You have been visited by the Chan of wealth, reblog this and you will have money come to you!

I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY AND LIKE 2 HOURS LATER THE WALLET I HAD LOST 6 HOURS AWAY FROM HOME THAT HAD MY DEBIT CARD AND LIKE 80 DOLLARS IN CASH WAS DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS I CANT HELP BUT THINK IT WAS JACKIE CHAN WHO SENT IT GOD BLESS YOU JACKIE CHAN

Last time I did this it was payday so duh. Let’s see what you’ve got this time, Chan.

Er, actually, about a minute after I hit reblog I got some very important (and positive) money-related news out of the blue. The system works, guys.

THIS WORKS!!

Doesn’t hurt to try 💕

I’m not even reblogging this for money I’m reblogging this because LOOK HOW FUCKING CUTE HE IS

^^^^

Why gun confiscation is ableist

Let me lay out a situation for you.

There’s this woman whose wheelchair bound. Let’s call her Amy.

One day Amy is chilling in living room, watching tv.

Then some bad guy breaks in her house with the intention of hurting her.

Now, a giant man vs. a woman in a wheelchair, Amy’s chances aren’t great.

But let’s involve guns.

There are four possibilities to this.

1. No one has a gun-Amy loses 2. Bad guy has a gun-Amy loses 3. Amy has a gun-Amy wins 4. Both have a gun-Amy’s chances are 50/50, but her chances can get better if she gets training on how to effectively use a firearm.

In this situation, the only way I see Amy getting out of this unharmed is if she has a gun.

So, people who are into banning guns, please realize you’re taking away disabled people’s best chance of surviving an attack.

How about we take care of Amy so she doesn’t need a gun to defend herself the fuck? Most disabled people can’t even hold a weapon, let alone load aim and fire accurately? Not to mention they’d be under duress?

Weak argument. Ableism has nothing to do with guns, period. Meet some disabled people and realize whether mental or physical it isn’t just about sitting your ass in a wheelchair (alone!) waiting around for bad guys.

I’m gonna rain on your parade here. There’s absolutely no reason a disabled person couldn’t handle a firearm, depending on disability. Not to mention the fact that disabled people make for “easy” targets considering they may not be able to get away, or defend themselves properly. A very dear friend of mine who is no longer with us got jumped by a group of gang members who knocked him down, pulled off his prosthetic leg, and proceeded to take his wallet and keys, and then beat him. You suggest we “take care” of Amy but make no recommendation on how to do that.  I say teach Amy how to properly handle a gun and how to defend herself. It’s not about sitting around in your wheelchair waiting for someone to break in, it’s about not letting yourself become a victim regardless of your physical condition. Independence is key to living a fulfilling life as a disabled person. Why rely on someone else for protection with you could simply do it yourself. Oh, and here’s me:

holding

weapons

aiming

and

shooting

you

don’t

speak

for disabled people. But Todd, “what about people with weak grip strength?”, you may ask. Well there are guns for that too. Here’s a guy with no arms shooting a gun with his feet

FUCKING DESTROYED

Use a blunt object like a candlestick or fucking throw a paperweight or some shit at the intruder’s head are you actually that dumb? Why would you even risk using a gun because if you kill them (provoked or not) you’ll almost certainly be arrested.

No. I’m sorry, but no. I’d much rather have 13 rounds of 9mm ready to stop someone coming at me than one potential hail Mary shot with a candlestick. Plus with proper training you’re far more likely to be able to hit someone with a gun than with a random thrown inanimate object. Do you seriously think hitting someone with a paperweight is going to make them leave your house, or leave you alone. Also, in the vast majority of defensive firearm usages no shots are fired. In most cases where someone is shot, they survive.

The candlestick could work, but you have to live specifically in the house from Clue.

