this just cruel
It kind of hinges on the belief that “it’s not fair that people get to do drugs and also get free food, because doing drugs is fun and voluntary”, which is so interesting to me
get you a friend that’ll support ur transfem identity like this
The negative version of that 4chan post saying, “I’m straight so whatever makes my dick hard is a woman.”
thinking about how milk jugs are so perfectly designed; not a bit of wasted space. the handle is part of the container as well and you can clearly see how much of the liquid is left. genius. im thinking of eating the mushroom growing in my frontyard whole. if even one person is nice to me today i will kiss them on the lips
bigenderbeastmaster
clowncarbonation
trinity
An Actual Real Person my Dad knew. Pretty sure he worked as a bush guide. When someone asked the time he’d pull off his hat - some kind of broad brim - and use to take a few measurements of the sun’s position relative to the horizon. Then he’d declare the time.
He was accurate to the minute.
Fvvdvddsfdssdhnvfh you get back here and say this to the rest of the crew
I think the greatest irony of my life is when the cafeteria at my college changed all the lights to blue bulbs for “autism awareness”, which fucked with my sensory issues badly enough that I could barely stand to be in the building
I was certainly aware of my autism, at least.
Because of this, I’ve actually seen a lot of camera equipment a lot cheaper than I’ve seen it before. Some lenses and other things that wouldn’t have really been in my price range has become affordable.
Although, anything that is useful for Zoom calls or live streaming is out of stock/super expensive right now.
January 20, 2021
I hate that I fully understand this
i can’t believe castiel went to super hell to turn georgia blue
please god let me find these things out normally I am begging you
If you go to the circus for news don’t complain if a clown tells it to you
A small thing I’m doing to try to help keep this election truthful:
We all make big political posts here on Tumblr right? Where we learn about how mail-in voting works and the little things that you need to keep an eye out for to keep your ballot counted, where we discuss what voter fraud actually is and what to really be worried about, where we fact-check claims and bring up productive platform discussions
So I’m doing this on Facebook for my QAnon-fallen family.
Here’s the thing when you post on Facebook for your radical right family members - often you are the first time they are seeing this news at all. You know the news about ICE forcibly sterilizing Latina women? We all found out about it on Twitter right away. My great aunts who only go on Facebook never saw it at all. This is because social media monetizes the content we see on our feeds - separate from ads, it changes which posts we even see. (Most of us know this, but I’m giving a little primer anyway.) So my aunts are very upset about child trafficking, they only see QAnon posts and shares about this. BUT! Because we are family, they will also see my posts every once in a while. So when news like this breaks, I’ll post it to my feed too.
But here is another very important thing.
When I post the news, I write a caption to go with it. I’ll find a report coming from BBC usually (because it’s less inflammatory for my fam if it’s from the UK) and then I’ll make a post starting with an emotional appeal. When the ICE news came out, I kicked it off like “This news is horrific. It shocks the conscience.” I summarized the story in a sentence or two. And I explained in longer sentences why it was bad (in this case, I referenced UN genocide markers).
All of this, I did without using keywords.
You can’t say things like “abolish ICE” or “defund the police” or “anti-fascism.” Fox News and YouTube has basically conditioned their viewers into understanding these as triggers. You have to use other words - you have to let them come to the conclusion behind these ideas, that there is something wrong with ICE, or policing, or Trump’s behavior on a simply everyday level. It sucks, I know, to be so careful with your speech when they don’t worry. If that makes you upset, then this post is not for you. Keep protesting and making your posters and sitting on your reps’ lawns - that’s all important work too! But this is different work, and it won’t get immediate results. It is very much a long burn tactic.
And I don’t tell them how to vote
I ask them sometimes to please consider this news when they make their decisions. But usually, I make an appeal like, “you don’t need a pro-life vs. pro-choice debate to recognize this as horrifying” or “you don’t need to justify any immigration policy to know this treatment is inhumane.” I make it seem so universal, just trying to remind them of decency outside of politics. I’ll ask them to call their reps to investigate these things. They’ll see how their reps talk to them versus how they speak on the news, for one thing, and their reps will know there’s political pressure from both sides of the aisle.
