No one put the HD Megan Thee Stallion fancam on here yet... anyways
No one put the HD Megan Thee Stallion fancam on here yet... anyways
(Flashback to being called a fake geek girl because I liked shojo instead of shonen π)(If he's into something you aren't that's probably easier.)
Oh my lord
Counterpoint: It feels the anime/manga industry trend rn is with reboots/sequels is to nerf the cast of the original, the newest entry being that "Ronin Warriors" reboot/sequel.
Just make the original openly and readily available and leave it at that.
Very interesting to see people in the quotes and comments who don't know how we get down at funerals...
Not one of these ghouls knows a trans kid, understands anything about the actual circumstances or humanity of trans kids, or gives a shit. To them, trans kids play a purely symbolic role: they are a Weak Other that can be abused as form of collective self-soothing. So fucking gross.
It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
Why would you hand over kids information to a pedo government
One thing that really gets me about this is that these are news articles! But if you respond to news articles telling you to get bent by saying "ok, I take your word for it that you don't need me", all of a sudden it's "waaaaah influencer drama!"
You know youβre at a Black funeral when:
Platner also claims the Army was fine with his below the elbow tattoos. The policy was the same
api.army.mil/e2/c/downloa...
It's possible that whoever decided to claim the arm tattoos were the main issue was trying not to fuck his service record.
I do think βGraham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to themβ is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why theyβre so determined to stay all in on him now
Anna Sale: When news came out about your tattooβthe skull-and-crossbones design that resembles Nazi imageryβyou said it was fed from people researching your background who wanted to discredit you. Do you understand it to have come from national Democrats? Graham Platner: We have our suspicions. The governor announced the campaign on a Tuesday and all of the negative stories began to drop Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of that week. You donβt have to do a lot of deep thinking to find connections there.
Here's his big "accusation:" That he "suspects" the DSCC "fed" the story about the Nazi tattoo to the media to "discredit" him.
As if the fact that HE HAD A LARGE NAZI SS TOTENKOPF TATTOO ON HIS CHEST FOR 18 YEARS was something which they should have kept mum about.
11/? But Bush crashed the economy and caused the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Things were so bad, that enough white folks (Obama did not get the majority) were willing to help elect a Black man to fix the mess. But Obama had to be perfect in running.
10/? Ralph Nader was the Bernie Sanders of the time. And his followers had the same "Burn it all down" mentality, complete with a very loud and wrong Susan Sarandon. And then we got George W. Bush and he appointed 2 Supreme Court Justices, Alito and Roberts.
9/? And then the white left did what it has always done. It tried to seize the moment to rise up. But Black folks, because our survival depends on being able to read white folks, were trying to tell them that a Ralph Nader would really cause a whitelash. Per usual, they did not listen.
8/? When Clinton's Presidency was concluding, we had James Byrd that was killed. Black people were rising up because of various police brutality cases like Amadou Diallo. There were calls for justice. And white folks did what they ALWAYS do, claimed that they were losing their country.
7/? In fact, in order to even win, Bill Clinton had to show the white folks that he was willing to put Black folks in our place. In truth, this is what lead to the Sistah Souljah moment. The point is, whether from the right or the left, white folks and white supremacy is the problem.
6/? So what did Black people get? We got welfare reform, midnight basketball (not Bill Clinton's fault), criminal justice reform. In order to keep the government running, Clinton practiced triangulation and Black people often got the short end of the stick.
5/? And then white people got scared that the southern drawled Clinton was in fact a liberal. This gave rise to Rush Limbaugh's Dittoheads and really gave Fox News traction. So in 1994, the white folks gave the House to the GOP for the first time in 40 years. White identity backlashed HARD.
4/? And while I liked Bill Clinton when he was President, he was less liberal than Mondale and Dukakis before him. But the argument was Black people needed to sit back and hope and pray that Bill Clinton would give us the some of what Jesse Jackson was fighting for.
3/? For context, we had 12 years of GOP Presidents. And there was a belief that Jesse, all by himself, was running white voters out of the Dem Party. While there was not a term for it then, it was the "identity politics" argument we hear now.
2/? I wish more people would study Jesse Jackson and his Presidential Campaigns of 1984 and 1988. I remember in real time by 1992 watching "Meet the Press" and they had a whole round table about what the Dems needed to do to get Jesse to not run again 1992.
Reverend Al Sharpton has sharp, yet necessary, words for the crowd at the memorial for Rev. Jesse Jackson.
"Don't sit here so holy and sanctified and act like you have no assignment yourself."
(I never get tired of this song)
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"