I didn't know we had a mounted division

Not a Social Justice Warrior, cleric, rogue... I'm a Social Justice Wand of Wonder.

[vygramul]

Historical Track Record

Black People: “We should be free.” White People: “Nah”

Black People: “We should be able to vote.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about our being slaves.” White People: “You were right about slavery but you’re wrong now.”

Black People: “The military should be integrated.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about giving us the vote.” White People: “You were right about slavery, and voting, but THIS time you’re wrong.”

Black People: “Schools should be desegregated.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about integrating the military.” White People: “You were right about slavery, voting, and military integration but THIS time you’re wrong.”

Black People: “These Jim Crow Laws need to go.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about desegregating the schools.” White People: “You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, and school desegregation, but THIS time you’re wrong.”

Black People: “We should be able to marry white people.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about Jim Crow Laws.” White People: “You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, school desegregation, and Jim Crow Laws, but THIS time you’re wrong.”

Black People: “We shouldn’t get shot by the police so much.” White People: “Nah.” Black People: “You said that about interracial marriage.” White People: “You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, school desegregation, Jim Crow Laws, and interracial marriage, but THIS time you’re wrong.”

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Worth reposting

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1979 tho 😳

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It was the 70s okay? Everybody did drugs back then

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1979 😩😩😩

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79 & 59 Barbie look like she’ll give you the clap then rob you.

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2010: I’m ready to get my life together as an successful working woman 2011: fuck that I got me a sugar daddy

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Someone finally told her to smile sometime in 1976.

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Here’s a list of guys who think the ACLU is worse than assaulting schoolgirls

Dr. Tom Ford, III, Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama Pastor Stan Cooke, Kimberly Church of God, Kimberly, Alabama Pastor Jonathan Rodgers, Dothan, Alabama Pastor Joseph Smith, Pine Air Baptist Church, Grand Bay Alabama Dr. David E. Gonnella, Pastor, Theodore, Alabama Pastor Mike Allison, Madison, Alabama Dr. Terry Batton, Christian Renewal and Development Ministries, Eufaula, Alabama Pastors Tim and Elizabeth Hanson, Smiths Station, Alabama Pastor Mark Liddle, Dominion Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Pastor Steve Sanders, Victory Baptist Church, Millbrook, Alabama Dr. Richard Fox, retired Baptist pastor Dr. Randy Cooper, Pastor, Warrior, Alabama William Green, Minister, Fresh Anointing House of Worship, Montgomery, Alabama Maurice McCaney, Victory Christian Fellowship Church, Florence, Alabama Pastor Jamie Holcomb, Young's Chapel, Piedmont, Alabama Pastor Paul Elliott, Young's Chapel, Piedmont, Alabama Pastor Rodney Gilmore, Covenant Christian, Gadsden, Alabama Pastor Mark Gidley, Faith Worship Center, Gadsden, Alabama Pastor Bill Snow, Edgewood Church, Anniston, Alabama Pastor Michael Yates, Webster's Chapel, Gadsden, Alabama Pastor Mark Holden, Webster's Chapel, Gadsden, Alabama Pastor Joshua Copeland, Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, Anniston, Alabama Pastor Bruce Jenkins, Young's Chapel, Piedmont, Alabama Pastor Keith Bond, Young's Chapel, Piedmont, Alabama Pastor Jim Lester, Fannin Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama Pastor Thad Endicott, Heritage Baptist Church, Opelika, Alabama Pastor David Floyd, Marvyn Parkway Baptist Church, Opelika, Alabama Pastor Bruce Word, Freedom Church, Gadsden, Alabama Pastor Paul Hubbard, Lakeview Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama Rev. Carl Head, Lakeview Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama Pastor Duwayne Bridges, Jr., Fairfax First Christian Church, Valley, Alabama Rev. Edwin Roberts, Adams Street Church of Christ, Enterprise, Alabama Pastor John McCrummen, Open Door Baptist Church, Enterprise, Alabama Rev. Mickey Counts, Open Door Baptist Church, Enterprise, Alabama Rev. Alex Pagen, Open Door Baptist Church, Enterprise, Alabama Pastor Glenn Brock, Eufaula, Alabama Rev. Tim Head, Montgomery, Alabama Pastor/Elder Ted Phillips, Christ Church, Odenville, Alabama Tim Yarbrough, Elder, Trinity Free Presbyterian, Trinity, Alabama Pastor Myron Mooney, Trinity Free Presbyterian, Trinity, Alabama Jerry Frank, Elder, Trinity Free Presbyterian, Trinity, Alabama Pastor Jim Nelson, Church of the Living God, Moulton, Alabama Pastor Earl Wise, Millbrook, Alabama Rick and Beverly Simpson, Summit Holiness Church, Alabama Pastor Lane Simmons and Margie Dale Simmons, First Assembly of God, Greenville Alabama Rev. Charles Morris, Pastor Grace Way Fellowship, Evergreen Alabama Dr. George Grant, Pastor, Parish Presbyterian Church Pastor David Whitney, Cornerstone Church (Pasadena, MD) Dr. Peter and Roseann Waldron, St. Francis Anglican Church Pastor Franklin and Mrs. Pamela Raddish, Capitol Hill Independent Baptist Ministries Dr. Michael Peroutka, Institute on the Constitution Reverend Bill Owens, Coalition of African American Pastors Church names are listed for identification purposes only

