I am endlessly amused that the people who whimper and cry about “sharia law” and how terrible it would be if laws were decided by some religion
Are the same people who will argue that it should be legal to discriminate against gay people because their interpretation of their religion dictates it.
Just once, I want the hero to go “your wife/sister/mother/whatever would not have wanted this!”, and the villain to go, “actually, we talked about this a lot. She was really into vigilante justice and eye for an eye stuff. She always said, if something like this happens, avenge me.”
hey nonbinary parents u kno how there’s shortened terms for mother and father but no good shortened terms for parent?? well i have the solution foryou!!! instead of “parent” u can call urself “guardian” which can be shortened to “guard” and then when ur kid says things like “sorry i can’t go my guard says no” they sound rich and mysteriously important and u dont get misgendered and everyone wins
Additionally, when your kid has a bad influence trying to get them to do something they know you would be against they could say “Sorry, I don’t want to let my guard down” which is both mysterious AND a pun
All of you out there supporting planned parenthood should really remember what the woman who founded them said…. just saying. Do not stand with PP
Oh wow, you guys are still trying desperately trying to paint Sanger as a racist huh? Okay, if you’re gonna flat out lie like this you can at least try not to be lazy about it.
You’ve given no context to this quote and conveniently left of the first half of it. The sentence in it’s entirety is “
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
I know you manipulated it that way because you wanted to make Sanger seem as evil as possible, and also because literally the only thing pro lifers know how to do is lie, but admittedly the full sentence by itself looks damning enough. I think you know this, which is why you provided no context. If you had, your entire argument would have fallen apart. Here are Sangers words with context;
“It seems to me from my experience where I have been in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored
Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to
their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which
means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this
with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic
he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I
believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His
work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the
nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors.
His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained,
perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to
reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the
Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that
idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
The article I linked goes into better detail about Sanger, the so called “Negro project”, and the lies spread about her by the pro life movement. I encourage you to read it the next time you feel like spreading lazy, manipulative propaganda bullshit like this.
TL;DR: The full quote states that Planned Parenthood wanted to hire Black doctors in order to make their Black patients feel safer and respected. It also states that Planned Parenthood wanted to work with Black ministers, and encourage the ministers to tell others that Planned Parenthood was a safe clinic for Black patients.
In other words, she didn’t want this exact lie to start circulating
Reblogging not just to spread this out there but so that I have it on hand the next time someone tries to feed me this crap, I can provide them the facts.
Brooklyn Nine Nine and Marvel crossovers are like MY DREAM
PLEASE
Oh my GOD. PLEASE PLEASE
OK NO BUT IMAGINE:
Captain Holt: Do you find your job consists of shepherding a variety of eccentric toddlers in the vague direction of justice?
Nick Fury: HELL yes.
Captain Holt: Then it’s agreed: our teams should never socialise. Pure policework, nothing else.
Nick Fury: [peering through a crack in the blinds as Jake takes a selfie with Hawkeye] That might prove difficult.
-
Rosa: So. Spill. What’s the coolest thing you ever used to kill a guy?
Black Widow: Well, this one time in Moscow, I -
Captain Holt: THERE WILL BE NO COLLUDING IN MY PRECINCT!
-
Thor: My friend, it doesn’t matter the strength in your muscles, though I’ll grant that they’re impressive. Only the worthy can lift Mjolnir.
Terry: Oh, I’m worthy! You wanna know how worthy I am? Hitchcock and Scully stole my last mango yoghurt, and I haven’t beaten them to death with a chair leg!
-
Amy: Not to alarm anyone, but I think Gina just dragged Tony Stark into a supply closet.
Rosa: Nice.
Captain Holt: Oh dear god in Heaven.
Nick Fury: Gina is… your secretary?
Captain Holt: Ostensibly, yes.
Nick Fury: The one who called me Eyepatch when we first came in, then asked if I’d ever considered managing a dance troop?
Captain Holt: That would be the one.
Nick Fury [stares at supply closet]: Assuming they make it out alive, I’ll trade you him for her.
Captain Holt: Back off, Eyepatch.
Nick Fury: Worth a shot.
-
Bruce: So, uh. You work here?
Amy: Yes.
Bruce: Voluntarily?
Amy: Yes.
Bruce [gesturing at the chaos of the precinct]: Like this?
