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trump: *starts the process of wiping out net neutrality, an objectively horrible thing for everone that isn’t a massive telecom company executive and will cause untold levels of damage on our ability to communicate through the internet*
media:
trump: *makes a spelling mistake on twitter*
media: OMG have you heard of
COVFEFE??????????????????????????????
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The Most Terrifying Villain in Get Out Is White Womanhood by Aisha Harris (full article).
“‘White liberal racism’ has been accurately pinpointed as the movie’s symbolic Big Bad, the villain that, when left unchecked, will destroy us all.”
Including Jordan Peele on Jeff Goldsmith’s The Q&A Podcast, The Birth of a Nation, King Kong, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jack Johnson, The Scottsboro Boys (#tw: lynching et. al), Emmett Till, the 1923 Rosewood Masacre, A History of Rape Reports and Lynching in the US (#tw: rape), Odell Beckham Jr., women who voted Trump, the West/Swift feud, Key and Peele’s “Othello Tis My Shite” sketch, the Democratic 1994/1996 Crime and Welfare Bills signed by Bill Clinton and the Super-Predator myth. #getoutspoilers #get out spoilers #spoilers
♫ They see a black man with a white woman At the top floor they gone come to kill King Kong ♫
Bonus: Other modern moments similar to this dynamic:
White women didnt’ ask to be used this way by racists. We really, really didn’t.
didnt a white girl just get busted for saying she was gangraped by a bunch of black men this year. and then days later came out as a liar? Rhetorical question, yes the fuck she did.
Like… In a post about white women using their victimhood as a weapon, you identify as a white woman and proceed to play the victim. Sit with that. And be a more critical thinker.
I accidentally one clicked this when I meant to add some facts. Hi, hello, white women are not only used as excuses for racism, they actively engage in racist behavior. Violent racist behavior at that. Feel free to learn about Rebecca Latimer Felton who endorsed lynching. Or Carolyn Bryant who lied about Emmett Till & kept that lie a secret for decades despite knowing it caused his murder. Betty Shelby who shot & killed an unarmed Black man. White women drive the school to prison pipeline for Black youth. It’s not racists using white women, it is white women being racist and not being accountable for the harm they do.
Carolyn Bryant isn’t the best example because it’s implied that her heavily abusive husband forced her into the plot, but yeah Emmet Till’s story is still one of the most famous examples of white womanhood being used to demonize black men & that shit is still pervasive today
It’s “implied?” Really? She admitted on her deathbed that she lied. She would have said she was coerced if she felt that was true. How the hell can it be “implied” when it’s a real situation?
“Friend” and “free” in English, and “Freund” and “frei” in German come from the same Indo-European root, which conveys the idea of a shared power that grows. Being free and having ties was one and the same thing. I am free because I have ties, because I am linked to a reality greater than me. In ancient Rome, the children of citizens were liberi : through them, it was Rome that was growing. Which goes to show how ridiculous and what a scam the individual freedom of “I do what I feel like doing” is.
To Our Friends (via wizardovthevoid)
honestly its so fucked up that we here in the USA don’t even see how big of a deal declaring martial law is because our police are already as heavily militarized as the actual military that we can’t even tell the difference.
I’m pretty sure one heavy vest and an M16 with one attachment is a lot to you but its nothing compared to out military wearing 2 heavy duty vest with a steel plate in it and an LMG with a 200 round capacity and anti tank missiles. Yea…there totally on the same level. Next time you see your local police with a missile launcher hit me up
i’ve definitely seen police vehicles with machine guns on the top. the reason the police don’t have to use missile launchers is because the government already ensured no one would have them by making them illegal. look up the 1033 program and quit being a smartass.
Plus, militarization is just as much an attitude thing as a material thing. You can see it in how cops talk about the public- “dangerous streets” “need to be controlled” “a constant threat” (all direct quotes from cops I know, btw). Police approach policing as armed enforcers who are above the law, and who use violence freely- even when there’s no law broken, they just feel “disrespected” (there was one incident that got famous for this, a black woman who was arrested for ‘talking back’ to a cop). Police treat themselves like a military.
As someone who was IN the military, you bet your ass that we would DAMN WELL need to have a damn good reason before we pulled HALF the shit police do, or we’d be up in front of our chain of command and getting busted rank so fast it would make our heads spin. Police get away with a heckuva lot more than the military does.
Also like, just because they don’t have missiles doesn’t mean they aren’t militarized you fuckass, the UK is declaring martial law, and they ain’t got missile launchers they have giant fucking machine guns, like hmm who does that sound like… oh yeah the USA’s regular police force.
get fucked. @toddtheunicorn
Mainstream news acting all shocked by this guy when the rest of us here on the internet have heard right-wing fanatics spout shit like this for years and years under the laughably fake bullshit excuse of “trolling.”
