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[yeahiwasintheshit]

[wilwheaton]

Because OF COURSE it’s Florida.

[luxlightly]

Honestly, Rick Rolling is the best practical joke ever. Like, there’s nothing offensive or mean  spirited about it. It’s just like “Oops you thought there would be something else here but it’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.” which isn’t even a bad song. It’s fairly enjoyable to listen to. There’s no jumpscares, no screaming, no ill will. Just Rick Astley telling you he’s never going to give you up. I think that’s great. “You fell into my trap! Here, listen to this completely benign song that will have no negative effect on you.” 

[moonblossom]

I wish this were true. There’s a really good article about the problems inherent with rickrolling here.

[pinkphilosopher-deactivated2020]

Very interesting. I never thought about that and now I feel bad.

[wilwheaton]

The tale of the dictator’s daughter and her prince

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are often viewed as a "moderating influence" on her father. But as their power in the White House grows and Donald Trump tightens his inner circle, this is looking more and more like a ruling dynasty. And this dynasty is no fairy tale.

Sarah has been doing, and continues to do, very important work. Primarily, she is making it possible for Americans, who have always presumed a level of trust and competence in our government, to see and track the creeping normalization of the trump autocracy.

Adult children of authoritarians are useful in three ways: first, they tend to be trustworthy confidants in regimes rife with paranoia, as corrupt authoritarian states usually are. Second, they are excellent vessels for laundering money,  creating enough distance that assets stolen from the state are harder to track. Third, they tend to have a warmer public profile which offsets the brutality of the dictator by distracting the population with pictures of their happy families or glamorous lifestyle.

For nearly two years, Jared and Ivanka have been peddled by the press as a “moderating influence” on her vulgar, bigoted father. They have done nothing to merit this characterization.

When hate crimes rose in tandem with the Trump campaign, Ivanka and Jared were silent. When xenophobes like Michael Flynn – the former NSA head revealed to be a foreign agent – screeched tirades at the Republican National Convention, Ivanka and her siblings dutifully followed on stage. When Trump filled his cabinet with white supremacists like Steve Bannon, Nazis like Seb Gorka, and racists like Jeff Sessions, Ivanka and Jared did not distance themselves, but joined the team.

This is not a “moderating influence”; this is complicity.

Take a minute to read this whole column, and please share it.

[mysharona1987]

I know it’s gotten a ton of attention already.

But it honestly is terrifying. 

[miamiweisz]

Y’know, it’s been 6 years and I still feel a huge opportunity was missed when Neville said “you and whose army?” and none of the snatchers replied with “You-Know-Who” I know it’s a war but you’re telling me there’s not one cheeky git out there? suspicious 

[nprfreshair]

Read more and/or listen to this interview: 

‘Girls & Sex’ And The Importance Of Talking To Young Women About Pleasure

[nprfreshair]

Peggy Orenstein’s book Girls & Sex is now out in paperback. We’re re-airing this interview today. 

[micdotcom]

Nancy Pelosi says it’s possible to be an anti-abortion rights Democrat

On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told host Chuck Todd “of course” someone who identifies as “pro-life” could be considered a Democrat.

“I have served many years in Congress with members who have not shared my very positive — what my family would say — aggressive position on promoting a woman’s right to choose,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi’s remarks were in response to Todd’s prodding about Heath Mello, a Democratic mayoral candidate in Omaha, Nebraska, with a history of supporting anti-abortion legislation. 

Mello has since revised his stance on abortion rights to align with the Democratic party’s.

But the candidate’s track record on the issue garnered attention when Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Mello in spite of it. Read more (4/24/17)

[wilwheaton]

Fucking stand up for women, Democrats. Don’t trade a woman’s fundamental rights to make incredibly personal a difficult choices so you can *possibly* get a few more votes out of a group that will almost always choose the real Republican over the one you’re pretending to be.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

The war on drugs is rooted in racist policies . The failure of the war and drugs is obvious. We need to find a better solution, because people of color should never be the victims of racist policies. White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for marijuana, which is not a hard drug. Moreover , even when white people get caught , they get less time in prison. 

[thetrippytrip]

The 1950s were not perfect and they were especially bad for women and minorities,the LGBTQ community, anyone with mental health issues, victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sex abuse, sexual harassment. It was harder to get a formal education. Schools were segregated. Smoking was rampant. People died from all cancers. I wouldn’t want to go back.

