[politicalsci]

[aint-coming-back-lol-deactivate]

Seeing biblical teachings being reversed into conservative teachings is one of the funniest things holy shit. Like this makes it painfully clear that Jesus taught the exact opposite of all these things yet conservatives in the US wanna call themselves “men of god”.

[red-umbrella-811]

[false-gods-and-petty-kings]

[amanitacaplan]

#2020 mood

[lets-do-get-help-deactivated202]

STAY THE FUCK HOME AND WEAR YOUR DAMN MASK IF YOU HAVE TO LEAVE

[harpyhormones]

straight up family vloggers/bloggers shouldnt be allowed to be a thing

at all

ever

there should be laws against it

it has literally never been anything but traumatizing to the children involved, it will always, by its very nature, incentivize seeing your children not as people but as avenues for monetization, it will lead you to harmful behaviors and lead you to say untrue things about your children because it generates clicks and ad revenue

it is child abuse, even if you never hit your children, it is horrible, and i wish all those kids that were exploited like that could be with families that actually cared for them, i wish their parents saw them and treated them like they should

[harpyhormones]

children are not fucking products, they are not hooks to get more views, every family vlogger is a fucking monster

[prepgoth]

sing us a song, youre the piano man

[galacticgateau]

quilly joel

[jamsradio]

[velocicrafter]

anyone know what this is from?

[baroncaveyeti]

“Judgement Day” by EC Comics. From wikipedia:

The story depicted a human astronaut, a representative of the Galactic Republic, visiting the planet Cybrinia inhabited by robots. He finds the robots divided into functionally identical orange and blue races, one of which has fewer rights and privileges than the other. The astronaut decides that due to the robots’ bigotry, the Galactic Republic should not admit the planet. In the final panel, he removes his helmet, revealing himself to be a black man.

Apparently the Comics Code Authority tried to prevent the author from making the main character black.

[lakidaa]

Boy did they! It took the writer (and the company) threatening the CCA with a lawsuit and telling the guy to fuck off (literally) to get this thing printed: 

Comic Historian Digby Diehl recounted in Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives:

This really made ‘em go bananas in the Code czar’s office. ‘Judge Murphy was off his nut. He was really out to get us’, recalls [EC editor] Feldstein. ‘I went in there with this story and Murphy says, “It can’t be a Black man”. But … but that’s the whole point of the story!’ Feldstein sputtered. When Murphy continued to insist that the Black man had to go, Feldstein put it on the line. ‘Listen’, he told Murphy, ‘you’ve been riding us and making it impossible to put out anything at all because you guys just want us out of business’. [Feldstein] reported the results of his audience with the czar to Gaines, who was furious [and] immediately picked up the phone and called Murphy. ‘This is ridiculous!’ he bellowed. ‘I’m going to call a press conference on this. You have no grounds, no basis, to do this. I’ll sue you’. Murphy made what he surely thought was a gracious concession. ‘All right. Just take off the beads of sweat’. At that, Gaines and Feldstein both went ballistic. ‘Fuck you!’ they shouted into the telephone in unison. Murphy hung up on them, but the story ran in its original form.[18]

[lb-lee-deactivated20180415]

You know, it’s times like this that I am deeply comforted, knowing that history isn’t just everyone being nice and polite and better than the current generation.  Sometimes it really is just people bellowing swear words over the phone to get shit done.

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

OH WOW

[a-method-in-it]

And by the same token, the past was not a flat, monochrome landscape of bigotry. This comic came out in 1953. That is a full year before the Brown v. Board of Education decision, meaning not only was segregation the law of the land, but the process of dismantling it hadn’t even begun. Integration wasn’t even a political topic yet, because there was no integration actually happening, and as far as everyone in 1953 had reason to believe, there wasn’t going to be any any time soon. 

And yet, in 1953, two white Jewish guys from Brooklyn not only wanted to put out this comic, but were willing to swear at the Comics Code Authority and threaten to hold a press conference – which, by the way, was enough of a threat that the censors did back down; they didn’t laugh and say “Who would care about your press conference?”

