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I'm Aura. Care for some tea?

@teawithaura / teawithaura.tumblr.com

Just a born-again Christian who likes things. Sorry to everyone seeing this blog on a desktop.
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mamacastiel

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

no one tell him

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greeedybastard

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

March 15 again and here we go…

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"Patriots" posing with tiki torches pose outside the Younkin bus in Virginia amid the Governor election with Democrat McAuliffe. Democrats were quick to connect it all with Younkin's support of Trump, and Trump's "racists" comments about the Charlotte Protests.

Wait for it though.

Charlottesville. Not Charlotte. Sorry about that.

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uncle-jingo

Hilarious

If Trump supporters' racism is so common, why do Democrats have to keep faking it?

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nunyabizni

When the demand for racists and racism outstrips the supply you can always count on some enterprising soul to provide you with a facsimile.

Despite being 14% of the populace Black people make 20% of white supremacists.

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i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

this is what i’m all about babyyyyy

They’re not even related. Jays are a type of corvid, like crows and magpies, and Cardinals are a grosbeak.

well you see, they are both birds and they both have fun hats. hope this helps

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ricwulf

If you treat parenting like just another box on a checklist, you'll treat your kids that way. Food, clothing, shelter, doctor visits, education, and childcare are less than the bare minimum a child needs — don't emotionally neglect your kids or fail to teach and guide them just because you see them as boxes on a checklist.

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libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Quick facts about the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit: 

  • The coffee was not “regular coffee hot”, it was near boiling
  • It gave the woman who filed the suit third-degree burns and sent her to the ICU where she nearly died
  • There had already been numerous complaints (over 700) of the coffee’s overly hot temperature burning, scarring, and disfiguring customers
  • McDonald’s was aware of the dangers of the scalding hot coffee but continue serving it for the sake of profits (it was their policy at the time to intentionally keep the coffee that hot to save money on refills, because by the time the coffee cooled down people would’ve already left the restaurant)
  • Initially the woman who was burned only wanted enough money to cover her medical expenses, because again, her injuries took her to the ICU and almost killed her
  • McDonald’s refused to pay these expenses so she took them to court
  • The 2.9 million was based on the fact that that was how much McDonald’s made from just one day of selling their intentionally scalding hot coffee. Also the woman herself did not ask for this much, it was the jury who decided she deserved a lot more than she actually asked for because of the reckless negligence of McDonald’s
  • Even though she won the case, at the end of the day she only got 600k in damages
  • The idea that her lawsuit was “frivolous“ is pure propaganda pushed by corporations and insurance companies to discourage people from filing lawsuits and holding them accountable for their behavior
  • Such is the case with many so-called “frivolous” lawsuits if you actually look into them
Corporations are not your friend.

also on the corporations hate you list: Nestle, proudly saying “water aint a human right!” and also, various companies that cause messes and hurt the enviroment, but no dont focus on that, you’re a litterbug. 

I’ll be a capitalist til the day i die, but i dont support big companies, fuck them, support local

This happened on Oct. 5 and not one major news source covered it. This is the end goal of the anti-choice movement.

A woman who miscarried has to spend more time in jail than a rapist. Fuck this world.

Wait, y’all really believe Oklahoma would send a woman to jail for simply “experiencing a miscarriage” and do zero further research into what the actual crime was that she was prosecuted for?

The law in Oklahoma is weird and backwards, but it doesn’t say miscarriages are illegal.

What it does say, interestingly, is that preborn children are people who can be victims of homicide, but OK also has legal abortion.

Under Oklahoma law, if your baby dies from legal abortion or as the result of normal medical testing or medical care (such as amniocentesis, a process used to test for disabilities that carries a risk of miscarriage), you’re fine.

However, the law says that if you commit a crime, and your baby dies as a result of that crime, you are responsible for the death of your baby.

This woman, Brittney Poolaw, had a miscarriage after taking meth, and an autopsy of her baby tested positive for the drugs she took.

So she’s being charged not for having the miscarriage, but for potentially causing the miscarriage through illegal drug use.

Now, I’m not a fan of how this law is set up, because it doesn’t actually protect babies and only penalizes mothers, in this case a mother who probably has an addiction problem and needs treatment, not jail.

The solution here should be to change how Oklahoma approaches drug use. There’s also the problem that the prosecution didn’t actually prove that the drug use caused the miscarriage, because the baby had other health and genetic issues. So that should be grounds for appeal.

This is a symptom of the drug war, not pro-life policies.

But it is definitely misleading and fearmongering to make the headline “woman goes to jail for miscarriage.”

You mean to tell me that journalists just go and make up headlines that sound totally implaussible to gin up controversy and like? Lie!??  No, obviously a bunch of people in Oklahoma sat down and said any woman who has a miscarriage should go to jail. This was a law that was passed by elected officials. Obviously. 

Correction, the state of Oklahoma made their case based on the assumption that the miscarriage was due to meth use but the coroner did not give a cause of death during the autopsy, even though meth was found in the brain and liver of the fetus, and there were other important factors as well that this article goes over.

However, I do agree that the mother should be getting addiction therapy and not jail time.

>Be John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

>Sign up to fight in WWI and come back as a man changed and haunted by war

>Write a Fantasy series based loosely on your Christian Beliefs, Your Experiences in the War, and your raging boner for language that’s so fucking good and in-depth that it codified the Fantasy Genre TO THIS DAY

>Write a scathing letter to the Nazis that you WISH that you were Jewish and that their ideology of Racial Superiority is Morally repugnant when they contact you to proclaim you an “Honorary Aryan”

>Borrow from various myths and legends all around the world, and create Orcs based on a quirk of language that goes all the way back to fucking BEOWULF.

>Characterize them all as evil servants of a Dark Sorcerer based on your experiences fighting German Infantry, who were very much NOT Black people

>Decades after your death, Mediocre Fake Nerd White Men who want to play White Savior declare you a racist for this, and use the characterization of Orcs as Primitive, Savage, Crude and Murderous as a sign that what you secretly intended them to be a metaphor for Black people.

>This despite the aforementioned hatred of racism being common knowledge

>This despite many, MANY people pointing out how drawing such a conclusion on a completely fictional race of typically tusked, green-skinned, pig-nosed monsters is actually pretty fucking racist because you’re saying that Black people are all Violent Savages 

>Woke Mediocre Fake Nerd White Men ignore this and keep trying to rewrite history in an even more egregious version than what happened to Lovecraft (Since you were never racist to begin with), all to shill their subpar products or otherwise fish for clout

If there was ever a reason that proved Social Media was a mistake, Progressivism is a Cult, and that fandom gatekeeping was actually good, it’s fucking this. Holy shit someone please kill Twitter. 

This is post is a year and a half old now and since some of you still aren’t getting the goddamn hint of what Tolkien was going for and continue to die on the dumbest hill possible by making mountains out of molehills, I’m going to make this as simple as possible for you:

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