THIS is what people should be terrified of. This is a movement that wants to turn America into a theocracy, and they are deeply embedded in the Republican Party.VOTE THE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET.EVERY OFFICE.EVERY ELECTION.NO EXCEPTIONS.
from star trek: mirror mirror
idk what it is but something about the anatomy is off
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I don’t know how to explain it, but Kirk is a mongoose.
When was this drawn? It looks like a Rob Liefeld knock-off.
This is money cat. He only appears every 1,383,986,917,198,001 posts. If you repost this in 30 seconds he will bring u good wealth and fortune.
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I mean it’s a cat
Wors case scenario: cat
Comic books are Jewish-American culture
And never forget that one of the reasons so many Jewish-Americans contributed to comics is because of the antisemitism in much of the creative sector in 20th century America. Many of these highly skilled and creative people ended up in comics because they couldn’t find work in more prestigious and lucrative fields.
also the same reason so many of them worked in the motion picture industry when it first began; working in film wasnt a respected line of work, so it kinda became a jewish culture, and when film unexpectedly caught on, upper-middle class white christians were quick to erase the jewish influence that the film industry had. also similar to the reason why so many jews in the past millennium worked in finance- in the 1100s it was considered sinful in the christian church to handle large amounts of money, so banking in western Europe was kind of the only profession in which Jews were guaranteed a secure income. because banking was a Jewish thing because it was sinful, when it became a respected profession, the upper-middle class and elites were quick to smear the Jewish involvement in banking as an evil conspiracy to control the world
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gonna add real quick that two Jewish men actually created Batman. Bill Finger was uncredited for years, but he is responsible for Batman’s look, backstory, personality,, setting etc. Bob Kane is responsible for the name and that’s pretty much it.
“In fact, nearly all the great superheroes were created by Jews: Jerry Siegel and Joe (Joseph) Shuster created Superman, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) created Captain America, Bob Kane (Robert Kahn) and Bill Finger invented Batman, while Kirby, together with Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber) produced a particularly impressive line of heroes such as Spider-Man, The Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men, Thor and the Avengers. “ –Supermensches.
And more superheroes than those had at least one Jewish creator. For example…
Aquaman? Created by Paul Norris (not Jewish) and Mort Weisinger (the son of Austrian Jewish parents) in November 1941.
The original Batgirl (spelled Bat-Girl), Betty Kane? Created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff in 1961.
Dick Grayson, a.k.a. the original Robin? Created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson in 1940. And yes, Robinson was also Jewish.
Green Arrow? Co-created by artist George Papp (not Jewish) and writer Mort Weisinger.
Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern? Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell (the son of Jewish immigrants).
Wolverine? Created by artist John Romita Sr. (who’s Italian) and writer Len Wein (who’s Jewish).
Jubilee of the X-Men? Created by artist Marc Silvestri and writer Chris Claremont. Claremont is Jewish on his mother’s side.
Black Canary? Created by artist Carmine Infantino and writer Robert Kanigher (son of Romanian Jewish parents) in 1947.
Sam Wilson, a.k.a the Falcon, and Captain America in some continuities? Stan Lee and Gene Colan (whose family name was originally “Cohen”).
T’Challa, the Black Panther? Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
It’s surprising how many superheroes have Jewish roots.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this already but a jewish man also invented what we now call graphic novels. His name is Will Eisner and the most prestigious comic book awards were named after him. He drew the Spirit comics as well as many graphic novels like A Contract with God, New York: The Big City and many many more. He also wrote and illustrated two books about making comics and sequential art. He was a fucking genius of visual narrative, character design and ripping your heart out with his stories.
The two major exceptions were Wonder Woman (created by William Moulton Marston) and Shazam/Captain Marvel (Bill Parker). Both these men were Ivy League-educated WASPs, but Marston was polyamorous and an outspoken supporter of women’s rights, which was not precisely common in the early 1940′s.
Virtually all the other creatives and the publishers were Jewish, even though some (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee) changed their names to sound “more American.”
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I reblogged him the day i started treatment and 1. GOT TO MY APPOINTMENT ON TIME 2. FOUND A FREE PARKING TICKET SOMEONE LEFT IN THE METER FOR ME AND 3. GOT FREE STARBUCKS AFTER MY APPOINTMENT!!!!!
