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#there it is, number four.

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10K FOLLOWERS CELEBRATION | TOP 20 MCU CHARACTERS (as voted by my followers) 16. OKOYE - i am not a spy who can come and go as they so choose! i am loyal to that throne, no matter who sits upon it!

stillstudies

hey studyblr community! did you know that ethnic studies classes in the united states only exist because of BLACK student activists? that’s right- all of those “diversity” courses you are able to sign up for in uni- asian american studies classes, chicano studies, indigenous native american courses, african american history. education dedicated to diversity in america as a resistance to a system that wants us to assimilate. I fail to find a better example of how education is power. students make change every single day in this world. we owe activists every single right and luxury that we have. don’t let your silence be violent. #blacklivesmatter

thorodinsson

Relatable Moods → Captain America: Civil War Edition (insp.)

spidaerman

if you’re white and are protesting, please, please listen to this. if you’re white and have white friends protesting, let them know

this all blows in the face of Black and brown people protesting

aethosial-moved-deactivated2021

black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

butterscotch-veins

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

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buffysummers

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

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idk which bi person needs to hear this today, but you are very important

diabeticlesbian

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement dir. Susan Muska and Gréta Ólafsdottir (2009)

discount-supervillain

I think this one was funnier in my head

just-rhys-things

No it’s still hilarious

kineticpenguin

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fuckin lol

sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202

Another day, another politician that thinks Trump doing something they do means Trump should get all the criticism instead of realizing they’re both wrong

lobothebuilder

The difference here is that Trump spends tax payer money for his golfing and AOC spent her own paycheck on a video game to unwind. They literally aren’t the same thing at all

sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202

Right, where do you think that paycheck comes from?

kineticpenguin

Were you born this stupid or did you have to work at it?

sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202

Ok, just to be clear, do politicians get payed with tax money or not?

kineticpenguin

If you honestly think a government employee spending their own salary is functionally identical to charging leisure trips to your own golf courses to an expense account and billing the Secret Service for being there, just because they’re both paid for with taxpayer money, I can’t help you.

sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202

But what’s the difference in the end? They both paid for something with taxpayer money.

kineticpenguin

Okay. It’s very simple: When the government disburses money to its employees in the form of a salary, the transaction where the taxpayer is concerned is concluded. The taxpayer has paid the employee for services rendered. What that employee does with that salary after that isn’t the taxpayer’s business, since the taxpayer already got what they paid for.

To put it another way, you wouldn’t argue that Doris from the DMV is “spending taxpayer money” when she spends some of her salary on a pedicure and claim it’s the equivalent of a presidential golfing trip, or that a soldier buying a case of beer with his salary is a waste of tax money. Because you are paying them for the job they did.

In other words, it’s not fucking taxpayer money anymore.

It is, however, still taxpayer money when it is part of an account set aside for expenses incurred in the execution of one’s duties, and the President uses it to pay himself for taking vacations, and to pay himself again for the taxpayer-provided security detail.

And even if I were to play your stupid false equivalence game: At $300 per console and a game price of $59.99, AOC would have to buy 369,455 Nintendo Switches with a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for each to reach the $133 million racked up by Trump’s golf trips. So even if you were to blubber about how it’s all a tragic loss of taxpayer money either way, there’s your fucking difference you goddamn moron.

We’re done here.