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listen fuck biden i hate him too but he DID sign executive orders for all this and they are really really easy to look up

the tweet is, at best, someone who didn't do research and at worst it's inflammatory misinfo designed to demoralize

I was looking through the reblog graph to see where OP got a ton of views for this, trying to at least flag down the people who had managed to really boost it. I saw @seananmcguire and had a moment of "...surely not. but none of us are immune to... I'm gonna click through and CHECK."

and hallelujah, Seanan McGuire was of course not boosting this absolute nest of lies! @stirdrawsandreblaws had debunked all the added arguments! thank you!

here's another very important point that I need everyone to fucking have access to:

THE ORIGINAL TWEET IS ALSO UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY FALSE.

IT IS 100% AN OUTRIGHT LIE.

Biden literally never, ever signed an executive order, bypassing Congress, to immediately send extra ammunition to Israel.

The Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, had approved the sale of ammunition to Israel twice before this completely unsourced tweet came out.

(Blinken is not Biden. Biden is the President.

I'm just not sure how much people are tracking this shit, with this level of disinformation going around.)

As this article explains: normally, Congress is in charge of approving big sales of ammunition or equipment to other governments.

But the State Department has the option to bypass Congress, sort of, IF it “determines and provides detailed justification to Congress that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale" of whatever, to whomever.

So, in early December, the State Department approved a provisional sale of 120mm anti-tank cartridges to Israel, and notified Congress that it had to approve or reject the sale. Then at the end of December, it did the same for 155mm artillery projectiles.

BUT! the same law that gives them that power says the Secretary of State's "consent for immediate emergency transfers to Japan, Australia, South Korea, Israel, New Zealand, or any NATO member state shall not become effective until 15 days following the submission of that consent, and Congress may enact a joint resolution within that period prohibiting the transfer."

So, even if Blinken decides to "immediately" sell ammo to Israel (or Australia, or Japan, or....), Congress still has more than two weeks to say, "No, no you don't."

There is no such thing as an immediate, emergency sale of ammunition from the U.S. to Israel.

(There's especially not such a thing as an immediate, emergency DONATION of ammo, which is what it always sounds like people mean - at least to me, it does.)

There's no such thing as the President getting to just write an executive order changing that.

(At least not under Biden. Trump pulled that kind of shit all day long. I STILL remember him kicking trans people back out of the military VIA A FUCKING TWEET.)

More debunking of bad claims!

All killing yourself will do is make the situation more hopeless for the rest of us. The last thing we need is a chain of suicides.

We can still fight, we can still get past this. Things will be tough for a little while, but someday they'll be better again.

So many harmful stereotypes about dating the other gender would be solved if people understood adverse selection bias

Ok, look, I know all/most/some/an annoying percentage of the guys, girls, whatevs you've dated have had some common annoying/abusive/predatory/manipulative trends, but you have to understand, the massive majority of the normal-not-shit ones (who would be willing to be in a relationship) are already in a relationship.

The massive majority of the normal-not-shit ones are already in a relationship.

Like its that simple. Shitty people tend to get dumped, not shitty people tend to not get dumped.

If you are building views of a gende- hey, guys, i'm talking to you too here. listen up, this isn't just for the radfems - If you are building a mental model for how you view men or how you view women (including what you think their intentions or reasonings might be for doing some action), based on how the people you've dated have acted, you are very likely getting a very distorted, bigoted, and bitter picture.

Worse yet, men and women alike tend to find it distasteful when you are bitter toward their gender, so this tends to isolate you to just the assholes, further distorting the picture.

Worse worse yet, for some people they respond to all of this by building up tests and red/green flags that somebody might be "one of the bad ones" or "one of the good ones", which abusive people know how to game or avoid. Sometimes these red flags can include normal behavior that was just commonly seen by abusive people but is unrelated to their abusiveness (or suspicious behavior that *could* have abusive intent behind it but also legitimately could be nothing) that non-abusive people aren't always going to know to avoid accidentally stepping near, further isolating the dating pool to just manipulative people. Maybe you expect them to do you some courtesy to show they are generally a nice person but all you end up doing is exclude people who fail a knowledge check while giving predators a script on how to get past your emotional walls.

The culture war ends the moment bitter men and bitter women figure this out and start viewing the individuals they are trying to date as, well, individuals, and not in the context of the last person who shared the same gender.

To all my trans sisters out there:

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To all my transistors out there:

Wait I think this was supposed to be the other way around

fucking she got me down bad enough that i agreed to watch a horror movie with her fuckfuckfuck i do not deal with horror movies well curse my gay little heart

You're gonna look like this welcome to heaven panel

Exactly what i was thinking of tbh

Wont even be in person for cuddles either im so doomed

omg you're watching a horror movie without cuddles?? She's really got you down bad babe! My condolences, manifesting her getting down bad for you, watching your reactions to the movie <3

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listen i just...gkdjfn fuck...

So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

So this isn’t lesbian/jock solidarity but I thought you guys would want to know-

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

And deadass, dudebro said “Hang on” and then proceeded to pull a fucking wrench out of his backpack

Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left

Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”

And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah

Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”

And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me

this is how you do music right.

I love this so much. Like how stoked would you be if a band you loved helped you sneak into a big show of theirs?

I’ve heard this story before and love that they did this. Stop me if you heard this other one: The Ramones were playing in England and before the show they were hanging out in the dressing room when someone tossed a stone at the window. They looked out to see some young punks who wanted to get into the show but didn’t have money for tickets. The Ramones reached down and pulled the guys up and got them in. Those young punks without tickets were to become The Clash. Good to hear they kept it going.

The real epitome of punk tbh….

at my wedding yes i will have a maid of honour but why stop there. ill give all my maids titles. we will have a maid of hope. a maid of horror. a maid of horticulture. a maid of harm. a maid of healing. and of course. a maid of hogs

Maid of National Defence

Storytime!

When my best friend got married, I couldn't be the best man because he had years prior promised the role to his younger brother. Not a big deal, not like I was super broken up about it. But he decided I must have a title, and therefore I would be dubbed The Worst Man. We both had a good laugh and mostly forgot about it.

Then comes the wedding. In the course of 24 hours, beginning after the rehearsal dinner, I:

But here's the rub. Aside from everything that happened to me? Literally the entire wedding went off without a hitch.

From this we concluded that the purpose of the Worst Man is to act as a lightning rod for all the bad luck, so that the actual wedding can go well for the bride and groom. I'm gonna make him be mine when I get married.

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

Look under the cut to see what meeting your entity is like. Reblog to give a gift to your patron.

I love grindr images like this, they're so awesome sauced

This exact joke was made in the server and it just sent me flying. I couldn't not draw it lmao

This will never not be funny to me.

I think i made a discovery