I’m convinced bc I reblogged this on Friday, got hired at a job I had a million interviews for, went on a first date that went well, and got kissed a billion times so like hell ya to the luck cat
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When Henry Kissinger dies, we about to fucking party.
In case liberals want to defend Kissinger like Hilary Clinton did, here is why I want Henry to be very much dead soon.
Henry Kissinger has at the very least cost 4 million people’s lives. He is an evil despicable motherfucker.
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also feel free to contribute with any additional books/documents u may have
I don’t think ANYONE is going to defend this guy after he dies except the assholes over at the National Review and a few other right-wing outlets.
I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.
The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”
people recognize the problem contained within Whedon-style quippyness without knowing the term for the actual issue so they say “quips” when they mean “bathos”
another problem with quips that’s a little harder to analyze and explain is the quips are all in the author’s voice, NOT the characters’.
steve rogers, natalia romanoff, james barnes, tony stark, pepper potts, and bruce banner are people from radically different walks of life, and should therefore have extremely different styles of communication, despite all off them nominally speaking the same language (english). they should have different senses of humor, different senses of where the boundary lies between irreverence and insult, different boundaries, different sore spots, different goals as well as different methods of communication.
the fact that all these characters banter the exact same way, i.e how joss whedon thinks is funny, is incredibly shallow and grating.
steve grew up as a challenging little shit, who was also very small and poor, and he did it in 1920′s-30′s brooklyn new york. he regularly got his ass kicked. tony stark is also challenging and provocative, he’s a shit stirrer, but he grew up rich as all fuck. no one was beating the piss out of him in a dirty alley. tony has grown up surrounded by sycophants, rich enough to get away with whatever amount of bad behavior he wants to pull; steve grew up poor and disabled in a society that openly advocated for the death and degradation of the weak and unfit. why the fuck would they enter a conversation the same way? why would they deliver a snappy retort the same way? natasha romanoff is a spy, she’s manipulative, she’s always watching to see how a joke lands, she’s always conscientiously tuning herself this way and that to get results. she doesn’t have the luxury of casual defiance, or unthinking obnoxiousness, or even standing by her principles and pissing off someone she hates. again, why would she be tossing off little asides the same as tony, or even the same as steve?
the princess bride is sincere, and the characters still banter in their own voices. fezzik is cautious and methodical, inigo is weary and incredulous, vizzini is desperate to impress everyone with his own intelligence and in so doing often sounds like a complete twerp, buttercup is so incredibly pissed off she doesn’t have any brain cells to spare for joking around, and westley is here to ruin everyone’s day. and it works! the characters have great banter because they’re striking sparks off each other, not meshing like identical cogs in a machine.
humor is about subverting expectations, about breaking up patterns, about confrontation and absurdity. you can’t get that from a blandly uniform pulp.
I have never heard anyone summarize Westley’s character so perfectly in a single line
From the late writing teacher John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction (which every single aspiring writer should read, and read, and read again until it’s in your bones):
“The fault Longinus identified as ‘frigidity’ occurs in fiction whenever the author reveals by some slip or self-regarding intrusion that he is less concerned about his characters than he ought to be–less concerned, that is, than any decent human being observing the situation would naturally be. . . . the writer has forgotten that his characters’ situation is serious; he’s responded to his own imagined scene with insufficient warmth, has allowed himself to get carried away . . ., and, momentarily forgetting the scene’s real interest . . . the writer snatches at (or settles for) a detail of, at best, trivial interest. . . The writer lacks the kind of passion all true artists possess. He lacks the nobility of spirit that enables a real writer to enter deeply into the feelings of imaginary characters (as he enters deeply into the feelings of real people). In a word, the writer is frigid” (117–18).”
THAT is the problem with the MCU in general. I could cite example after example, but with very rare exceptions it’s become endemic to the films and TV shows, and it’s why the reviews, the ratings, and the box office have been steadily declining ever since Endgame. It started earlier (see: the deaths of the Warriors Three in Ragnarok; the recruitment of Spider-Man in Civil War; the awful group therapy scene in Endgame) but at this point they really need to take a deep breath, step back for a decade, and then start over with fresh actors, new writers, and no overall goddamn story arc that sucks all the joy, logic, and heart out of the stories and characters.
right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters.
Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.
You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.
I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:
No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.
No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).
Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.
If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).
Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.
As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.
There’s a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.
Starting mid-April I’ll be posting to-do lists and action items for people who’ve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.
1. There is zero reason to “despise” Biden, who has been the most socially progressive President since Lyndon Johnson. So fuck that noise, and grow the hell up.
2. “No Labels” is a third party attempt funded by the Right that’s intended to undermine Biden’s re-election. DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM.
3. If you don’t want Trump or DeSantis or a Fascist to be named later, VOTE THE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET, EVERY SINGLE OFFICE, NO EXCEPTIONS OR ABSTENTIONS.
Otherwise, stop pretending to be a progressive, because voting against the Democrats next year for any reason at all means the end of democracy in this country and environmental possibilities that will destroy any hope of bending the curve on the end of life as we know it.
Be strategic, for God’s sake, and grow up. This is no time for idealism.
oh fuck I thought the intro to today's Money Stuff was going to be a metaphor for some crypto bullshit but no an actual metals futures market was backed by actual bags of rocks.
THEY LITERALLY VAGUE EA-NASIR IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF ASDFGGHKGJKLSH
Nickel of inferior quality.
i’m sorry you’re genuinely a fucking asshole if you’re going on goodreads and writing full in depth scathing reviews of FANFICTION. like genuinely, sorry but fuck you if you do that. fanfiction is not there for you to consume as general media and quite frankly should not even be put on the same platform/grading and rating scale as books that have gone through professional publishing with 582 consultants and 17 proofreaders and will end up with the author holding a big ol check. fanfiction is just one person (sometimes two if you have a beta reader) having fun. for FREE. it’s not there for you to pick apart on a separate platform where a) the author has not consented for their fic to be and b) the author can VERY EASILY SEE.
fanfiction is not there for you to read and then rant about how much you hated the writing and the plot was underdeveloped and this trope didn’t work for you and you didn’t find this particular interaction funny. it’s not written for literary analysis so it is obviously going to crash and burn for you if you read it that way. if you don’t like a fic then just fucking click the backspace button. that’s it. that’s what it’s there for. and if you’re so woefully obsessed with your stupid fucking goodreads goal because you want to show off to all ur little pals that You Read Books This Year (which is a pathetic way to consume literature btw but i digress) just add it to your library? no need to even rate it. or go read jane eyre or something and critically analyse that. thankfully for you, charlotte brontë is too dead to give a fuck. unlike the fic authors who are seeing exactly what you’re saying about their hobby.
TRULY ALL OF THIS LIKE. if ur posting negative reviews of fanfic on goodreads all u are saying is
1) i cannot differentiate between different forms of written media and do not understand that not all fiction can or should be approached with the same analytic lens
2) i have so deeply ingrained the teachings of capitalism that i am incapable of engaging even with a hobby like reading unless i create an arbitrary quota that i must then work to fulfill in order to feel as though my hobby is "productive," and i must obsessively log every word i read to Complete My Reading Goal
3) i lack the basic human empathy to understand that an individual human being who spent time creating something purely out of joy and love could very easily come across my words and be so hurt by what i am saying that i strip the joy out of their hobby
4) i am too self-centered to understand that a story written by an individual for their own enjoyment should not have to meet my own personal preferences and standards for stories
5) i waste my time reading things i don't enjoy so that i can feel special and intellectually superior when i go on the internet and shit on something other people love
6) i am so self-delusional that i think other people will actually care about my opinion and it is Necessary to Share with the World, despite apparently being too stupid to grasp that one of the foundations of fanfiction is that it is not bound by the literary convention which i am attempting to use in a thinly-veiled "critique" that essentially boils down to: this story had things that other people like but i don't like them, and for some reason i think the world needs to know this
i am so sorry but if u were jesters in my court i fear u would all be executed instantly xoxo
okay, but this exactly.
when we write fanfiction, that is not a wide open call for critique. did you know that fanfic authors used to write in their notes if they were open to concrit (constructive criticism), because it was the normal rule of thumb that you didn't just offer unsolicited criticism of fanfiction? it was normalized that you didn't treat fanfic through the same lens as most forms of consumable media, subjected to our apparently desperate needs as humans to express personal judgment for every single fucking thing we come across.