I will be part of the landscape. I will have raised my children and they their own to believe in equality, love without borders, and diversity as more than words. They will be respectful, responsible, and resilient. They will work together for a better world. Someday our society will look beyond race, gender, religion, and other things which divide us. We will finally just become humans nothing more and nothing less.

[iammyfather]

This last paragraph should become everyone’s oath to themselves and all others.

[public-rhetoric]

Same.

[source]

[wilwheaton]

If we lived in normal times and if the president was halfway normal himself, the following quote would have erupted into a major scandal — especially if the president was a Democrat. Trump, on the other hand, can apparently get away with madness like this:   Associated Press: And that’s one of the difficulties I think presidents have had is that you can have these personal relationships with people from the other party, but then it’s hard to actually change how people vote or change how people —     Trump: No I have, it’s interesting, I have, seem to get very high ratings. I definitely. You know Chris Wallace had 9.2 million people, it’s the highest in the history of the show. I have all the ratings for all those morning shows. When I go, they go double, triple. Chris Wallace, look back during the Army-Navy football game, I did his show that morning. It had 9.2 million people. It’s the highest they’ve ever had. On any, on air, (CBS “Face the Nation” host John) Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It’s the highest for “Face the Nation” or as I call it, “Deface the Nation.” It’s the highest for “Deface the Nation” since the World Trade Center. Since the World Trade Center came down. It’s a tremendous advantage.     First of all, let’s be clear about something: Trump gets ratings because people tune in to hear him say crazy things. His ratings are largely due to the spectacle of watching a cartoon supervillain spouting random insults, some of which threaten to precipitate a war, or worse. It’s the same reason why people slow down while passing traffic accidents.     That aside, bragging about having the biggest ratings since the worst terrorist attack on American soil — ever — should be enough to summarily drag the president’s approval ratings as close to zero as possible. If the same nonsensical blurt, culminating in the 9/11 thing, had been uttered by Barack Obama, he probably would have been impeached, convicted and tossed in a federal prison. One last thing, not that it matters: the ratings audience for that Chris Wallace interview Trump mentioned was 2.3 million viewers, not 9.2 million. So he lied. Again. Nevertheless, 98 percent of Trump voters are supposedly cool with all of this

A display of unbelievable ignorance: In a real country with a real president, Trump’s AP interview would destroy him.

This is just one of the three examples cited in the linked article that would – and should – force the resignation of a president who is clearly not qualified for the responsibilities of the office. 

But, thanks to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, and all the feckless Democrats who have enabled them for so many years, nothing matters.

(via wilwheaton)

[wilwheaton]

In which we see a representative from the Stupidsphere go from repeating the lie their right-wing media has told them to an ad-hominem attack and attempt to deflect with tremendous efficiency. 

[micdotcom]

Ivanka Trump booed after saying her father is a “tremendous champion” of families

First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump was booed on Tuesday while speaking on a women’s economic empowerment panel, after she praised her father, President Donald Trump, for being a “tremendous champion of supporting families.”

Ivanka Trump was also asked to defend the “attitudes toward women your father has publicly displayed.“ 

In response, Ivanka Trump blamed "criticism from the media” for how her father is viewed on women’s issues.

Trump, who upgraded to being a formal a White House adviser in March, was invited to speak at the W20 Summit in Berlin by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a panel called “Inspiring Women: Scaling up Women’s Entrepreneurship.” Read more (4/25/17 8 AM)

[wilwheaton]

I don’t even have to look at the stupidsphere to know that they are clutching their pearls about these people being so rude to a loving daughter who was just trying to say something kind about her father.

[wilwheaton]

The fact that we are even fcking considering a federal government shutdown over Cheeto Hitler’s fucking goddamn stupid, racist, entirely unnecessary wall that his shitty racist dickhead idiot base wants is fucking absurd.

The framing of him “showing flexibility” on this whole stupid goddamn fucking thing is infuriating. 

Stop. Fucking. Normalizing. Trump.

[politicalprof]

This. Is. True.

[midoriyasbones]

Reblog if you are 100% okay with a transgender person correcting you if you accidentally misgender them or use their dead name.

[ithelpstodream]

[femfreq]

Bill Nye gets it.