Such a great thread on Trump U and for profit universities!
rednecks: some of us are communists you know
college educated communist: lol thats impossible, an oxymoron, why would the poor working class ever care about communism like me.
Oh yeah Donald Trump is totally an ally to the LGBT+ community. He said there’s nothing he could do about same-sex marriage because it’s already done (because everyone knows LGBT rights stop at marriage) and his opinion on it is irrelevant at this point. And one time he even held up the rainbow flag for like a minute! A true champion.
I mean I know he’s done the following:
- He’s expressed support for the First Amendment Defense Act that would allow businesses, landlords and healthcare providers to deny services to LGBT individuals It’s on his own website FFS.
- Trump and Pence have already said that the protections for trans students and the set of guidance for administrators and school staff on how to support trans students will be rolled back on.
- He’s promised that he’s going to cancel every executive action issued by Obama - meaning Executive Order 13672, which states that federal contractors cannot be fired on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- Despite the 60 minutes interview where Trump said that same-sex marriage is done and he can’t do anything about it, he’s previously stated that he would strongly consider appointing judges to overturn the ruling.
- Trump’s shortlist of Supreme Court nominees include extremely anti-LGBT judges.
- After the Pulse Nightclub shooting Trump promised to protect us against foreign ideology that oppressed the LGBT community - conveniently ignoring the homegrown anti-LGBT violence, rhetoric, and policy that already exists in the U.S, people like his own running mate.
- He appointed Tony Perkins to his advisory council who has stated that anti-LGBT advocacy, namely conversion therapy, has not gone far enough. Perkins said that he was grateful that Trump’s campaign was the only GOP campaign in recent history that he hasn’t had to fight with over these issues.
And his own VP pick is Mike Pence, who has done the following:
- Stated on his own website while running for congress that “Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on equal status with heterosexual marriage. Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexuals as a discrete and insular minority entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws.”
- Signed into law Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which “allows businesses and individuals to discriminate against anyone who offends their religious sensibilities.”
- Voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because it would “wage war on the free exercise of religion in the workplace,” by covering sexual orientation.
- His policies led to the only HIV testing center to be shut down in Scott County, Indiana. This rural Planned Parenthood was the only clinic to provide HIV testing and education.
- Pence proposed cutting off funds for HIV prevention to divert the money to “ex-gay” therapy programs. This would ensure that “federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus.” Instead, “resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”
- Said that gay couples are “societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” In the same speech he said keeping gays from marrying was not discrimination, but an enforcement of “God’s idea.”
And his white house team is already looking to be a delightful group of bigots but yeah I totally get how you might think Trump is “a champion for LGBT rights.” I mean he literally said those words, so it must be true?
something left-leaning people need to do: stop mocking right-leaning people for being poor and/or under-educated as if these were inherent character flaws rather than the result of larger economic problems
something left-leaning people don't need to do: have a cuddle party with right-leaning people who think xenophobic policies are the best solution to these problems
I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.
except it’s literally just a crushed velvet cape with suction cups on the hem
Suction warlock
dongstomper
don the piss robe
macklemorehentai
+6 stealth -8 charisma
pisslord
Male students at James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut, are fundraising to provide free period products for their classmates. They’re founding members of the Kiyama Movement, a group that promotes self-improvement for African-American men and respect across genders. Students were inspired to launch this project after reading an article.
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My friend claimed he could play Flight of the Bumblebee and accompany himself. Then he did this.
ITS BACK
modern-requiem
im crying
THIS IS THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN
Guys can you please boost this? By now you have already probably seen that disgustingly racist chinese detergent advert and the common reaction is to blame the black actor in the clip for his involvement but apperently he was tricked and he is getting literally hatred from black people and high horse non blacks who are using this as a opportunity to further bash us
Boost the truth
It’s safe to say that when 35 black sugar workers were shot dead while striking for a dollar a day in 1887 or when 500,000 Southern textile workers walked off the job in 1934, no one was thinking ahead to the summer of ’96 when Jessica from Swarthmore would be sweating over the green glow of the Xerox machine, logging hundreds of unpaid hours as an MTV intern, assuring herself that this doesn’t suck because now her CV will have “résumé radiance,” as the authors of America’s Top Internships like to put it. And granted, the intern class does not make a particularly sympathetic symbol of exploitation. It’s hard to care about the plight of privileged college students when they themselves have volunteered for—demanded, even—this demeaning servitude. The inconvenient fact remains, however, that labor laws apply even to the rich, white, naive, and stupid (all necessary attributes for being an unpaid intern). And just because these hopeful careerists don’t think of themselves as scabs, it doesn’t mean they aren’t.
autonomeme
Honestly I want to support the Libertarian Party just for the absurdism of a lot of its base
They’re pandering to young people by spoofing the meme about pandering to young people. My mind has touched the void.
dolphin-machine
HAVE YOU HEARD!? DEATH GRIPS DROPPED A NEW ALBUM!
No I have not. What is it called?
It’s called….um it’s called…. hold on one second…
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…It’s called Ni-
Hey guys, whatcha talking about?
oh um n-nothing just the n-new uh Death Grips alb-
NIGGAS ON THE MOON!? OH SHIT THAT SHIT IS TIGHT!
survivingdaysalone
“because a 16 year old girl who had her first orgasm whilst getting raped, had to watch her 34 year old rapist go free because she had an orgasm.
because when one of my guy friends told me and some friends he got raped by a woman when he was 12, a “friend” laughed at him and told him he should be happy he got laid that young.
because my 17 year old friend’s parents let her 14 year old brother roam the streets until 12am, but she has to be home by 10.
Because my brothers girlfriend, told the police she was raped and fell pregnant but the rapist didn’t get jail time as she got an abortion and the ‘evidence’ was gone.
because a guy from my old school was raped by another guy, but because he’s gay, they said it wasn’t considered rape.
because a 19 year old lesbian got raped by a guy, and he didn’t go to prison because he said “he only tried to turn her straight so she would be accepted by her parents”.
because in some cultures, girls (and boys, of course) still get thrown out of the family because somebody sexually assaulted them.
because they’re still teaching girls to walk faster at night instead of teaching boys that they shouldn’t rape.
Because they’re teaching kids that they’re only male rapists and not female rapists too.
because I have to explain why rape makes me mad.“
“When I was pregnant, patients often asked me if it was hard/weird to do their abortion.
My response was simple, ‘Not at all. It is not the right time for you, but it is for me. Later on, if you decide to become a parent, I will be by your side then too.’”
Pratima Gupta, MD, MPH
Bless her.
this is what pro choice is about. you’re pregnant and want to keep or carry to term for someone else? cool beans. that’s up to you. pregnant but don’t want to be, even for someone else? cool beans. still up to you and no one else
melanin-diary-deactivated201710
They care about Gorilla more than about a black boy, who was just playing in the park.
Priorities.