutie in a beret

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Ahhh co cute > 3<

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let me hug you, Jimin

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headband taehyung is my religion

Will looked at him curiously. “Do you think you will see me again?” At the change in Jem’s expression, he added, “I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?”

Cassandra Clare, On the Bridge: Will and Jem before Clockwork Angel

#cassandra clare #will and jem #heronstairs #clockwork angel #feeltrain #quotes

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Violin & James Carstairs

I have a good soundtrack for this pic [x] [x]

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Oh Jem :(

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Omggg

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OMG THE BEST PART!! LIKE A F**KING BOSS!!!

(gifs not mine)

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THIS PAAAART

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SM is not appreciating Lay enough. Please repost.

I more people to see this. Please repost. People need to see what Lay, Zhang Yixing, has done.

I was just watching EXO Monster music video, the Chinese version. A lot of people were saying Lay wasn’t getting enough lines in M versions and how it’s a Chinese song where the Chinese get two lines. Then you get comments like:

“Well everyone needs to remember that everyone has their designated roles in the group. Lay has improved greatly in terms of singing, and he is indeed better than he used to be, but he came to SM as a dancer. Just because he’s Chinese does not mean he has the right to all the lines.“

“Maybe Lay’s voice didn’t suit some lines within the song in comparison to the other members.“

“The problem is that he can’t sing as well as baek and kyungie.”

“…because LAY has too much personal activities…”

I don’t even want to continue.

People keep saying ‘Why do Chinese members keep leaving’ and how Chinese people always ‘leave for money’. Look, Lay is here staying in the group and not going for the money and supporting his brothers, he is keeping to his words ‘we are one’. Yes, it’s true that Lay has his own personal studio in China and is doing variety shows and dramas in China but he still has to give SM a big part of his income. Don’t know whether it’s 100% accurate but according to a website in China, half of Yixing’s person studio staff was employed by SM and Yixing has to give 70% of his income to SM. Well, 30% of is income is actually a lot considering how well he’s doing in China but bare in mind Yixing is the one doing all the work and he has to give SM 70% of it.

Lay has make his way into the Chinese market and had gotten so popular recently starring in variety shows like Go Fighting and honestly, he can do so much better and so much more if he left the group and focus on his career in China but is he leaving? No. He’s not leaving. The reason why Chinese members keep leaving is because of this. This is a song in Mandarin and a Chinese members get two lines. TWO FUCKING LINES. Kris and Tao used to get one lines or two lines in songs and maybe not even have a proper line in K versions. If you search Kris voice on YouTube, someone made a compilation of his solo lines from MAMA to Overdose (M and K version included) you would find that he only had 8.33 minutes overall. And for Tao, he only got 4 minutes. There is a reason why members want to seek for more opportunities and want be able to do more. There are members like Sehun where all his lines were E-X-O (well he did have more lines in Love Me Right and recent songs).

How do you expect them to still stay when people like Kris who trained for 7 years, not knowing whether he’s going to debut and when he does, he get two lines in a song(except raps) and would always be placed at the back while performing live. He was originally supposed to debut after training for 3 years but the date got pushed back and SM told him, ‘Just wait another year.’ Another year became two years, three years, four years. He had became the foreign trainee who has trained for the longest time in SM. How do you expect him to still stay? I don’t even want to go into how Kris’s body conditions were and how he has serious problems with his body. See how well Kris doing in China and even starred in Hollywood films, would he be doing that if he stayed?

Back to Lay. I hate it when people say stuff like “Lay only focus on his career in China and doesn’t even do EXO stuff anymore.” Excuse me, how dare you say that. Yes, Yixing did spend a lot of time in China filming and doing variety shows but he’s trying so hard to keep up with both EXO and himself. Let me tell you Lay’s schedule and after this you wouldn’t dare say he doesn’t try.

This is his schedule for the past two months.