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You’ll Stand Up

(With deepest apologies to Lin Manuel Miranda)

You say The price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay  You cry As you kneel for the flag 'cause the cops won't stop shooting you guys  Why so sad Remember we made an arrangement when you came as slaves Now you're making me mad Remember despite our estrangement I'm The Man

You'll stand up, soon you'll see You'll remember you truly owe me You'll stand up, time will tell You'll remember we gave you jobs as well Oceans rise Empire's Fall We've abused your people through it all And when push comes to shove We will kill your friends and family To remind you to show your love

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Why the Right Wing will fight Climate Science to the Death (of the planet)

One might be tempted to ask oneself why it is that the right wing is so stubborn when it comes to the overwhelming scientific evidence regarding climate change. Even those who can bring themselves to admit it’s happening, it’s our fault, and it’s bad, nevertheless are lukewarm about doing anything about it. In fact, even they tend to revert back to making fun of global warming when the opportunity presents itself.

Think about that: they find it easier to mock something they readily otherwise admit is real than actually do something about it.

This has been somewhat difficult for me to understand. Why would you accept as fact that something that critically bad for everyone is going on yet be reluctant to do anything about it? Why do some people refuse to even entertain the notion?

In some cases, it’s unthinking politics. People take a side and filter the information they get through a political lens based on the sources they read and then do little thinking of their own, choosing what resonates ideologically. To some degree, while reprehensible, they’re the least offensive of recalcitrants. Then there are those who refuse to accept the possibility because it would necessarily require them to admit to themselves and, even less tolerably, admit to the other side that they were wrong about something. But those aren’t the most offensive ones.  The most offensive are those whose intellectual vanity is greater than their ideological satisfaction and lead them to accept the consensus and, really, what their fucking eyes are telling them, yet choose to remain anything short of strident in adopting the justifiably alarmist position. I couldn’t understand why. Then I remember Magda Goebbels in Downfall:

     “My children cannot grow up in a world without National Socialism.”

She would rather destroy her children than allow them to grow up in a world where her ideology was fundamentally wrong (in her case, German racial superiority). 

I have a hard time coming to any other conclusion than to think that conservatives who accept climate science would rather see the world burn than have a reality where their fundamental position of industry first, environment second, is inescapably wrong. 

And that’s why they’ll never come around. There are those among them who will blindly refuse to believe it because they are too dull-witted, there are those among them who will refuse to believe it because ideologically their egos cannot take it, and then there are those who will believe it but refuse to do anything about it because, “My children cannot grow up in a world without amoral capitalism.”

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This Hollywood Business

If you notice, liberals are not leaping to the defense of Weinstein. The “liberal media” doesn’t seem to have any problem reporting on it. Yet conservatives sure seem to be willing to abandon the high standards of proof they demand for university students when the subject of Hollywood rapists comes up. Suddenly, every accusation is not only true, but obviously has been for ages. 

So much for “beyond a reasonable doubt”. In fact, even, “preponderance of evidence,” doesn’t seem to figure into it.

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Riding the Bigot Bull

The GOP establishment hasn't been so much pro-Trump as anti-anti-Trump since his nomination. They drooled at the stolen Supreme Court pick and decided to go all-in, hoping Trump wasn't everything that they said he was during the primaries and what everyone else said he was since he started campaigning. The man holds positions that, until last year, were anathema to many of the party's traditional platforms.

(Note: this is not an endorsement of their traditional platforms, nor is is saying Trump isn’t right-wing.) Part of the reason for their hitching their horses so firmly to a wagon that should otherwise have ended up on the Island of Misfit Toys is the stark polarization of politics that happened when some black dude slaughtered them on the way to two terms in the White House. The Tea Party took over the GOP with the position that the best defense was a good offense and that truth was irrelevant in politics. Ever since, any defense of conservative issues as being the better answer was all but abandoned in favor of the demonization the left by any means necessary. When some of those means were morally repugnant, rather than the honest defense that it was a minority of bigots who were being repugnant, they decided to attack the accusation and thus normalized bigotry.

(One can argue over the warp and weft of GOP bigotry but that’s a collateral issue.) Bigotry is ugly, as we see with the ass-clown on that Texas beach and his crying mugshot, and it is powerful. When people in fiction warn against meddling with powerful forces you don't understand, this is the kind of thing they are talking about. Bigotry has a way of wresting control away from those who would seek to harness it. The GOP decided bigotry was a useful tool against the Obama administration and it led DIRECTLY to Trump and the preposterous distortion of conservatism we're seeing in power now.

(This isn’t to say they weren’t bigoted before, but that their bigotry was less overt.) The GOP is engaged in political bull-riding and it's praying to God it manages 8 seconds because THIS bull is known to gore those it throws.