Today’s picture for invisible illness is a personal one. This is one of about 30 notes that my friend has received since using her handicapped placard. I’m going to say this to you, have you ever seen someone get out of a car parked in a handicapped space and said to yourself “they look too young or they don’t look disabled.” I’m going to go with yes you have, because we all have at one time. I can’t remember doing it, but before I understood the difficulties of invisible illness when I was younger I probably did. Let me ask you this though, when you had that thought was it because you knew with 100% certainty that they weren’t handicapped or did you assume that because of their age and/or not seeing a cane, walker or wheelchair? All I’m asking is that we stop and think when we someone need a mobility aid, park in a handicapped space or say they are disabled that we remember this “DISABILITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE OR APPEARNACE.” #spoonie #invisibleillness #disability #chronicillness #rheumatoidarthritis #lupus #fibromyalgia #myofascialpainsyndrome

If nothing else, this post needs to be seen around the internet more. This harassment is not okay and no one should have to deal with it on top of having an invisible illness. This is just another form of anonymous bullying to add to the internet bullying these TROLLS are capable of.

If you are healthy, please reblog. If you are sick, please reblog. If you have a disability, please reblog. If you have an invisible illness, please reblog. If you know someone with a disability, please reblog. If you are a human being, please reblog. Let’s spread the word and help those of us that may not look like it. 

Ignorance isn’t bliss, ignorance is ignorance. 

My mom had cancer that has spread to her lungs and outwardly, she looked healthy. However, she couldn’t walk very far. She had a blue tag and she got some killer looks while walking to the electric wheel chairs, just because she looked healthy. Another story: I was chewed out once for fetching one of the electric wheel chairs for her.

My best friends sister has a heart disease and she looks totally normal and everything except for the big scar on her chest and they have a handicap sign and everything, because when she walks too much, she gets very sick and I think she has trouble breathing and she starts throwing up so yes I agree with this. No, not every person with a handicap sign thing is in a wheelchair or some kind of limp. Don’t be so ignorant.

This has happens to my mother so often. She looks amazing and walks with perfect mobility. She has grand mal seizures triggered by heat and sun and we live in California. Walking through long parking lots can easily trigger this and cause her to possibly die from falling and hitting her head on a car or on the ground. For a few years she stopped parking in these spaces because of all of the harassment. She literally was socially pressured into risking her LIFE because of harassment. 

NEVER assume you know if someone has a disability. NEVER.

Dude I’m IN a chair part of the time.and get shit amd told ‘well I saw her walking last week!’ Ugh.

My thoughts upon reading the initial post were as follows: “I’m all for disabled people getting benefits, but if they don’t need a wheelchair or a cane to walk, wouldn’t it be polite to not use the handicapped space?”

But after reading what others have added I see my error. Of course there are people who cannot walk too much even though they don’t use a walking aid. Of course those people deserve to park in the handicapped space.

So, thank you for making this post and opening my eyes.

I have to walk with a cane and I get dirty looks all the time because I look too young.

Im afraid to get one of those handicap thingies for my car because of this reason. I look young and healthy, but most people couldnt guess i have a debilitating cancer that affects my mobility.

My mom has fibro along with cancer and a myriad of other things, she looks perfectly healthy too. She can barely move.

Also remember that if you see them going in then this is the beginning of there trip. As I person with fatigue issues I might look okay on my way into a store, but the activity might take all of my energy. Remember these people have to get back to their cars twice and you don't know their energy level by the end of the trip.

Watch: The last type of mis-pronouncer is the worst, most insulting of all

My birth name is Haille, and it’s pronounced “Hay-lee” but people keep pronouncing it like “Hallie”. some even fucking write it “Hallie” like no, I didn’t misspell my name. One of my coworkers says shit like “Kaylee” “callie” and constantly forgets my actual fucking name. It pisses me off so fucking much. 

There’s a girl in some of my classes named Latha and one of our professors has been corrected like a million times and still says it like “Lay-tha” when it’s pronounced “Leth-a”

Has it really come to this? “If you don’t say my name right you are oppressing me.”? Fucking really? I’ve got a name, It’s from Assassin’s Creed 3. Connor’s real name. I’m using this name to make it easy for people to look it up. Guess what. There are many ways of pronouncing it. OMG THE HUMANITY!

Ratonhnhaké:ton motherfuckers.

Remember, if you cant say a name right even if it’s not a common name. That means you hate the person who you didn’t say their name right.

There is no such thing as human error. Everyone can pronounce everything perfectly 100% of the time.

People with this mentality need to shut the fuck up.

Of course, there is human error, but if you make no effort to say a person’s name correctly you are dehumanizing them, disrespecting them and generally being an asshole.

It’s very easy to respect people who are different from you. Maybe you missed this part?

hey asshole, it’s not that you’re oppressing someone because you made a mistake. you’re being oppressive by refusing to learn to say their name correctly and forcing them to use something more Anglo that you’ve been trained to see as a valid/“normal” name.

you’re stripping them of the name they’ve had their entire lives or the name attached to their identity and just calling them whatever you think is easiest. You’re making your bias for anglo names their burden to bear. 

Something more Anglo? Give me a break. Pronounce names like Ailbhe, Daffyd, Eilidh, Defaid, Leagsaidh and Dáibhidh without looking them up. 

Dvořák, also don’t look up how to pronounce it in Czech.

Are people seriously getting offended by how people say names? What the actual fuck? How fucking sensitive do you have to be to get offended over pronunciation?

Let me tell you this:

Words are pronounced different all around the world.

A man from Germany might say a word differently than a Chinese man saying the same word.

Words. Can. Be. Pronounced. Differently. Based. On. Where. Someone. Is. From.

White people used to mispronounce my name and I thought it was racism… Until I heard Indians mispronouncing White names.

The point is every culture does it.

I am white in a white country and everyone mispronounced my last name until after elementary school. Do I care? No. Is this oppression? Definitely not. Is it great when people make fun of your name or don’t even try? NO.

For fucks sake, people mispronounce my name ALL THE TIME even tho there’s not much to mispronounce. Y'all are so fucking whiney. But what do I expect from something as cringey as fucking micdotcom

Folks with Polish names are LAUGHING.

I’ve never met someone who’s ready my full legal name and gotten it right. Never.

You must feel personally insulted and degraded every day. How dare regular busy people not make extra special time for princess! Don’t they know how important you are? Shouldn’t they take time out of their days to MAKE SURE they get it right WITHOUT you offering any help? The NERVE!

I mean, JFC, my family is largely Polish and even I can’t pronounce most Polish names.

Even a relatively simple name like Casimir is hard to properly pronounce unless you know what to do.

My name is pronounced completely differently dependent on whether you speak Danish or English, due to the different way we pronounce i’s. I don’t run around demanding people say it in one way or another. Besides, I doubt you’d even be able to get my last name right, unless you’re from a Nordic country.

People almost never pronounce my last name correctly. The thing is I don’t pretend I’m a mind-reader who’s 100% sure people are doing it for spiteful reasons.The overwhelming majority of the time that someone mispronounces a name it has nothing to do with racism and it’s absolutely accidental. The op is nonsense.

Still happens to me, people spell my name Elisabeth for some reason, or Haynes instead of Hayes. Not to mention my birth name, Shiel, which no one has ever got right, either Shield or Shiels, the hospital didn’t even spell it right, dad was listed under Shiels and even Shell.

It’s a cross we all have to bear. Not oppression, for the sake of all that is perforated.

German names, Croatian names, Swiss Names, Russian names, ect. Do you honestly think that white people don’t also have to deal with people not knowing how to pronounce their names? Are you seriously reaching this far to justify accusations of racism?

Meillarec. Pronounce it.

Mayareck

I live in a town that is heavily Dutch. When we have away football games everyone gets their names messed up.

Wait- you picked the corn?

What Pocahontas thanksgiving bullshit are you idiots DOING?

