[spork]

*waits for the number of rape reports to drop significantly because victims fear losing their health insurance and then trump claims he helped reduce rape*

[beskt]

Journal page.

[purpleorblack]

[hyenuh-deactivated20230717]

[hanecdote]

[purplebuddhaproject]

[micdotcom]

Another white rape case ends without jail time

David Becker, 18, allegedly sexually assaulted two women while they were asleep. He was charged with two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault and battery, he will receive just two years of probation. And if he doesn’t violate probation — the long term consequences will be even more lenient.

[gingah-ninjah]

This is fucking disgusting.

[sageandbone]

[gallifreyfalls]

[stephenhawqueen]

the US is unreal like girls cant wear shorts to school, you can literally lose your job for being gay, and unarmed black children are brutally murdered on the regular but old white ppl r still like “what a beautiful country. i can freely carry a gun for no reason and some of our mountains look like presidents. god bless”

[stability]

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her. From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, ‘Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don’t want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy.” If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry. That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again. Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don’t ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy the people we are trying to love. True love needs understanding. With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)

[purplebuddhaproject]

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. - Dr. Seuss

(via purplebuddhaproject)

[cestvibe]

[thelovejournals]

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean towards the opposite.

Shane Koyczan  (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train (via wordsnquotes)