land of dreams and denial

You can also afford better healthcare, food, and living conditions if you have money, so poor people tend to die younger

my family are republicans. I’m 46 and went straight past democrat to socialist in the last 3 years

I remember one of my professors in college who studies political alignment as a factor of psychology was fascinated that I’d flipped from conservative to liberal and asked me what led me there. I said, I was raised on a doctrine of kindness and compassion and doing what’s best for the most people – and when I was younger, I believed that conservativism was the way to do this, because we wanted to “protect” people from the evils of… what, socialism? Stuff we thought was going to fray their moral fiber? And then I got older and met more people who lived different lives than me, and I found out that conservative ideals were actually focused on protecting a very small group of people and didn’t care what harm it did to others, and I still believe in what I was raised on: Respect, kindness, compassion, and the most good possible. And staying with that part meant leaving behind the rest. And that’s the choice I made. And in my experience, there are two types of conservatives: Those who care about others but don’t know enough people Not Like Them to realize that their beliefs/practices do harm, or those who just don’t fucking care who they hurt as long as they get what they want. The first we can reach. The second? Not so much.

I feel like Africa is playing in his head

Decadence

this obliterated every single negative aspect of my entire life wow

this is so pure and stupid lmaooo

#when u can see the single brain cell being shared

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Queen shit

You’re all sadistic.

They were going to harm the animals. The animals harmed them instead. I don’t particularly feel sympathetic to animal abusers getting what they deserve.

Good for her.

And not a single person of value was lost that day.

I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.

[image id: Twitter thread by @autistictic​, transcript: Please REALLY take in how EASILY amid the Coronavirus pandemic -places go back to single use plastic -businesses switch in-person meetings to online -schools and universities switch to online lessons Yet these have always been "impossible"  accommodations for disabled people. All the current adjustments made for abled people due to the Coronavirus pandemic are the only proof necessary for this claim I regularly make: Abled people ONLY don't accommodate disabled people because they don't have to. Because disabled peoples problems don't affect them. Look at how EASY it is! Look how QUICKLY they manage to do it! Because IT (Coronavirus) AFFECTS THEM!!! They only care if it affects them. There are simply no valid excuses for inaccessibility, because right now PROVES it is possible, and it is possible EASILY and QUICKLY. The one hope I have in the midst of this pandemic is that it might just break the culture of required personal presence. Being forced to switch to online attendance and home office might stay a permanent change even after the pandemic. end id]