do you think leia felt everyone on alderaan die but because she didn’t know she was force sensitive she thought it was all her own pain, do you think unknowingly force sensitive people all over the galaxy in the middle of sleeping or cooking dinner or kissing their children goodnight suddenly felt their hearts torn out and had no idea why
*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade*
hey….
nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.
it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.
They say friends come in all shapes and sizes… Jotto the baby elephant was just 1-month-old when he fell in the well and separated from his herd. David Shelldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) took him to an elephant orphanage in Kenya where he could heal until he was ready to go back to the wild. Little did the rescuers know that even though there were plenty of elephants at the shelter, Jotto will become BFF with… an ostrich named Pea!
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Pea was rescued back in 2014, when the staff went to save a baby elephant and found the birdie and her ostrich brother Pod in need of help, too. They were taken to the elephant shelter. Pod has returned to the wild and joined wild ostrichs, but Pea is staying with the elephants, feeling completely at home.
“It is safe to say orphaned ostrich Pea most definitely believes she is part of the elephant herd and little Jotto is more than happy to enjoy a cuddle with his feathered friend,” DSWT wrote this week. “Beautifully tender moments at the Nairobi Nursery, where these two orphans and many, many others, are being given the opportunity to heal and, when they are ready, to return to the wild.”
Real Ray or Fake Ray? - “I will say a phrase. You tell me if I made it up or if it’s something that Captain Holt actually said in real life to an actual human being.”
Remember that story about how Donald Trump's campaign went about picking a running mate, made public by a John Kasich adviser?
Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?
When Kasich's adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father's vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
"Making America great again" was the casual reply.
The moderator is CBS News correspondent and digital anchor Elaine Quijano. She is the first Asian-American journalist to moderate a national debate. In case you’re wondering.
First question on presidential leadership, this is about how you could step up to be president—why can you do this? Kaine: Starts talking about the first school walk-out by Barbara Johns, leading to Brown v. Board, and talks about how proud he is to be on a ticket with another history-making woman. Says the test of their administration will be results—making life better for everyone. Says that Hillary told him that his experience at all levels of government that qualifies. He says he trusts her as commander in chief, Trump scares him to death.
Pence gets same question, is very honored to be there, thanks everyone watching, and starts attacking Obama. The last seven and a half years—war on coal, Obamacare, ain’t it all awful. Time for change. Thanks Trump for “making the call” to a humble shit-eating small town kid in southern Indiana. He had big dreams as a kid, but never dreamed he’d be governor some day or sit at this table. He’s really doing the humble guy thing, which I guess is a good contrast to Trump. Says he’ll be the small-town guy in office and that makes him qualified.
Q to Kaine—why don’t people trust Hillary. He could answer that the traditional media has spent the last three decades reporting every bullshit claim the GOP and their nether regions have come up with, but he doesn’t. He talks about her long career helping people, and pivots to Trump’s birtherism.
Is Trump just too erratic? Pence answers with a “you guys started it!” when it comes to insults. And how awful the international situation—and Russia--is because of Hillary. Kaine tries to interject on their love for Putin, pisses off Pence, who goes back to attack on Clinton and the “avalanche” of insults from the Clinton campaign. Kaine is the aggressor here, when Pence starts attacking Hillary on email.
Pence is really going for the saddened, disappointed moral high ground, while spewing lies. Basically trying to launder Donald Trump’s message with a less angry-looking face.
Kaine jumps in with the mess Obama inherited overseas—bin Laden, etc. Hillary helped fixed that, fewer overseas troops deployed, Iranian nuclear deal, etc.
In the most recent episode of MTV News: Decoded, a web series that breaks down issues of race and culture, host Franchesca Ramsey looks at racist costumes made for kids.
Civil rights attorney John Walker says he has been bearing witness to the unfair treatment of African-Americans by police since the 1960s. But on Sept. 26, Walker’s decision to watch an arrest in progress in Little Rock, Arkansas, didn’t just annoy the on-scene officers — it got him, and an attorney from his law firm, arrested. The worst part: It was deja vu.
