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overdose-affliction

Here’s a friendly PSA from Captain America to adorn your dashboard

savannahkills

This is possibly the best Parks and Recreation blooper

nightkrowe

I love how there’s absolutely zero background music. People are just dancing to nothing. I love extras.

iguanamouth

U H A V E A T R A S H B L O G

surprisebitch

this is the most hardcore comeback ive ever seen

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bitchtitsadam

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN 50 STATES IN THE USA.

moistowlettes

coledownlow-deactivated20131119

I love this quote. I love this movie.

aqueousserenade

This scene impressed me so much when I first saw it. It still fills me with… idk something. I love it.

roarkshop

Still one of my favorite lines from a movie ever.

coexpress

perks of being my girlfriend

1) I will buy you hella cute lingerie 2) You are welcome to model said lingerie for me, preferably while sitting in my lap 3) I will bake you cookies and make you pizza and we can cuddle and watch netflix stuff 4) I’ll take you on boring dates like to farmer’s markets and farms and hiking but i will try to spice things up a bit and probably eat you out on a boulder in the forest so yeah 5) We can have cute sleepovers like every night and i will paint your nails and do your makeup and play with your hair and we will stay up late and talk about life and space and feminism and basically anything you want 6) When you’re on your period, I will take baths with you and take care of you and feed you chocolate and cuddle you if you cry and omg 7) I’ll text you funny selfies and songs that i want you to listen to and stuff that makes me think of you 8) I’ll play goofy games with you and take you shopping and take you to the movies and wine and dine you every single fucking night if that’s what you want 9) We can raise plants together and lots of puppies and kittens 10) Okay i’m really sad now and i want a girlfriend

boromirs

notmysecret

FUCK

chthonicstuff

This is 10x funnier if you read it in their voices

troy-and-abed-inthe-tardis

There will come a day where this will appear on my dash and I will scroll past it, but it is not this day.

iraffiruse

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Incredible

no-o-r

0-100 at light speed

cumonthevoid

he got distracted by his own insurance tragedy but quickly got himself back on the path to romance

best-of-memes

Hits blunt

lovemystruggle-deactivated20260

The last one bruh lol

themochabarbie

Omg the last one

goodluckrob-deactivated20221110

That church one way too real.

particlemilk-unlockable-gender

The clock one

sosuperawesome

gaia-offline

i wonder what it’s like to like date someone and know their family and go over their house whenever you want and sleep over whenever you want and what it’s like to have their family absolutely love you as if you were their own and just yeah what’s that like.

queen-haiz

i just wonder what it’s like to date someone

theclockworkphoenix

i wonder what it’s like to have this but not necessarily with the romantic relationship

belcanta

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.

attentiondeficitaptitude-deacti

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.

The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.

But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

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“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!” “But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”

“But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”

belcanta

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

doomhamster

The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)

And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!

Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.

And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.

Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.

And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.

The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?

TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

cptprocrastination

reblogging for more top commentary

queen-mayhem

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.

But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.

Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

sidestepup2thestreets

Is there a link or something where I can read more about Mincome?

burnt-pie

allthecanadianpolitics do you have any Info on this?

allthecanadianpolitics

This is a good read on the Mincome experiment in Canada:

A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

andromedafalls

Please signal boost this. Please.

tkingfisher

Oh god, if only. There were times when this would have saved me from untold stress and grief–and I would still have been working once I was old enough to work, I just wouldn’t have been in such mortal terror about it. (For years I felt intense reflexive nausea whenever I checked my bank balance. I still fight panic about money stuff, even when I’m doing very well. It is a source of occasional stress in relationships.)

The argument that I would somehow have been lazier and less worthy if I hadn’t been terrified does not move me.

witch-niko

I showed this to my mom and I saw firsthand the generational divide.

“you can’t just give people something for nothing- they won’t value it, they’ll take advantage of it. Those people in free housing, they treat the apartments like shit. Not everyone is like that of course, but there are people that are. They need to be held accountable and do something for it.”

sigh