yetibait:

janecrocker:

canon jesus is way cooler than fanon jesus

canon jesus was a sassy middle eastern guy who literally said “did i fucking stutter” and hung out with prostitutes

fanon jesus is just some boring white guy who sits around hugging lambs

Just be careful who you say that around. His fandom has literally killed people for disagreeing with their head-canon.

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Fwiw: a note to media

fireblooms:

“Terrorist” “attack” “terrorism” do not mean event perpetrated ONLY by a particular person or group of people that fits into your political narrative. What happened today fits all of the words above regardless of who was behind it. Get over yourselves and your bullshit racism.


punkinchu:

no one with any real political knowledge is ignoring that a vote for obama means a vote for furthering our loss of privacy, our loss of civil rights, and drone strikes for all those cute pakistani children out there

but if your ass is in a swing state and you vote for a fucking third party president, S H U T T H E F U C K U P

you are probably

  • white
  • straight
  • male

and for you, this election doesn’t matter anyway. your life isn’t going to change in ANY WAY. neither obama nor romney are going to be the change you want for this nation, and neither of them will do all that great with not fucking us re: privacy, foreign policy, civil liberties, etc.

but for those of us who AREN’T white, straight, or male, this election does fucking matter because obama’s take on certain domestic policies are HUGELY DIFFERENT from romney’s, and if i need to explain to you how or why this is significant, then just x out of this goddamn site already BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANYONE WHO ISN’T WHITE, STRAIGHT, OR MALE

and also you’re a silly jackass anyway (har har pun intended) for voting third party in any case, especially since you need to massively reform the electoral college to ever even have a chance of voting in a third party for president????? do you not understand?????? how????? this country???? works politically?????? WHY IS EVERYONE SO FUCKING

STUPID

Yes. This. Exactly.

The President’s foreign policy leaves much to be desired. It’s not all bad, but it’s a lot bad.

The GOP’s domestic policy scares the hell out of me. I want to be seen as a real person. The GOP doesn’t see me that way. Or, if they do, they are unbelievably cruel and lack any sense of compassion.

I don’t think we can move forward in any arena without compassion.



In case you were wondering …

politicalprof:

The answer is yes: Americans are about the only people on earth who can get the Olympics who are not allowed to see much of it live. Apparently we need lots of “context”—otherwise known as human interest stories, endless narrative, and lots of commercial breaks. Thanks, NBC!



The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to ‘End Poverty in California’ I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

Upton Sinclair (via jonathan-cunningham)

Americans love Socialism, as long as you don’t call it that.

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sunfoundation:

John Moore: It’s the older generation that’s entitled, not students

Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to Socrates, let us ask: Who exactly is making the charge? Quebec has had low tuition rates for a half century. That means almost every living adult in the province, having already been afforded a plum goodie, is now wagging his finger at the first generation that will be asked to pay the tab. So who really is entitled here?

sunfoundation:

John Moore: It’s the older generation that’s entitled, not students

Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to Socrates, let us ask: Who exactly is making the charge? Quebec has had low tuition rates for a half century. That means almost every living adult in the province, having already been afforded a plum goodie, is now wagging his finger at the first generation that will be asked to pay the tab. So who really is entitled here?

(via theatlantic)


duskandshiverrrr:

zoedelaluna:

erosum:

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum

Booker 2016

See, this is how you talk about it.

You DON’T say “marriage equality is JUST LIKE the separate but equal stuff POC dealt with, come on folks, this is civil rights all over again, gay is the new black!”

You say, “this is a civil rights issue, and it should be a given, not something voted for; this is a minority.”

(via stfuconservatives)