Anica Fancies That

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Gun Reform Now

Their parents buckled them into car seats

Zipped them into tiny coats, and then coats a little less tiny, and a little less, as they grew

Bent low to fit shoes onto their feet

And put them back on when they came off, and back on again, and again

Cut grapes into pieces so they would not choke

Rubbed sunscreen on their little arms as they squirmed to run and play

Taught them to swim, to look both ways before crossing the street, to wear a helmet

How to stop, drop and roll

How to call 9-1-1

Their parents, or their grandparents, whoever they had who loved them

Did everything they knew how to protect them

And all of us who deep down do not believe, cannot believe, that it could ever be us

Be ours

What have we done that they did not do?

Guns gun control

A conversation that presumably took place at some point in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Voldy: first you’re gonna capture Mad-Eye Moody

Crouch: the famous ex-Auror who put away tons of dark wizards and is notoriously paranoid and jinx-happy

Voldy: yeah him

Crouch: whose literal motto is “constant vigilance”

Voldy: yep

Crouch: who booby-traps his house like Kevin from Home Alone

Voldy: that’s the guy

Crouch: could I maybe just hide in a bathroom at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade and capture like Professor Sinestra or something

Voldy: absolutely not

Voldy: then you’ll be in at Hogwarts

Crouch: and I’ll bring you Harry Potter?

Voldy: whoa whoa whoa

Voldy: let’s not get ahead of ourselves

Voldy: first you’re gonna teach teenagers for an entire school year

Crouch: I’m going to what

Voldy: then you make sure that Harry wins the Tri-Wizard tournament despite being three years younger than the other champions

Crouch: …

Voldy: and when he wins - wait for it - the Tri-Wizard Cup is a portkey!

Crouch: are you open to suggestions about this plan at all

Harry Potter silly

A poem for the day

“Sometimes” by Sheenagh Pugh

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse.  Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss, sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen:  may it happen for you.

politics happy could do with it being less man-centric but it's still great
winterboobbear
lornacrowley

history is fucked up and it sucks because all the people in it who had great viable werewolf names weren’t werewolves. like what the shit. if you knew nothing about history or literature i guess or whatever you’d see names like “virginia woolf” and “oscar wilde” and be like. ah yes. these are definitely some prime secret werewolf poorly masquerading as human intellectual situations? but neither of those people were real live werewolves, factually speaking? they did not take advantage of that opportunity. and i think we are all worse off for it actually 

raptorific

I have a degree in history and I can say with some degree of scholarly confidence that you cannot definitively prove either of these people were not secret werewolves

anicalewis

See also “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”

Like are you even trying, bro

silly
winterboobbear
millennial-review

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bryanrl

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ninjaeris13

That little girl is going places

redpillwolf

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit.
But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

donutcourse

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Much of the ocean is a desert

an-aura-about-you

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

spookyfbi

Also, can we talk about how taxes are used to pay for things for the benefit of society - roads, schools, libraries etc. so to further the above example, the parents aren’t just pocketing that money themselves just to be mean and selfish, they might use it to pay for a Netflix subscription that the whole family can watch.