[gnightfuckooos]

Don't know where you are but just wanted to let you know someone was thinking about you and I really hope you're happy in life <3

I’m doing pretty good, thank you. :)

[gnightfuckooos]

this blog is still dead, and my new blog is still going. you’re still welcome to shoot me a message asking for the new URL, i’ll likely give it to you as long as you’re not a porn blog and not somebody who has pissed me off.

[gnightfuckooos]

hey. reminder that i closed this blog a week ago and opened a new one, and youre supposed to message me if you want the new one.

[gnightfuckooos]

welp. so dies this tumblr, that i started in january 2010. six years and 11 months of pure bullshit that i better wrap up and move on from. goodbye.

-ramona

[gnightfuckooos]

I’m closing this tumblr tonight. I’ll have a new one, i’m following those of you who I want to be able to find me. look out for me.

[gnightfuckooos]

if youre truly committed to keeping in touch, message me and i might give you my new url

[gnightfuckooos]

hey i'm meeting some cool followers i didnt know i had this way so please dont be shy to message me. shutting this blog down in about an hour.

[gnightfuckooos]

I’m closing this tumblr tonight. I’ll have a new one, i’m following those of you who I want to be able to find me. look out for me.

[gnightfuckooos]

if youre truly committed to keeping in touch, message me and i might give you my new url

[awkwardrandomteen]

Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood on a Harp “‘Cause it’s too cold for you here”

This sounds beautiful

[constantneverland]

This is the most soothing thing I have ever experience.

[moonglowlily]

[gnightfuckooos]

I’m closing this tumblr tonight. I’ll have a new one, i’m following those of you who I want to be able to find me. look out for me.

[nevaehtyler]

Flint, Michigan hasn’t had clean water since April 24, 2014.

[cognitivedissonance]

Text: Patrick Farley Illustration: Jon Wolter

[tamper]

[pdtonystark]

that Relatable™ mental illness feel when you can’t tell if your workload is unreasonable or if you’d actuallly be able to handle this if you had a functioning fucking brain

[likrotable]

Day 8

STORE

[cloudruler-old]

someone being a jerk: i have depression okay????

me, who also has depression:

[of-another-broken-heart]

So the USA is trying to starve its poor to death. Not even an exaggeration. 

The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW the poverty line. 

And the only way to “earn” your benefits - the way to “prove” that you don’t “deserve” to starve to death - is to work 20 hours per week, or 80 per month. 

Either pull a job out of your ass (earn your paycheck AND qualify for food assistance), OR participate in 80 hours of UNPAID labor (PLUS the expense and time of transportation to and from a set, unflexible location). 

And after working 80 hours (plus paying money you don’t have for transportation to get to the designated “program” location/s) for the state to “prove” you don’t deserve to die, you get… are you ready?

I’m gonna use the Florida figures, because that’s what I was reading up on.

Less than $200 in food assistance. The average is actually less than 150.

Care to do the math? 

$150 for 80 hours. 

$1.88 per hour. 

The USA is a fucking dystopia. 

[blossoming-tears]

What the ever living fuck.

[selphinrose-deactivated20181217]

@fullten @lady-feral I…what

[bogleech]

Yeah, I was hit with this. We’re okay right now since we’re staying with family, though feeding us puts a strain on them as well.

I make some internet money that works out to about 125 a week so if I wanna keep getting my food assistance I have to itemize that so it qualifies as a 20 hour a week job, which it probably does, but it’s ridiculous that anyone has to do this and most people under the poverty line will not be able to.

I HAVE had real jobs. I’ve had enough real jobs that the taxes taken out of my own past paychecks already cover all the food assistance I’ve used and plenty to come. I have already paid for this food myself.

And every day a politician somewhere in this country wastes enough money to feed our entire fucking population.

[bogleech]

I WANNA ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT for anyone who thinks they might need to sign up for food assistance, cause a few people just asked me some stuff about it.

In your interviews and applications, they are going to ask “do you ever eat with other people.”

This is a trick question.

You’re gonna probably think “well, technically, yeah, I had lunch with my friend last week…my mom made me a dinner….”

STOP

Answer NO. Always always answer NO. This question is designed to weed people out. If you admit to literally ever sharing a meal with another human being, that actually allows them to deny or alter your benefit amount. Even though this is legally referred to as “supplemental” food assistance and it isn’t enough to live on by itself, Republicans already don’t want anyone to have even that, and they want to consider it “fraud” if you both receive food assistance and EVER share food with another person, whether you’ve used your benefits to buy ingredients for someone’s birthday dinner or your mom made you a casserole one visit.

The correct thing to say when asked these questions is “I purchase and prepare my own food” or “we eat separately.” Even if you’ve already told them you live with family or a roommate.

Remember: Republicans don’t even want assistance recipients to be able to buy “luxury” items like fucking pasta sauce. They would limit you to nothing but gruel if they could. They’ve fought and pushed to load the benefit process with “tricks” and catch-22′s like these to treat as wide a range of people they can as lazy fraudsters and moochers.

[selphinrose-deactivated20181217]

Hey @fullten , this is some super important information from bogleech here. Sorry to bother you to post it again but I think this might save some people some pain in the future to see this.

[room-where-it-happens]

On the list of “things that should never EVER be put on television, ever”, this is pretty damn near the top of the list. And this, by the way, is why on hate speech I take the Jeremy Waldron “Dignity and Defamation: The Visibility of Hate” approach of not giving them a platform, period.

Because guess what? You now just signaled to anti-Semitics everywhere that “are Jews people” is a matter of debate. And that’s about a million types of fucked up.

[froborr]

What the ever-loving fuck CNN.

[keyofjetwolf]

How the actual fuck is this even allowed to be a thought that oozed into the world, coalesced in a legible form, and then broadcast so the rest of us had to observe it with our own eyeballs.

How is this even a question being raised, how is this A LEGIT DISCUSSION POINT, how is it that CNN isn’t a person with a face that I can spit in and punch.

[bregq-deactivated20161213]

Fucking liberals…

[bregq-deactivated20161213]

Thinking about this more… like, it’s so clear how liberals have no defense against fascists. Their beliefs come wrapped up in these abusive, manipulative packages aimed at fucking with the minds of the listener. Even the mere act of entertaining this question “are Jews [or any group] people” is a victory for the fascist. Liberals are prostrate in front of the altar of “freedom of expression” and the “market of ideas” and they don’t even realize that fascists don’t take discussion or debate seriously, and only respect violence.

It doesn’t matter if you think it’s 100% bullshit and can scientifically prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Like OP said, the fact that you are even engaging means that you think it’s a valid subject of debate. You’ve given them a foot in the door, and since fascists don’t care about playing by the rules or discussing things ‘in good faith’, that’s all they need.