I firmly believe that my (Chinese) mom is more Italian than my (Italian) dad. She earned multiple advanced degree in Italian history and studied abroad to learn how to speak the language fluently. She fought for it. The hell did he ever do? He grew up eating slightly more pasta than other kids in the United States. He was born into it. Fucking nepo Italian
This stuff?
Trump is all like "Australians sell their beef to us, but they won't buy any of ours 😡"
Which.... yeah? Of course???? Why would we import external beef from so far away when we produce more than enough to meet our own needs??
Not to mention that USA still has both mad cow disease and foot and mouth disease, but Australia doesn't -- AND America has increasingly lax commercial-level health and safety standards, meaning the risk of pathogens like MCD/F&M spreading through the US are significantly increased, and we don't have either here in Australia, so of course we don't want to import beef from a country that could conceivably spread the diseases to us???
But even aside from that. There are not that many Australians. But there are a lot of Americans. AND Australians eat an average of 23.4 kilos of beef per year but we produce 2.2 million tonnes. We produce WAY more beef than our population eats. So of course we don't import much????? And of COURSE it's not from America, which is both significantly further away than our current importers (primarily New Zealand and Japan), AND which has significantly lower health and safety regulations than we do????
Meanwhile, Americans average aprox 37 kilos of beef per person per year, but produces around 12.4 million tonnes. USAs population is 12 times larger than ours but only produces 5 times more beef than we do, AND consumes more per capita than we do. Of course USA imports large quantities of beef. Because their domestic production doesn't meet their domestic demand. Meanwhile Australia's production vastly outweighs our domestic demand, so of course we don't import American beef?????
Thats...... that's how imports and exports are supposed to work???? You export excess of what you have to someone who has less of it, and in turn, they export to you the produce/products that YOU don't have. This is fucking basic??????????
"Waahhh, Australia won't import American beef 😭😡" yeah???? Of course we don't????????
PLUS!!!!! Overall, Australia imports 34 billion dollars worth of stuff from America per year. Meanwhile America only imports $16 billion from us.
Putting tariffs on a country that imports more from you than they export to you is uhhhhhhhhh, FUCKIN' STUPID. If america tariff everything we send to them it's on all of $16b worth of stuff. If we tariff everything of theirs then we'll be slapping taxes on more than double what they can tax us.
Trump is such a fucking moron.
Does this man not understand that the point of trade is to swap what you have an excess of for what you don't have enough of
Why would we export masses and masses of beef only to import large amounts of inferior quality beef from the same people we just sold beef to
Does he think the USA is exporting large quantities of oil to Saudi Arabia?
monkey i love you beloved little freak i would die for you
like……… look at this face
UNREAL
I’m gonna say… it’s weird that people think there’s only one (1) human allowed per Muppet movie? Most if not all of them have a lot of human characters.
However yes this would be amazing.
hey sexy what time do you plan on being done grieving
oh, honestly I was planning on reopening the same wounds again and again and again and again and again and again and again
i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"
@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful
@holyknuckled like that?
oh? my god???
yeah, Exactly like that
Thinking about how every major city (except fort worth) in Texas is blue, votes democrat in every election, is majority liberal/left-leaning. It's driving me insane okay. The majority of Texans live in or around the major cities. Land does not vote.
75% of Texans live in BLUE!!!
This makes me want to put a toaster in the bath tub okay bye!!!
You guys don't get it, like if you're not from Texas you don't get it. Most people here seem to just wanna keep their guns and like not have to pay high taxes, but thats were their ""conservative "" views end. Texas is a minoriry-majority state. Dallas and Austin have some of the biggest LGBT populations in the US. To even call Texas a red state is CRAZY TO ME. ITS GERRYMANDERING!
Every one of those empty red squares gets representation in the state legislature. Those people representing 50 people and some cows are proposing laws. (I say this as someone living with cows in my neighborhood). And even then the districts are gerrymandered to break up any blue areas. My college town used to have a dem rep till they gerrymandered us to add more cow territory.
My state senate district weaves around 18 counties, including some partial counties, from central texas all the way to the border hundreds of miles away to make sure the absolute cunt of a state GOP senator we have stays in power.
If people outside these states want to do something to help us and stop the march of fascism you should be pressuring the federal government to address gerrymandering and voting rights. This cannot be a states rights thing. it's a human rights issue.
Here's the state senate districts @three--rings is talking about:
[source: txdot.gov]
Lotta cow territory lumped in with bits of city there. It's not just the state lege though. For fun, here's what the US congressional districts look like:
[source: txdot.gov]
Might be even worse. Shout out to TX-10 in particular that dodges around the city of Austin to pick up all the rich neighborhoods around Lake Travis on the west side to go with all those red Brazos Valley counties.
Hey, I wonder how this district map looks if we color it by—
ah.
[source: NY Times article about the latest round of redistricting gerrymandering]
My favorite gerrymandered Texas district is the one I used to live in, Houston's 18th. Represented by the legendary Sheila Jackson-Lee.
But look at this map.
It's the peachy thing. They literally just said "let's carve out all the black neighborhoods and also the gay ones and put them all together. Now both the 29th and the 7th are also democratic these days, but that's a recent development. (Okay the 29th has been dem controlled for a long time but the 7th only since 2019.)
Somebody reblogged this two year old post and I got all heated about this again.
Friendly reminder they are in power cause they cheat. They are not a majority. And they're trying to fix every race. Don't give up. We have the numbers.
friendly reminder that the age of technology is coming to an end and a new age of blood magic and dark rituals will take its place
I TRIED TO CONVERT A NON-FUNCTIONING VIDEO IN VEGAS AND IT FUCKED UP
what the wasp in the corner of my room sees in its final moments
#cottagecore
this and a blunt
(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)
well OP, it would seem that you have in fact been owned
so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh
Brilliant and radiant. A shining gem. Now valued at $32768!
ON WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
