• the shire is burning. so mordor it is •

cryoverkiltmilk:

cryoverkiltmilk:

mostro-rotto:

“This is my weird son. He can’t climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong.”

#cats be like#is anybody adopt that#and don’t wait for an answer

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bambi-lesbian-posts:

digi-moe:

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Happy Eid ul-Adha(or Bakrid, or Eid Mubarak) to any people of the Muslim faith this year! This is for 6/29/2023

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cassandrasimplex:

headspace-hotel:

roach-works:

pervocracy:

I almost miss trickle-down economics. It was completely wrong and often presented in bad faith, but it at least contained the assumption that poor people deserved better and that helping the working class was a desirable thing in an economic policy.

Increasingly it seems like we’re seeing fuck-you economics, which postulates that poverty is a fitting punishment for lack of ambition, and there’s no reason money should trickle down to the undeserving masses.

I miss when “we both want to help people, we just have different ideas about how to do it” was a thing you could say about politics without cry-laughing.

yeah like, the mask has fully come off and now we’re all just staring up into the naked contempt of a corporate and political junta that wants us to suffer because they profit from our misery. and it’s like, well, fuck. can we go back to the time where you respected us just enough to bother lying? this honesty is even more degrading.

It turns out that trickle-down economics doesn’t actually Work and in reality That’s Piss!

This is still trickle-down economics, though.

Every time the economy is measured in “jobs created” instead of “people no longer living below the poverty line”, you’re seeing trickle-down economics at work.

Sure, they’ve stopped talking so much about how exactly those jobs are supposed to translate into a better standard of living for more people, which makes it seem like that “…and when wealthy people get wealthier, everybody benefits!” aspect has gone away. But that’s only because it’s so baked-in to politics on the right now that it doesn’t need explicit description. It’s the fundamental assumption now. Working-class conservatives legit cheer on rich people making more money because they’re so used to thinking that will mean life is going to get better for them any day now. They’re conditioned not to question it.

More importantly, though, the trickling-down was always a lie. There was never any real intent for m/billionaire profiteering to result in more kids eating breakfast before school or more families having paid-off houses. None whatsoever. I was alive during the Reagan years, but I was a kid just starting to understand what half the words on the nightly news meant, and even I could tell they didn’t mean it. It was just a confusing bunch of nonsense intended to make anyone who objected feel (and sound to others) as if they didn’t understand economics well enough for their protests to be taken seriously.

It was always intended to make the prey shut up so the predators would be less inconvenienced.

After forty years of that, it’s enshrined as established fact and literal textbook economics now. More importantly, two generations of rich kids grew up feeling that was all they owed to the nation that let their families accumulate so much money – “that” being “whatever they felt like handing out” rather than, you know, “taxes and compliance with national and local regulations”. They grew up thinking that just feeling vaguely generous counted as a real contribution to society on their parts and aside from that, making as much money as they possibly could was of genuine benefit to everyone else. And since actually being generous allows their accumulation of unusable levels of wealth, and since the wealth is what makes them useful to society, they don’t even feel much pressure to act out generous impulses. That would be counterproductive! They were taught that the mere existence of absurdly wealthy people is good for the rest of us, so anything that makes them less wealthy (or slows them down becoming wealthier) would be Bad For the Peasants.

And now they’re acting like it. They just don’t bother explaining the middle steps any more because they assume everyone else “knows” it, too. Their existence is believed to be morally correct, economically healthy, and ever more valid the richer they get. And after forty years of that, it sounds even more (to them) like anyone who questions that doesn’t understand economics – after all, it’s been the basis for conservative politics for decades now, and look how well it’s working (for them)!

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barnaclebat:

Another day another what the fuck

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lizardbytheriver:

“No Child should get Gender Affirming Care” turns into “No one should get Gender Affirming Care”.

“No Trans Person should be in Children’s Media” turns into “No Trans Person should be in Media”.

They use Children’s “Safety” as a method to get a foot in the door.
They then expand their previous statements to ensure the near complete erasure of Trans People and Queer People.

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sundragon:

duinoelegies:

with access to the 2022 tumblr vernacular, he’d be unstoppable

#pushing for a house md remake for one purpose only: so we can hear gregory house say ‘god forbid women do anything’

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omegaverse:

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technoturian:

prideprejudce:

prideprejudce:

prideprejudce:

tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea 

This is the most accurate post on anxiety ever.

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neil-gaiman:

petermorwood:

dduane:

pillowspace:

Hey! Question for writers. How do you do that

Most of the time, no damn idea.

It’s the Caterpillar Idiom thing. Once you figure out your own version of the basics, you go forward and don’t pay more attention than you can help to what your legs are doing.

Unless I’ve got it wrong it’s not caterpillars (hunting-wasp food anyway) it’s caterpillars or millipedes.

Don’t think about how something that complicated works - that it works at all is enough for now, or at least until second draft.. :->

Sometimes two brilliant writers will both fail to write the word centipede and write the word caterpillar instead. This only happens when you start asking them how they do the thing they do.

Take this as a lesson.

Although the thing that centipedes and millipedes do (ie walk with lots of legs) is pretty explicable. The thing that caterpillars do, where they make a cocoon and then digest themselves into a liquid caterpillar soup and then use the protein-rich soup to build a butterfly that somehow still remembers things the caterpillar learned, that’s weird, and probably more like what writers do. Which, I am certain, is why both Diane and Peter went there. Also both words begin with C.

tastefullyoffensive:

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karnivil:

coldalbion:

jellyfishdirigible:

teratocybernetics:

ravingsockmonkey:

thebibliosphere:

vaspider:

williamfbuckley:

we simply are not making it out of this one alive fellow pervs

I. What?

ACAB includes the cop in your head. you numpties.

I can’t believe liberal puritans are worse than conservative puritans

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felixcloud6288:

flyinshark:

felixcloud6288:

flyinshark:

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

Just don’t fly too close to the sun.

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

Fellas (gender neutral), you heard him. Ready the catapults.

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kidneydemon:

catgirlforeskin:

thermodynamiclawyer:

qrowscant-art:

who else did this

i used to do this as a kid because i was evil

And then when the other kid runs you become artillery

I didn’t have many friends as a child

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