Who wrote this? Author, you do know MOST (if not all) corn harvests are done by combine now, right?

No wonder this farm is going out of business, they waste precious time manually picking the corn instead of a combine.

Do they hand pick their cotton too? I mean- there are still people who do pick cotton, but it makes sense because you can’t get every corner with a combine. -Nan

They could have just switched it to detassling and it would have made sense.

Just got hit on by a truck driver in his 60s

And I don’t mean that cute playful “hey you are really pretty girl” flirting that old guys sometimes do, I’m talking hard-core telling me I’m lovely half a dozen times and asking for my number and if he could take me out for a drink flirting. why is it the only people who seem to bother finding me attractive are drunks, creeps, lesbians, and old dudes?

Sounds like me sister. She got hit on at a rest stop once by an old hippy.

Someone please remind me why Jaden Smith is supposed to be a fashion icon.

what the fuck is he wearing

He kinda looks like he is saving money at the airport by wearing all his clothes at once. Also, dogs?

the ultimate #facepalm 

I'm sure that other team just loves pity points. Makes them feel real good.

If this offends you please exit to your safe space

eating a raw heart is not safe or healthy there’s a reason we cook food

It’s only a matter of time before she shots and eats the hearts of her family and friends.

This seems like child abuse

The hunting thing I support go ahead and hunt but don’t let your children eat raw hearts wtf is wrong with you

-Mod Void

It’s a child, not fucking Khaleesi.

Reblogging for this A+ comment that I should’ve thought of

-Mod Void

Cook before eating people

annie there is a comma that needs to be added in that sentence

I buy all my people pre-cooked.

Straight marriage proposal: Evil man oppressing womyn!!! LGBT marriage proposal: fabulous! I see BBC is following the tumblr doctrine.

From what I understand from my friends who live in China, because the genders are so unequal (especially outside the city) woman have most of the control in proposals. That's why they're so crazy (like the guy who bought a ton of iphones) because they're desperate.

The United States of Freedom

Freedom in the 50 States, published by the Cato Institute, finds New Hampshire is the freest state, while New York ranks by far the least free in the nation.

Which state is the freest? Which state is the least? Which one has the most lightly taxed and regulated economy? Which states protect personal freedoms the best? The worst? How free is your state?

The newly published 2016 edition of Freedom in the 50 States is one of the most comprehensive and definitive sources on how public polices in each American state impact an individual’s economic, social, and personal freedoms. Study authors William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens have gathered data on more than 230 variables to measure freedom now and in the past.

“While the federal government has become more intrusive and inefficient over the last two decades, individual states are providing Americans with a little-recognized renaissance of policy innovation,” argue Ruger and Sorens. “If we want to save our freedom and restore good government, it is to the states that we must look and not to the federal government.”

Freedom in the 50 States examines state and local government intervention across a wide range of policy categories—from taxation to debt, from eminent domain laws to occupational licensing, and from drug policy to educational choice.

Overall, New Hampshire, Alaska, Oklahoma, Indiana, and South Dakota make up a quintet at the top of the ranking. New York is by far the least free state, followed by California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Maryland.

Between 2006 and year-end 2014, the latest available data, Ruger and Sorens find the average state has seen dramatic increases in economic freedom, after the effects of the federally mandated Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are parsed out. This has largely been the result of states cutting spending during the financial crisis, with some states going even further and cutting taxes simultaneously. Conservative states tend to do better on economic freedom overall, although not always by a huge margin. On personal freedom, the results are less clear cut. Progressive states have done better on marriage freedom, cannabis laws, and incarceration. But conservative states gain points on personal freedom too when it comes to gun rights, educational freedom, and smoking on private property. States that have lower freedom rankings tend to be less economically prosperous. They tend to have higher rates of corruption and more lobbyists seeking government rents. Lower labor-market and regulatory freedom typically discourages business investment and raises the cost of living, which then can scare off Americans from other states looking to relocate for work. There is strong evidence that states with more freedom attract more residents. The authors find a solid relationship between a lighter fiscal impact of government and net immigration, though evidence also suggests that regulatory and personal freedom play a role in attracting residents. For example, New York, the least free state, suffered the second-worst net out-migration of any state, 7.5 percent of its 2001 population. Conversely, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, who rank among the top 20 in overall fiscal policy, have drawn nearly four million residents from the rest of the country from 2001-2014. The study grades all fifty U.S. states on three dimensions—fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom.