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Trump Pardons Obama

(AP - Washington, D.C.) Early Sunday Morning, President Trump announced that he is issuing a blanket pardon for former president Barack Obama, the first such action by a president since President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in September of 1974.

“I simply believe that the nation needs to turn the page and begin anew. We can’t get on with making America Great with a constant clamoring for extensive and time-consuming prosecutions of former presidents and secretaries of state,” said President Trump, “I’m sure Barack will tell you himself that the actions of the previous president only served to disrupt progress.”

“I am thankful to President Trump,” said President Obama, “He compassionately wanted to let me retire in peace. I just wish I had the same strength of character when it came to whether or not to pardon President Bush.”

In their White House meeting, the second since President Trumps’ inauguration, the President basked in Obama’s endorsements while returning the compliment.

“It’s not out of the question that I’ll award Obama the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After all, he enabled a peaceful transition to the freest administration since the Founding Fathers,” concluded President Trump.

With Obama receiving a blanket pardon, the nation’s healing can truly begin.

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Historical Track Record

Black People: "We should be free." White People: "Nah"

Black People: "We should be able to vote." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about our being slaves." White People: "You were right about slavery but you're wrong now."

Black People: "The military should be integrated." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about giving us the vote." White People: "You were right about slavery, and voting, but THIS time you’re wrong."

Black People: "Schools should be desegregated." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about integrating the military." White People: "You were right about slavery, voting, and military integration but THIS time you’re wrong."

Black People: "These Jim Crow Laws need to go." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about desegregating the schools." White People: "You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, and school desegregation, but THIS time you’re wrong."

Black People: "We should be able to marry white people." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about Jim Crow Laws." White People: "You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, school desegregation, and Jim Crow Laws, but THIS time you’re wrong."

Black People: "We shouldn't get shot by the police so much." White People: "Nah." Black People: "You said that about interracial marriage." White People: "You were right about slavery, voting, military integration, school desegregation, Jim Crow Laws, and interracial marriage, but THIS time you’re wrong."

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Iran to Have Nuclear Weapons by 2021

Move by incoming administration to insure Republican predictions in January 2016 come true.

(Reuters - Whiteman Air Force Base, MO) Air Force officials here received notice to prepare for a nuclear weapons transfer to Iran in 2021 should they fail to produce their own weapons. 

Citing Republican predictions in January 2016 that insisted Iran would be guaranteed to have nuclear weapons by 2021 thanks to Obama’s Iran deal, Donald Trump said that he was left with no choice but to safeguard the credibility and trustworthiness of conservative politicians and pundits by giving Iran the nukes they have thus far failed to make for themselves.

When asked why the long lead-time, Brigadier General Paul Tibbets IV, commander of Whiteman AFB, explained that it takes time for American nuclear stockpile transfers to take place. 

“Also, we do not have the confidence that Iran would be able to mount the warhead on their Emad IRBM (Arabic: عماد, meaning “pillar”), so we have to do the integration here at Whiteman before delivery. While it might take Iranian scientists 10-20 years to accomplish this under the best of circumstances, our nuclear weapons scientists have it down to an art-form and we’re sure we can get it done in 3-4 years.”

“It’s important to recognize that this will ONLY happen if Iran doesn’t otherwise deploy their own nuclear weapons,” said Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson, “We fully expect them to be able to get this done on their own. In that case, we won’t have wasted time because we would have learned a lot from mounting the warhead ourselves, enabling President Trump to counter their aggressive use of nuclear weapons with a preëmptive strike.”

When confronted with this plan by Reuters, Obama looked surprised, indicating that, as expected, he is entirely out of the loop when it comes to Iran. Calling the Vice President into the office, asking him to comment, aghast, Biden said, “This is a Big Fucking Deal.”

The Iranian Embassy did not immediately return requests for comment.

An earlier version of this report incorrectly identified General Tibbets as Brigadier Tibbets.

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Good thing the next president isn't an absolute moron with a thin ego and literally no understading of the international institutions we set up post WWII to contain and descalate tensions.

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Jehova’s Witnesses File Suit to Prevent Obamacare from Paying for Blood Transfusions

Religious Liberty claim headed for federal court

(CNN - New York) The New York City Kingdom Hall (NYCKH) of Jehovah’s Witnesses has filed suit in 2nd district federal court today challenging Obamacare’s blood transfusion coverage requirements. 

“Christians shall not ingest blood,” said Jacob Edelman, spokesperson for the NYCKH, “and it is a mortal sin for a Christian to accept a blood transfusion and, by extension, to pay for one. The Jehova’s Witnesses are not asking for anything that Hobby Lobby isn’t asking for.”

Hobby Lobby objected to the comparison.

“Hobby Lobby isn’t asking for crazy requirements,” said a representative, “it’s ridiculous to demand people not get blood transfusions. If you don’t want a blood transfusion, don’t get one, but ultimately the choice is left to the conscience of the patient,” they said, oblivious to their own reality.

A preliminary injunction may be granted next week when the Court hears oral arguments for the two sides.