ok so since the Russo brothers confirmed that animals and plants and the like all died in the snap,,,,,,, that means dogs died too,,,,, and lemme tell ya if ANYTHING happened to my dog earth wouldn’t even NEED the avengers I’d mcfucking d e s t r o y thanos myself because NO ONE FUCKING MESSES WITH MY DOG NOT EVEN A CRUSTY ASS RAISIN WITH A ROCK COLLECTION
Me, after watching my cat turn to dust: 🙂
Every single (living) Avenger, getting tf out of my way: How is she holding that many knives
Guess who discovered their upstairs neighbor is that bottom 15 ft away on Grindr omg
Update: the guy above me changed his Grindr profile to “4group sesh,ihost” and there’s 3 other gays next to me in a 20 feet radius 😫 I’m about to hear an orgy go down
Concept: The Avengers doing a body positivity ad in which they all show off their various disabilities/ scars/ imperfections. Tony gets a close-up shot of all the scars on his chest. Steve showing the stretch-marks that were caused by the serum and never really went away. Bucky stands tall without his prosthetic on. Clint signs in ASL over at the camera. Natasha shows off the ugly scar that runs straight up her spine. Bruce just stands there in his underwear, showing off his love handles and his lovely round tummy and smiling like a sunbeam. Thor takes off his eyepatch and then winks with his one good eye. They all stand next to one another, laughing, completely comfortable. The slogan of the ad says ‘no one is perfect- not even a superhero’.
I LOVE THIS AKZBAJXBWDVD
JESUS CHRIST YESSSS PLEASEEEEE THIS IS THE POSITIVITY WE NEED
they do another campaign with mental health because ALL of them have something or another they deal with
Growing up conservative, I always heard that Republicans really hate bureaucracy. They want to cut all the “red tape” and “regulations” out of our lives.
This is actually complete nonsense, and working with literally any charitable organization will show you this very quickly. Republicans actually love red tape and bureaucracy, they just love it for poor people instead of rich people. Republicans add things like work requirements, ID requirements, citizenship tests, means-testing, drug tests, and paperwork to just about every possible charitable giving endeavor. I volunteer at a Church ran charity for homeless people, and the red tape under Trump has only gotten much worse. It was bad before, but it has gotten demonstrably more headache inducing and more time-consuming to simply give the poor what they need to survive.
What Republicans really mean when they say that they want to “cut red tape” is that they want to take away any and all roadblocks standing in the way of an absolute oligarchy.
On top of this, regardless of the “free market” rhetoric they use to get votes, Republican candidates consistently vote for a variety of different regulations and other government interventions in the market. It’s just that these regulations serve to strengthen or expand monopolies by subsidising the mistakes of the large, existing businesses that lobby the politicians, and by strangling any smaller potential competitors with bureaucracy.
Basically the idea that the Republican party is against bureaucracy or government intervention in the market has no basis in reality
It took a long time for me to decipher that when the right wing talks about “rights” and “freedoms” they specifically mean their freedom to take away your rights.
Here’s the deal.
I just got finished with a grassroots Democratic campaign for a man who did not fit the mold of a perfect Democrat in the stereotypical sense. He was from a rural area, he was the only candidate to support Medicare for All, was actually considered the MOST progressive candidate, and talked regularly about single-payer healthcare, gun safety, environmental protection, and union protection.
And he actually attracted a lot of Republican votes. Crazy, right? Not.
I was one of two people in charge of the entirety of our field strategy, so I was one of two people regularly interacting (other than our candidate, of course) with the common man. I came across more independents than not, and here’s what I found:
Republicans, or former Republicans, don’t know any of this.
They don’t realize what the Republican party has become. They hear Republican and they think that their party is for the little man, for the worker, for the laborer. They think the Republican party now is what the Republican party used to be. It’s not. They’re not. We know this. They don’t.
There’s two fascinating conversations I had over the course of the campaign that I will never forget. The first one was with this woman who I met in one of the most rural areas we have in this state. It’s an area commonly known as the area that keeps making Democratic candidates lose, because they never vote our way. They’re very Republican, very conservative, and they don’t like us at all. I approached her and asked her if I could tell her a little about my candidate. She smiled at me awkwardly and the conversation went like this:
“Is he Democrat or Republican?”
“Democrat.”
“Oh, yeah, see. I don’t trust the Democratic Party.” But instead of leaving it there, I asked why. She responded, “Well, you know, they’re not for people like us.”
She mistakenly assumed I was from the same town. I was from far away, but my hometown is also majority Republican, and I didn’t know that she thought I was from her town so, confused, I kept asking her to elaborate. Then, when she was done talking about the haughtiness of the Democratic Party, the bureaucracy of the Democratic Party, the rich man attitude of the Democratic Party, I asked if she was going to vote Republican. She hesitated, looked at me with a disgusted expression, and silently shook her head. But then she said, “But, you know, I’m conservative. So… probably.”
(I got her to vote for my guy, in the end.)
The next was with a friend of mine. He was torn between my candidate and another, and we got to talking. He told me this:
“I grew up conservative. In high school, I thought I was Republican. Everyone around me was Republican, and I grew up Republican. My parents are Republican. But… you know, I don’t want to separate families. And… you know, I want people to have healthcare. And… I want small businesses to thrive. They’re vital to our economy. So when people asked about that, I would go to the internet and I would find the most obscure Republican who believed the same thing. I’d show them this person and say, see! Look! Republicans aren’t like you say. It took me years for me to come to terms with the fact that I was only Republican in name. But that’s the hardest part. Sometimes we just don’t think. I believe that a person’s self-identity is always the last one to go… even if they don’t truly believe in what that identity means.”
You guys are so focused on clarifying how awful the Republican Party is to Democrats, but you’re preaching to the choir. This only alienates the Republicans who think you’re spouting propaganda. Most of them know what’s wrong and what’s right. No sane small town union worker who’s worked for every penny they own wants to vote rich bureaucrats into office. But they’re being misinformed.
Stop assuming. Stop assuming that if someone says they’re Republican that they’re the worst of the worst – not everyone’s self-identity is so simple, because people are more complicated than that. We’ll never bridge this gap until we train ourselves to step past those labels and ask someone one-on-one what they believe about every issue one-by-one, and ask them why they believe that.
There’s a gaping disconnect between the leaders of the Republican Party and the voter base keeping them together, and they’re making sure no one realizes that gap. But the first step is to reach out and communicate, and maybe one day those small town workers will realize that the Republican Party is no longer what they say they are.
Have you ever watched an old debate? There’s one, with Bush and Reagan, and they’re answering questions about immigrants. I can’t quote what they said word for word, but I remember them both agreeing on one thing: Immigrants are the backbone of American society. This is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants are what make America great, so maybe… we should offer them a path to citizenship.
That was the Republican Party not too long ago. But when party ideology is something that so many people pass down through generations, without truly realizing that parties aren’t as static in its values as they are, well… Then you have some problems.
The world is not as black and white as someone’s party alignment. Realize that, and maybe Democrats can actually get somewhere.
Borne Ceaseless 