The fiscal policy dimension consists of five variables: (a) state tax revenues, (b) local tax revenues, © government employment, (d) government subsidies, and (e) government debt, each of which earns a significant weight because of its importance. The tax and debt variables are measured for each fiscal year, whereas the employment and subsidies variables come from different sources and are available for the calendar year. The authors separate state and local taxation and assign different weights to each.

The regulatory policy dimension includes categories for land-use freedom and environmental policy, health insurance freedom, labor-market freedom, occupational freedom, lawsuit freedom, cable and telecommunications freedom, and miscellaneous regulations that do not fit under another category. 

The personal freedom versus paternalism dimension consists of the following categories: (a) incarceration and arrests for victimless crimes, (b) marriage freedom, © educational freedom, (d) gun rights, (e) alcohol freedom, (f) cannabis freedom, (g) gaming freedom, (h) asset forfeiture, (i) tobacco freedom, (j) travel freedom, (k) campaign finance freedom, and (l) other mala prohibita and miscellaneous civil liberties. Weighting these categories was a challenge because the observable financial impacts of these policies do not often include the full harms to victims.

In addition to the study being available as a free download, over 230 policy variables and their sources are available on a specially designed companion website that enables policymakers, concerned citizens, scholars, and others, to create customized indices of freedom, or download data for their own individual analyses.

Freedom in the 50 States is an essential work for anyone interested in state policy and in advancing a better understanding of a free society.

How free is your state? Dig into the data, then tweet what you find with #FreeStates.

My home state of NJ ranks among the worst. I hate it here.

I mean, New Hampshire does have a motto to live up to.

When a video game dialogue option is way more aggressive than you anticipated

I totally did that while playing Fable. I thought I was going to toast him or something! Glass him isn't a real phrase.

Oh god please no

Dark Souls didn’t invent that it was never an uncommon game mechanic please I’m dying

aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It feels very 'I'm a real gamer! See all these games I can name! Gaaaaaames'.

Fun facts about the Westboro Baptist Church

Okay, so you all heard about the Westboro Baptist Church. It’s probably the single most famous religious community in the world. The ultimate strawman of every “yes, but Christians are so bigoted and evil” argument.

Here are a few fun facts to help you put things into perspective.

1. The Westboro Baptist Church has 40 members. I kid you not: 40. That’s the entire church. This is the entire church, they all fit in here:

Next time you see any pictures of their picketing, just count the actual church members. Not the counter protesters, the actual Westboro activists. They hold up 4-5 vibrant, colorful signs each, make it look like a crowd but you will be hard pressed to identify more then 10 actual church members on any event.

The crowd you are shown are almost entirely journalists, photographers and counter protesters. 

2. The Westboro Baptists church was founded in 1955. Their official website is www.godhatesfags.com. They are entirely unaffiliated with any other Baptist, Methodist or Christian group, they were condemned by basically every single Christian denomination you can name. They are not a church, they are a modern troll group.

3. The Westboro Baptist Church was founded by Fred Phelps: a former civil rights activist and registered Democrat. Phelps sought public office four times as a member of the Democratic Party. In the election for United States Senator for Kansas in 1992, he received 49,416 votes (30.8%), coming in second after Gloria O'Dell (who subsequently lost to later presidential candidate Bob Dole). The entire membership of the church, all 40 people are basically Phelp’s extended family.

