“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
The Republican Party would very much like you, the general public, to know that they are not, I repeat NOT, cool with actual Nazis—despite what the president of the United States would have you believe.
I have nightmares about doing something stupid like this.
Last month, about 12,000 Aetna customers across the US were sent letters regarding their health benefits and access to HIV medications with a clear window cut out of the envelope that exposed their status to anyone who laid eyes on it.
1. if your feminism doesn’t include the disabled community, it isn’t feminism 2. if your disability activism doesn’t include invisible disabilities, it isn’t activism
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker
I love deviled eggs more than is decent, but I used to hate making them. It wasn’t the difficulty of getting the yolk just perfect or the smell of sulfur, but the act of peeling eggs almost always sent me into a blind rage. Those days are gone, however, as I now know how to make hard-boiled eggs that will peel without…
Sometimes I wonder if being too gay affects whether or not I get a job and other times I wonder if it’s going to get me murdered. I’ve been thinking about this a lot.
This kind of reminds me of all those women who post stupid shite like, "I don't need feminism because I don't think I'm a victim."
“A new poll from PPP shows that Trump voters think white people are more discriminated against than any other racial group in America, and Christians are discriminated against more than any other religious group.”
character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X
the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies
people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them
alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit
bonus points if it’s a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always”
someone pretending they don’t know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* “tell tom that he can come out now” *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
the “hands go down” trope
example: “any questions?” *everyone’s hands go up* “…that AREN’T sarcastic?” *everyone’s hands go down*
how could all y'all forget “ACT NATURAL!”
I love how the original set of tropes have a lot in common with Dreamworks’ Sinbad.
“In an episode of the scientist’s new Netflix series, Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye introduces a short video clip explaining how there are “lots of flavors” to sexuality.
In the clip, adorably animated ice cream cones come together for an “ice cream conversation therapy” meeting - a play on the harmful practice known as “gay conversation therapy,” which falsely claims to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
In the end, Vanilla comes to his senses and realizes life just isn’t as fun when everyone is the same. Oh, and the entire video closes with what could be considered an R-rated ice cream orgy.”