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Gilmore Girls characters as JOHN MULANEY quotes

The fluffiest vortex

most people agree with the idea that everyone deserves a place to live but their support for this starts waning when you say everyone deserves a comfortable place to live. and by comfortable i mean an adequately sized home that’s safe. not somewhere that has a constant infestation or the water isn’t safe to drink or you have to bundle up under a million jackets and blankets bc you can’t afford heat during the winter or you sleep 5 to a room and 2 to a bed bc bigger places cost more than you can pay. all of this should NOT be a problem

people think “why should they get this for free when i work hard for it” like that’s the point !! you SHOULDN’T have to work hard for it. everyone deserves a comfortable and safe place to live period. regardless of who they are, what they do or don’t do, whether or not you like them, or if they have a job. bc the second you start saying “except for x people” it always comes back marginalized people and “x people” aren’t the ones suffering

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The Princess Diaries (2001), dir. Garry Marshall

leafinthebreeze-deactivated2026

noshameinoursickness

repeat after me:

crying is a HEALTHY release of emotion AND a great way to complete the stress cycle

lemememeringue

it also grants you a tiger

dmellieon

hubblegleeflower

This is so good. Makes me feel like I'm really helping.

Which I need, because this kind of sucks.

mckitterick

If you're staying home during #Quarantine2020 you're helping make things better than they would be otherwise

renthony

For anyone else really feeling the effects of wide-scale gaslighting, feeling like you’re totally insane for still staying home while everyone else tries to go back to normal:

You’re not insane, you are doing the right thing. Please keep doing it. I love you.

slayerbuffy

Gilmore Girls — A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving (3x09).

evilphrog

One of my favorite parts of the Hunger Games was how, in the beginning, Katniss was jealous amd resentful of the townies for not having to work in the coal mines. Then, over time, she realizes they aren't the true enemy. Then she sees the other district kids as so much better off than she is, because at least they don't come from district 12. But then she realizes they aren't the enemy either. And then she hates the other victors, before realizing they have all been exploited just as much as she has. So the enemy must be the Capitol citizens, who benefit from the exploitation of the districts, right? Wrong again. They are just uninformed and pampered people who have been kept in the dark about the true horrors faced by the rest of the country. Most of them, when push comes to shove, are perfectly willing to help the war efforts.

And slowly, over the three books, all theses separate factions of downtrodden people start to see each other as allies instead of enemies, and that is what propells them to eventual victory over the true enemy, the government that tried to pit them against each other. Just fun, totally fictional things to think about that have nothing whatsoever to do with our current life.

ryebreadgf

ordinary things, s.t

deanoru

I’m so tired of every show that takes place in the past (wild west, medieval, pirates etc) ALWAYS having so much sexual violence towards women like writers can cry “oh it’s realism” all you want but it’s very transparent how realism only applies when you want to hurt women on screen. If we’re talking staying realistic, why doesn’t everyone have brown teeth? Or bad skin? Or dying of dysentery? Just admit y'all want an excuse to brutalize women on screen lol

squidsticks

This pisses me off so much. A lot of the time if you mention realism would also involve women having unshaved legs or pits, or bushy eyebrows, or syphilis, the answer is often “well that’s gross, no one wants to read about/see that” and like…. If you think that women being ugly is grotesque, but brutal depictions of rape aren’t, then I don’t really know what to say to you other than stay the fuck away from me.

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innocentcitizenthings

We overwork people, and liberal response is

Overwork children so they’re more used to it as adults

oglach-uisce

lazorsandparadox

Some extra digging reveals that the intent of this was not to actually extend the school day, but to make it mandatory for schools to provide activities and such that kids can take advantage of after classes are over for free so that low income families dont have to spend money on after school child care. Like boys and girls club, but every school in america is required to provide it. Which us a good idra, but it looks like everyone and their mother was wording it badly to make liberals and leftists hate it because republicans didnt want to spend more on schools to make it happen

computationalcalculator

everyone and their mother was wording it badly to make liberals and leftists hate it because republicans didnt want to spend more on schools to make it happen

dimitris670

Yea it was hilarious to see people react badly to hey what if we provided after school activities, which would be extra helpfull to folk who have no money to buy access to their private rquivalents and also help with childcare especially for single parents. Like you must be brain dead to be against this if you support education, the poor, or single parents, and yet...

dimitris670

And the funniest part is that, even the way it was disingenuously worded wouldn't have been a bad thing. Implamenting longer school days where students complete assignments and homework at school with help and supervision from trachers is common in many countries and it provably helps in every respect. Not only does it allow students to seek help when they have issues with school work, students also have instant access to school resources and are provided a distraction free environment to study. Such systems also leave students more free time as after completing all homework at school they then have nothing else to do at home and are free to spend it as they wish. In such systems schools are also forced to provide food for those extra hours which is a huge boon to families who cannot afford it. So even the allegedly "worst" version of this is good.