I Swear They Put Nicotine In Tuna

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[mapsontheweb]

How close do their borders come to?

[changeling-ash]

Hmmm…Seems like they touch.

hmm??

…you have to be kidding me.

…..

…Wow….

[metrickulous]

[mx-t4t0]

yep it checks out

[ms-demeanor]

So are you saying we shouldnt judge trumpers? Are you saying we should befriend them? Are you saying we should learn the difference between conciously decided organized yt supremacists and complacent/uninformed ones? Are you saying that theyl uninformed ones/complacent etc arent dangerous? Im not trying to be aggressive/argumentative, however im autistic and not understanding the point youre trying to make but like i want to understand.

This is a really good excuse for me to break this down in simple terms, so thank you for this ask.

I think we should be cautious about labeling the 70 million americans who voted for the incumbent republican president as white supremacists.

Being a (noun) White Supremacist is different than being complicit in a white supremacist system. (noun) White Supremacists are extremely dangerous and are typically that way intentionally, most of the people who are complicit in a white supremacist system are more likely to be unaware of the fact that they’re benefiting from white supremacy.

The second group (i like your term, uninformed ones), the Uninformed White Supremacists aren’t *not* dangerous but they may be able to be informed of the system they’re participating in and choose to reject it if they are approached cautiously and educated over time. They absolutely CAN be dangerous and but I don’t think that they’re completely unreachable in political discussions. Basically I think that if you approach the uninformed white supremacists in a friendly manner and slowly make them informed about thing they can become less white supremacist and less dangerous.

I don’t honestly think that you should befriend republicans if you don’t have to. This controversy has popped up because I said my neighbor, who voted for trump, is attractive and has sympathetic qualities and that I would lend him tools if he asks. That doesn’t, in my opinion, make him my friend, but it does put me in a better position to talk about my political beliefs around him and make him take me more seriously than he might take a random person who shares my political beliefs that he ran into on the street.

I do think that if you are safe enough to do so you should try to do outreach for your political beliefs whenever you can. For instance I am a sex worker who is much safer and less threatened by that work than many other sex workers I know so I talk to a lot of anti-sex work people about why sex work isn’t inherently bad and should be decriminalized. That doesn’t mean that I think that sex workers should become friends with SWERFs or that I think we should unilaterally forgive anti-sex work people for voting on bills and ordinances that hurt sex workers.

I personally don’t find “judgement” to be a useful or actionable term. I am critical of trump voters, I will denounce their beliefs and work against their desires. I will prevent their policies from going into place wherever I can. I don’t want to hang out with them and I usually don’t get along with them on anything beyond an extremely superficial level. But if you don’t give people room to grow they don’t grow. If you permanently label them “republican white supremacist trump voter for ever and always” they can’t learn to NOT be that.

And. Like “Cool motive, still murder.” I recognize that while people may have different and complicated reasons for voting republican they are still doing something harmful and I acknowledge that - that is precisely why I think it’s important to provide them with alternatives to the conclusions they’ve arrived at.

[zevveli]

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

[elsajeni]

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

[princessnijireiki]

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

[siderealsandman]

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

[kc749]

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

[theawkwardqueerturtle]

I love seeing different ways cultures deal with supernatural entities

[delladilly-deactivated20161011]

do you ever see someone in some quiet intimate moment and suddenly love them so desperately you feel like you’re dying

#like when they pass a mirror and make a face and mess with their hair a little #or when you hear someone singing in their car with the windows rolled up as they drive past you #i don’t know how to express this i just. people are people and it makes me so sad and filled up sometimes

[mrrrl]

I love seeing grown humans setting about little creative tasks out of boredom and then looking quietly pleased with themselves, like maybe a middle-aged woman on her train home from work manages to make a tower out of empty coffee creamers and gazes at it proudly for a few seconds.

I love seeing other people make the overblown OOPS I FORGOT SOMETHING performance for no-one that most of us do when we have to turn around in the middle of the pavement.

I love seeing stony-faced people in queues unable to contain a smile when a baby looking over its mother’s shoulder in front of them locks eyes and does that astonished stare.

[brittascribbles]

- when someone is standing in line and they don’t quite dance to the music playing, but you can SEE their head bop and them mouthing the words

- when someone thinks no one’s paying attention and they sing-talk themselves thru a task

- when they laugh or try to hide a laugh when looking at their phone

[elodieunderglass]

- when someone does the thing where they enter another space (such as a supermarket aisle) striding with total purpose, then suddenly forget what they’re doing/looking for, and stop there looking blank for a millisecond while they reboot. 

- when people are looking for scissors, in their home or in a store, and they make the scissors gesture with their non-dominant hand as an aid to remind them what they’re doing.

- when automatic social interactions glitch, like when you tell a waiter that you hope he enjoys his food too, or tell the stranger on the phone that you love them. 

- the hand gesture people make when they’re thinking at their computer, not typing, and their elbow rests on the table, and they feel the edge of their fingernail with their thumb. This is such a lovely little gesture and to my knowledge I have never seen it in fiction. You’d think it would come up all the time in fic.

