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I agree with the message but?! this is tone deaf coming from one of the elitist, most prestigious fashion events in the world. you are rich to even be invited, an event where the ticket is literally $30,000…. I’m gonna eat YOU

urban-spaceman

None of you people understand the actual reality of how much the ultra-rich hoard. Aoc is not even a blip on the radar of rich. Aoc grew up poor in the bronx and continued to work as a bartender while she was on the campaing trail.

Is she wealthier than the average person? Yeah. No shit sherlock. But does she qualify…as RICH?? My fam…my guy….my bud…..the answer is simply No.

Aoc wants to tax the 1%. The people who can afford to buy space programs, influence elections and send countries to war.

She is not referring to…like….lil nas x here. Shes referring to jeff fucking bezos.

Please learn the difference between BEING WEALTHY (aoc) and being RICH (bezos, gates, etc)

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Also this is just a classic case of the left trying to eat itself.

Some of you really need to ask why you’re trying to drag one of the most progressive American politicians for this. I mean for one, if any of us could afford to go we would, let’s not pretend lol. But secondly, damned if she does damned if she doesn’t right? If AOC attended and didn’t have a political statement, she’d be dragged. If she attended and did, she’d be dragged. If it came out that she had the opportunity to use her platform to make a statement at the event and she refused, she’d be dragged.

Some of you really think you’re achieving something by helping the right dunk on progressive figures for literally nothing, when AOC is the one who bothered to run for her position and put in the work and is sticking her neck out. Tumblr and Twitters love of dragging progressives who actually do the work is embarrassing. You all know rightists don’t care if you cancel them so you spend your time picking at the actions of the most progressive voices doing the work, from behind your screen.

AOC actually thought she was going to die when the Capital was stormed because she’s the figurehead of progressive politics, and you think you’re better than her because she went out and did something fun for once?

iworldlywriter

^^^Say 👏 It 👏 Louder 👏

gingerswagfreckles

I’m just repeating this on every version of this post. She didn’t pay for her ticket she didn’t pay for her tickeeeeeet she was the guest of the designer who designed her dress who also did that for free oh my god oh my gooood

ink-phoenix

From AOC’s story today.

Learn something.

bastart13

You're allowed it once. The others have no excuse

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honestly frodo’s journey is so wild

like, imagine your uncle goes missing after his birthday party, and his old stoner friend from out of town tells you the souvenir he brought back from a vegas trip 80 years ago is actually satan’s mood ring and now zombie assassins are coming to burn down your town unless you and your lawn guy meet up with medieval hozier in a dark gastropub…

vee-vee-writes

This is the funniest synopsis of lotr I’ve ever seen

snowywarmthkuya

wow, ok, unfollowing now. i knew he made them a cookie, but im only now finding out that he eated it

portaltworemade-deactivated2021

fallout 4 npcs are so wild you can walk by someone and they’ll be like “leave me the FUCK alone” and you’re already gone

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fallingtowers

oh no!!!

fallingtowers

my ribcage split open, revealing a grotesque, vertical maw, slavering and bleeding, with uneven rows of jagged and splintered ribs for teeth!!!

fallingtowers

and prom is TOMORROW!!!

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dir. martin scorcese

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cadaverkeys

genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn't really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!

cadaverkeys

another thing that pop culture latched onto is this idea that you might use a wreath of garlic bulbs to ward off a vampire, however, in the book there is a popular use of garlic blossoms rather than the bulbs. i think these are a lot prettier and way more versatile for stylisation! you could have a garlic flower crown.

cadaverkeys

also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula

gahdamnpunk

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

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as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.

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this is fucking MURDER.

insulin has been mass produced (from animal extracts) since -1923-. slow acting insulin has existed since the ‘50s, and ‘human’ genetically engineered insulin (derived from E. coli bacteria) has existed since 1982.

insulin treatment for diabetes is not some new or ‘unproven’ treatment. according to beyondtype1, “Humalog rapid-acting insulin came on to the market with a list price of $21 a vial in 1997.” adjusting for inflation, a vial these days should cost about $34 at most. instead, it costs over $300. there is NO reason for it to be steadily gaining in price to the point that diabetics are unable to afford their lifesaving medication, other than the sheer inhuman greed of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

let me reiterate: life without insulin (for Type 1 diabetics in particular) is a slow and painful death sentence. the ability to treat diabetes is a relatively modern phenomenon that has allowed countless people to live full, healthy lives. we should be expanding full covereage and access to insulin to diabetics the world over, and it should be FREE.

plantyhamchuk

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internet-sentences

Just had a visceral flashback regarding the physically beautiful but incredibly stupid young man I used to date who got fired from his job as engineer at medical device manufacturing company after he ODed on conspiracy YouTube, requested a meeting with the CEO, and told him that the company’s mission was misguided as all of modern medicine was fake + cancer could be cured by only eating fruit

