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[saywhat-politics]

Trump says USS Lincoln’s deployment was ‘not nearly long enough’ | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed claims that families of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have concerns about condit

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed claims that families of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have concerns about conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, which has been deployed for nearly nine months supporting operations in the Middle East.

Instead, Trump claimed the ship’s lengthy deployment had in fact not been long enough.

[anglaised]

am i confused or like how many times r they gonna arrest andrew tate before hes like permanently in prison ..? this feels like the 10th time theres no way he has enough money to keep bailing out well no he probably does bc this is misogyny for profit planet

[thesituation]

“what does the woman who shaves gain from not shaving” i don’t know, an extra 3+ hours of free time a week? peace of mind and comfort in her femininity? not having nicks and cuts and ingrowns all the time? having a healthier skin barrier? do people think at all whatsoever before saying shit on my posts?

[anglaised]

i love seeing videos of ppl calling for mamdani like hes batman like “mr mamadani we need ac in the subway mr mamdani help us” and its extra funny bc so far hes been filling every request so its actually working …he got his own bat signal 😭

[futileexercise]

[yardsards]

was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the PARENT for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. i later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like "you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though" not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. i hate it here. youth rights now

[thekalpar]

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

[ryan-sometimes]

It’s odd when men blame women for the “male loneliness epidemic” because oftentimes men are lonely in their own friend groups. Of course you’re lonely dude, your friends know literally nothing about you. You haven’t had a vulnerable moment with them ever. They don’t even know your surname. Instead of leaning on a random woman go lean on your buddies bro

[depsidase]

[punishedsaints]

Iran made Trump feel fear, anxiety, and terror, to the extent that he now needs a short-range AN/TWQ-1 air defense system, equipped with an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar, to accompany him while playing golf.

Source.

[outspokenblackman]

[dramatic-dolphin]

not to sound like the friend that's too woke but why does this police station toyset for a 5yr old need a weapons safe full of tiny toy-sized automatic rifles. just asking.

[trash-panda-kitty]

The USS Abraham Lincoln was supposed to be home months ago.

Instead, its crew has spent

nearly nine months deployed

flown 10,000 missions

burned through 750 tons of ordnance

and dealt with

supply failures

lost mail

broken plumbing

and worsening morale

Now the Navy is moving another already-deployed carrier halfway across the world to relieve them.

The USS Abraham Lincoln Has Been Fighting a War Since January and Apparently Nobody at the Pentagon Planned for the Part Where They Had to C

The crew is exhausted, the Navy has admitted supply failures, families are sounding alarms, and the replacement ship is already months into

[allalittleleft]

Blanche Doesn't Know How Comey Case Will End

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[joe-england]

Washington parents flip out over age-appropriate Pride video | Advocate.com

Washington parent pulls kid from school over a video about LGBTQ+ people simply existing

A nine-year-old video published by Queer Kid Stuff outraged some parents with its message about activism and inclusion.

Fear is the opposite of freedom, and yet so many people confuse the two.

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Do the kids these days know that the traditional payment for "having your friends help you move" is "order everyone pizza after"?

Feed your friends. Feed your loved ones. Feed the people who help you. Feed your neighbors. Feed your community.

Seriously though, with a lot of people, especially friends, you can shamelessly and blatantly trade pizza / food for help and labor <3