Amy [sighing]: Yes.
Bruce: I know exactly what you mean.
Jake, yelling from off: HEY AMY, I JUST CHALLENGED THOR TO A JIMMY JABS LIGHTNING ROUND! WANNA COME CHEER ME ON?
Amy: Oh god.
Jake, still off: LIGHTNING ROUND, GET IT? BECAUSE HE’S THE GOD OF THUNDER?
Bruce: You, uh. Said something about some new binders?
Amy: Come this way. Walk fast, and don’t make eye contact.
-
Boyle [talking animatedly]: - and that’s my second favourite recipe for pannacotta, although I gotta say, sometimes it’s only my third because - are you sure you wanna hear this?
Hawkeye [with his hearing aids out, nodding cheerfully]: Please, continue!
Pit bulls are AMAZING at this kind of behavior. They are so into people (kids especially) that they’ll imitate anything they do if they can figure it out. A friend’s pit once watched my toddler spinning in circles, then spun in circles herself, all the while looking very confused, like, “Am I…am I doing it right? Is this what I’m supposed to be doing?” They’re the most adorable dogs ever.
But they aren’t documented so they wouldn’t be pa…..nvm
This is a huge misconception for regular Americans. When the government uses the phrase “undocumented” they’re using it incorrectly because if they were truly undocumented then they would’ve be in system. However these immigrants are in the system and they pay taxes, file tax returns and get no benefits that citizens and legal residents get. They also get to see ICE showing up at their doors because the government has their addresses.
Fun fact. “Undocumented” workers pays $12 billion dollars every year in taxes.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/06/how-much-tax-do-americas-undocumented-immigrants-actually-pay-infographic/amp/
Now that Laverne Cox is on a law drama, can I get her and Gina Torres together as badass lawyers who start a firm? Maybe with more folks of color? How amazing would that show be?
And let it crossover with Viola Davis at some point.
Oh my god yes. The three of them open their office in Manhattan and these are their staff/associates/interns
Who else can we add to this? I know who I want as another senior partner at the firm:
And they can face him in court coz he’s part of a rival firm
You know who else works at that firm?
DA’s office secret weapon. He a closer in court. And a panty dropper after hours.
One of the detectives that they work with.
And the firm’s IT guy (read: hacker that gets all the dirt they need. @pettypriestess would appreciate that)
My boyfriend talks in his sleep and because he’s bilingual, he says some hilarious/weird/sometimes creepy shit. I ask him every morning if he remembers saying this stuff and he has no idea about any of it.
Here are some of my favorites:
-”Babe, can you please turn down the brightness of your skin” -After stealing all of the blankets: “This is my right as a human” -After I take the blankets back: “I don’t want your freedom, America. Just blanket” -Sometimes he just says “Hello?” as if he’s answering a phone call -One night he just said “Cabbage” which is weird because he doesn’t know the english word for that when he’s awake. -After spooning me: “You have a nice butt” -”Who is that in the corner?” (terrifying) -”Watch out for the red lady” (even more terrifying) -Sometimes he will say things in German and it sounds like he’s speaking Parseltongue -One time I actually think he said something in Parseltongue -One time he talked about buying a ticket to “everywhere” and then just said “hello?” after two minutes of silence -And my all time favorite: ”This is MY yogurt, Satan”
Warren and Tyagi demonstrated that buying common luxury items wasn’t the issue for most Americans. The problem was the fixed costs, the things that are difficult to cut back on. Housing, health care, and education cost the average family 75 percent of their discretionary income in the 2000s. The comparable figure in 1973: 50 percent. Indeed, studies demonstrate that the quickest way to land in bankruptcy court was not by buying the latest Apple computer but through medical expenses, job loss, foreclosure, and divorce.
Giving up a latte or another such small extravagance in this environment wasn’t going to be enough. Yet the personal finance shills continued to tell people their problems were mostly of their own making.
This strikes me as being directly related to those jackholes who are enraged when someone poor has some small or relatively small luxury: they think this is how economics work.
I’m tired of feeling guilty for every tiny indulgence that makes me feel human.
This makes me remember a story a friend of mine told me.
He was in a college course for learning financial stuff, like how to invest wisely and shit like that because he was working for the local library system in their accounting department and had to be able to advise employees on how best to use the new investment options the library was offering.
