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Report: Pence family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20 million

usindistress:

Obviously the real criminals here are those dastardly liberals for passing laws making it illegal to allow petrochemicals to leech into ground water. It’s obvious overreach by a bloated bureaucracy, it should be up to the company to choose to clean up the spills or just leave the debris to rust away. Defund the EPA! Defund the IRS! No more toxic waste cleanup! I thought liberals were pro-choice!

Report: Pence family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20 million

milkiemouse:

benepla:

“the world has become such a soft safe space where you can’t speak freely” is a good way to reveal you spend a majority of your time on the internet. a customer came in today and told me that the illuminati framed bill cosby and it was my fault and i just had to be like OK sir cash or credit

In my experience, when someone says “you can’t just say what you want these days,” it’s code for saying “I’m a giant asshole and people have been yelling at me for it and you don’t want to talk to me, believe me.”

testblogdontupvote:

mintmilano:

transvriska:

mintmilano:

transvriska:

mintmilano:

I know we touch on this fairly often but we really need to be emphasizing to these young LGBTs how important getting out there and mingling in the community is because we end up with 14 year-olds telling people that Drag is transphobic and twink and bear are slurs

okay but most modern drag is transphobic lmao?

Explain.

im obviously not talking about actual trans women in drag but the cis gay guys who do it because ‘haha its funny to be a woman in a dress’ and thats the most fuckin common one that ive seen talked about and broadcasted. Ive literally sat through courses in college where someone talks about why drag is cool because its “funny”.

Mmm like I respect what you’re saying for sure and I get your discomfort but I think it’s dismissive to say that the only reason cis gay men would do drag is for attention/laughs. Drag has historically been a huge part of gender expression for men in the LGBT community and I think it’s something of a disservice to those men to say that the majority of them are doing something rooted in transphobia when gay men being gender nonconforming is actually something that puts them at considerable risk

Hot take: nearly all drag is motivated by a sincere desire to experiment with gender expression or even express deep gender feelings, but because admitting to have this desire is ridiculously unsafe or at least socially costly for most people, they maintain the field of “haha, it’s just a joke, relax, bro” for plausible deniability. Sometimes this deniability even extends to themselves, because accepting one’s own gender feelings can be terrifying. This would also explain the existence of contexts where drag is “forced” upon people, such as in fraternity initiation traditions: wishing to get in a context where they could say “on no, I was forced to dress like this, I guess I have no choice but to accept and roll with it” seems to be extremely common among trans and GNC people who aren’t really out to themselves.