April 2012
people who say that you can't tax the rich because...
what
no
i’ve never heard someone say “i wanna be rich so i can pay less taxes”
no
people wanna be rich so they can have a lot of money
thats it
really
ravens-nest:
queentimelady:
shercocklocked:
sting-like-a-tracker-jacker:
hazelgustus:
literallysame:
liam-gayne:
when you try your best but you don’t succeed
when you get what you want but not what you need
could it be worse
when you love someone
but it goes to waste
when you feel so tired
but you can’t sleep
when you lose something you cannot replace
And...
alexandraerin:
jillyyfish:
alexandraerin:
“I do think there was something a little bit off-key about the president slow jamming and appearing to make light of the fact that students are struggling. I don’t think it’s something to slow jam about or to make light of it. If that skit was brought to the governor, he would have declined.”
—
Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom • Criticizing...
George Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about...
leftist-linguaphile:
shortformblog:
$150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
$200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that hearing; it wasn’t mentioned at all source
» Trayvon’s lawyer wants his bond revoked: A few weeks back, when George Zimmerman was having lawyer...
Shorter westofawhitehouse
biyuti:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
Twenty dead women of color = abstract academic problem. One white woman told to shut up = SPECIFIC INSTANCE OF MISCONDUCT SUFFERED BY AN ACTUAL PERSON WHO MATTERS.
LOL RITE
god just…it’s what I always say
y’all can talk about the dichotomy between cis and trans women
but from a black perspective
white wimmins is white wimmins and y’all have...
If you think marijuana should be illegal then no
saneoldsameold:
The reasons marijuana is illegal are rooted heavily in racist, ableist, and slut-shaming ways of thought, and it simply is impractical to be fighting marijuana in a war on drugs.
Let’s first consider racism: though whites are just as likely to use pot as blacks are, black people are 10x more likely to be arrested for possession. Because in order to arrest someone you have, in...
Racism: What Does It Mean?
zorascreation:
Racism is not just about color. I repeat. Racism is not just about color. When we tell these clueless folks on Tumblr that racism is prejudice + power, we should break down that power into easy-to-comprehend nuggets for better retention:
Prejudice: the ideology that Group B is inherently superior to Group A, and having biases about Group A simply for being Group A.
How is this...
mamaflockaflame:
“i hang out with guys because girls are too much drama”
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auradacity-of:
mybutbeautiful:
Dear America…
Your problem isn’t that student loan debt has now exceeded one trillion dollars.
Your problem isn’t that student loan interests might double in July if Congress fails to act.
Your problem is that you allowed a profit motive into education in the first place.
Real Talk Moderate Manners brought to you by ‘mybutbeautiful’
West of a White House: The moment white trans... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
atriptothemorg:
westofawhitehouse:
atriptothemorg:
world-of-whit:
dizzzypie:
world-of-whit:
Wouldn’t this have to be clarified a bit? Something along the lines of having it be the last 20 murders of trans women that we know about?
Honey, that sounds kind of like a derail. Fact is trans WoC have it much worse than white…
Here’s the thing, boo. White trans...
“A 911 operator who worked for Vancouver Police when sex workers were...”
– Missing aboriginal women were ‘just hookers’ to police, says 911 operator (via missgreyday)
disgusting… that BBC miniseries “Five Daughters” sprung to mind when I read this (based on the 2006 Ipswich murders in England)
—- (via leonineantiheroine)
“There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely...”
– Sir Terry Pratchett, The Daily Mail (U.K.), June 21, 2008 (via nonplussedbyreligion)
origamicyclone:
did you know you can like things and be critical of them
did you know that liking a thing doesn’t mean you have to defend it when people point out its flaws
and that liking something does not have to mean you think it’s perfect
“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)
I will always reblog this because it is so so important.
(via infinitetransit)
Personal.
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My grandpa is in intensive care right now for a collapsed lung. He was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago, but he’s been doing chemo and having the fluid pumped out so I thought he was getting better but I don’t really know now and this is so scary I’ve never had to deal with something like this before.
