it’s september 1st today and i’m imagining the marauders boarding the hogwarts express for the first time, young and innocent, not knowing how close they would become but knowing from the very start that they would be best friends
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Jungkook said he couldn’t do anything on his birthday but he got to see ARMY
Jimin said was trying to give Jungkook his birthday beatings and last night he hid behind jungkook’s door while he playing on his pc and tried hitting him from thereㅋㅋㅋㅋbut jimin said that he’s scared now for when his birthday comes around (bc of bday beatings) and jungkook replied “more than you can imagine” so Jimin said “you and me are a different weight class! If I hit you, you should hug me!”
taehyung was wearing a gold jacket and asked “don’t I look like a frog?”
Jungkook called namjoon rapmon hyung again and yoongi said “It’s been like a year since a changed it to RM just call him namjoon” so jungkook went “namjoon hyung!~ namjoon hyung!~” so cute
today they were 하트소년단 (heart boy scouts)
since taehyung was tying his shoe laces for a bit the director told them “(wait a sec) bc of taehyung-ssi” and taehyung replied “thank you for remembering my name” then the other members went “I’m kim seokjin” “I’m park Jimin” and Jungkook said “you know me right?”ㅋㅋㅋ
yoongi: aren’t you guys sleepy? fans: no!! yoongi: I am seokjin: how could you say that in front of them? tae: don’t lie
today the order they kept coming on stage was Jimin > Seokjin. Jin said its in order of coolness. Jungkook came up 5th and said “does that mean I’m the fifth coolest?” but Jimin said “you’re the coolest”
Jungkook’s throat was hurting so during camera rehearsal he said save your voice (he used the word 목 for voice which is also used for neck so seokjin just started turning his neck around like crazy)
Jungkook suggested if he should excersice his lower body more and Jimin yelled “you’re top half is thin but your bottom half is just (he then just start making hand gestures) if you keep going you wont have any pants that fit)
jungkook and jin had a fanservice battle; everything seokjin did, jungkook would do
hoseok: the set is really pretty today right? seokjin: the army bombs look prettier
at the end Jimin was trying to brush confetti off Jungkooks face while Hoseok tried to get it out of Yoongi’s hair
trans; hobuing
But “Make America Great Again” innately implies that America was once better than it currently is. It’s a call to action is to get back to a place in time when we once were great.
So, logically, you have to ask: when?
When were we Great™? When are we going back to?
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Before women fought for equal rights? Before the end of slavery? Before safety regulations that protected workers? Before environmental regulations that protected the planet? Before dreamers were protected? Before marriage equality? Before immigrants were given citizenship status? Before social service programs existed? Before laborers were given the right to unionize? Before women were no longer the property of their husbands? Before the end of Jim Crow?
All these questions boil down to one undeniable fact:
Before: when white people were on top.
Before: when white men were on top.
So I ask you, what “great again” are were going back to?
The slogan, and anyone that buys into it, speaks for itself.
And that’s everything he stands for: The Before.
But we are The After.