listen to what im saying. fanic writers used to have to give express permission BEFORE fanfic readers would express opinions. or at least those that weren't positive, and even then, it was about constructive criticism—offering advice on how to possibly enrich a story etc, but not all fanfic authors want that. some of us—most of us—are just here for fun and to have a good time, and the fact that so many people willingly and carelessly find numerous ways to ruin that is so...like, it's genuinely so draining.
some of yall can truly be so fucking hateful, and miserable, and just downright annoying. like, im not asking you to read my fanfiction and turn around and critique the writing. the only time it should be offered is when it's asked for.
the general rule to be a decent human being is to assume that someone doesn't want criticism, constructive or otherwise, because some of us aren't writing and posting fanfiction to create a masterpiece or for the purpose of consumption with sure judgment following it; some of us are writing and posting just because we enjoy it! and with each scathing little review and each harsh comment and each unsolicited opinion and each dose of unwanted "constructive" criticism, the enjoyment grows smaller and smaller and gets dimmer and dimmer, until we don't even want to do it anymore. imagine that.
here, let me show you what i mean:
literally who asked? 🤨 no one's writing fanfic and hoping for this, just on the edge of their seat WAITING for reviews to come flooding in. and i don't care if it's true. IT IS, I KNOW THIS, I AM MY OWN WORST CRITIC. but the fics were never created for criticism. it doesn't matter if this is the harsh, blunt truth because this isn't a situation in which i should have to just...accept that honesty when i never asked for it, or wanted it. and, in the end, the one who looks like a fool is the person leaving these opinions and reviews for all to see, because if this is how you felt, then why the fuck did you read it?
and yes, there are good reviews! that's lovely, that's great, and that's...not the one ill remember.
these are are the ones im going to remember. every time i write, THIS is what im going to think about, along with every other criticism ive heard. and i hear all of it. the authors in this fandom hear you, because we are literally in the room with you. 😐 we can SEE you, do you realize that? because we are in the same fandom as you, in the same space as you, and no matter what platform we're on or how hard we try to avoid it, we all exist in this same circle, and so we all see what's being passed around. we're essentially in a room at a party, and you're stepping up on the podium to tap the microphone, announce your opinion on the dish someone has brought, along the lines of "it was good, but i have to say something rude because everyone liked it, and i can't be like everyone else" or "im purposefully looking for things wrong with this, because i enjoy tearing people down" or "i don't know how to consume anything without making sure every single person knows exactly how i feel about every little thing" or "i like being mean" when, nine times out of ten, you didn't even bring anything to the party anyway. you're just here, speaking into the microphone for your five seconds of attention, and that five seconds for you lasts a whole lot longer for the person it was about, because once you leave the stage and move on, that still sticks with them.
what im saying is, people who do shit like this with no regard for anyone else are ruining the party for everyone else.
One correction:
If you really think the authors of professionally published get “a big ol check,” you are out of your mind. Professional writers make maybe $10,000 a year, tops, and that doesn’t count all the sales they lose to piracy.
remember that time that spock said “this is about sex” but he couldn’t say sex so instead he said “biology” and kirk clearly knew what he meant but was awkwardly like “what kind of biology” and spock got this look on his face like ‘oh lordy i’m not dealing with this today’ and said “vulcan biology” and kirk can’t say the word sex either so he goes “u mean the biology of vulcans” and then they stood there in silence for ten seconds like a pair of fucking idiots
star trek heritage post (September 14th, 2015)
That’s because network censors wouldn’t let them say “sex.”
A lot of people saying "they're dead" and that's true, but a lot of them are also permanently disabled
There's also the ones who became homeless when the rent moratorium lifted.
Or they retired if they could afford it. If I’d been eligible for Social Security in 2020 I might have said fuck it and stopped looking.
this logic is so irrelevant. no one promoting this sort of bill actually cares about this. they know full well that drag performance and theatrical cross dressing is perfectly fine and a type of performance. the stupid lists of plays you can't do is absolutely 1000000% irrelevant to the discussion. And talking about this hurts trans people. I have well educated; well considered; liberal freinds who i had to sit down and talk through the ramifications of this step by step because they have no idea what its like to be gnc in this world. This is so they can criminalize being trans in public without running afoul of any thin claims of equal treatment and discrimination. Thats the point. The same way they used the drug war to criminalize being left or black; they are criminalizing drag to get at an ideology and a people they want to commit genocide on; but can't openly. Fascists do not care at all about the logic'd "gotcha" of the liberal thought. They don't care. They found a way to get the result they wanted (criminalizing queer people) and they don't care how silly they sound doing it so long as they have power. Spare me these absolute miss the point liberal ass takes and talk about how now; anyone who is deemed too gender nonconforming and is even potentially in proximity to a child can be charged with crimes.