4. If you google Westboro Baptist Church you will get 478,000 results. Not bad, for an extended family of 40 who fit in a suburban house. Westboro Baptist Church was created and is operating as the perfect strawman. 

sources: [1], [2]

Since my dash is littered with “OMG Christians are so evil too, don’t forget the crusades and the westboro baptist church” posts tonight.

Aren't a ton of their members lawyers? Aren't they just waiting until someone goes after them so they can sue them? Like troll ambulance chasers?

White dudes: I don’t know who’s worse: Hillary or Trump.

LGBTQ people: Trump is.

Black people: Trump is.

Undocumented immigrants: Trump.

Muslims: It’s Trump.

Women: Trump duh.

White dudes: *shoves head deeper into ass* I just… don’t… know…

If you think Hilary hasn’t done things that have been harmful to all of those groups then you’re the one with your head up your ass.

And I’m not trying to defend Trump or anything, but Hilary has had actual political influence for decades (Trump never had much political power until ten election) and only recently has she been as liberal as she pretends to be. So she’s probably done more harm than Trump has as of yet, considering Trump is all talk and Hillary has helped pass actual harmful policy.

Like remember that whole thing where Hilary supported the deportation of a bunch of little refugee girls from Latin America??? Remember how 10 years ago she was basically socially conservative?

She’s a massive liar and her campaign built on “acceptance” and all that is an illusion. She’s just as much of a liar as Tump is and she only supports these groups for votes. Idk why anyone in their right mind would ever be olive anything she says especially when she would say just the opposite a decade ago.

Because as crappy and horrible as Hilary is, it is literally a choice between “who would be worse, Hilary or Trump?”. And bearing in mind that Hilary doesn’t hold fascist dictators as role models, I would have thought it’s obvious.

No-one is saying Hilary is good. Not by any means. Yes she has done so much terrible stuff that it sucks. But ultimately, Hilary is better than Trump. 100%.

And there are plenty of people who think Trump is better than Hillary.

Just because you’re a minority doesn’t mean that whenever candidate you personally support is the “best” candidate.

Besides, one could easily argue that Hillary is a a threat to the nation’s Democracy (I mean there’s literal proof that she was involved in voter fraud and a rigged election) and that she’s even more “fascist” than Trump is. Though I doubt either of them would support actual fascism.

Just like any political issue it really depends on what you personally hold most important. If you think a president that isn’t actively hateful is more important, then you support Hillary. If you think a president that doesn’t cheat democracy is more important, then you support Trump. There’s no “best” candidate here. They’re both equally terrible in different ways and they’ll both take an immense toll on this nation.

That doesn’t sound like a best case scenario to me.

Contrary to what OP says, I don’t think Hillary is much of a better choice than Trump. There’s nothing to gain if either of them wins. 

Hillary doesn't think dictators are her heroes, she just think they are people who give her money.

Who told Opera those glasses were a good choice?

They were so big!

Buy a shirt; help old dogs have a home

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary provides a home for senior dogs that cannot find people to adopt them—a real home, with beds

 and couches for them 

and love and vet care and a large property to roam on with custom-made boardwalks with ramps to make it easy for the dogs that have trouble with stairs. They also provide temporary and permanent foster homes for many more, with a unique thing called Forever Fostering, where people within 100 miles of the Sanctuary can foster a dog forever, with all veterinary care and medication paid for. 

They have around 20 dogs living in the Sanctuary, including blind pug Bugsy, who had to have his eyes removed.

three bonded pairs, such as Harley and Smily, surrended to a shelter when their lifetime owner had to move into an assisted living facility, which the Sanctuary took in together so they would not be separated

and new bffs

And they’re having a t-shirt sale to raise funds to keep taking care of these old dogs that have been abandoned or are too old to be considered “adoptable.” And you should give them your money. 

Buy a nice shirt. Help a nice dog.

Signal boost this, and I will buy a shirt for someone randomly chosen from the list of people who reblog this post.

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