But the big thing is, my QAnon-believing family members all grew up with abusive homes. I think they’re drawn to this conspiracy theory because 1. it’s nice to have a black and white explanation for why things are crazy and 2. it’s comforting to have a strongman authoritarian leader taking all the decision-making and control behind it. But as stated in “Why Does He Do That” and its chapter on creating an abuse-free world, you have to give abuse victims tools and freedom to make their own choices. Like how ex-Mormons say you need to be nice to door-knockers if you want them to leave, you gotta show them that the world outside of Fox News and YouTube is actually safe and full of helpful people. You can’t be like, “you’re wrong, these people are nice” you gotta represent it. It’s hard, it’s draining, but my great aunts are now commenting on my posts like, “wow, I never heard about this before, thank you for bringing this to my attention.”
Because I’m asking for help, not condemning.
Yelling at my family over Thanksgiving dinner never changed their minds. All it did was make them dig in and defend their own sense of conscience and the leader they loved. This isn’t a tactic for everyone. You don’t need to enter debates on these topics. But I’ve found that simply posting some news, saying a couple lines about why it’s wrong, and leaving it at that, has helped get my family members to trust my thoughts a little more, which opens the door to them asking questions, which opens the door to them actually listening instead of reacting when I do need to explain things like “this is what climate change is” or “this is what defund police means.”
And if they do get cranky
I’ve always found quoting their language back at them, that do your own research rhetoric, helps. “Sure, but why not read the article anyway? See what you think :)” helps. “My dad always taught me to read past the headline. Why not read the article?” helps. At the very least here, if you are consistently pleasant and encouraging them to just read, not trying to Change Their Minds, just trying to show them another story, then any outsiders will see their aggression and juxtapose it against your calm, and they will be more inclined to click on the link too. (My older sister started being very nasty to me and my younger sib, and my constant pleasantness maybe didn’t get my sister to read an article about why masks are helpful, but it did get my conservative mom to check it out.)
this french reporter had his live coverage of biden’s election win interrupted in the sassiest way possible.
Americans are awesome actually
My favorite meme is “anime girls photoshopped into desolate Eastern-European photos”
This last one is my favorite:
There’s just something so… desperate about it.
alphastigma117
Just want to say how proud of i am of america right now. Removing a dictator during a dictatorship is near impossible (typically it takes civil war or a death/ power vacuum) but for four years you’ve been fighting back and now you’re fighting a heavily rigged, horribly unfair election and not giving Trump that “landslide victory” dictators typically get. I want you to know that many of us across the world, see those 50/50 looking results and don’t see america as half and half but 30% cultists who were given an easy vote and 70% people who’s vote was very hard to get out (we saw the lines, we saw the fake ballotboxes) and often outright thrown away. We hear that more people voted for Biden than have ever voted for a candidate before. We see your judges fighting to have every vote counted and the diverse new congressfolks you’ve voted in. The narrative of a close race omits that one team had skates on a downhill road and the other had an obstacle couse littered with dirty needles, fences to break through, barbed wire to crawl under and rabid dogs blocking the way.
I actually needed to hear this I think. All I’ve been hearing for the last few years is how terrible America is and I know that reputation is earned but I and so many other people have been fighting this whole time because we love our country and trust our institutions and don’t want to see them fall and I know we’re not the best neighbors to have but we’re trying and it makes me so happy to see that someone, anyone, understands that we’re trying.
This post watered my crops, lowered my blood pressure, and folded my laundry.
To anyone pissed at Nevada right now,
I get it. And the memes are hilarious. However, as a native Nevadan, I also think y'all deserve an explanation. Trump is currently suing Clark County, the most populous county in Nevada, for voter fraud. So every single disputed ballot is being reviewed by a judge, and a lot of the actual counting has slowed down for diligence sake so his suit has very little to go off of. That's why it's taking so long. Keep making the memes, they're hilarious, but the actual villain here is still the shitstain in the White House.
oh so THATS why
nasa should have sat on wet moon for just a little bit longer imagine if that had dropped tonight too