The reason you bring up the plays is in order to sway some judge somewhere, someways down the line, that this law violates some form of free speech. This is why you bring up the list of plays - because you are hoping that the system isn't broken enough that somewhere in all the litigation and apleals, you will encounter a judge that isnt fascist-poisoned enough to see how much this hurts the entire entire country to let laws like this stand, and overturn the law.
yeah like i saw someone saying ‘who cares if it goes against jewish people’s religious freedom (to perform purim skits), this is about TRANS GENOCIDE’ and it’s like, well, actually, the fact that it specifically violates people’s religious freedom is fucking crucial. we all know this is specifically to kill trans people and that if it shuts down liberal arts and non-christian celebrations along the way that’s just a bonus to these fascists.
but the thing is also that states rights can be countered by federal protection and if a state law compromises freedom of speech and freedom of religion, at the same time, that state law can get struck down as unconstitutional.
so, yeah. it does actually matter that this law designed to kill trans people is going to inconvenience a lot other people along the way. it is important to talk about how wide-ranging and absurd this thing is. that’s part of the fucking fight.
It’s also how you build coalitions. Stomping your foot and saying, “this law can only be considered bad for this one reason” is the dumbest thing you can do and the surest way you can isolate your cause. Newsflash: not everyone can care about everything all the time, that’s how you burn out. Lots of people focus their energy on one issue and they aren’t wrong for doing so. It might not be your issue, though, so that means you’ve got to find common ground with them.
Also, I’m so fucking tired of progressives bashing liberals every chance they get, and vice versa. Who the fuck else do you think is remotely persuadable to your side? Whether in politics or community organizing or straight-up rioting, the only way you change anything in any country in the world is via strength in numbers. Build coalitions or absolutely nothing will change. Make Jewish people care about how the TN law affects Purim. Make theater lovers care. Make free speech activists care. The only way we can rise is together.
It’s like pointing out that banning sexually explicit books from libraries, schools, and bookstores not only means porn, it means the average modern romance novel.
Which I 100% GUARANTEE either this idiot legislators or their wives read on a regular basis.
Picking the 9th as your favorite has been #basic since the 1820s but in this regard I am happy to be the most basic of bitches
I picked 5, largely because it feels the most "Beethoven" to me -- the purest, most distilled Essence of Ludwig Van. It also has the advantage of being the topic of PDQ Bach's best analysis. But 6 is also special to me personally, because my Dad always sings a made-up 1950s food commercial that he and his friends composed to the main tune. So every time I hear that Pastoral theme, I also hear my Dad singing "Gunkies, oh Gunkies! The food that's made for you! Delicious, nutritious, hooray for Apple Gunkies!"
As for #basic Love Potion Number Nine, it's fine and grandiose and bombastic, and "Ode to Joy" is a great tune. But it probably says something about me that my favorite performance of it is Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1942 Berlin performance for Hitler's birthday. In which, in one of the world's simultaneously most Dramatique™ and least coherent political statements ever, the Master of Rubato built the final movement up to an impossible frenzy and then crashed the whole thing right in front of the Führer.
I have to admire both Furtwängler's giant steel gonads and his awful communications style. Eighty-one years later, and still no one can quite figure out what his political point was, although we're pretty sure he was trying to make one.
I picked #3, because that was the one where Beethoven metaphorically kicked Napoleon in the teeth.
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“See him face”
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Sooooo I’ve somehow gotten into a House MD kick, because old fandom loves never die, and it is very weird to read new fic for it because it’s all written with a very 2020+ point of view.
FOR EXAMPLE. There is a large number of delightful fanfiction where House and Wilson have been married for years and people just don’t know about it. It’s cute and funny but House MD started airing in 2004, which is 11 years before gay mariage was legalized in the US. It stopped airing in 2012, which is still 3 years before it was legalized.
