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@ogress
the “we are All” meme with richard dawkins’ shirt is a meta-meme because we’re all forgetting that it was richard dawkins who literally invented the word meme. we are All using a word invented by the we are All man
i am not even slightly joking
my first attempt at a creepypasta (beginner here; go easy on me)
carpeted kitchen
what the fuck
ooooooOOOOOOOHHHH MYYYY GOOOD
honstly iconic
Sisko is so important, seriously. Of all the Starfleet captains, Sisko truly dealt with some heavy wartime. DS9 shows the multifaceted ways characters respond to such issues. Right from the start, Sisko was a character in opposition to the resolute Captain Picard, and I feel it was this moment that not only was defining for Sisko, but elevated the character and his arc in full- Sisko understands that sometimes, the “right” thing to do is not what will win the war, is not what will serve the greater good. Picard saw rules as a framework for life, as the guide behind even the trickiest of actions. Sisko understood that sometimes, things are not black and white, but shades of hideous grey, and it is in that murk we find what we are capable of.
that was a fucked-up storyline
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
WOAH WHAT?
The “green great dragon” thing comes from an anecdote by J. R. R. Tolkien, in a letter to W. H. Auden:
I first tried to write a story when I was about seven. It was about a dragon. I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say “A green great dragon,” but had to say “a great green dragon.” I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.
to me this is not true - because a “great dragon” is a single phrase to me thanks to playing D&D since I were 9. A great dragon is the biggest, most boss dragon age.
So a green great dragon is possible: it’s a great dragon that is also a green dragon, which breathe toxic gas.
I was asking myself just now why they have “16 and pregnant” but not “16 and impregnated a girl” but I realized it would be pretty boring to watch a 16 year old boy play video games and go to school and live life as normal
Whoop there it is
also:
Would it kill men to not casually be sexually predatory all the fucking time?
i honestly think, Yes. Yall girls think its so easy, but forget the fundamental of humans. Men need to get it on so we can repopulate. Sure now we have brains to tell us better however at the end of the day instinct overpowers brains.
Spoken like a true rapist
“someone hit on me and I want everyone to know someone wants me” that’s what this post really says
Damn, wow, why do you hate women so much?
My girlfriend gave me water that wasn’t 68° one time and that really upset me
This explains a lot of other things that are wrong with you too
#a form i can psychically tell you would be more comfortable with#bare chest and blue booty shortz
Thank you @kiwisson
I like to imagine both Superman and Batman unconsciously emit a sort of “god I wish everyone was wearing hotpants” telepathic vibe that J’onn picked up on.
be the change you want to see in the world
@phantoms-lair
#I like how supes is like ‘oh a shapeshifter’ while bats is like ‘whAT IN THE S H I T’
Superman: NEAT
Batman: what THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
So do you think J’onn was like. “Hmm.. Muscular, cape, and undergarments. Understood.”
Then he got outside, saw the rest of the world and was like “What the fu…”
This may just be the cutest thing i’ve ever watched omg
@mondaimandy
lmfao
Scuits is the best language
WHO LET THESE GUYS GET THEIR HANDS ON A TIME MACHINE
On a bird of prey no less.
I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century’s most vile and disgusting serial killers
may i ask why
Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors? Here is a list of things the United States government did in response: -Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen -Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola -Developing countermeasures — including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing — to prevent and treat Ebola -Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come -Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases Source: https://whitehouse.gov/ebola-response
When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.
There is so much more to it. There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant President, in some positive sense. If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently. If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth. He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression. He was a union buster. He gave us Scalia – need I say more? He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?). He lied about Iran/Contra. He avoided dealing with AIDS. He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen. Americans don’t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don’t want to hear that the aren’t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation. They lapped it up, and they continue to do so.
I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant—for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.
When you hear how he slashed Income taxes, he did on the Wealthy, but he increased the lowest tax rate from 10% to 15%.
His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives. He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible. Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).
And no one has even touched on his legacy of racial hatred, deliberate destruction of black communities and establishing of COONTELPRO to destroy the lives of black panthers and black activists, his actual murder of black activists and more. He was actually a demon.
If you want to know how many lives could have been saved if the Reagan government had just fucking BUDGETED for AIDS research instead of telling AIDS researchers that they had to beg, borrow or steal any money for AIDS from other programs–then read And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts. And be prepared to have your heart broken at the unadulterated and wildly irresponsible waste.of time and human lives.
Other shitty things Reagan did:
1) He almost tripled the National Debt. And you need to see the difference with zeroes:
When Reagan took office in 1980: $909,100,000 owed.(909.1 billion)
When Reagan left office in 1988: $2,601,300,000,000 owed. (2.6 trillion)
2) He raised taxes on the middle class and the poor ELEVEN TIMES while in office.
3) Unemployment soared after Reagan passed his tax cuts for the rich, and it took decades to get back down again.
4) He turned the U.S. into an illegal weapons dealer.
5) He funded terrorists, helping create the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. From NewsOne:
After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly and CIA Paramilitary Officers played a big role in training, arming and sometimes even leading mujahideen forces.
The CIA trained the mujahideen in many of the tactics Al Qaeda is known for today, such as car bombs, assassinations and other acts that would be considered terrorism today.
6) When his economic policies began wreaking havoc on the government, Reagan stole from Social Security–to the tune of 2.5 TRILLION–treating it for eight years as the private slush fund of himself and his rich friends.
7) [T]he Reagan administration demonized opponents of apartheid, most notably the African National Congress, as dangerous and pro-communist. Reagan even vetoed a bill to impose sanctions on South Africa, only to be overruled by Congress.
They called him the Teflon president for a reason. All this shit–and none of it stuck to him. He got away clean every single time.
Reading up on Nelson Mandela I caught wind of that fact a few years back. The standing President of the US was more than a little ok with not condemning Apartheid even as a symbolic gesture.
That coupled with all of this and it speaks to an impossibly gross legacy. Of course the Neocons of the Republican set look at him as some sort of Conservative Jesus, so none of this would get actual traction with them.But email scandals are beyond the pale…
OH HELLS YES ANTI-REAGAN MASTERPOST Also let’s not forget about how he created and/or dramatically enhanced the homeless problem in America by closing the California state psychiatric hospitals (except for the ones for the criminally insane) and tossing all the residents out into the street.
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Don’t stop me…
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i love this child
An innovator
I Am Not Making This Up
A small number of African languages mark case with tone. (A linguist tries to be open-minded, but that is just plain messed up.)
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Wow, Merriam-Webster just murdered a senior editor at Slate.
I don’t have the strength for this world
fuck
comicsworkbook
Hahahahahaha
addendum to this: https://twitter.com/supernerdcow/status/774008562280521730
“Journalism”
