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She’s doing a great job
I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time
Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?
the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund??
If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand.this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible.
in 2019 we ARE reading articles and making sure we comprehend their contents and we are NOT posting headlines and reacting in outrage without even attempting to accrue further information
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chuck tingle, two time hugo award nominee and author of such erotica classics as ‘space raptor butt invasion’, ‘i’m gay for my living billionaire jet plane’, ‘bigfoot pirates haunt my balls’, and ‘there’s a bitcoin in my butt and he’s handsome’ just published a short story about the importance of consent and how it’s okay to have a loving relationship without sex if you want to???
that’s lovely on its own but it’s also called ‘not pounded in the butt by anything and that’s okay’, which is my favourite book title ever
(via yeens-human)
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Growing up conservative, I always heard that Republicans really hate bureaucracy. They want to cut all the “red tape” and “regulations” out of our lives.
This is actually complete nonsense, and working with literally any charitable organization will show you this very quickly. Republicans actually love red tape and bureaucracy, they just love it for poor people instead of rich people. Republicans add things like work requirements, ID requirements, citizenship tests, means-testing, drug tests, and paperwork to just about every possible charitable giving endeavor. I volunteer at a Church ran charity for homeless people, and the red tape under Trump has only gotten much worse. It was bad before, but it has gotten demonstrably more headache inducing and more time-consuming to simply give the poor what they need to survive.
What Republicans really mean when they say that they want to “cut red tape” is that they want to take away any and all roadblocks standing in the way of an absolute oligarchy.
On top of this, regardless of the “free market” rhetoric they use to get votes, Republican candidates consistently vote for a variety of different regulations and other government interventions in the market. It’s just that these regulations serve to strengthen or expand monopolies by subsidising the mistakes of the large, existing businesses that lobby the politicians, and by strangling any smaller potential competitors with bureaucracy.
Basically the idea that the Republican party is against bureaucracy or government intervention in the market has no basis in reality
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I’m putting this in a separate post because nobody else should have to feel responsible for it but here you go I guess
(via chandra-nalaar)
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sees cat being naughty and scoops him up: This is a disciplinary hug. Do not derive joy from it.
naughty cat: purrs loudly
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[wakes up] [clown vanishes] aaaahhh that was a nice rest. i slept like a baby all night. time to start the day [gets up] [takes a shower and brushes teeth] [gets dressed] [goes about my day taking care of business] [comes home] fwoo i’m tired. it’s time for a hard-earned night’s rest. [lies down] [falls asleep] [evil clown materializes in my room and watches me sleep all night]
no text post has ever started better than “[wakes up] [clown vanishes]” I’m hooked into the story I want to know more about this world
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did anyone actually ever read those animorph books
just stared at the covers for a concerningly long amount of time before putting it back where i found it
me too
Same
Here are some of the spoilers you missed out on by not reading Animorphs:
- Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.
- A child repeatedly experiences his intestines hanging out of his body while in various animal forms
- A child is mentally tortured until broken and never gets better
- A child in the form of a fly experiences getting splattered and smeared against a ceiling until his friends who are also flies at the time can peel his body off and take him somewhere he can transform back into a whole human before his insect mind fades completely
- A child is shrunken and experiences having her eyeballs digested out of her head inside her friend’s stomach while she’s in the form of a tiny elephant
- The heroes are forced to permanently imprison another child in the body of a rat because he knows too much and they abandon him on a tiny island with only other rats and garbage for company. Rumors circulate that the island is haunted but it’s actually his psychic screams reaching distant boaters.
- A race of devastatingly powerful, violent aliens turn out to be mental toddlers who don’t know what they’re doing and are just bred to think they’re playing one big game before they’re killed at age three so they don’t learn the truth
- An alien spends a few centuries hanging from the parasitic tentacle of a much bigger alien, surrounded by millions of rotting corpses attached to its other moon-spanning tendrils. They engage in mental warfare until one finally absorbs the other completely.
- It turns out another seemingly “evil” alien race is simply driven to kill and eat everything in sight because it was separated from its original world where food was continuous and the entire specie’s life is the torture of perpetual starvation
- A peaceful robot willingly removes its inhibition against violence to help in the war, only to slaughter a huge number of alien-controlled humans so gruesomely that nobody dares think about or speak of it again and it is the only thing left undescribed in a book series that already describes entrails getting torn out and skulls getting smashed
- A child stays too long in the form of a flea and instead of turning back into a human, accidentally turns momentarily into one big, giant flea that can only writhe and moan because it shouldn’t exist and can’t live at that scale.
- The kids discover Atlantis, then discover that Atlanteans are inbred mutants who paralyze any humans they find, dissect them alive to figure out how their organs work, then stuff the corpses as kitschy museum displays for their children.
- An ordinary ant gets transformed into a human child. It has no idea what’s happening and is so overwhelmed by its huge new brain and sensory input that it can only scream until it dies
What. The. Fuck
From someone who recently read/finished this series, NONE OF THE ABOVE IS AN EXAGGERATION.
Also you can get all the PDFs here
Everybody read some animorphs you know you wanna it’s right there
Go ahead and start on book one you’ll already get some juicy terror
I feel like us all just picking up those books, staring at them, and putting them back down again was God’s way of protecting us.
Truly. They kept giving away this one book for free and I just never took it home or read it. And the one I did take home I never read it and the dog got to it. Them covers was going off tho
(via horsejesus)
- Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.
