Sweet Lilies

[generic uote]

[pink-squirl]

Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.

So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.  

[zamzamafterzina]

all these meninimist better line up to boycott

[kant-deactivated20190908]

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

I would say Relationship Goals but honestly more than that I would like to be a cat snuggling with another cat

[beinggayisreallyexpensive]

Why do (esp white) men love having fights about politics where they change topics 6x to confuse you and then try and make you look dumb because you can’t jump between the points bc you’re too busy arguing the separate distinct points bc you thought that’s what the fight was about

[mumblingsage]

“The Gish gallop allows a debater to hit their opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. In practice, each point raised by the “Gish galloper” takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place,[4] which wastes the opponent’s time and can cast doubt about their debating ability in an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved.[5] …If one is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique can be countered somewhat by preempting and refuting their commonly used arguments before they have the chance.[7]“ 

Or sometimes it could help to point out that they’re doing it, though I suspect the kind of person who does this is the kind of person who responds to “Wow, you’re Gish galloping” with “ad hominem!” 

[astrolocherry]

Aries: in aries there is an old being whispering higher wisdom, imposing the visions of past life memories and prophecies, at times having to use a strict voice of authority to reign in the self-destruction and a young child hell bent on proving him wrong despite the outcome and at times rebelling against what they know is best out of spite

Taurus: in taurus there is an ancient being who is easily tired and inactive, content, preferring of the simple life and routine with an insatiable sweet tooth and nonchalance and a young girl who is self and image conscious and trying desperately to discipline

Gemini: in gemini there is a savvy and sassy intellect who desires to engage amongst brilliant minds and powerful influencers with charisma and clever style and a curious child who emerges at any moment with a spiking nervous and mischevious energy to cause a distraction and loosen their inhibitions

Cancer: in cancer there is an ancient being who is a storage of wisdom, has managed her temperament, and desires simple peace and quiet alone with her dog, blanket, and fridge   and a temperamental, hypersensitive child she is always trying to settle from running into the night out of confusion, to subdue and silently guide

Leo: inside leo there is a leader who is the solo-sovereign and defender of the kingdom and its heart of virtue and righteousness also undertaking a silent battle with a rejected and burning inner child that will act on impulse and the hunger for love

Virgo: in virgo there is a maturing adult who is driven to prove their value, competence, and worthiness of being given responsibility and high self-sufficiency and an irritate, impossible to please, overtired child having a tantrum because ‘everything is wrong’

Libra: in libra there is a mature professional intellect with the self-respect to treat others with honour and dispel primitive emotional responses to relate to people with impartiality and an adolescent experiencing a constant identity crisis and indecision, lost in between fantasies of marrying a fictional character

Scorpio: in scorpio there is an ancient elder who is resiliently graceful, has walked this path many times before and undertakes spiritual battles while healing those burned by the flame of life and a furiously volatile young being who is incensed at the world and hell bent on self-destruction and following the routes of obliteration 

Sagittarius: in sagittarius there is an ageing pilgrim with experience, respect, and wisdom who is focused on experiencing and developing a greater understanding and philosophy of life and a young adult who has just left home, still high on liberated impulse with no actual plan for survival

Capricorn: in capricorn there is a proficient, experienced, and wise being who is the self-sufficient support network of every physical, domestic, and corporate body secretly supervising and restraining a inner child who finds its voice too late and cannot be silenced any longer

Aquarius: in aquarius there is a satisfied solitary who has experienced and retired from the game and desires the simple life of being left alone to think and live freely and a wild child who is determined to disrupt the world, and have its voice and message heard as loudly and influentially by as many people as possible

Pisces: in pisces there is an ancient being who is easily tired, content with what is known and has occurred trying to soothe a confused, anguished and lost person who has forgotten their age, is constantly trying to run away and regress into old paths already taken

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[larkadelic]

"No actual plan of survival" yes that's me

[boota]

[liketwopeasinapod2-deactivated2]

give me the watermelón

[boota]

[catchymemes]

“Thank you, I guess…”

[pokefreakguide]

A list of major recurring themes in the Pokémon gaming franchise (updated)

[onlytwitterpics]

[totheonedegree]

LMAOOOO

[nobilityoflove]

Meeee lol

[bobbsayshi]

Things They Don't Teach You in School

•Lincoln believed white people were the superior race •Gandhi hated black people •The CIA brought illegal drugs into the country •Ronald Reagan was the devil •White people mutated from the Dravidian Albinos and would be nothing without POC

[pastelpapi]

•9/11 was coordinated by the Bush administration •The laws written 15 years ago where pushed and backed by the kkk •Black people explored the world before white people where civilized and whitewashed history

[tastelessfashion]

•Christopher Columbus ain’t shit.

