It's official. His brain really is nothing but three columns of awful things to say and a 20-sided die.
On Monday, Donald Trump was asked to explain his reasoning behind his pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio—a move made by the president while much of the country was fixated on Hurricane Harvey’s deviating landfall in Texas early Friday evening.
There was a time when I wanted to do the entirety of Hot Fuzz as a silent/Keystone Cops film (and call it Silent Fuzz), but that was way too ambitious. This clip is a result of that attempt.
This is what I look for in stories. I am very much the "the plot exists to give the characters reasons to change" camp. Not everyone is, and that's OK.
imo he was being super salty about that tendency guys have to blame their anatomy for their bad choices
it’s like “oh i don’t want to be a creepo but my dick has a mind of its own” “well here’s a scissors fix your life”
or maybe, you know, have some damn respect, and don’t pretend you don’t have a choice of whether to be nasty
i think people have a tendency to take jesus literally when he was actually throwing shade, or to take things in this really smarmy martyrish way when they’re actually pretty snippy
i mean “turn the other cheek” sounds like being a doormat until you picture how it would play out: someone smacks you, and you turn and go “do it again, go on, take a swing buddy, does that make you feel better, do you feel like a winner now?” cuz you know what 90% of the time they will get curled up shame toes and shuffle off
tl;dr: no jesus did not actually want you to take a spoon to your eyeballs for babe watching, he wanted you to take responsibility for how you treat people
All of the actions Jesus told his followers to perform are actually passive-aggressive actions meant to oppose and resist Jerusalem’s Roman colonizers. Like,
turning the other cheek is actually a matter of forcing the Roman to either break proper slapping etiquette or to hit you properly- thereby treating you as an equal instead of someone he’s subjugating. If a debtor is taking all your possessions in court, you include the shirt off your back so his greed is causing you to commit public nudity. And when a soldier forces you to carry his equipment (as per the law of the time), you go the extra mile with him- literally carrying his bag beyond the distance that the law stipulates and therefore making the action illegal.
Context matters.
Jesus was a radical, rebellious, snarky twentysomething. Always remember that.
“The world’s definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one’s family, friends, or lovers – to say nothing of one’s children – to live according to the world’s definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.”
- Novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic James Baldwin
HOLY SHIT WHAT HAPPENED? I LITERALLY THOUGHT LIKE 5 PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW ME WOULD CARE.
Yes, I’m finishing it now.
Reblogging with the finished piece. https://www.redbubble.com/people/creepygirlclub/shop?asc=u It’s on redbubble if you REALLY WANT stuff with this horrible unicorn baphomet on it. I did a version with nipples too but I haven’t put those on redbubble yet because IDK how I feel about unicorn nipples.
Ronald Reagan visited the concentration camp Bergen-Belsin, and then shortly after went to Bitburg to place a wreath on the graves of Nazi SS. After he came back to America there was obvious outrage and he said, “They [SS troops] were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” What a great guy comparing Holocaust victims to the men who massacred them.
Also a reminder why putting up monuments to horrible people is a bad idea. When Reagan left office, his reputation was declining in the shadow of AIDS, Iran-Contra, and his terrible economic policies. After wealthy conservatives started putting his name on every goddamn airport and park bench in the country and he’s become this conservative icon, erasing the history of the horrible things he did as president. Monuments don’t preserve history, they erase it. History is not made by “great men”, it’s made by the people who stand up to them.
Fuck Reagan. He was a terrible president and a garbage human. One of the greatest tricks the right wing ever pulled off was convincing people who are smart enough to know better that Reagan wasn’t the absolute dumpster fire that he really was.
anyone else feel like the product of a failed necromancy spell? just a big ol resurrected rotting deer carcass or some shit, thats me. o great Necromaster, put me back in the ground. u did a horrible job and now the living think im one of them
No one has accused the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of being compassionate. But leaving women and children stranded at a bus station, with nowhere else to go, as a Category 4 hurricane approaches really is something else.
