I am 21, bisexual and panromantic, and going to Inver Hill Community College with a major in Accounting. I love being sarcastic and if you can't take a joke, then you probably wont get along with me. I live near the Twin Cities in MN.
hey this article makes its points against the border wall using 100% nothing but conservative information sources, all links provided at the end, if you want to be able to shut down their bullshit claims in a way they can never argue is “liberally biased.”
Points include, and again all these points were discovered and reported by republicans themselves:
Most contraband and “crime” entering the U.S. is smuggled via plane or ship.
The wall would actually cost over 30 billion dollars and several more billion a year to maintain and patrol, astronomically higher than the supposed cost of all illegal immigration combined, though even Trump’s ridiculous 5 billion request is more than it could ever “make up for.”
The wall would harm legal seasonal labor that the farming industry depends on
Even steel walls are easily destroyed by floods and other natural hazards and it would be no time at all before the thing was in shambles
There are thousands of properties that would have to be seized illegally for it to happen.
Border walls in other countries have made no noticeable difference because they’re that easy to circumvent
Most illegal immigrants are “overstayers” who were legal when they entered by the intended process. The #1 argument conservatives try to deny is confirmed in their very own writing.
writer: this is one of my male characters! he cares about his guy friends and loves them deeply.
tumblr: oh! so he’s gay!
writer: uh…no, he’s attracted to women.
tumblr: ….so he’s bi!
writer: uhh…no…….he loves his guy friends but he’s not romantically/sexually attracted to them.
tumblr: ….so you’re homophobic.
writer:
Healthy male friendships are almost as rare in mainstream fiction as gay male relationships, and maybe more rare in fanfiction. Let men be wonderful friends without pushing a romantic relationship, just like men and women should be able to be wonderful friends without the pressure of a romantic relationship.
*AGGRESSIVELY SLAMS REBLOG UNTIL I DIE*
This is literally the reason men are so terrified of being open about loving each other platonically, because they don’t want people to assume they’re gay just because they can be supportive of their fucking friends
Automatically interpreting emotionally close male relationships as romantic and sexual is why the world is plagued by the monster known as “Wincest”. The characters are literally brothers who grew up very physically and emotionally close due to circumstance and neglect. They are absolutely the only family each other has for most of the series. Yet a section of the fanbase can’t conceive of this relationship as being platonic and familial and has interpreted it as sexual. Its… disturbing.
I’m getting my oil changed, sitting in the lobby while I wait, and this lady is talking to the clerk about some kind of payment she needs to make (a store card, maybe? Probably). She asks if she can make her payment in store and the guy says, “Cash payments, yeah.”
Lady: “So can I use a debit card?”
Clerk: “No, unfortunately, that’s the downside. You can make a payment in store, but it has to be cash.”
Lady: “So I can’t use a check or a card?”
NO LADY YOU FUCKING CAN’T HE SAID CASH PAYMENTS ONLY TWICE JFC I HATE PEOPLE
(Since tumblr’s reply system sucks, let me try that again on a reblog.)
This reminds me of the single greatest thing I think I’ve ever witnessed.
I was grocery shopping once at a store where their internet was down (or whatever they used like… 15 years ago?… to communicate with credit card companies). There were signs EVERYWHERE that said “No Credit Cards at this time. All purchases are Cash Only.” Big ones at the registers too, but the cashier working my line was also telling every person before ringing them up.
This guy in front of me let the cashier ring him up and then HANDED OVER HIS DEBIT CARD. I am almost certain the cashier didn’t even say anything before calling for a manager, but when the manager got there, she was like, *totally robotic, dead voice of a person who has literally said this a THOUSAND TIMES*, “We’re cash only today.”
The customer said, “That’s a debit card. It’s just like cash.” And he was super condescending about it.
So the manager opened the cash drawer, took out a 5, 10, and a 20 dollar bill and proceeded to study all the bills next to this man’s debit card. I mean, squinting and smoothing her finger over the corners and everything. (My money is on this woman being a theater nerd, lol.)
But anyway, I’m starting to quietly lose it, because this has just turned from annoying to The Best Thing Ever in the blink of an eye.
Finally, the manager goes, “You’re absolutely right, sir. Sorry for the inconvenience, it’s EXACTLY LIKE A 10 DOLLAR BILL.” She opens the drawer, puts the bills away, PUTTING HIS DEBIT CARD ON TOP OF THE PILE OF 10S, and calmly says, “Your remaining balance is (whatever his total was less ten dollars).
Of course the asshole customer lost his fucking mind and started ranting, and I’m sure that manager caught hell for it, but dude. Best Power Move Ever.
I have no idea how it actually ended because the cashier opened a different line to check us out, but man. I will never forget that.
This lady is my hero. May she still be out there, in perfect health, destroying entitled assholes like a wrecking ball.
White veganism is entirely a fad based on moral high ground while
vegetarian and vegan cuisines and religions have existed in asia for
fuckin centuries
my mom is a well intentioned yet nosy mom and she always wants to hook me up with people. it leads to some text message gems so the other day i went through and screenshotted the best. please enjoy.
“I either just met a nice gay girl or a bigot” is bar none the absolute best text anyone has ever sent in the history of the human race nosy mom accidentally sums up the entire debate about the word q*eer in one historic text message it’s indescribably beautiful
Toddlers are so pure. She doesn’t understand that we help her with certain things because she’s little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.
i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no it’s ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldn’t budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol
I don’t think I’d realised how many casual compliments we pay to our toddler until she started casually complimenting us back, because experience has taught her that’s How Social Interaction Is Done, and there’s nothing quite like a very earnest three-year-old solemnly and sincerely informing you that you look wonderful and smell nice to make you feel really good about yourself
I tell her she’s my best girl. She tells me I’m her best auntie. Then we both feel good about the world!
