The Washington Herald, Washington DC, January 31, 1918

1918 mood still valid in 2018

The only way to “break the cycle of poverty” is to change the entire system and abolish capitalism.

I despise things that talk about “breaking the cycle of poverty” meaning “slightly increasing but not by much the chances a handful of poor people will be upwardly mobile while victim blaming the millions that aren’t.”

Denial of resources to the poor, lack of social mobility, class stratification, other systems of oppression, etc. are all subsumed under the idea that poor people and out communities just have a problem where poor people create “cycles” of poverty.  It’s about trying to set up bullshit rhetorical classes of “good poor” who are “upwardly mobile” and play by the rules vs “bad poor” who are in “poverty cycles” and misbehave.  It’s a fundamentally classist, capitalist, bigoted viewpoint that is behind this talking point.  Poverty cannot be eliminated by individual measures, all of capitalism relies on it in order to coerce the selling of labor power by the workers.  Fixing poverty means raising up all poor people.  All of us.  Not just the few rich people see as “more deserving” than the rest.

Any law that can have its punishment avoided by being sufficiently rich shouldn’t exist

Thats all of em

Just the response I wanted

2018 is the year i finally make whatever memes i want

It will forever haunt me that I cannot share this joke with everyone I meet

tank arm wrestling night!!!!

ALA Artist Alley Table 405

“Eat shit and die” not actually an insult. Actually the three most basic functions of any animal

me, a femme, tacking a rose and a sports bar gift card onto a fishing line and casting it out into a lesbian bar: find me a butch girlfriend

me, a butch, tacking a rose and a sephora gift card onto a fishing line and casting it out into a lesbian bar: find me a femme girlfriend

Me, a femme, hanging out at the lesbian bar with my butch gf, frantically tangling your fishing hooks together so when you try to reel them in its like the spaghetti scene in lady and the tramp: find eachother you sweet, beautiful, useless lesbians

Me, a lesbian that kinda just wears whatever throwing a fishing line out with flannel: please just find me any girlfriend

a terf joined in on this and i just want to say that the lesbian bar is 100% trans inclusive and definitely not transmisogynist-friendly.

Thank you, Carrie Fisher.

Carrie: specifically asks women

Man: talks

Carrie: Shut the fuck up I wasn’t talking to you

every gay girl i’ve spoken to agrees that one of the most humiliating and demoralizing things is having a straight girl thinking you’re coming on to them simply bc you like girls and it….really fucks with our relationships both platonic and romantic bc while other girls get to sit on each others laps and sleep in the same beds and playfully grab each others asses we’re putting up so many walls just in case our straight friends think we’re after them. 

and bc our conception of relationships with other girls in general is so fucked and suppressed we have no idea how to navigate our emotions when we’re actually attracted to another girl and want to pursue it

y’all reblogging this with “straight girls/gay guys experience this toooo”….nah, this isn’t about people thinking you want them, its a uniquely stunting experience to gay girls who are excluded from developing friendships and behaving around other girls in the ways we are all socialized to do so because we conceive ourselves/others conceive us as “predatory”

wheres that venn diagram chart of muppet names

here it is

Shutting down the govt. when you control all three branches is like losing a football game when you’re the only team on the f*cking field

Also:  

THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN AND LGBTQIA+ WON’T STOP UNTIL WE STOP IT. U.S. READERS, REGISTER TO VOTE HERE

Why

KIN

Physical chemistry professor (via adventuresinchemistry)