And, not only that, but in the end they did put out the comic, this comic that at the time all but explicitly said the United States of the day would not be fit to join the Galactic Republic.

All of which is pretty damn cool.

[historicalbookimages]

page 172 of “Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies” (1918)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[itsnotmydreamdaditsyours]

my third eye has opened and its a googly eye

[mahalshairyballs]

“In a study of children aged 2-5, parents interrupted their daughters more than their sons, and fathers were more likely to talk simultaneously with their children than mothers were. Jennifer Coates says: “It seems that fathers try to control conversation more than mothers… and both parents try to control conversation more with daughters than with sons. The implicit message to girls is that they are more interruptible and that their right to speak is less than that of boys.” Girls and boys’ differing understanding of when to talk, when to be quiet, what is polite and so on, has a visible impact on the dynamics of the classroom. Just as men dominate the floor in business meetings, academic conferences and so on, so little boys dominate in the classroom - and little girls let them.”

— X

[whitepeopletwitter]

[humansofnewyork]

“I’d never given it any thought. But when my boss’s husband got a kidney from a newscaster in town, it sorta became a local story. And I began to learn more about it. I found out that a kidney from a living donor can give someone more than twenty years of life. And there were 2500 people in Ohio on the waiting list. So after confirming that I’d still be able to drink, I signed up for the registry. Two months later I got an email saying that they’d found a match. They’d only say that it was a local man. But I was excited. I think I needed a little purpose in my life. I didn’t have any children. I didn’t have anyone to carry on my whatever. And I loved thinking that I could help someone in such a major way. Not everyone meets their donor. But since both of us agreed, a meeting was arranged for after the surgery. They sat me in a conference room at the hospital. I had no idea who was going to walk in the door. And when Tom walked in, I could only think one thing: ‘Oh my God. I’ve given my kidney to Wesley Snipes.’ He was really quiet, so I did most of the talking. But at the end he said: ‘I only have one question. Why would you do this for someone you didn’t know?’ And I said: ‘Why not?’ After that it was like a light switched on. We were going to be friends forever. That’s just how it was going to be. Tom became like a brother to me. He makes fun of me a lot, but he’s also extremely protective. Not that I’d ever need someone killed, but if I did, I’d know who to call. Three years after the transplant I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a nasty kind. And I didn’t have any family around. But Tom called my sister in Florida and said: ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got this. It’s my turn to take care of her.’ He took me to every single one of my chemo appointments. He kept me company the entire time. A few weeks after my treatment ended, I threw myself a 50th birthday party. At the end I gave a little speech. I was looking out at all the people I loved. All the people who’d helped me. And I couldn’t even speak. I turned into a big sobbing mess. Tom got up from his chair and walked to the side of the stage, and grabbed my hand. And he held it until I could speak again.”

[daylight-dreaming]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bimbocracy]

Men are going to call you a bitch no matter how selflessly you bend over backwards for them. If a man would call you a bitch under any circumstances, it’s a matter of when and not if.

Stop putting up with shit to postpone the label ❤️ you deserve better

[bimbocracy]

A good place to start if you struggle with this:

You don’t have to laugh at men’s jokes if they aren’t funny. You can literally just stand there stonefaced if you didn’t find it amusing. Even if the joke wasn’t indefensibly repulsive. If you didn’t find it funny you don’t have to laugh

[bimbocracy]

You also don’t have to stop talking when they interrupt you. You can just keep talking. If you’re in a group of more than you & him you can turn physically to face the other person and continue the conversation with them instead.

[bimbocracy]

Men are counting on you to care deeply about their approval, but it’s literally worth nothing. It’s redeemable for fuck all. You can’t pay your bills with it. You can’t put it in the bank. It is completely meaningless. Stop letting men use it con you into self-sacrificing and deferential behavior. It’s literally just hot air.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[the-football-chick]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

That’s what it’s like to listen to Republicans speak.

It’s like they have no idea how absurd they sound.