i think “video games aren’t really the violent child-corrupting threat some parents worry they are” and “certain circles of gamer culture are incredibly toxic and can lead people down dangerous/hateful ideological rabbit holes” are ideas that can absolutely coexist
Artificial violence is not actually a corrupting influence but hanging out with assholes sure is.
I’d just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker’s marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker’s speech did reach many people. It wasn’t a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to “make good trouble.”
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond’s record is absolutely *chef’s kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
maybe its because im an asylum seeker but i am of the opinion that even if immigrants and asylum seekers contributed nothing to a nation that nation should not have the right to deport them.
“oh now no-one will do these jobs,” well i think its bad that we take advantage of immigrants and asylum seekers’ desperation to force them into exploitative jobs that the ordinary citizen is entirely unwilling to put up with.
I know there’s a couple of these going around but I wanted to make one using the results of @haveyouseenthismovie-poll to determine what tumblr’s favorite movies were.
i have to defend fictional women who aren’t good people because if i don’t who else will
the two flavours of this feeling are “i think she is flawed and going through it and figuring her shit out and that’s a very human quality that i appreciate seeing in a female character” and “i think it’s good she killed and ate those people and i think it’s really hot that she didn’t feel bad about it because confidence is attractive”
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