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Stargate is honestly the greatest Sci-fi series of all time and i will fight you on this

Samantha Carter and Janet Fraiser are two of the greatest female role models in scifi canon. Both are brilliant, super competent at their jobs, not sexualised but not desexualised, and they’re friends with and support each other. Both are ranking members of the US airforce, and have a core belief of helping people and doing the right thing. But they’re both human. They get to be fallible, they get to be angry, and frustrated, and sad, and flustered, and it never invalidates their abilities or importance.

Daniel Jackson is the scifi hero we all deserve. He’s kind, gentle, and so damn excited about learning. Just learning more. His life has been so crap any other show would have turned him into a broody mess but no, not Daniel. Even at his lowest and sourest, he still desperatly wants to help others, to preserve other cultures, and save people. He literally dies for it. Multiple times. He’s a scifi explorer who honestly loves exploring. He truly loves it

And then Jack again could have been the most grizzled anti hero imaginable (hello movie!jack), but instead we have this kind, kooky, sarcastic space hero who just wants to be everyone’s dad and protect people from bad things. But at the same time he never folds on his principles, or who he is.

Teal’c could have been this hostile angry alien, or this overplayed goofball who doesn’t ‘get’ humanity. But instead they gave us someone serene and gentle, but proud and fierce. Someone who actually believed that they might loose their fight against his oppressors, but was willing to die trying, and willing to help others along the way.

And finally general Hammond. He could have been an obstructive burocrat, a pencil pusher with no respect for the other races they encounter, but instead he is the most sensible and level headed man in the series. and he cares This is a man who has the president on speed dial 2, behind his granddaughters, but he will miss his granddaughters recital if one of his team is missing in the field. This is a man who loves his team so much that he all but admits he would rather have Teal’c die than hand him over to the tortures of the goverment when he goes evil, because he ‘won’t do that to him’. He never over plays it into incompitence though. He is always logical and practicle about his decisions. This is a man who continously strives to do the right thing not just for his people, but for his planet, and his galaxy.

I could write a billion love letters to this perfect series that is an example of how amazing Sci-Fi can be if you just have characters who care.

waronidiocy

If Dr. Seuss Books Were Titled According to Their Subtexts

my theatre teacher has all of these on a wall in his classroom.

mediamattersforamerica

WOW. Watch these 3 minutes from Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen talking about what Trump doesn’t understand about the national anthem and the right to protest. Compare this to any right-wing media whining and that’s why this is one to remember.

texnessa

Dale Hansen is a fucking treasure. He admitted he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse in the hopes that it would encourage others to come forward and seek help. He has been an ardent supporter of scholar-athletes and of gay players in the NFL and of trans athletes.

“I’m not always comfortable when a man tells me he is gay; I don’t understand his world. But I do understand that he is part of mine.”

josephskeery

Why don’t you shut the fuck up, Einstein?

bennyhanscom-blog

I don’t leak Hamburger Helper.

OH MY GOD

tag yourself I’m the guy on the motorbike who copies him

jamesrhodey-deactivated20171030

The Amazons in Justice League (2017)

atomicheavybike

Sometimes I read a post that’s “your otp could never” and all I can think is: well, you’ve clearly never seen Xena. I mean I’m sure their otp is fine and all, but come back to me when they’ve been crucified side by side, died and bridged the gap between heaven and hell to find each other again, quoted poetry by Sappho to each other and woken each other with a kiss from a magical sleep in a lesbian re-enactment of the Ring Cycle.

lazylaziel

And my favorite: Literary destroying reality itself because it was a reality that kept them apart.

rogueone

My father has it. I have it. My sister has it. You have that power too.

lizardvvizard

you know. the power of kicking dudes square in the chest. that power

chonce

not voting for hillary clinton is a vote for donald trump

4rkham-asylum

But also THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO CHOICES IN THIS ELECTION pls people, I know it seems unlikely, but if everyone who didn’t want either candidate wrote in a name, someone else would stand a chance [and we could live with ourselves, not having voted for one or the other]

chonce

no they wouldn’t, literally do not do this

please educate yourself about nader and the 2000 presidential election before encouraging this literally terrible idea

somepretty-things

People on both sides say “Not voting for my candidate is a vote for the other guy” No, it’s just not a vote for your fucking candidate. Vote for who you actually believe in, otherwise you might as well not vote. If Hillary actually gave a damn she would try harder than just say “Vote for me cause I’m not Trump” No bitch, how about you show me something I can believe in. God damn, no wonder so many people don’t fucking vote.

teamironmanforever

*sigh*

Let me explain why they say a vote for a 3rd candidate or not voting for Hillary is voting for Trump:

The United States does not have a direct democratic voting system. We have an indirect system called the electoral college.The electoral college is a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

To win the Presidency you do not need a popular majority; you need the majority of votes of the electoral college.

