The Cringe Is Dead Long Live The Cringe

*watching one shoe drop* haha awesome :) i bet that’s the only one :)

ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see

we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

Environmental activism works!!! If they tell you its hopeless they're lying and/or selling some shit!!!

every time i remember that photo of the little inuk girl with her puppy i engage in inconsolable hysterics

Comfy even

important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck

The world is truly beautiful sometimes

I have more than one person in the notes of my post saying they did not in fact know that the ACA stopped insurance companies from being able to deny coverage for a pre-existing condition in case you were wondering where we're at. People don't know the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, they don't know it's why they have healthcare, they don't even know what it does. How do you even deal with that?

We could have had the public option if Massachusetts hadn’t blown it the special election after Ted Kennedy died but they elected a Republican. They didn’t have the votes in the senate for a public option after that. Feel free to piss on Joe Lieberman’s grave about it. They did not make compromises in the name of reaching across the aisle during the ACA negotiations. That’s why they needed 60 votes in the senate. They made compromises to get support from the more conservative members of their own party. Those people are basically gone now, many replaced with Republicans. Democrats got slaughtered in the 2010 midterms over the ACA. I have healthcare because of it. If you have a preexisting condition or you’re on your parents’ insurance in your 20s you do too.

There’s plenty of entirely valid problems to have with the US dems, but they’re still definitively less awful than the other side of that coin.

you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever

“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately

Me with my ttrpg characters

The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken

Maybe I can convince y'all to act right by framing things in terms of social engineering. People will be a whole lot more likely to do whatever shit you're trying to hector them into doing if you're not constantly being a dick the whole time. Being niceys is a powerful social engineering tool such as all of the times I have maliciously manipulated people into fulfilling my whims using an evil sociopathic manipulation technique i like to call "asking nice and then saying thanks after"

Waiter, I'm waiting for that "Iranian strategic victory" on the "2026 Iran war" wiki article

stupid thought because real life is not a fan fiction stop trying to uwu-ify white supremacy

And maybe some, just like the association between housewives and 50s aesthetic, thanks to certain influencer tradwives on social media, associate being a tradwife with, like, pioneer vibes, y'know, even if it doesn't mean moving to a farm in the middle of nowhere still doing stuff like making food as from-scratch and all-natural as wouldn't require a farm and doing it all while dressed like a Laura Ingalls Wilder character (or at least like the pop culture conception of what a woman from that era dressed like). If you've taken my advice and checked out the CBS show Elsbeth (if you have a way to stream such shows, and if you haven't checked it out you should), S3E18 guest stars Anna Camp (who most Tumblr users might know from Pitch Perfect) as a character who's that kind of tradwife/mom where e.g. one of the only ways she deviates from that kind of old-fashioned vibe more than would be needed to live in New York City instead of on a farm is that all of her daughters' names end in the "-eigh" sound (and all spelled like that apart from the one literally named Deservedly (which "ironicalleigh" sounds more old-fashioned than the "tragedeighs"))