He lives in India, so I don’t get to see him a lot...
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
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Ohmygod I love the faces Kandi makes when they zoom in on her during the Reunion.
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Seriously the only TV show I can watch while...
It doesn’t matter which one—New Jersey, Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Orange County…
I just need some Real Housewives, or I can’t run.
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Learning about Abraham Lincoln's Wife
Friend: She was crazy, right?
Me: No, she was clinically depressed and possibly psychotic.
Friend: So...she was crazy.
Me: No, she had a mental illness.
Friend: But that's the same thing.
Me: No, because calling someone crazy is mean and offensive and saying that someone had a mental illness is just saying that they had a mental illness.
I don’t understand anti-choice people who are like, “It’s not just a ball of cells it’s a living thing!!!”
Yes, it is living. But that does not mean a uterus-bearer should be forced to keep it alive at their expense.
If aborting that ball of cells is murder, then bleeding and not saving your blood is murder. Blowing your nose and not saving the tissue is murder....
b-k-o-b:
“Slut” is just the weirdest insult ever.
How does it even work?
“You do the thing that is responsible for not only both of our lives but collectively our entire species and many of the species of life I can think of right now. Not only that, but you do this act often. And you like it.”
Did you…..did you win?
What the fucks up with all of this black people...
bookishboi:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
dontbeafuck:
Do you guys not realize that calling white people racist IS racist?
…PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS SARCASM
Politics Time
hamburgerjack:
How can you go forward into a political future using the terms of the past to define things?
People don’t want to let shit go, nor do they want to think or innovate
Continuously patting people on the head for regurgitating the party lines, of any party in any place will simply lead to stagnation
When your “foremost” thinkers are all old men
When your panels have nothing but...
The moment white trans women realize that the last...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
world-of-whit:
dizzzypie:
world-of-whit:
Wouldn’t this have to be clarified a bit? Something along the lines of having it be the last 20 murders of trans women that we know about?
Honey, that sounds kind of like a derail. Fact is trans WoC have it much worse than white trans women. And white trans women get far more publicity compared to trans WoC, so I am pretty...
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lascapigliata asked: absolutely understood - sorry i jumped into a post that i didn't understand in the first place! i hope i didn't cause any offense in either response of mine - it wasn't my intention and i apologize if i did.
lascapigliata:
someotherchick:
lascapigliata:
lexmix:
Telling someone to kill themselves is NOT the same as a death threat.
When you tell someone to kill themselves, you are telling them to do something to themselves. They are in control, because they have the choice of whether or not to kill themselves.
When you tell someone that you are going to kill them, you are telling them...
lascapigliata:
lexmix:
Telling someone to kill themselves is NOT the same as a death threat.
When you tell someone to kill themselves, you are telling them to do something to themselves. They are in control, because they have the choice of whether or not to kill themselves.
When you tell someone that you are going to kill them, you are telling them that you are going to harm them. You...
Telling someone to kill themselves is NOT the same as a death threat.
When you tell someone to kill themselves, you are telling them to do something to themselves. They are in control, because they have the choice of whether or not to kill themselves.
When you tell someone that you are going to kill them, you are telling them that you are going to harm them. You are in control, because you...
“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Newsflash, white people: Abraham Lincoln was racist. He didn’t want black people to be equal.
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain...”
– Stephen Jay Gould (via pisumsativa)
A summary of this morning's events.
thefrogman:
TRANS COUCHSURFING NETWORK - PLEASE REBLOG/SIGNAL...
genderbitch:
blackenedbutterfly:
lettherebecramp:
autumn-and-eve:
dylanspencer submitted:
Hi! I just started a tumblr called the Transgender Couchsurfing Network. After seeing dozens of posts come across my dash about displaced or homeless trans people needing places to crash, I decided that there had to be a way to organize these posts somehow, and to put those in need in contact with...