OK, I'm not much on clothes, and I know damned well that five minutes into wearing any of these I would develop an itch that would cause me to tear it all off, but god DAMN I would wear all of these if I were a superhero.
During a recent survey of trees in the Queen’s garden at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, botanists were shocked to discover the presence of two elms thought to be extinct for nearly a half century.
Defeating capitalism can’t be that hard. How much HP does it have?
the World Boss Capitalism has 1,951,484 hp, but it also has a companion boss called The State and that boss has 2,487,313 hp and if you don’t get them both to 0 at about the same time they just start spamming shields & heals on each other & The State starts using OHKO attacks on your entire group
Damn, that must be why Marx recommends a party.
We’d have finished this raid by now if SOMEONE didn’t keep splitting the party
Fourth International, rushing in alone: “LEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOON TRRROOOOOTSSKKKYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!”
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So I got tired of not seeing any news on HRC’s actual positions because every single media outlet is busy fact-checking Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, and decided to look some up.
Also, tired of stories about 26-year-olds complaining that they can’t get behind Clinton because they don’t know what she stands for, and also have no idea who Ralph Nader is, even though these frickin’ kids are only two years younger than me and also Wikipedia exists
omg you guys, her plans for addressing autism. Note the total absence of the word “curing.” It’s all about “providing support” and “early diagnosis” and “improving access” and “increasing opportunities.”
You know how otherwise work-ready people sometimes get stuck as unpaid caregivers when a family member becomes sick or disabled? Well, Hillary wants to give those people credit where credit is due.
She’s planning to upgrade our 25 most costly freight bottlenecks
Did you know our country had a cost issue with freight bottlenecks?
Because I had no idea
and this happens over and over with her policies
things you didn’t even know were things
but Hermione Rodham Clinton has already looked up the statistics, talked to the experts, and written the ten-page memo
and listen, voting for HRC for no other reason than to keep Trump and his tax-evading business-bankrupting employee-stiffing racist sexist across-the-board-hateful loose-cannon general inanity out of office is completely legitimate –
but if I never see another “why don’t we know more about her plans?? it is a hopeless unsolvable mystery for the ages!” post again it will be too soon.
This is the conscience I’m voting.
And also: which of the two candidates capable of winning this election would you rather have sitting next to the briefcase with the nuclear codes?
I don’t know about you, but from where I’m sitting, and after eight years of obstruction by the party controlling the legislative arm, it’s (to use the OP’s apt metaphor) a Hermione we need in the White House right now. Not a Draco.
(ETA: Okay, Draco is an imperfect analogy. But: the son-of-a-privileged-(rich)-dad, whiny-entitled-toady-surrounded-bully type, that was what I was reaching for…)
“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”
We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”
Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.
Or, backing up FURTHER
and lots of people think this very likely,
“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”
The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.
To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science) indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.
Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.
Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.
Bitch said “raw peppers”. Is that what she really think black folk doing? Eating raw peppers?
lets call her Hillareach Clinton
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Um guys Hillary Clinton’s love of hot sauce is well documented and goes way back. Like from an article about what they ate in the white house in the 90s it says that she had 100 different kinds of hot sauce and she’s really big into chili peppers and eats raw jalapenos
So it may or may not be what she thinks black people are doing but it’s definitely what she’s doing.
And here is a slate article pointing out that if she predicted this particular Beyonce song that far back and started carrying hot sauce so that she could try and seem cool twenty years later then she should be president based on her foresight alone.
hillary hot sauce receipts
never thought I’d read the sentence “Hillary
Clinton’s love of hot sauce is well documented and goes way back”
Hillary needs to stop trying to present herself as everybody’s cool grandma and start presenting herself as the stone cold bitch who’s gonna make uncomfortable, unbroken eye contact with Putin as she unblinkingly bites into a raw habanero