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When I broke up with him he accepted it calmly and told me he had to go home to inform his Warcraft 3 guild of the change in relationship status

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I checked in with him a few years later and he had a job emptying the coins out of arcade machines and sent me a poem he wrote about how he wanted to have sex with the arcade machines because they reminded him of his childhood, it was p good

pun--candy

people: "if biden and harris lose, this could be the last fair and free election in our lifetimes!!!"

me: *thinks about how felons can't vote, thinks about how the working class often have to choose between getting work that day or voting, thinks about how black people and indigenous people couldnt vote until 55 years ago, thinks about how gerrymandering is rendering low income/mostly minority districts virtually silent, thinks about how the electoral college is still in effect and has more power than the actual popular vote, thinks about how each state can set up their own arbitrary laws for voting, even at the federal level, thinks-*

me: yea. fair and free. yup.

apparentlyeverything

Biden supports restoring voting rights for felons, Republicans are the ones who regularly try to close polling places in *working class* communities since they tend to vote Democratic, gerrymandering low income/minority districts is again, something that Republicans do at the state level to try to limit Democratic votes, and many Democrats, including Harris, have expressed their desire to get rid of the electoral college in favor of the popular vote, while the GOP wants to keep it since it favors them. If you agree these are all problems, then you also have to acknowledge which party is trying to solve them and which one is trying to make them worse. Democratic politicians can’t make Republicans go away on their own, you literally have to vote them out.

Also, yes, states run elections, and that’s both why they can make their own rules, and why it’s important to elect people at the state level who don’t try to make it difficult for low income and minority voters, and again, these tend to be Democrats.

It’s also kind of important to recognize that people are worried about the end of “free and fair” elections because the Trump administration is taking several specific steps to make them even *less* free and fair, so complaining about the lack of nuance or historical context to that argument is kind of missing the forest for the trees here

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OP, if you want me to take seriously your principled opposition to voting for Biden-Harris, then you need to persuade me of your alternative proposed action. If it’s your revolutionary group’s coupe planned for November second, email me your manifesto and maybe I’ll sign up. If it’s not something that’ll finish repairing the last four years’ damage before Election Day, I want to know why not both. I want to know why you think your plan will be easier to implement under four more years of Trump than under four years of Biden. If you persuade me of that, email me your manifesto and maybe I’ll sign up. However if all you’ve got is a list of complaints against Biden and Harris then you do you but, no matter how groundful your complaints may be, I don’t see the difference between you and a Russian psy op from 2016.

prince-atom

*thinks about how felons can't vote,

No, they can’t, unless they’re fortunate enough to get their rights restored, and that’s not fair. Who can change the laws? Elected officials.

thinks about how the working class often have to choose between getting work that day or voting,

That’s not fair either, and all election days, both state and federal, should be holidays. Who can make them so? Elected officials.

thinks about how black people and indigenous people couldnt vote until 55 years ago,

But they can now. They’re enfranchised today. Because people lobbied elected officials and won their right to vote.

thinks about how gerrymandering is rendering low income/mostly minority districts virtually silent,

It is and it needs to be fought. Who draws districts? Elected officials. Guess when they draw them -- next year. This year’s election outcomes will impact the shape of your congressional district for the next ten years.

thinks about how the electoral college is still in effect and has more power than the actual popular vote,

It is in effect but I’m not sure it has more power than the popular vote. Twice it has happened in my lifetime, and both times the popular vote was a squeaker either nationally (2000) or in a few key states (2016). Democrats win when voter turnout is high. And the Interstate Popular Vote Compact is almost a reality.

thinks about how each state can set up their own arbitrary laws for voting, even at the federal level, thinks-*

Who sets the voting laws? Elected officials.

If the prevailing attitude is that “nothing ever changes” or “voting never changes anything” then nothing ever will change. We’re effectively a right-wing nation because elections over the last few decades have trended to the right because when voter turnout is low, the right wins in this country, and voter turnout is low in presidential midterm years.

If you want the country to look the way you want it to, you have to participate. And yeah, “fair and free election” is a pretty ludicrous concept right now -- but that’s no reason to sit it out.

prismatic-bell

ALSO?

The Supreme Court just gutted a huge problem with the Electoral College. Here, I’ll screenshot my email. (My deadname is in the email because it’s my registered-voter name, but that’s the only thing I’ve edited out.)

It was a 9-0 vote. A UNANIMOUS VOTE. Even Gohmert and Kavanaugh—both Trump appointees—said faithless electors are not okay.

WE CANNOT LET THIS BE REVERSED BY A COUP. WE CAN’T.

Vote vote vote. Take everyone you know. IT MATTERS.

lost-fool-wandering

historical padlocks are just great

deliriousfaol

the town crier finds me sleeping on my doorstep bc drunk me last night couldn’t open the lock on my door and announces my buffoonery to the whole square