May

5th-Beijing to Gimpo

9th-Incheon to Shanghai

13th-Back to Korea

18th-Incheon to Beijing

19th-<To Be A Better Man> Conference

20th-Beijing to Seoul

23th-Incheon to Xiamen

25th-Xiamen to Shanghai

28th-Hongqiao to Seoul

June

5th-Seoul to Shanghai

6th-<Old Nine Gates> Conference

6th-Premiere of <To Be A Better Man>

7th-Back to Korea

8th-EXO comeback showcase

This was his schedule for the past two months. How dare you say that Yixing is not doing enough EXO stuff. Why do you think he keeps flying back to Korea? He could have stayed in China since he has so many conference to go to. It’s because EXO comeback has a lot of planning and practicing to do. If he has ‘given in to money’ like some people like to say, why do you think Yixing has gave up his time for resting and flying back and forth China and Korea. If he has really ‘given in to money’ why shouldn’t he just leave? Why does he keeps mentioning EXO in China? At the end of interviews he would always tell people to not only support him but also EXO. He doesn’t need to do any of that. He really don’t. He could’ve just left and continue what he’s doing in China. But he keeps his promises. He promised to stay with the members, he promised to not leave, he promised to prove that Chinese people are trustworthy.

You can’t judge Yixing if you haven’t tied sandbags to your body to practice dancing for almost two years just because you think your dancing wasn’t going anywhere, it was to a point where he can’t even stand up because of the damages he has done to his waist. You can’t judge Yixing if you haven’t seen the amount of time he puts into making a ‘better Zhang Yixing’. You can’t judge Yixing if you haven’t had a cramping leg but still managed to finished a short interview and the whole Love Me Right choreography and immediately collapsed to the ground after the performance. These are all happening when people call him names like “attention seeking bitch”. He is still standing. He doesn’t deserve all this. He doesn’t even to work half as hard but chose to because he wants to prove to all those people who judged him, who attacks him, who call him names.

If you’re judging him or has judged him, think about whether you’ll be able to go through all this and still put on a smile for everyone.

Zhang Yixing is so hardworking and is such an amazing human being. SM need to change, and SM need to appreciate the effort Yixing is putting into EXO.

We’ve already lost three members, we couldn’t afford to lose more.

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Suho dabbing so hard in Monster I bet BamBam can hear it

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160601 V’s Tweet

다녀올게요~

I’ll come back ~

[T/N: or “We’ll” not an exact subject said]

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I love his face XD

#uncharted #samuel #drake

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Brothers Drake

What gets me the most is the fact that Sam is the one Nate was always listening to, and even when Nate is grown up he still looks for Sam’s approval or “what Sam is going to do about it”

I mean look at this, when shit gets down:

Sam is actually the only one person that can tell Nate what to do in every situation and Nate will listen to his words, like can you imagine other situations similar to this? When something bad happend and Nate was all about “Sam?” because Sam is the answer to everything. KILL ME. Once I’ve realized how big is the weight Sam is carrying on his shoulders, man… since he was a little boy he was responsible for explaining things to Nathan, all of the stuff that were happening in their lives. No kid should be responsible for explaining to their younger siblings that their mother is dead and their dad dumped them.

Sam was a teenager. A bloody teenager. He was supposed to have fun at this age and not worry about stuff like money or future of his little baby brother and yet here he stands, not complaying, but trying his best. He could just simply say “bye” and walk away buT NO

and then because Sam knows his job is dangerous and it will be a better solution for Nate to stay in the orphanage

He’s not even like “but I’VE made it work”, no. He makes sure Nate knows he is important too and that he’s doing a fantastic job and everything’s gonna be okay. Seriously I don’t fucking know how is that possible that Sam has so many strenght. Like what.

“hey hey hey you keep your gun on me” aka I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE

LOOK AT LITTLE BABY NATE ALL SCARED AND LOOK AT THESE LITTLE SHITS HOLDING HANDS

Here is another thing I want to talk about. Even though they are both scared and the situation is pretty fucking tense, Sam is not saying some shit like “come on give me this HURRY UP NATHAN GOD DAMN IT” as probably many people would say in this situation because of the emotions, NO, he is actually sorry that he has to take this journal from Nate and he finds an extra time to let Nathan know that he truly is sorry.

Ok here’s some cute ass little scene with BOOOP

like fuck, look at Nate he’s all proud he found their mom’s stuff BABY LET ME HUG YOU AND LOOK HOW GENTLE SAM IS WITH HIM WHAT

Sam actually cares about Nate more than we could ever imagine and I’m crying don’t mind me

and here’s the scene I wanted to talk about at the beginning. Even if they are old Nate is still looking at Sam because he trusts him so much and is still looking for his approval

remember when Rafe wanted to hold this cross but Nate said no because he didn’t trust Rafe