Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off

wrangletangle:

karrius:

What a headline.

Ok, but consider the ramifications?

We can’t just sit around cynically waiting for some imaginary “conservative generation” to “die off”. They won’t. It’s the liberals in every generation who die, much faster.

The baby boomers were one of the most radical generations this world has ever seen. Collectively, they advanced civil rights, women’s rights, freedom movements around the world, queer rights, almost the entire spectrum of human rights in the short course of less than fifteen years. The very generation that now gets decried by young people as conservative and holding back the world was once out protesting in the streets worldwide.

And getting shot for it.

Because it’s the ones who fight back who die first, then the ones who don’t fight back but are on the side of less power second.

The most radical and effective thing we could do in the next two decades is make sure that people live and have the leisure – and it is leisure for many – to engage in activism.

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nowwavingnotdrowning:

hellcatofthenorth76:

mysharona1987:

America: Where you can shot and maimed in a mass shooting.

Then get sued for it.

I thought this article was a joke at first.

This is wild….

I think the Onion’s just given up.

My jaw literally dropped. Then I googled in sheer disbelief. It’s actually true.

Are you alright America?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mandalay-bay-suing-mass-shooting-victims/

Survivors and victims’ families are suing MGM for allowing a guest to sneak weapons into one of their hotels and open fire on nearby concert goers. MGM is countersuing saying it took reasonable measures to prevent such an occurence, such as having its employees take anti-terrorism training. IMHO, the original lawsuit seeks to make a third party, MGM, liable for actions a guest took, likely because MGM has deep pockets. So, what do YOU think MGM actually did wrong? Should all hotels x-ray you and your bags everytime you walk into a hotel? How about motels where doors open to courtyards, balconies, and parking lots? How about bed and breakfast inns? Campgrounds? RV parks? Lodges? Hostels? Shelters? Keep thinking. School districts? Uber drivers? Bus and taxi companies? Restaurants? Every place of employment? Beaches? Parks?

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pokemonperfect:

If this kid comes back in like 20 years dressed as a massive buff gyarados I’ll eat my shirt

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pembrokewkorgi:

paganinpurple:

animentality:

stanseb:

My mom just sent me this video without any context??

thanks mom, how’d you know what i was doing today

For the love of Gods, unmute this please

I feel very educated today.

catsbeaversandducks:

Via Callie

annieelainey:

The use of plastic straws by disabled people became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming before lack of accessibility became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming.

My disabled YouTuber friend now gets harassed when she uses a plastic bending straw (an accessibility tool, something she NEEDS in order to drink, no alternative currently works) in her videos.

Reminder right here: no matter how someone looks, their disability will not always be apparent to you.

But when my disabled friend is denied emergency evacuation plans out of a building because the elevators get shut off and she uses a wheelchair, does the building owner get shamed or harassed? No.

Those are the power dynamics at play here.

Imagine if ableds cared about accessibility as much as they care about banning plastic straws.

sitta-pusilla:

That’s one lazy horse

mikalhvi:

hotcommunist:

anyway it’s fine for disabled people to….not want jobs. it’s not a fucking crime.

the fact that it’s normalised for the disabled and mentally ill to be grilled by private contractors to get pittance from an all-seeing wing of the government is terrifying. more so when that wing punishes the smallest transgressions so severely that it condemns the victim to death or suicide.

the scariest thing of all though? public apathy to our thousands of deaths. it’s fucking nauseating.

This is important for people to remember – Not everyone can function in the same way as you. There are some people that have issues just maintaining their basic human needs on a daily basis. Asking them to work to earn their basic human needs in top of their existing struggles is like a second job. They’re alreaady full time employed maintaining their existence.

Not to mention the idea that we should EARN our basic needs is toxic and anti-human.

everythingfox:

Can He Take My Picture?

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sewickedthread:

planeoftheeclectic:

personalprofundity:

redcabbageparty:

mzminola:

tanoraqui:

bladeoffenris:

amiseeingyourcolourormine:

raserus:

LIL BABBY

U CANT SCARE THE OCEAN

GO LAY DOWN

IT LOOKS LIKE TOOTHLESS

I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.

I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.

…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.

She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.

That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!

Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.

Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.

Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.

http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/book-of-dragons/6/

Let’s hear it for Edith Nesbit.

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