[nico-incognito]

*The father of modern gynecology experimented and tortured black women during slavery for his findings. *The government was successfully sued for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. *The CIA introduced crack/cocaine into inner-cities across the US *The US had been sterilizing many WoC *In the Tuskegee experiments, the US gave STDs and other diseases, including syphilis to unknowing black men. *Japan was already in line to surrender when we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima *The US created the Taliban

[bytdwd-deactivated20160724]

Tea sipping shit. I re logged this earlier. But this list got longer

[donidarkowitz]

Jesus…

[sweetmintchocolatewitch]

• Native Americans had to register to become American • Black Panthers once watched over the police to prevent unjust arrests and beatings • Native American children were massively murdered when schools got too full • Black people were in zoos • There were Asian concentration camps during WW2

[thesavingera]

*The World’s largest Great White shark ever recorded in history fed off of slaves thrown over the ships *Gay white plantation owners used to rape the slave men in front of the slave’s wives, children, and friends. They used this method to deter the slaves from revolting or any other unwanted acts. *Plantation owner would make a “deal” with the hardest working male slave to bore 10 children and he will be set free. Creating the stereotype of black men leaving and abandoning their children. *Harriet Tubman’s first husband, a freed man, tried to discourage Harriet’s mission to free as many slaves as she could he threatening to tell her over.

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

We were taught that about Abe but this is some important info

[athenadark]

Male slaves would have their teeth removed - the front two to mark them as slaves if they escaped and the back ones for sale

one of the reasons for landowners to back the revolution was that England had abolished slavery and wanted to bring it across to the colonies - one hundred years before slavery was abolished

the US has been responsible for almost every major conflict of the last one hundred years and interfered in the others almost always for drugs or oil

the great depression was entirely caused by the newly developed aggro farming of the 1920s

the US accidentally sank several ships of Jewish refugees in WW2 including one mostly full of children

[palaiasaurus64]

•in Africa the white men that were there to “collect” the slaves would give tribes guns. This was in order to have tribes turn against each other so the “weak” tribe members would be sent to America.

•During the Armenian Genocide, families would potentially be spared if the oldest daughter had her face and arms tattooed with blue X’s. These blue X’s signified that the Turkish soldiers could do anything they wanted to her. [I met a woman that this happened to, while she ended up having a husband and children and had some sort of happiness in life. It was hard to look at her. Not because of the X’s but by what happened to her because they were there.]

[gold-epoch]

*Southern black people were convicted of “crimes” (walking by the railroad, looking a certain way) after slavery had been abolished and forced to do hard labor like working in mines for weeks without seeing the sun where they had to drink stagnant water sitting at the bottom of the mines, being whipped and killed if they ran away. A lot of black people were put in jail during the cotton season when men, women, and children were whipped and killed while working in the fields.

*Southern black people were enslaved in this same time period (after slavery was abolished) through imaginary debt that white people claimed that they had and they couldn’t pay it back because the person that they were “indebted” to set all the terms.

*The literally “Constitution” of the Confederacy says that the point of their nation is slavery.  Don’t listen to people who say its about states rights.

*A lot of Republicans switched from being Democrats bc of the integrated military, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts because they didn’t want to vote in the same party as black people. The literal founding of their party is racism.

[theburbsmuse]

because this has gotten longer

[blacksleepingbeauty]

- Native children were rounded up by white people and put into boarding schools where most of them were brutally beaten and raped repeatedly while also being banned from seeing their parents ever again.

- White men would rape their way into native bloodlines just so they could be “legally entitled” to land, money and livestock that was reserved for natives.

-Native reservations were purposely established in places that were uninhabitable (i.e. poor soil, sparse food & water etc.) This was a way of forcing assimilation.

-Many cultures of PoC recognized more than just 2 genders before white supremacy came in with that basic shit.

-Ghandi also beat his wife

-America has a very long history of wartime sexual violence

[anjieluvs-deactivated20221031]

Dear God

[dragoni]

Reporter: “Did you want President* Trump to win the election & did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?“ 

Putin: ”Yes I did. Yes I did, because he talked about bringing the US-Russia relationship back to normal.“

Had to rewind 3 X for clarity on that #MicDrop.

— Jeffrey Wright‏ @jfreewright - July 16, 2018

Putin admitted he ordered the Russian Government to help elect Trump. 