The way the college works is that the two parties select the delegates that will serve as electors, and the electors pledge to vote for the candidates, depending on their party affiliation, of either the democratic or republican party. So, when people go vote, they are actually going to vote for electors that have pledged to vote for a specific party/candidate.

Each state is allocated a different number of electoral seats, and so not every state is truly worth the same given that every candidate is racing to secure 270 seats (minimum required to win the election).

What’s important to note is that the electoral college is a winner take all vote in 48 of the 50 states, meaning that the candidate with the higher number of votes in a given state will get ALL of the seats. This is one of the reasons why third party candidates are a wasted vote.

Based on our country’s history, most States around the country have already been defined as either red or blue, because the majority of the people that go and vote in said states tend to stick to either one or the other no matter who is on the ballot. It becomes a bit of loyalism to a party or, more accurately, just a strong distaste towards the ideals of the other party. However, there are a few swing states that really define the elections, for each election cycle they tend to change depending on who is on the ballot.

Now, third party candidates, which is often used as a protest vote, have never worked because a) they are not written into every state ballot, meaning that there are states that don’t offer these candidates given that they did not qualify b) have rarely gotten enough votes to even be up for electoral seats c) ALWAYS end up hurting one of the two candidates, for, in close runs, they can make one of the other two candidates lose a SWING STATE.

This is what happened with Ralph Nader in 2000. The votes that he received hurt Gore in certain states, particularly florida, which led to Bush winning as he had the majority of electoral seats even though he did not have the majority in popular vote.

Now, in the latest poll, it shows that the race between Hillary and trump is very close, and, when third party candidates are involved, it actually HURTS Hillary’s chances.

Now, if it hurts her enough, Trump can obtain the much needed swing states. If he gets over 270 seats (and thus more than hillary) he WILL win the goddamn election.

This is not a year to vote for a third party candidate. This is not a man you want in the oval office of the most powerful country in the world.

There is nothing NOTHING you can pull out that will make Trump the lesser of two evils.

We live in a country that has a two party system, so yes, a vote for a 3rd party candidate or a non-vote IS actually a vote for trump.

trishmishtree

zohbugg

And if you still don’t get why voting third party will never make a difference in this country and in fact ensure the election of the candidate you don’t like, listen to this nice man explain it with animals so it’s easier to understand

I was a Bernie supporter too, but “Bernie or Bust”ers are fucking idiots. Yes the system is corrupt, but you certainly wont fix anything by letting Trump win. Put your personal ideals aside for the good of the country.

accessandoctane

Here, I even made a graph

If Everyone Pulls Together And Votes Hillary

If Y’all “Bernie Or Bust” People Vote Third Party

See? Not that hard.

thegroundersreborn-deactivated2

why so mad about it all?

Ok so picture this:

You’re a sheep (bear with me) and you’re kind of wandering around, aimlessly. You have been for a while now and it’s all you know. There’s a lot of fields, yes, but they have really high fences. So high, that you can’t get in but you can look in, and things look really great. The grass is green and there’s so many other sheep inside and they’re all happy. But it’s not your field. So you keep looking. You pass them, thousand of them, but their fences are high too. And as you’re walking, you’re getting tired and you’re thinking “Damn, when will I find my field?” because the grass you’re eating as you go along sucks. You want it to be a temporary thing, the poor grass quality that you’ll make do with because something is better than nothing, right? And it’s only until you find your super green field- but you’re starting to lose hope that you’ll ever find it.

And then a farmer comes along in one of those huge trucks, and he says “Hey little sheep, you look sad. I’ve got a really great farm a few miles from here. Jump on in the back and I’ll take you there.” You’re not really sure what to do about it because it hasn’t happened before and you’re nervous- but reluctantly, you do it. You get into the truck and the farmer starts to drive. The truck is great, all decorated nicely and he’s telling you comforting stories from the driving seat, like how his farm is so much better than the ones you’ve passed. He picks up other lost sheep too and you’re all in the back of a truck together- you’ve finally found a home.

You start to feel safe and reassured. This is your herd, you’re heading to your farm and you’re happy- and then the truck stops suddenly. At first, you think “We’re here. The beautiful place we were told about,” so the doors open and you’re blinded by the light of hope and promise. Once you’re able to see clearly however, you realise, the farmer didn’t take you to a farm, he took you to a fucking slaughterhouse.

skyfyreit

Pretty much. Thanks tv.