Everyone who treats 4chan and its spawn with kid gloves can kiss my fat ass. This is what we get when we act like bigotry on the internet occurs in a vacuum. Bogleech is right, and I’ve been saying this for years.
Friendly reminder to liberals that every time you play free speech advocate on behalf of these monsters you’re responsible for the blood they spill.
As you can see from the yellow and red dots which indicate danger, the united states is covered in them. unsurprisingly theyre in some of the poorest areas of the united state.
By 2020 85% of all dams in the united states will be past their life expectancy, and the dams which won’t be past their life expectancy don’t mean they’re safe, the vast majority of those dams are still not technologically advanced enough for our modern society, nearly all dams in the united states are hazardous when looking at this map.
It doesn’t matter how solid a dam is down river from a high-hazard dam. If the high hazard dam fails it will wash out all the dams down river, which will flood even the low risk dams, and can cause failure.
Dam repairs, and updates, and removal is expensive and dangerous, but necessary if we don’t want millions of people to lose their lives.
Damn, I didn’t even know we had that many dams.
we have a fuckton of dams and 85% of them are fuckin ready to burst soon. 8)
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It’s officially been an hour. No one has deleted the covfefe tweet.
It has now been 5 hours.
It’s because it’s on purpose. Today, Trump also announced that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Accords, an environmental agreement that regulates pollution and has many, many countries involved. This is going to have terrible and likely domino effect-like consequences, and the Trump administration knows that. They will happily let this, and everyone making fun of it, distract from that. Pay attention.
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Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that K.A. Applegate might be the only sci-fi writer EVER who both (a) condemns the mass killing of aliens even if they are attacking the earth AND (b) shows why it’s sort of necessary in the situation?
It seems like too many other sci-fi stories go the route of Avengers or Doctor Who (S1) or Independence Day where a protagonist wiping out thousands of aliens is portrayed as uncomplicated heroism and we all celebrate at the end. Either that or they go the route of Avatar the Last Airbender (S3) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S5) where the characters that don’t want to engage in violence don’t have to get their hands dirty because a deus ex machina comes along and prevents that from having to happen. In both cases doing the right thing is also a matter of doing the easy thing.
Applegate, by contrast, doesn’t let her characters get away with an uncomplicated happy ending. She doesn’t say “they were aliens so it’s okay to kill them,” and she doesn’t offer them a third way out of their impossible choice. She gets into the hell that is war and doesn’t use the sci-fi genre to let her gloss over the dirty details.
Oh hey it’s Doug.
The Man Booker Prize–winning author shares a few of her favorite things.
Cellulite is a female secondary sex characteristic and should be celebrated as a rite of womanhood, not despised or eradicated.
it’s really a secondary sex characteristic?!
It is. It has to do with the way our bodies network fat. Female bodies create sort of a mesh network to support fat (female bodies are MUCH more hardy in times of stress) and it can present as delightfully lumpy. More than 90% of women have visible cellulite, but all women store fat in this manner.
why did no one tell me this?!
You know why :/
Spread this. I only just started to see mine and I started to freak out a bit. More people should/need to know about this
Here’s an illustration of the aforementioned difference in fat storage.
Men’s lattice pattern collagen threads holds subcutaneous fat in a way that, when the skin expands because of the fat storage, it expands evenly. Women’s “pockets” expand unevenly when we accumulate fat, creating that orange peel effect. Our storage pattern means we can healthily store more fat than men. Like a woman with 25% body fat is average, a man with 25% body fat is chubby. Because of that, like OP said, women are hardier in times of stress or famine. It’s also one of the reasons why our bodies can survive pregnancy, which is a massive energy demand on our system.
And there’s absolutely NO “treatment” for cellulite that will work. They are all bullshit designed to separate you from your hard-earned cash. It’s a secondary sex characteristic, it’s perfectly normal and it’s not going away no matter what you do. Like I’m very lean myself and I work out 5~6 times a week, and I still have cellulite. Someone giving a woman shit for having cellulite is akin to giving her shit for having skin. It’s just a mixture of misogyny and corporate greed.
Love your lumpy skin, ladies. It means you are a badass surviving machine shaped by millenia of evolution.
No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?
Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did. He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is. He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).
But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him? And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?
Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?
That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets. And his wife Coral Browne? The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?
Also bisexual as fuck. They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s. His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community. When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.
Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance? Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.
Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):
‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’
Happy birthday, Vincent Price. You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.
OBJECTION: all of this is absolutely fantastic and I just have to add…
