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GILMORE GIRLS (2000-2007)
4x13 | "Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels"
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Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.
Resist every step and do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Distracting people with stupid bullshit is one of Trump's favorite political techniques. We saw it all over the place in the first term.
Trump will say something like "You know the Hispanics actually punch kittens, it's what they do."
And the news will be like "TRUMP SAID HISPANIC PEOPLE PUNCH KITTENS" for three weeks.
And while they're doing that the Republicans in Congress have quietly deleted healthcare.
Do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Trump is a dancing monkey whose greatest asset is the ability to yank the spotlight off of everyone else. Keep your eyes on Congress.
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Work work work work work work!!!
I’ll reblog and would like to tell Dog that they are a Good Dog and offer them a treat. And some pets, if they’re willing.
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I am not taking a risk
Not risking it pals
U know what I want potato of luck
Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.
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"The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app."
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only americans will understand::
shirley temple DVD set infomercial
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THE OFFICE (2005 - 2013) Season 6 | Episode 16
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Lol this reads like a “tag yourself” post
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hey in case you didn't know trans inclusive terminology in healthcare is not about protecting peoples feelings, it's to stop insurance companies from going "well it says here that hysterectomies are a procedure performed on WOMEN and you keep insisting that you're a MAN so we do not in fact have to cover that have a nice day and eat shit"
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this notion that if you're an adult still on tumblr it's bc something is wrong doesn't sit right with me... unfortunately I can't refute it bc there is something wrong with me
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Anonymous asked:
while i completely agree with your assessment of realistically what a trump vs harris presidency will look like, i think the issue me and a lot of other leftists have is that there is no need to tell people (and effectively tell harris) that oh ofc we are gna vote for her despite these issues because trump is THAT bad and if you say you don't want to vote for her because her party is pro-war, pro-genocide, then you are condemning americans to a trump presidency. we know trump is worse! i don't want him to win AT ALL, but why would harris even consider even changing the language she is using (i'm looking at the absolutely stupid speech she was giving in michigan, given the large arab & muslim-american population there and given its a battleground state) if she thinks she is going to win on a not-trump basis? i know who i'm voting for on nov 5th if it comes down to it, but we need the democrats to THINK they are going to lose until the very last minute, we need them to feel like they can't just rely on being the lesser of two evils if we want any chance of a shift on palestine. because they very well might lose, for this exact reason (and i'm speaking again more to the votes of the arab & muslim-american population which is far more demographically meaningful than the votes of leftists) and if that happens, they have no one to blame but themselves.
So I'm going to tell you something important: You don't have the leverage you think you have.
Political campaigns are a machine that's been operating the same way for a long time on the Democratic side. The Republicans may have abandoned a lot of the old ways of doing things, but the Democratic party hasn't. And you've got people running these campaigns who are steeped in the "wisdom" of how you win.
And when a block of voters says they're not going to vote for their candidate, they tend to believe them. So they decide to go court the people who they think will vote for them. That's why you've seen the Harris campaign trying to court moderate Republicans who might be iffy on voting for Trump a third time.
Right now one of the reasons Netanyahu is refusing to commit to a cease fire is because he thinks Trump can win. If Trump wins, he has no reason to ever agree to one. One of the reasons he thinks Trump can win is because the polling is so close.
If you want to know why they've gone to the right recently, it's because they think they've lost the left. And since a lot of those leftists are claiming there's a line in the sand that they don't have the power to appease (because -- again -- they can't get Netanyahu to do shit right now), they're going to go for the centrist Republicans.
Also, there seems to be this weird notion that the only way to move the Democrats is during the election. That's not how you move people. You keep pressuring them during their term and it works. Like Biden is continuing to work on forgiving student debt even though he doesn't have an election ahead of him. Because they know that what he does reflects on the future of the party. Voting doesn't end this game, it's the start of it.
But none of it will matter if Trump wins.
If the left doesn't vote democrat, but meanwhile, the right votes enmasse for republicans, then the democrats will move further right in an effort to court votes.
But if the left vote enmass, then it tells the democrats, "Hey, the left likes what you're doing. If you go even further left, you'll get more votes."
Aka the more that the left votes democrat, the more leftist the democrats will move.
If the left refrains from voting, then the democrats will move further right.
So for the love of God, fucking vote.