25 Russians including Intelligence Officers from the GRU  were indicted by Mueller and DOJ. #RussiaGate

Trump’s words and actions support that he is Putin’s Manchurian Candidate  #RussiAmerica  #TRE45ON

Republicans MUST Impeach Trump NOW

For the non believers, here’s the video. Complete transcript from NPR.

[raja-gemini]

i don’t even fucking know what this is bye

[eviemoon]

she deserves the WORLD

[blackness-by-your-side]

it’s weird how a society that thrives on innovation and simplified ways of doing things criticizes shit like this… Did everyone just forget about the people of Flint?

[kanyeshrugtae]

DID EVERYONE JUST FORGET ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF FLINT???!!!!!!??

[fromchaostocosmos]

if you are not Jewish or Romani you don’t get to make Holocaust comparisons.

I don’t care what godwin says. I don’t care if you are a historian. I don’t care if you know Romani and Jewish people.

I really don’t give a fuck. 

You don’t get to since the Holocaust abuse comparisons to the Holocaust and abuse our collective, communal, and generational trauma while gas-lighting and playing mind games with us and telling us to get over it to then turn around and expect us to fine and really uncomfortable with the comparisons. 

You just don’t.  

You are treating us, our dead, our trauma, and our history like props that you can pull out to use and then shove back into the attic when you are done with us. 

I would feel differently if you had not spent the past several decades misusing and abusing us, but you did abuse and misuse so that is where we are now.

And on top of all of that every time we have spoken out, every time we tried to get your attention, every time we tried to point out warning signs or asked for help because we never stopped dealing with nazis and neo-nazis you told us to shut up and get over it. 

So no if you are not Jewish and/or Romani you do not get to make Holocaust comparisons. 

[theatlantic]

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

[thecallus-deactivated20130520]

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

[shorterexcerpts]

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

[awesomeeverysingleday]

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding

Buy a house

Buy a new car

PLAN to have children

Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

[mika-monster]

read the commentary above ^^

[lampblack-deactivated20170504]

“Hey. Hey, guys. I know the economy being fucked up is totally our fault, but what if we tell people the next generation…wants to be poor?”

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[profeminist]

Believe it, and use your privilege to DEAL WITH IT.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I genuinely do not understand this unrelenting insistence that we compare every horrendous thing the United States does to the Holocaust, when there are much better comparisons to be made to…well, the United fucking States. 

The United States has a long, sordid history of separating families: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the families impacted by slavery for generations after being stolen from their homes and sold to the highest bidder, for one. The Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools, where Native children were ripped from their families in order to have their language, culture, and beliefs stamped out of them through forced assimilation and conversion to Christianity, for another. 

The United States has an awful history of putting people in detention centres: Japanese and Native Alaskan internment camps during WWII, Fort Cass, Fort Snell, and other Native American internment camps that Indigenous Peoples were forced into throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, not even to mention Guantanamo Bay, and the camps so-called dissidents in the places like the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations Americans had occupied were put into.

The United States has always been horrible to its immigrants, specifically non-white and/or non-Christian refugees. My own grandfather, an immigrant form India, couldn’t become a citizen of the United States despite being a college lecturer and the spouse of a US citizen due to Asian Exclusion, and had to continuously enrol in university courses he never actually took despite the fact that he was teaching them, just to stay in the country on a student visa. The one truly valid comparison to the Holocaust era you could make would be to the United States turning away Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe aboard the St Louis and sending them back to their deaths because that same law used to keep my grandfather from becoming a citizen had been put in place specifically to keep more Jews and Asians from coming into the country.

Like, the United States is not “becoming Nazi Germany” all of a sudden. This is not some aberrant “UnAmerican” behaviour. This is the United States being the United States, doing what the U.S. has always done from the moment of its inception. 

Also, as one of my FB friends said on this topic recently: “Nazi Germany was not famous for cruelty toward asylum seekers, it was famous for making millions of asylum seekers and then murdering millions including many from my family.”

There is no good reason to constantly trot out bad Holocaust comparisons when we know damn well this is the same inhumane bullshit America was fucking built on. Hitler, Nazis, and The Holocaust are not just shorthand for “the government being really bad.” It was a specific atrocity that devastated the Jewish and Romani communities of this world, and you don’t need to constantly devalue it and re-traumatise Jews and Roma over and over again when you can just as easily condemn the heinous way asylum seekers at the US border are being treated by saying the United States is still in the business of systematic oppression and has not learnt anything from its own appalling history. 

[smallswingshoes]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: non-Romani goyim don’t get to drag out the proverbial corpses of our people and use them in a macabre puppet show in order to give their issues weight.