So, the professor tells the class that they should ALWAYS be saving at least $25 per paycheck into a savings account even when it’s hard because that is the only way to get into the habit of saving and also the quickest way to having emergency cash, but it was better to do at least $50.
Not terrible advice, certainly, but… My friend said there was no way he could do that. The professor scoffed at him about high dollar luxuries like coffee shop drinks or name brand food or clothes or a computer or using the bus instead of a car.
Now, my friend did not own a car; he bike rode everywhere. His wife used the bus. Both he and his wife worked. He did not buy name brand food; he got cheap store brand food in bulk and only bought what he already knew would be used in his meal calendar planned for two months at a time. He brewed his own coffee at home. He kept his electricity usage to a minimum and taught his wife and children to do the same. His kids weren’t indulged with sweets or many toys. They didn’t buy candy or hobby items. They got the free local TV channels which they honestly only used to track weather on a salvaged TV they got from a friend. They only got new clothing when their kids grew out of the old or something of theirs was too worn to patch or repair and always from thrift shops. All their furniture was secondhand and usually picked cheap from garage sales. They made the agonizing decision to purchase a home instead of renting because the net savings over all were justifiable because the house payments were cheaper than renting. They budgeted for a total of ten dollars to be put in the savings account per month, not per paycheck.
My friend and his wife planned their expenditures down to the cent at least two months in advance to make sure they could make it. They constantly researched to find the absolute best value of every item they bought. Thankfully, my friend had the analytical mind for that kind of planning. No purchase ever went unremarked upon or without heavy consideration, no matter how small. They spent wisely and stretched every dollar as far as it could go.
My friend brought in a hand written copy of his budget (because he didn’t have a computer or printer and paper was an expense he built into the budget so he could do the planning) and showed it to the professor the next day in front of the class and asked, “Where do I squeeze out $25 per paycheck?”
The professor hemmed and hawed as he went through the budget. He kept starting to say something on one line or another and then would stop himself and go to the next. Sometimes he would say shit things like “where is your gas column?” “We don’t own a car.” He spent about twenty minutes staring at my friend’s carefully planned and managed budget and could not see a single place where it could be improved.
“I guess you can’t,” the professor said and was apparently so bitter about being wrong that my friend had to keep from laughing at him even though the entire experience had soured him something awful.
People who are not struggling do not understand how money works for poor people and just assume we are horrible at managing it instead of realizing we just don’t have any. Luxury items aren’t killing us; low wages and a shit economy are.
at my small town demonstration yesterday my mom and i stood in the snow with our signs, waving and whooping back to drivers who honked and gave us the thumbs up. every 15 minutes someone in the group would recognize a person driving by. comparatively few negative reactions, and i left feeling bolstered.
The Trump team put out a survey a while ago about the mainstream media. Apparently they didn’t like the answers so they sent it out again but only to Trump supporters.
Here’s the link so you can let them know what you think about the mainstream media.
This is still the worst survey I’ve ever seen in my life, but fuck it up again. A survey’s not a survey if you only give it to people who’ll give you the answers you want to your leading questions.
Also, this survey does require some personal information, but if it’s like the last one, you can make up fake ones and it’ll accept them. -V
ON THE LIST White people: The slightest criticism of us is the same as trying to kill us all. Also white people: Let me tell you what you're doing wrong.
Critics have high praise for Get Out, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut.
Yet some “rotten tomatoes” are slamming the satirical horror film for its so-called “anti-white” and “racist” portrayal of white characters. T
he discussion has generated a whopping 11 pages worth of comments from users. While the average audience rating is 4.5 stars out of 12,583 user ratings, there’s a very vocal group online that clearly hates the movie. Read more (2/24/17 12:55 PM)
For anyone who doesn’t understand why anonymous and unnamed sources are used - oftentimes the information the news outlets are receiving are being given by individuals who are putting their lives, jobs, families, etc. at risk by leaking this news to the press.
Journalists wouldn’t even receive their information anymore if they started stating their sources. They have these consistent sources because they have shown they can be trusted to keep their identities safe. People are more open and honest when they know they won’t face any retaliation for spreading the truth.
Unnamed and anonymous sources are needed for a free and adversarial press. Otherwise, everything would be tinted with bias to help the source walk away safely.
For those who whine about SJWs ‘censoring’ people, this is what actual censorship looks like.