Also, the other thing is, you need to beware of echo chambers.
Just because you and all your friends think Harris is a centrist, that does not mean that that is a common view. How often do you listen to people who don't agree with you, politically? I have to do it fairly regularly, and the average American is far more likely to think that Biden and Harris are both far-leftist extremists than they are to think they're middle-of-the-road.
Yes. That's right. To a lot of Americans, Biden and Harris are so far left that they are terrifying.
I know life-long Democrats who believe that. Who think that, in retrospect, sure, Trump was bad but Biden and Harris are just as bad, in the opposite direction. They're faced with what they see as a choice between two dangerous extremists, in opposite directions.
They're wrong, but you will never convince them of that.
And there are two important things to remember about them:
- There are a lot more people like that then there are people who think of Biden or Harris as centrists. (The people in America's political center sure as fuck don't think Biden and Harris are centrists.)
- Centrists vote far more regularly than leftists. Therefore, they have more power per person, because politicians know they have to have them on board to win. Leftists are nice to have, but undependable, so a politician who wants to be elected has to favor the centrists over the leftists.
If we want US politics to move left, we need to do two things:
- Vote in every election. Far left in primaries, Democrat in general elections, to prove we are a voting bloc worth listening to.
- Build on-the-ground relationships with people who don't already agree with us, and do active community building, harm reduction, and other stuff like that in our own communities. People don't change their ideology based on logic and national debates. They change their ideology based on relationships, stories, and seeing how stuff works in their own communities.
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Memories that conjure patronuses:
Ron:
- Seeing Hermione wake up after being petrified
- Harry telling him that the Burrow was the best house he’d ever been in
- Harry saying that Dumbledore knew he’d want to come back
- Ron tearfully telling the twins what he thinks Harry is going through at Privet Drive and instead of making fun of him, Fred wipes his tears while George says “we’ll just have to go get him then, won’t we?”
Hermione:
- Being rescued by Harry and Ron from the giant troll
- Getting accepted to Hogwarts
- Adopting Crookshanks
- Ron squeezing her hand when they see Harry is alive
Ginny:
- Realizing Harry wasn’t killed by Voldemort
- Luna befriending her in their second year while others have avoided her because of Riddle’s influence last year
- Winning the big quidditch game and getting kissed by Harry for the first time, all in the same day no less
- Seeing Ron be impressed by her as she practices curses
Luna:
- Dancing around with her mother as a little kid while her father smiled and worked
- The first time Harry complimented her spellwork in a DA meeting
- Going to a Wizard Rock concert with Ginny one summer night, her first summer adventure with a friend
- Ginny asking her and Neville to reform the DA while Harry, Ron, and Hermione look for horcruxes
Neville:
- Luna sleepily kissing him on the cheek while he organizes stuff for the DA and Ginny plans
- Dumbledore awarding him points for standing up to Harry, Ron, and Hermione
- His grandmother being proud of him for being accepted to Hogwarts
- The moment he stands up to Voldemort and realizes he isn’t as scared as he used to be
glad we’re all on the same page, guys
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#that's it #that's the show ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (2021- ) Season 4 | Episode 6 "Blow-Up"
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at some point we gotta acknowledge that getting the majority of your news and takes and general opinions from tumblr is not meaningfully different than getting it from tiktok even though on here it's in textual form. understanding the world through the lens of viral videos vs understanding it through breathless unsourced text posts written by dykeastarion69
#this is what made me switch to actually reading news sites regularly some years ago#(and when something's controversial or doesn't seem quite right I look up multiple news sources to try to get a fuller picture) (@thirddoctor)
A quick reminder that the Associated Press is totally free, and also often covers the news stories that Tumblr users say no one is covering. NPR is also free. So is ProPublica.
Also, here's a chart that might be helpful, in terms of determining bias and reliability: Interactive Media Bias Chart
Free US news, investigative journalism, outside US media bubble (leans left):
The one frustrating thing about reading the Guardian is you realize how information-poor the US news bubble is, ignoring 95% of the rest of the world and a surprising amount of US news; I remember the Guardian doing in-depth investigative journalism on Trump's business and campaign ties with Russian oligarchs and members of the mafia, plus his debts to Deutsche Bank which could compromise his position, during the 2016 campaign, not to mention their exposé of Cambridge Analytica.