A Finely Taylored perspective.
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Yeah sex is great and all but have you ever voted a Republican out of office?
I’m gonna need the entire country to bust a collective nut in November
(via jesusfuckingchrist)
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Reality is stranger than fiction
that’s some Nazi shit right there.
Thought this was fake or a misunderstanding but
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/plaid-shirt-guy-trump-montana-rally-cnntv/index.html
(via greyrick)
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you know what’s really irritating
when male academics constantly refer to men by their surnames and women by their first names
like you’d never go to a lecture expecting shakespeare to be referred to as “william” but it’s not at all uncommon to sit through an entire lecture in which jane austen is referred to constantly as “jane”
it’s such a petty thing but it just really rubs me the wrong way, like it has a real suggestion of respect and admiration/lack thereof
kind of like how during the 2016 election everything was Trump vs Hillary
did y’all, perhaps, forget there was a whole other Clinton in office before and that maybe they used her first name to avoid confusion, lol?
We’ve had two President Roosevelts, no one refers to them as Roosevelt and Franklin. Even newspaper headlines from the times called them simply Roosevelt
We recently had two President Bushes. Bush Sr. was still alive when Bush Jr. was running and in office, and news agencies still referred to him as Bush
America was able to read this headline and hundreds like it and know which Bush it was talking about. When the news mentioned a Bush vs Gore debate we all knew that it wouldn’t be the ex-president debating
There was even a Bush running against Trump in the primaries and no one said Jeb vs Trump
Touché.
(via onewiththedance)
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“Tony Stark is a walking bank bailout. His bad means everyone else pays, and he’s still in charge.”
(via vaenire)
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This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.
The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there. For fucks sake, they’re kids.
(via bloviating)
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The next time someone tries to argue with you about “disrespecting the flag/troops by kneeling” show them this.
Good post.
(via haletostilinski)
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THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS
And you are absolutely a racist! Wait maybe just ignorant or unaware of what he truly stands for. He doing more for minority’s than Obama did in 8 yrs. Read, educate then you’ll know the truth instead of just passing what you hear from another uninformed person.
…k idk how I’m a racist for agreeing with the fact trump has an influence on the rise of white supremacy but if you can, please provide sources with evidence that proves trump is “doing more” for minorities. because as far as I know, threatening to ruin the lives of 800,000 black and brown immigrants is not “doing more” for minorities. trying to ban millions of people in Africa and in the Middle East from refuging in America is not “doing more” for minorities. failing to fully condemn white supremacists and neo nazis is not “doing more for minorities”. barely doing anything about the flint water crisis, carribean hurricane victims, and mexico’s earthquake victims is not" doing more" for minorities. so please please please give me an example, policy, or law that proves trump gives a shit about minorities because for the past 9 months he’s done nothing but try to diminish the lives of them.
(via small-town-nerd)
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fake:
*Capitalism could never
BRUH ARE U KIDDING ME THE HIGHWAY I LIVE NEAR HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR LIKE 4 DAMN YEARS AND IT TAKES THEM 6 MONTHS JUST TO FIX A DAMN POT HOLE
The hell do you mean “capitalism could never”??????? Last I checked, the UK is still a capitalist nation. The US could never because the US doesn’t invest in public works to the same level as other comparably large economies because we spend all our money on the military.
Whaleologist is right but….fuckin what? You can seriously do that shit in 15 hours. I honestly am amazed. That’s how you know I’m a fucking American, like, my goddamned mind is blown.
This isn’t an issue of capitalism or even public works investment.
This is an issue of how American budgets work, because America is the most idiotically designed country you could ever imagine.
American budgets are not organized by need, they’re effectively PRESCRIBED. There’s no pool of government funding that is assigned according to where money needs to go at any given time. We assign budgets in advance and they’re extremely difficult to change. Guaranteed if you ask any American politician about this, they’ll tell you it’s to “reduce government waste” by making people use their resources carefully instead of taking on unnecessary projects.
This is not what actually happens.
Because if you DON’T USE 100% of your budget every year, you will be assigned a lower budget for the next year, “to prevent government waste.” So they prescribe you a budget in advance and then you HAVE to use all of it, or else it’s a NIGHTMARE to do anything new in the future – you have to go through a billion hoops to get funding for a new infrastructure project that is a one-time expense. It’s not cheap to build a new thing, but because it’s a public good that will last a long time, you don’t need to budget for it every year – but the one year you do need to budget for it, it’s an enormous pain in the ass because everyone responsible is desperate to “cut government waste.”
So with American construction projects, especially on roadways, you basically have a system where people are FORCED to take longer than necessary just to use up their budgets. It is literally a regular occurrence in America for a road to be torn up for no reason, just so they can spend money filling it back in for the next four months.
And that’s why the crumbling, outdated, and underfunded infrastructure in America is an embarrassment to western civilization.
And the fact that this fucks up transportation, stresses people out, makes us all sicker and more miserable, and forces us to sit in traffic wasting gas that we have to spend a bunch of money on because one of the things we never invest in is mass public transit (because of heavy lobbying by the automotive and oil industries) – all of that should probably not be considered a coincidence.
In the name of “efficiency” and “cutting government waste,” we’ve invented the most fucked up, purposefully wasteful mandatory maximum budgeted spending that has totally eliminated our ability to respond to short term budgetary needs. Potholes take years to fix, construction goes on for years even as nothing actually gets done, etc. All because the budgets HAVE to be wasted in order for anyone to keep their funding – and notice how much of American budgets go toward things like “administrative costs”.
Our entire country is a money laundering conspiracy.
American capitalism is the most wasteful garbage budgeting system on earth.
It is fundamentally designed to be inefficient and stupid, because doing it this way allows us to keep government spending (on public goods) as close to the absolute minimum as humanly possible in order to preserve the lowest possible tax rates on the people who ‘matter’ to the people who are making the decisions – which of course means the wealthy donor class created by the dramatic shift in economic policy under Ronald Reagan.
Because every single goddamn problem in America is Ronald Reagan’s fault.
But Republicans are the “fiscally responsible ones”, amirite.
(via dont-be-such-a-sourwoof)
