Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.
I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related newsarticles:
Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: “Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council’s decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library’s anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous,” an apparent nod to President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.“
Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you’ll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.” From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.
Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump’s 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:
(this is a good thing, if that’s not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)
Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.
I dunno man all I’m saying is that the right wing doesn’t need nearly enough convincing just to vote as the left does
Republicans just say “Biden is destroying America, we have to stop him” and the right wing says “okie dokie” and shows up to fucking vote for every republican on the ballot
Meanwhile the rest of us are out here giving civics lessons on how congress works and why Biden can’t just Do A Thing, separation of powers, write laundry lists of all the good things Biden and Democrats have done, remind people of all the shit trump pulled, actual tables comparing Biden and trump policies, on and on,
and the left is just like “😡 both parties are the same” or “but Biden didn’t do enough / did this thing I didn’t like!” and stay home
And it’s like
This is literally why america has such right wing policies, because you don’t fucking show up every election
The center and the left showed up in the UK and France and unified and got out of each other’s ways because they knew they had to defeat the right and they voted
Holy fucking shit why do we have to go through this every election to tell you just to show up and fucking vote you shouldn’t need this much convincing to just vote
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Don’t forget to leave oatmeal out on the roof for Buzz tonight!
imagine you’re just Some Guy in the project hail mary universe. like damn the sun is dying. oh hey they’re trying to find a way to stop it! why tf are they paving the sahara desert. explosions??? they’re reuniting a team to figure out wtf is going on! oh shit two of the members died?!? THEY’RE SENDING THE BOYTOY INTO SPACE!?!? how many misinformation about astrophages did ppl genuinely believe?? were there memes abt it ( who am i kidding there were definitely memes abt it)??? how many astrophage-deniers were there? so many questions
I didn’t know I wanted to read the astrophage memes until now.
the thing about project hail mary is that it says things like at the start of our existence we watched each other sleep to protect ourselves from our biology and now it is just a part of our lives but all my crewmates are dead so i shall watch you sleep to keep you safe please watch me sleep too and then it says things like an alien wants to see our technology so i am cleaning my spacecraft up whilst he prepares the airlock because i am painfully human and we clean up for company and it just expects me to go on living my life normally like that isn’t emotionally compromising
When I have to do something challenging, I use what I like to call the Watney Method. Step 1: figure out what needs to be done. Step 2: figure out what you need to do to accomplish that. Step 3: do that. If that’s too hard, I use the Grace Method, which is exactly the same as the Watney Method with the small addition of crying throughout the entire process.
does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?
like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier
by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie
look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!
I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !
and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo
Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH
Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao
