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Won a heated rivalry lookalike contest :)

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be-nice-2-me

god this movie was so amazing

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seratlantisite

the real secret to zuko's redemption arc is the month he spent working in public food service

ms-demeanor

Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

ms-demeanor

Do you know how bugfuck insane the words "Unionized Starbucks" would have sounded to someone in 2005? Baristas getting union-mandated breaks could have been a throwaway joke in part of the Scary Movie franchise as something ridiculous.

RALPH NADER WAS AGITATING FOR A FIFTEEN DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE IN 2004 AND SHIT IS MOVING SLOWLY BUT MY STATE HAS A TWENTY DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE FOR FAST FOOD WORKERS. WHEN I STARTED HIGH SCHOOL THE ONLY OPTION FOR AN ABORTION AFTER 7 WEEKS WAS SURGICAL AND NOW THERE'S A PILL.

ms-demeanor

FUCKING. ELECTRIC CARS. SO GODDAMNED MANY PEOPLE HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON THEIR HOUSES OR IN THEIR PARKING LOTS.

WE DON'T HAVE SMOG DAYS IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE UNLESS THERE'S A FIRE AND IT'S BECAUSE OF CARB STANDARDS.

LITERALLY MILLIONS OF FUCKING PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY IN 2020 AND YOU CAN SAY "NOTHING HAPPENED" ALL YOU WANT BUT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT NOW IS FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN THEY DID AFTER RODNEY KING AND NOW PEOPLE WILL STOP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GOING 'NOT MY BUSINESS'

THERE IS A MALARIA VACCINE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO OVER A MILLION CHILDREN IN JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE IT WAS APPROVED FOR USE OUTSIDE OF TRIALS

punkass-diogenes

I think it's really important to remind people that things have, to some degree or another, always been shit. The more you learn about history, the more you realize that every time has deeply sucked in some profound way. This mythical Time Before Everything Was Bad doesn't exist. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It is always the best of times, it is always the worst of times. That's Samsara for ya.

shadesofmauve

I want to reiterate how far trans awareness and rights have come. I'd never encountered the concept until I was about 20, in the very early aughts. I have multiple friends who could not get healthcare of any kind until the ACA. I remember the party when domestic partnerships -- not marriage, just domestic partnerships -- were legalized in my state.

I think a lot of the utter bullshit we're seeing now is people reacting to that progress. Don't ever forget that it's happened, and it can happen again if it has to.

elliottkay

When I enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1993, Don't Ask Don't Tell was brand new. My enlistment papers still had the old "homosexual activity" questions crossed out in Sharpie. That's all dead and buried now. It's history.

I grew up in the Satanic Panic. Actual, legal adults worried about the sanity and immortal souls of kids because we played Dungeons & Dragons. This summer, 2024, I bought literal actual official D&D US Postage Stamps. We went from "omg threat to children" to normal enough to be a fucking stamp.

People—assholes—have been crying about "political correctness" all my life. PC was never really about anything more than maybe treating people with some basic respect, and y'know what? Despite all the conservative tears, it DID move the dial on how people talk. It fucking mattered. It still matters.

And green energy is happening whether some assholes in government like it or not. It's getting cheaper and it's spreading and fossil fuels look like a worse long-term investment all the time, regardless of who's in the White House.

Things do get better. The world has always been rough, and many things will continue to be rough. But in spite of that, many things are way better than they used to be, and they'll keep getting better no matter how many rich and bigoted assholes throw tantrums about it.

cellspex

Normalize this response

bump-inthe-night-deactivated202

If it makes any of you feel better, Donald Trump will have an uphill battle to change the constitution. He will need:

-2/3 of Senators (60)

-2/3 of the House of Representatives (290)

-3/4 of the states (38)

In 2026, 33 senate seats will be up for grabs, and we’ll be able to vote for people who are against Trump and his ideals.

Breathe and remain hopeful because it’s not over. We can still fight and make Trump’s last four years hell.

iamnmbr3

This is so important. Also pay attention to local elections. Now more than ever it's important to have staunch anti Trump democrats at every level of government - from school boards to senate seats. Apathy and not voting helped Trump win. Now is the time to wake up and get serious and hold on to the freedoms we have left. We have got to fight for every inch of territory. Do not give up. Do not give him any more power than he already has.

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Rugrats | s01e03 “At the Movies”

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Make the most of the next two months

Get all your vaccines

Travel while we have a functioning DOT

Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt

Attend drag shows

Don't skip any of your classes

Read and buy history books

Find your out-of-state networks

Learn to carry cash

Get birth control solutions

Support the Biden/Harris administration

Postpone large purchases and save money

Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information

Feel free to add on.

buthowboutno

wow! as a broke college kid, i wish there was a way to access books and movies as well as scientific articles that the new administration isn't necessarily a fan of. man. If only there was a free and trusted vpn ( up to 10 gigs of downloadable data) to use in conjunction with an anonymizing router (also free up to 10 gigs) to safely, er, permanently borrow media in an untraceable way as well as share files. Man, what's that browser that keeps your online activity anonymous? I'm awfully attached to firefox, personally. If only i had a browser extension that would throw a smoke screen over my browsing data while blocking ads at the same time.

what was i talking about? hmm. weird.