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Like a half hour after taking pain relief meds: oh actually it doesnt hurt anymore i probably didnt even need to take those

ok so these new tariffs are likely going to be primarily affecting red states. i want y’all to ignore the urge to respond by saying the people in those red states deserve it because of the political representation we have. not because some of us are progressives but because this is an opportunity. if conservatives from these states start complaining about higher prices and financial strain, do not respond with “well you voted for this!” this is your opportunity to pull them to the center. say “wow that is really awful. i’m sure this isn’t what you wanted when you voted last year. you deserve representatives that will have your best interests at heart, you should let them know how upset you are! you deserve to be heard!”

because listen to me. republican politicians don’t give a shit about what progressives in red states have to say. they aren’t gonna change their voting trends for us. but if a bunch of small town conservatives start to get restless and angry with their politicians, if they lose support from their most important demographics, that has a shot at changing things. so swallow your pride and disgust and have a conversation with that republican truck driver instead of taking the pot shot that’ll get you 10 minutes of dopamine. do the hard work.

Time to roll this image out for the conservatives for once.

Make them mad that they've been made fools of, because that right there is an out. A lot of them are going to dig their heels in because if they admit that they were making shit choices then what have they been doing all this time? The sunk-cost fallacy wouldn't allow it.

But! What if they were flat out lied to? There's the excuse to back out! They didn't sign up for this, didn't know that they were voting for a liar (🙃 I know. I KNOWWW). But aren't they pissed now? At the guy who fucking SCAMMED them out of their vote?

yup. the republican party’s big pull is that they’re very good at pointing the finger at xyz minority group to blame them for the country’s ills. people like to know who to blame. conservatives especially like to know who to blame because very often they are not educated enough to understand what the actual problems are, because conservative politicians do not prioritize education.

so with the trump administration doing such a phenomenally horrible job at everything, now is the time to give those conservatives a group to blame. gas prices skyrocketing? trump isn’t following through on his promise to lower gas prices and i’m pretty sure those tariffs he imposed are why! groceries getting way too expensive? trump promised to make them cheaper but he’s doing the opposite!

if their options are imploding with embarrassment and having their entire worldview fall apart or ignoring reality, they’ll choose ignoring reality. if they have a third option of getting mad and blaming someone, that is the one they have been trained to choose. use that.

Guys. This works.

I live in the fucking Bible Belt. This place is so atrociously red that I am the weirdest person that most of the people I know have ever met.

I’m not even the weirdest person I’ve ever met. But we are few and far between.

And I’m telling you, they are angry about the same exact things we are. They just have a different narrative.

Now, FINALLY, we are coming to a point where there won’t be anyone else to blame properly EXCEPT the people in power.

And nothing, NOTHING, makes these guys listen closer than when you point out it was their special guy who did this to begin with and doesn’t that make you angry? This fucker lied to us!

Us. Not you. Us.

Because they did lie to us even if some of us didn’t buy it.

Make it us, the truck driver and the other guy next to him in the Kroger, against the evil dip shits in power.

That’s how they work.

Make them identify with YOU.

You may look different and like weird books instead of football and have a rainbow pin, but you’re here, in their community, dealing with the same grocery prices.

Make them see that.

And then point them in the right direction.

“Fucked up that the (insert policy) seems to be backfiring. I feel lied too. You?”

she has been pickled for her crimes

The spirit of Mouse compelled me:

your tumblr experience is not complete unless you follow:

"Creatives deserve to be paid" and "We desperately need community spaces for creatives that aren't focused on trying to make money or advance careers where we're allowed to make connections and experiment" are two statements that can and should coexist.

YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed

“lol why are you following the boobs and ass artist” why do you think I’m following the boobs and ass artist. do you think I go to the grocery store ironically too

only real thursdayheads know what day it is today

a court of thorns and roses. ballad of songbirds and snakes. bowl of macaroni and cheese

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

hate it when ppl make laios more callous and more dumb bc he just isnt like that. laios cant read social cues well and has trouble anticipating what people are thinking, but that doesnt erase that laios is genuinely very aware of others physical needs nor that hes very emotionally intelligent provided he has grasped the situation correctly

laios puts a bib on marcille so she wont get her clothes dirty while shes weak from blood loss; hes the one who tends to falin when shes resurrected, patting her back while she coughs up blood and bringing her a blanket and trying to wipe the blood off her; he notices kabru would be feeling hungry and makes him a special meal while they wait for everything else to be cooked. like laios does go out of his way to care for people. he tries really hard to be considerate of others even tho ppl frequently dont give him the same treatment

@nicandragon all extremely true

also i want you all to know i wrote this post bc i saw someone say laios wouldnt be the type to bring someone soup when theyre sick and its yaoi-brained to make him do so. and then i blacked out and woke up with my head ringing surrounded by images of laios trying to take care of people the entire whole manga

Slaves who escaped were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

Jewish people who escaped the Nazis were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

The law is a horrible judge of morality.

After all, the SCOTUS says that the POTUS can break the law through official actions. if the people at the top say lawbreaking is fine to do horrible things, why should it be bad for you to break the law to do good things?

An unjust law is no law at all, and all that.

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."

The first time I heard of Cory Booker was when he was a mayor in New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy had just hit, and his handling of it was all over the news. Not just how his city had prepared for and dealt with the storm, but how he had invited his neighbors who lost power to stay with him, and opened his home to literally anyone who needed to get something to eat or even just charge a phone.

I keep waiting to find out something terrible about him, given how often I've been disappointed when it comes to politicians being decent human beings. But it's been over a decade and there's been nothing.

i need to get more piercings i need to get more tattoos i need to dye my hair i need to change everything about my appearance