It’s very weird to read these fics and see how disconnected they are to the time when the show was really airing. Like, gay characters in mainstream TV shows weren’t so commonplace at the time. For me, House MD is steeped in a lot of weird feelings of the era. It’s post-911 war-in-Iraq, abu-ghraib-scandal, writers’-strike, don’t-ask-don’t-tell and 2008-financial-crisis. It is 24-episodes a season, once a week TV, with some not great because TWENTY FOUR EPISODES A SEASON??? ONCE A WEEK?
I think it’s kind of amazing that we can write fanfic now that’s so removed from the mindset in this era. Like, it’s so great? That people now can just marry their partner and it’s normal?? This era was 20 years ago and it is objectively a long time but it’s literally yesterday in my brain.
Uh...same-sex marriage was legal in Massachusetts in 2004. I was working near the Hampden County Courthouse and saw the celebrations outside. Civil unions had been legal in Vermont for five years before that, and domestic partnerships had been legal in parts of the United States since the mid-1980′s. Domestic partnerships were also legal in several European democracies starting in the early 1990′s.
House and Wilson also could have had their relationship recognized in a religious ceremony by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Metropolitan Community Church as early as the 1970′s or 1980′s, and by individual mainline Protestant churches beginning in the late 1980′s/early 1990′s.
So yes, House and Wilson could most definitely have been married/married equivalent long before the actual television show began. Just because SCOTUS didn’t rule on the issue until 2015 doesn’t mean same-sex couples couldn’t get married or have their union recognized in a public ceremony long before that.
Despite every moment of life being indescribably precious and a wondrous mystery, I will spend it caring about dividends and how many rental properties I have.
Rich people are truly dead inside.
I can't imagine caring this much about numbers that absolutely will never impact my life. This person is making more in passive income than I've ever made in my life and he's just like "but but I need more :(".
I mean, fuck that guy, but psychologically it's interesting.
Some desperate remnant of his soul knows what he needs. As soon as his debt is cleared, he goes on to live what many would call an utterly charmed life: working no more than 20 hours a week, travelling and spending time with friends (which he, at $150,000 a year and no mortgage, has ample money to do). He has a loving relationship also.
But his brain is so rotten that he cannot understand happiness anymore. He is incapable of conceptualising it other than in money.
A man who has everything except the ability to feel it.
How poetic.
But fuck that guy.
I want to hit this man.
I want to rob this man.
Meow appears beside Rogue, holding a sign: "Heist? Heist."
This man is so so so close to realizing a fundamental truth to how humans operate, but I genuinely don’t think he’s going to get there. Although I’m not sure he realizes it this man views the money he earns as a direct translation of his sense of personal achievement and engagement.
Which means that when he says he regrets the months he didn’t pick up more hours to earn more money, what he’s describing here is boredom. He’s doing it in the crassest, shallowest, most income-obsessed and unattainable for most of us way possible, yes. But this man is expressing that once he achieved a certain financial goal he relaxed, enjoyed himself, got bored, realized on some level he was understimulated, and then started working more hours to meet whatever stimulated activity threshold he personally needs.
This is infuriating because this man experienced the counter-argument to that nonsensical talking point that if we meet people’s financial needs with a universal basic income they’ll grow lazy and won't do anything.
Anyone trying to develop $200,000 in passive annual income is not working three minimum-wage jobs to live paycheck-to-paycheck. This man’s basic financial needs were met. Working more hours to make more money is just his own personal code for ‘I still needed to use my mind to do things’ (using what might be the only metric of personal achievement he might actually have). This man lived the argument for universal basic income and I genuinely don’t think he realizes that. Once his basic income needs were met he still needed to do things to keep himself stimulated and engaged with his own life.
You see a version of this play out with retirees who leave their jobs, go home, and very quickly find themselves in need of new activities or friends or engagements to keep them present and stimulated in their lives. Ensuring someone’s basic financial needs are met doesn’t make them stop doing things, humans don’t work that way.
Reblogging for the psychology lessons
There is, I believe, a line in an Agatha Christie story about a man so desperately unhappy he doesn’t know he’s unhappy. “Ah, a rich man,” responds the nun.
I wonder if this moron’s “passive income” from rental properties went bye-bye during the pandemic.
Love ABBA's insinuation that Bonaparte fell in love with Wellington
excuse me
what
I’m gonna guess that the statue was probably looted and treated as a spoil of war
You’re absolutely correct. It’s a Canova called Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker and was purchased by the British government from Louis XVIII of France specifically as a gift for Wellington, who was a fan of Canova’s work and collected it.
So no, this is not a sign of a Grand Secret Passion between the two adversaries. Sorry.
Losing my mind remembering that pic chelsea manning posted of the extremely undercover and not at all obvious fbi agent who was tailing her after her release
what kind of sixth sense do american have to recognize fbi agents that easily
to paraphrase her, its always the shoes.
americans please explain to a foreigner, he looks like some random dude to me
1. They all have the same haircut, almost everybody in law enforcement and the military have the same haircut due to regulations.
2. They all wear the same shoes. Same boots, and same overpolished dress shoes.
3. They act different. Shifty eyed and always on their own.
4. They’re kinda really bad at their jobs. I’ve encountered plenty of “undercover” cops outside of bars that ask questions no regular person in their right mind would ever ask. “How are you getting home?” “Who did you come here with tonight?”
5. America is a police state on a budget. Most officers are poorly trained, fbi agents require a 4 year degree (I think), but lord knows how much training they actually get. And the dumb kids from your high school always become cops.
It’s always the dense as a brick kid, with something to prove that becomes a cop. The kid that mouth-breathed and couldn’t chew gum and walk at the same time.
Their shirts are never form fitting so they can conceal a weapon and cuffs.
Always look at the watch, it’ll be expensive but in neutral tones (uniform standards strike again).
They will always sit where they can see their target and the nearest exit.
They will have a partner who is less obvious but wil point a recording device (phone or camera) at you. Check elevated positions, it gives them the clearest view to track you and keep an eye on their partner at the same time.
One time when i lived in phoenix, I was driving home through residential streets from Panda Express on April 20th and there was a 40something year old white man standing quite literally in the MIDDLE of the fucking road wearing a brand new straight from the store weed jersey (jersey #420 with a big pot leaf), a wornout old raiders hat, regular-fit straight leg jeans, and cop shoes. This man proceeded to try to wave me down to stop since I was driving slowly (again, residential neighborhood) and as he did so fully yelled “You buying bro? You buying? 420 bro 420 you buying?”
I almost choked laughing so hard. I couldn’t stop myself from just yelling “NO THANK YOU OFFICER” as i drove by him.
for the past 60 years law enforcement, military, and even literal espionage/intelligence based organizations have assumed that rigid conformity to dress code was more important then actually training how to go undercover, blend in, or understand what the fuck theyre doing largely because the ‘we are infallible’ mindset is too strong for them to consider they might not be doing very good
shoutout to the two “undercover cops” who were at my school to monitor the student body for a week, acting like “substitute assistants” and literally all of the kids immediately recognised them as cops and everyone would address them only as “officer” which annoyed the hell out of them because “we aren’t cops” like sir you literally have your badge in your back pocket and a taser what fucking substitute assistant would have an actual police badge and a whole ass taser??
Just a casual reminder that this is what secret police are. Like, this is the literal definition. Police who are (badly or otherwise) pretending to not be police.
i know this has eight billion notes already but i love sharing these images
This thread reminds me of this story lol
This sounds bonkers to me because in Italy it’s forbidden for cops to bait you to commit a crime, if they do and you cave in they end up in jail
it is 100% legal for cops to lie to you in the united states, about anything they want to, at any time during any contact with you. they do plenty of illegal stuff too but never get in trouble for it
i got one of these guys one time responding to an internet ad to buy something (maybe Craigslist? i cant remember). he tried to bait me into prostitution and when i said no and “are you a cop?” there was the longest, most awkward pause you have ever seen before he just said “….no.”
they can lie to you about being a cop too, the thing you see on tv about “cops have to tell you they’re cops” is bullshit, i only asked because i wanted to see how he acted. anyway yeah this is why Americans seem so squirrelly to Europeans
This is always good info to have and REALLY came in handy in 2020
Learn to spot pigs in human clothes
I would have been tempted to call the cops on the FBI agent tailing me and charging him with stalking.
