May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

theatricuddles:

millenniumitem:

Hollywood

[ID: A comic with a cartoon-styled drawing of superman in the style of the “Wow! Cool X!” Meme. The phrase “Jewish culture and hopes” flies over the person’s head, as they look at Superman and say “Wow! Cool Christ allegory!”]

Reblogged from Magneto Was Right
May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

penndoodle:

writing-with-olive:

when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:

  • In deep red areas you’re a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don’t vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much
  • In swing states you’re an undecided voter who’s gonna go blue if they don’t vote how you like

remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don’t work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they’re losing something.

Talking points I’ve been using in my blood red state:

  • “I’m a small business owner and [example: anti-drag bill] is making me lose money!” OR “[Anti-drag bill] is going to cost us millions in taxable sales” - If you talk about how it’s making you personally lose money and absolutely need to bullshit, you run a bar or do freelance photography. The intern they have on the other line does not have the resources or the know-how to check that.
  • “I’m concerned that [anti abortion bill] is the government infringing on my personal rights.” - Self explanatory.
  • “[Anti-gay bill] goes against family values in my church.” - They aren’t going to call your local Pentecostal chapter to fact check this. You don’t even need to be Pentecost, you just need to assert that you’re part of a community and a major voting bloc.
  • Remember: In smaller towns, literally every vote counts. And voters generally don’t call in, so your call can carry quite the advantage.
May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

dreg-heap:

dreg-heap:

Can’t let British people have air conditioning because first they’d call it something twee like “the climate fixer” and then in 20 years they’ll call it “the climb” or “the climmy”

French kids would call it “le climot”, frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it “machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice”

Reblogged from crying in seafood city
May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

knitmeapony:

barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

Diversity win! Icon for indecision comes out as bisexual!

Reblogged from crying in seafood city
May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

saltedweather:

wiisagi-maiingan:

The ICWA is not a hypothetical. So many Native people have lost aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings to the foster system. So many people Native people are disconnected from their cultures and tribes because their parents or grandparents were stolen from their families. So many Native people, even under the ICWA, were removed from their families and placed into foster care.

So many children today, right now, are being removed from their families, tribes, and cultures.

All it takes is one generation to kill a community, to kill a culture. We’ve lived through this before. We’re still living through this now. We know firsthand what it means to lose our children and we know what will happen to us, to our families and our tribes and our cultures and our bonds with each other, if the removal of indigenous children from their families becomes the law of the land again.

The entire case being brought against ICWA rests on the argument that tribes are not nations, but racial categories.

Even if this wasn’t “just” important to prevent genocide, i.e., destroying over 500 tribal nations by stealing their children right out of their homes on the flimsiest pretext, or “just” important because of the absurdly high rate of abuse for Native kids placed in white homes, the argument they’re making is being backed by major interests in oil and mineral extraction,

because what they want is to take away Native nations’ sovereign status by declaring them to be a racial/ethnic category instead of nations with whom the U.S. has a treaty/diplomatic relationship.

But also, even if somehow THAT wasn’t the case, if ICWA is overturned but by some miracle our bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court judges issue a ruling that dismantles ICWA while not explicitly declaring Native people to be a racial/ethnic category (instead of, again, sovereign nations, which is what they ARE), I return your attention to the above. This will hurt so, so, so many kids and families. Native kids are incredibly likely to be neglected and abused in non-Native families. Even kids who aren’t abused still suffer severe emotional and psychological tolls because they’re separated from their relatives and their culture.

Reblogged from good old watson!
May 16th, 2023
ravabiye

lesbianirl:

if a girl is reading a really interesting book she shouldn’t have to go to work. she’s expanding her mind and bettering herself and her employers should understand that

they/them / bisexual / feminist / musician / jewish

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