- when you’re sharing an experience with a complete stranger (like watching a seagull throw up in public, or waiting for a late train) and you make eye contact, and some comment to each other, and then you guys are, like, ALLIES now. Like you would willingly ride to war to save them. You can’t make eye contact again, but you are very aware of them. 

- just evidence of other people’s rich, baffling and complex inner lives.

[liquidlightning]

i love watching couples or friends walking in tandem. i love seeing when they make each other laugh

[strangerose]

This is what Hozier means when he says ‘I fall in love just a little bit everyday with someone new.’

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

might fuck around & appear in a misty moor to bedevil weary travelers idk

[willtime-deactivated20181102]

hi ive been losing my shit over this picture for the past two days

[willtime-deactivated20181102]

have been informed that this is from a 1974 sean connery movie called zardoz and all i can say is if i saw this in 1974 my third eye would have snapped the fuck open

[hz-archive]

Isn’t that a thwomp

[shadow-dio-sama]

[shishkababoo-deactivated2018121]

on the topic of Zardoz, this is what Sean Connery wore in the movie

[potoo-reblogs]

Please reblog this nice Toad.

[bearer-of-bad-decisions]

[teenagerposts]

a rollercoaster from start to finish

[glumshoe]

Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?

[glumshoe]

My dream wedding: outside, illegal fireworks, shoes are optional, mostly potluck, someone’s dressed as a wizard, I get to insult my relatives, hopefully some live music.

[norrington-hell]

[silentauroriamthereal]

Reblogging for every single part of this

[thenonesenseofladypole]

it was his 111st birthday you Uncultured Proudfeet!

[thebeachboys-deactivated2020050]

[ectoplasm-bodyshots]

it’s like a time capsule from hell 

[statsdead-deactivated20200602]

[prokopetz]

Concept: a bunch of high school Satanists get drunk in the local graveyard and try to conjure a demon, but they’re using one of those “reconstructionist” ritual books that gets its sources all mixed up, so they end up with a minor Mithraic fertility spirit that hasn’t spoken with humans in like 1700 years instead. By the terms of its binding it’s not allowed to leave until it’s ensured a successful harvest for its summoners, which is a problem, because none of these goobers have ever raised so much as a houseplant; if it wants to go home, it’s going to have to teach them how to garden - whether they want to learn or not!

[evtrained]

“Five high school sophomores were arrested today on charges of operating an illegal pot growing business behind the Home Depot on I-95. The 200-foot-tall plants, which police could see from their station…”

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

[katelouisepowell]

Giant driftwood on the beach at La Push, Washington (2010)

this made me feel really uneasy, the ocean is terrifying.

[vavmansr-deactivated20140623]

its like when cats bring home a dead bird and drop it at your feet except the ocean is like I HAVE BROUGHT YOU THIS ENORMOUS TREE FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ENJOY

[zhe-lazy-fox]

The Ocean is just this gigantic deadly yet lovingly and life bringing lovely being who sometimes gives us tree’s or dead fish…

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

I know none of you will reblog this because you only care about your pretty-boy celebrities and your contrived “discourse”, but I just undid Dracula’s curse

[editingatwork]

You know what line gets me every time I watch MAD MAX FURY ROAD? 

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.”

Think about that. “Addicted to water.” It makes it sound like water is an extra luxury that people don’t need but are greedy for, something they should be able to go without, and if they are desperate for it, it’s their own fault, and not the fault of the man who has all of it, and withholds it.

Think about how the people in power tell us not to be greedy for the things we need, like healthcare, like a living wage, like the right to be free of fear and violence in our own communities. The people in power tell us not to be greedy for these things, when they themselves already enjoy them freely, and withhold them from us.

Don’t trust the narrative that tells us we’re being greedy by asking for things that we need.

Don’t trust the asshole sitting on a grassy hilltop with his hand on the spigot telling us not to be greedy for water.

[left-reminders]

Fury Road is a fantastic criticism of capitalist property rights over common necessities

[vinceaddams]

Good evening, here’s an educational cone meme.

Edit: I’ve realized this is a bit hard to read, especially since I made the extra bits on the top and bottom way lighter than I should have, so here’s what it says.

“no, I’m afraid you’ve been badly misinformed about 18th century stays. They are not torture devices at all, and you can breathe in them just fine. That scene in Pirates of the Caribbean lied to you. Properly fitted 18th century stays (NOT corsets, that’s a 19th century word) are perfectly comfortable and don’t reduce the waist much, if at all. A small waist was desirable but it was done mainly with optical illusions. Huge wide skirts make the waist look much smaller by contrast, and the lines of the bodice helped too. It’s about the cone shaped silhouette - smoothing the lines of the torso, and also bust support. Tightlacing wasn’t a thing until well into the 19th century, and even then it was the exception rather than the norm.”

[ratliker1917]

really disappointed to discover “ratify” absolutely does not mean the extremely cool thing you could think it means just from looking at the word

[whitepeopletwitter]